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New Tech Help for Small Businesses

Gary Beach — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Students can help design new websites—and improve business prospects—for companies in their local communities.

Burton Group: SOA is Dead; Long Live Services

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Although the word "SOA" is dead, the requirement for service-oriented architecture is stronger than ever.

DRAM Companies in Taiwan, Energy Star in 2009, The Cloud and The Economic Crisis and More

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMT

This issue of Trendlines from the 1/1/09 Issue of CIO Magazine covers DRAM companies in Taiwan, Energy Star in 2009, The Cloud and The Economic Crisis and More

SOA Modeling Language Readied

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMT

OMG's SoaML should be published next month as a UML profile.

Security Predictions: Top Three Trends Affecting Enterprise Risk Management

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Cloud computing, service oriented architecture (SOA) and other rapidly emerging technologies are increasing the threats to data governance strategies. Knowing how the threats are changing is key to successful risk management planning--and critical to your bottom line.

Microsoft Tools Build Bridge Between OpenXML, Other Formats

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The open source project, released under the Document Interoperability Initiaitve, includes a free Firefox add-in, a Java toolkit that promise to improve interoperability between Open XML and the Open Document Format (ODF).

Maturing SOA Adoption Leading to Wider Deployment in Asia-Pacific

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMT

A Springboard Research study says that service-oriented architecture and Web services are gaining attention in APAC software development communities.

Go Mobile: 15 Tech Secrets for the Digital Road Warrior

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Use these smart mobile tech tricks to create your own wireless hotspot out of a cell phone or laptop in a pinch, protect your laptop from grab-and-dash thieves, and communicate with anyone anywhere.

Security Threats Hinder SOA: CA study

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Global survey finds that security issues are a major concern in adopting service-oriented architectures and in Web services-based application development.

Microsoft Q&A: Why is Office Online Taking So Long?

C.G. Lynch — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

After the announcement Monday that online versions of Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint are now available to all Microsoft customers, CIO caught up with Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's business division and talked about Microsoft's move into the cloud — and why a Web-based version of Office is taking forever.

Enterprise JBoss JBPM: Creating A Scalable, Standards-Compliant and Cost-Effective SOA Environment

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

This excerpt from the upcoming book, Open Source SOA, addresses the Service Component Architecture (SCA), and its sister technology, Service Data Objects (SDO), emerging standards used in service-oriented architecture for creating multi-protocol, multi-language services based on reusable components. Using JBoss jBPM, as the author demonstrates, can apply process automation to a wide set of business process management problems, from embedded workflow to enterprise business process orchestration.

Why UDDI Sucks

Rich Levin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The registry landscape needs to change, insists MuleSource's Dan Diephouse in this interview about the technologies on which Web services rely. The unholy trinity of SOAP, WSDL and UDDI needs to go.

Why UDDI Rocks

Rich Levin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

SOAP, WSDL, WS-*, and UDDI are proven and widely adopted technologies and REST is growing strongly, believes a UDDI supporter from Microsoft. But while REST is often cited as a SOAP alternative, Microsoft's Steven Martin thinks this a distinction without a difference. "Does it really matter if there are angle brackets or curly braces on the wire?" he asks.

Microsoft Prepping Preview of REST Support, App Server Improvements

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:00:00 GMT

PDC handouts will highlight workflow, communication technologies and hosting platform for services.

Service-Oriented Architecture Pays Off for Synovus Financial

Esther Schindler — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The winning solution in the case study contest sponsored by the SOA Consortium and CIO magazine provided integrated business solutions using existing applications and legacy systems. It reduced the data and logic redundancy. The architecture provided unlimited scalability to meet current and future needs with only a small incremental cost. And it required a huge number of business partners collaborating to pull the whole thing off. Whew! Learn how they did it.