Now that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is percolating up inside enterprises -- sometimes as a set of strategic initiatives, but more often as discrete pilot projects -- the human resources needs ...

Forget all the negativity we've been hearing about SOA over the past year. Forget all the negativity in the headlines about today's economy. Demand for SOA-related skills is hot, and getting hotter ...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating ...

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The 'Practical SOA' workshop offers a retelling of the SOA philosophy in an easily understandable, practical and applicable form, independent of the actual tools used to implement it. The lightweight ...

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Bringing services-oriented architectures (SOAs) to life is a lot like delivering a baby — it requires a copious nurturing, understanding, labor and ultimately … pushing. So far, the job openings for ...

SOA planning is committee work, and it often requires that IT architects meet to assess a steady stream of proposals for services to run on the corporate network. “In P&C, we have a high-level project ...

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 ...

How mature is service-oriented architecture? In asking that question, it’s important to make the distinction between the best-of-breed approach, where one picks and chooses various components within ...

SOA projects have been downsized, and there are more qualified SOA architects seeking jobs today than I can remember. However, in many instances, those out on the streets looking for work were the ...