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How SOA is Changing Integration - Business integration garnered a ton of buzz early in the decade. But companies soon learned that point-to-point integration often led to spaghetti architectures, leaving a tangled web of programs that actually set back their efforts at increasing efficiency.
With the advent of service-oriented ...
Project Pointers Moving toward a service-oriented architecture? Consider what these experts have to say. -
Planning
Define expectations. Establishing a service-oriented architecture can be a complex, multi-year effort. So, up-front planning is essential for getting the job done right, according to Vijay Sonty, chief information officer for Broward County (Fla.) Public Schools. Management needs to b... |
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WebMethods: Shifting Gears Acquisition by Software AG shows promise customers say. - Customers have been watching
WebMethods closely in recent months.
In addition to WebMethods being
acquired in June by Germany's Software
AG for $546 million, the company, earlier
this year, introduced the latest generation
of its flagship integration suite,
WebMethods Fabric 7.0.
So far, cus...
Turning Integration on Its Head The standard definition of service-oriented architecture is still being debated. But semantics aside, companies are using a variety of frame-works to integrate applications #8212;and increase efficiency. - Integration was once the province of custom-built adapters that linked one system to another. The resulting point-to-point integration created a tangle of interfaces that were difficult to maintain. Then came middleware and enterprise application integration offerings that sought to make custom inte... |