The worst CIO misunderstanding about service-oriented architecture (SOA) is thinking of it as only another technical initiative for software reuse. Although SOA's reuse potential is real and good, its ...

Traditionally, business analysts have been subject matter experts with strong business skills and moderate technical skills. They act as translators between a business manager requesting an IT service ...

As SOA goes mainstream in the enterprise, its success may hinge on a crucial meeting of the minds — a mashup of talent that can uncap a font of creative potential. On one side of the mashup are ...

Three years ago, Summit took on a major project to streamline the profusion of heterogeneous systems that an electric cooperative was using to run its business. Using IBM middleware, Summit built an ...

One of the things I’ve been noticing is that while budgets are slashed and SOA downsizing to more tactical purposes, projects are still under way, people are still moving the architecture ball forward ...

The term is new, but is a SOBA really different from an SOA? Following on the heels of the , the service-oriented business application is generating the latest buzz in distributed computing. While ...