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:: Web Services and SOA News - October, 2007 ::


Social Network Wars: Google + Everyone Else vs Facebook

In a move to bolster its attempt to add a social layer on top of the entire suite of Google services, Google yesterday joined other leading social networking players

Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2007





Software's Future: Melding the Web and the Desktop

It's been a busy few weeks for the big technology companies. On October 1, Adobe Systems announced an agreement to buy Virtual Ubiquity, a company that has created a web-based word processor

Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2007





What You Need to Know About Google Apps

For its entire 30-year history, Microsoft has delivered software to users in some physical form, be it a floppy disc, CD-ROM, or DVD.

Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2007





Planning and Implementing SOA - Ensuring the Successful Deployment of a Services-based Approach

With the promise to deliver flexibility and agility to the enterprise by dramatically cutting development times and costs, SOA has become a hot topic.

Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2007





Managing Web services and SOA applications

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives promise to cause management challenges for IT managers looking to ensure application performance and exceptional IT service delivery.

Posted: Wednesday, October 31, 2007





Pointless Places, Boring Faces, and Useless Cases

I'm not against use cases per se; however, I like to keep them in their place as no more than an adjective to the verb "analyze"

Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2007





Microsoft Unveils Vision and Road Map to Simplify SOA, Bridge Software Plus Services

Company announces multiyear investment in 'Oslo,' launches new SOA resources for IT professionals.

Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2007





Microsoft Models 'Oslo'

Microsoft wants to stand development for service-oriented architecture on its head.

Posted: Tuesday, October 30, 2007





Westcon Group's Marcelo Schnettler to Present at Microsoft SOA & Business Practice Conference

Westcon Group, Inc., the leading specialty distributor in networking, convergence, security and mobility, announced that its director of eBusiness will be presenting at the 2007 MICROSOFT SOA & Business Process Conference

Posted: Monday, October 29, 2007





CNN orders removal of hoax Web page

CNN demanded and obtained the removal of a fake Web page that copied the design and style of CNN.com and carried a false story blaming the California wildfires

Posted: Monday, October 29, 2007





The SOA Money Question

ebizQ's Dave Kelly says that aligning different business justifications with funding strategies is an important consideration for SOA projects.

Posted: Monday, October 29, 2007





IBM to Acquire Rackable Systems?

Such rumors have been in the air on and off since Rackable caved under competitive pressure

Posted: Monday, October 29, 2007





RadView releases Webload Professional web tool

RadView has introduced a development tool called Webload Professional, designed to load test rich internet applications developed with Adobe Flex 2 programming environment.

Posted: Monday, October 29, 2007





The SOA Technology War Moves on to Governance

For the same reason that political parties hold their rallies around this time of year (squeezing them in between the end of the holiday season and the start of the Christmas wind-down)

Posted: Monday, October 29, 2007





SOA in Action 2007 Launches Tomorrow!

ebizQ's SOA In Action 2007 virtual conference launches tomorrow! Have you heard what we're giving away?

Posted: Monday, October 29, 2007





MSDN Webcast: Windows Communication Foundation Top to Bottom (Part 01 of 15): Overview (Level 100)

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the Microsoft messaging platform for building service-oriented applications.

Posted: Monday, October 29, 2007





SOA calls for new management methods

Some new technologies may allow for management to follow deployment, but not service-oriented architecture

Posted: Monday, October 29, 2007





i-Technology Viewpoint: SOA Developers Are From Mars, IT Operations Is From Venus

Let's get the Development Martians talking to the IT Operations Venusians about Service Lifecycle Governance

Posted: Saturday, October 27, 2007





Web Apps Won't Kill the Desktop, Microsoft Says

An executive charges that Google and other Web services still need rich functions on clients.

Posted: Saturday, October 27, 2007





(Semantic Web) Services for e-Learning

Service-Oriented Architectures are becoming a popular system paradigm in e-learning, and there are several efforts to create community driven service frameworks.

Posted: Friday, October 26, 2007





What's wrong with mobile browsers

OK, which is it? Running local applications on the handset/mobile device or relying on Web services?

Posted: Friday, October 26, 2007





Documentum 6 (D6) and Your Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)

EMC Documentum is a leading player in the enterprise content management space.

Posted: Friday, October 26, 2007





SOA management requires smart choices - Forrester

You can't just buy SOA management in a box.

Posted: Friday, October 26, 2007





SOA-based monitoring system targets energy conservation

Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) help alleviate global warming?

Posted: Thursday, October 25, 2007





What Makes SOA Different?

The Open Group explores the differences between service-oriented and enterprise architecture.

Posted: Thursday, October 25, 2007





Comparing Collaborative Web Services

Buying the vast feature set of a collaboration server like Microsoft Office Sharepoint would be overkill for many businesses.

Posted: Thursday, October 25, 2007





Toufic Boubez to Explore Role of Policy in SOA Governance at SOA World Conference & Expo

The original goal of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) concept was to build flexible, loosely coupled systems.

Posted: Thursday, October 25, 2007





Data Sources as Web Services

WSO2 (WS OH 2) is growing in popularity and the team continues to produce quality products.

Posted: Thursday, October 25, 2007





Today's Web: Use at Your Own Risk!

Sites want the right to snoop on you. But just what do they promise to give you in return?

Posted: Wednesday, October 24, 2007





Creating the proper spin with an enterprise ‘mashup’

For an experienced DJ, creating a “mashup” isn’t so difficult. Take the backbeat of a popular song, add the vocals or the melody of another song

Posted: Wednesday, October 24, 2007





BluePhoenix Solutions Announces Key Sponsorship Role in "SOA in Action" Virtual Conference

Event Will Take Place at http://www.soainaction.com on October 30th and 31st, 2007BluePhoenix to Present "SOA Alchemy: Transforming Legacy Systems Into Agile Services"Company Will Also Host an Interactive Exhibition Booth to Highlight Modernization Offerings

Posted: Wednesday, October 24, 2007





SOA vendors beefing up BI offerings

The importance of business intelligence (BI) to service-oriented architecture (SOA) vendors was highlighted this month by deals by IBM and SAP AG involving Business Objects SA.

Posted: Wednesday, October 24, 2007





From Pilot to Payoff: Service-oriented Architecture Hits Its Stride

Recently, IDG Research Services Group surveyed more than 500 IT and business professionals to understand the driving forces and uncover the important trends in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) market

Posted: Wednesday, October 24, 2007





Does SOA endanger your data center?

Over on the application side of the house, enterprises are embracing the service-oriented architecture.

Posted: Tuesday, October 23, 2007





Web CMS trends for 2008

In completing The Web CMS Report 2008, we've again had a chance to observe significant changes in the Web content management (WCM) landscape

Posted: Tuesday, October 23, 2007





SOA Tips and Traps

Simply being aware of some common tips and traps may help your IT organization avoid several mistakes in developing a successful service-oriented architecture (SOA) program

Posted: Tuesday, October 23, 2007





APAC Is Now Getting Aquainted With the Compelling Benefits of SOA

Service Oriented Architecture enables innovation in business by ensuring that IT companies can adapt quickly, easily and economically to support rapidly changing business needs.

Posted: Tuesday, October 23, 2007





SOA needs BPM, BI and Web 2.0 - Forrester

In the next five years, service-oriented architecture (SOA) will be used by architects and developers to create the next generation of "design-for-people

Posted: Monday, October 22, 2007





SOA, meet SOI

The unpredictability of services-based applications could wreak network havoc for the unprepared. Enter the service-oriented infrastructure

Posted: Monday, October 22, 2007





Four tips for making SOA about the business

Building a service-oriented architecture requires great technical skill, but don't forgot that SOA technology first and foremost is about business processes and agility

Posted: Monday, October 22, 2007





SOA governance falls short at most large enterprises

Nearly nine out of 10 large enterprises have insufficient governance over service-oriented architecture deployments, a new survey has found.

Posted: Monday, October 22, 2007





A SOA Platform for Business Process Management (BPM) Integrating Human Workflow within a BPEL

Due to ever increasing globalization, mergers and acquisitions, new and changing regulations, shorter product cycles, and stronger competition

Posted: Sunday, October 21, 2007





Is Web 2.0 Growing Up?

At one point during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, I thought I’d fallen into a time warp.

Posted: Friday, October 19, 2007





Microsoft Gears Up Windows for Devices

Microsoft plans a new version of Windows Embedded CE for

Posted: Friday, October 19, 2007





Make Widgets, Not Web Pages, Developers Say

According to panelists at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday, startups that fight to be the next "It" platform probably won't survive the Web 2.0 era.

Posted: Friday, October 19, 2007





Web2Summit: Opening Up the Social Graph

Brad Fitzpatrick and I just got off the stage at Web 2.0 Summit, where we talked about social networking love and hate.

Posted: Friday, October 19, 2007





IBM Grows Its SOA Partner Community

IBM announced growth in its Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Business Partner segment, citing more than 4,100 members to date.

Posted: Friday, October 19, 2007





Best Practices for Accelerating Problem Resolution in .NET Applications and Web Services

Whether you are in the process of building .NET applications or already running .NET-based Web Services in production, you must ensure that these applications deliver

Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2007





Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again?

Email providers are trying to steal some of social networking's thunder as fast-growing services like Facebook Inc.

Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2007





New ITIL v3 focuses of SOA

The new version 3 of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) model focuses on management of services making it particularly valuable for architects and developers

Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2007





Prioritise service for successful SOA

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) should be defined with an emphasis on service and business if its benefits are to be fully realised

Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2007





Five Things All SOA Vendors Should Know

Dave Linthicum is at it again, dispensing advice as only he can, about how to sell SOA.

Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2007





Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture

The Software Engineering Institute has published a new paper "Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture".

Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2007





IBM Strengthens SOA Business Partner Community Through Opportunity-Driven Programs and Resources

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new and enhanced tools, programs, and incentives to support and accelerate the success of its Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2007





Web Client Software Factory

One of the first steps in building a long-lived ASP.NET project is to define standards for how to use the many features of the platform.

Posted: Thursday, October 18, 2007





Adding Value with Customized Services

Business Web, computing on demand, and Extended Internet – company managers and experts from research institutes discussed these topics at the 10th Future Forum IT at the end of September in Berlin

Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2007





SAP Customers in Europe Accelerate Business Innovation With Enterprise SOA

Delivering on its commitment to help companies embrace an enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) for business success

Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2007





Social Capital To Show Its Worth at This Week's Web 2.0 Summit

For the last few months there's been a lot of talk on the net about the Web 2.0 Address Book -– a technology that knows where you are and what you are doing.

Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2007





eBay's Sastry Malladi to Give Session on SOA Deployment Challenges at SOA World Conference & Expo

SOA concepts have been around for a while and all of the benefits and promises it offers look good on paper.

Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2007





InfoWorld’s SOA Executive Forum Features Case Studies by Pfizer and Lehman Bros. plus More Avenues

InfoWorld's SOA Executive Forum will take place November 7-8, 2007 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel, New York City with a focus on Building a Foundation for Continuous Change

Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2007





Convert Web Store Visitors to Action Figures

You've spent the Adwords or Adcenter dollars to attract visitors to your site — and it worked. Now what?

Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2007





Astoria: REST Web services extensions from Microsoft

Major trends are clearly drawn in the Web services landscape by now. Take for instance the use of the enterprise service bus (ESB) as an SOA enabler

Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2007





SOA tops UK spending priorities

UK IT directors are spending big on service oriented architecture, according a Software AG-sponsored survey.

Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2007





SOA vendor hype exceeds reality, analyst finds

If service-oriented architecture (SOA) is such a great thing wouldn't customers be flocking to the vendors for it, rather than the vendors generating hype with a massive marketing buzz?

Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2007





The Build-and-Ready Approach

In today's complex computer application systems, customer data is spread widely across legacy and newer generation programs.

Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2007





Integrate Windows Apps With Oracle

A common scenario for using Web services is in the creation of business-to-business (B2B) systems where you must expose some business functions

Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2007





SOA - Loosely Coupled...What?

With the advent of Web services and SOA, we've been seeking to create architectures and systems that are more loosely coupled.

Posted: Monday, October 15, 2007





Kyle Gabhart's Session to Explore Selective Service Orientation at SOA World Conference & Expo

Many organizations make the assumption that SOA is a panacea that can and should be applied to every situation.

Posted: Monday, October 15, 2007





SOA For Better Life

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides the design framework to integrate siloed applications so that their functionality

Posted: Monday, October 15, 2007





IBM unveils industry-first SOA software

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced IBM Master Data Management Server, the first software product to allow companies to manage many types of master data

Posted: Monday, October 15, 2007





Make the Web yours: Top five personalized homepages

How many different Web sites would you have to visit to see local weather and news, your e-mail, your online calendar and the headlines from your favorite blogs?

Posted: Monday, October 15, 2007





Infor opens up SOA

Infor has acquired the bulk it needed to become a contender in the enterprise business applications ring, and it is now showing off its technology development muscles with its Open SOA strategy.

Posted: Monday, October 15, 2007





Wagner: Why SOA matters

Service-oriented architecture might seem difficult, but it offers government a way out of the swamp

Posted: Monday, October 15, 2007





IBM Adds Web Services and SOA Tools to the System i

In case you missed it, IBM's Software Group is very big on applications built using Web services and adhering to a services oriented architecture (SOA).

Posted: Monday, October 15, 2007





Microsoft Adds Web Invitation Tool

Microsoft Corp. has added a digital party-invitation service to its suite of Windows Live Web services.

Posted: Sunday, October 14, 2007





Is SOA becoming ubiquitous?

Is SOA DOA or passé or just so yesterday?

Posted: Friday, October 12, 2007





Will BEA Still Sell to Oracle?

BEA officials have argued against the idea before, but it might make sense for both the company and its shareholders.

Posted: Friday, October 12, 2007





IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service a Threat or a Weapon?

A large part of the answer is a new concept in hardware and data storage known as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2007





Open Source SOA Platforms

SOA has taken modular programming principals in to the distributed computing environment

Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2007





SOA Reuse Is a Good Thing

Increasing Trust and Promoting Reuse In a Service-Oriented Architecture

Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2007





Modeling Data Access for SOA

There has been a lot of interest lately in modeling data access in the context of SOA

Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2007