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


Adobe's Latest Acquisition Creates Buzz Around Office Docs

Photoshop publisher Adobe is taking aim at Google's online office suite with the acquisition of a web-based word processor

Posted: Monday, October 01, 2007





On-Demand Integration

Software is now increasingly provided as a service; in other words, it is now offered as a hosted application that users access through Web browsers

Posted: Sunday, September 30, 2007





Draft Web Services Policy Specs Released by W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Services Policy Working Group released working drafts of “Web Services Policy 1.5 – Primer,

Posted: Sunday, September 30, 2007





Next Up For SOA: Convergence And Consolidation

A look at the future direction of SOA intermediary products and related market categories, including Web 2.0, business process management, and application front ends.

Posted: Sunday, September 30, 2007





A Close Look at BPEL 2.0

As most readers are probably aware, the Web Services-Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL)

Posted: Saturday, September 29, 2007





IT Survival Guide: Underpinnings Are Key To Web 2.0 In The Workplace

These new technologies promote communication and collaboration, but they aren't all right for business. Here's what to watch for.

Posted: Saturday, September 29, 2007





Microsoft Presence Sample for Smart Clients Using Office Communicator Web Access AJAX Services (msi)

This set of samples illustrate how to provide presence, instant messaging, and additional enhanced functionality in a rich client application

Posted: Friday, September 28, 2007





Batch Processing is the Missing Link

The adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as an approach to provide a more effective means to leverage mainframe data

Posted: Friday, September 28, 2007





Access Cloud Data With Astoria

Microsoft wants to help you build cloud data services with its Astoria code-named technology, a free download now in beta.

Posted: Friday, September 28, 2007





More 'Fabric' With Your SOA?

Call it a kind of best-of-breed approach to building rich applications: Take one useful part of this application, good parts of another

Posted: Friday, September 28, 2007





Service Provisioning via SPML in SOA

Provisioning is the automation of all the steps required to manage user accounts or system access facilities or data relative to electronically published services.

Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2007





Taking an incremental approach to SOA

The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach is top of mind for many technology and business professionals these days

Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2007





Cape Clear tilts ESB for on-demand apps

Sensing a groundswell of demand for software on demand, Cape Clear's latest version of its enterprise service bus offering has added several features that would facilitate SaaS (software as a service).

Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2007





SOA muddying the CRM buy vs. build dilemma

Deploying CRM is no longer just a question of buy versus build, according to one speaker at the recent Gartner CRM Summit.

Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2007





Best practices for a quality SOA business case

If you're having trouble writing the first paragraph of your business case for implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2007





SOA gives retailers a critical market advantage

There is no replacement for direct, personal interaction with customers in stores.

Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2007





Managed Methods Expands Web Services and SOA Management Offering

JaxView adds exception management options for mediating system performance

Posted: Wednesday, September 26, 2007





IBM Adds 'Key Agility Indicators' to the BPM/SOA Mix

Announcements highlight business activity monitoring, vertical process content and assessment services.

Posted: Wednesday, September 26, 2007





IBM tailors SOA lineup for specific industries

IBM is set to announce on Wednesday a set of services geared at boosting its services-oriented architecture (SOA)

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2007





Child's Play SOA

When Web services first burst onto the scene, which in my mind was the beginning of the SOA movement

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2007





Rating Systems Move Out Into the Open

Carriers are using technologies such as SOA to squeeze more value from their legacy rating systems.

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2007





Service-based Identity and Access Management - The Rise of SOA-Centric Identity

As enterprises develop dynamic business solutions that take advantage of service-oriented architectures, the IT infrastructure and processes that support them must keep pace

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2007





SOA taking off in Asia

IBM has targeted the Asean region as one of the fastest in the adoption of service oriented architecture (SOA) to enhance business capability, especially in the financial, insurance, government and telecommunications areas.

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2007





Microsoft Announces MapData Sciences as its Partner for Virtual Earth in Australia and New Zealand

Sydney headquartered MapData Sciences Pty Ltd (MDS) has been appointed Australian and New Zealand reseller for Virtual Earth

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2007





SOA for Dummies

Implementing SOA involves organizational changes on multiple levels, both technological and cultural, and can take anywhere from six months to six years

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2007





SOA meets open b-to-b integration

With all of the hubbub last week surrounding SCO's pending demise and IBM's open desktop play

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2007





How to prepare your 2008 SOA budget?

This is budget season for some of us, and many questions may come to mind as we prepare our 2008

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2007





Trio of new web application security tools

Web application security expert Shreeraj Shah published three new security tools that should help in assessment and audit

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2007





Common SOA portal mistakes and how to avoid them

Enterprise portals fit well into an organization's service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2007





Microsoft Launches Campaign Against Google-DoubleClick

Microsoft Corp. has teamed with public relations and marketing agency Burson-Marsteller on a campaign to garner industry

Posted: Monday, September 24, 2007





On the Origin of Utility Computing

Although it has been criticized by many analysts and experts who question its overall business model -- often wondering whether mainstream users would ever be comfortable

Posted: Monday, September 24, 2007





Trans-European healthcare support network for Europe’s mobile citizens

Travelling abroad for pleasure, education, or work has become a natural part of life for many European citizens

Posted: Monday, September 24, 2007





SOI before SOA

Management consultancy McKinsey recently forecast that 2007 will be characterised by an increasing migration to SOAs

Posted: Monday, September 24, 2007





AJAXWorld University Bootcamp Kicks Off AJAXWorld 2007 West

In front of yet another full session room, AJAXWorld University Bootcamp instructor Frank Cohen, CEO and Founder of PushToTest, returned to the classroom role at which he has become so popular

Posted: Sunday, September 23, 2007





Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 Revealed

This new version brings a business policy management engine, a better Web standards and enterprise flow support.

Posted: Sunday, September 23, 2007





Build and Deploy your own Service-Oriented Application with PHP and ActiveBPEL

SOA and WS-BPEL is a new book from Packt that helps users to compose Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions

Posted: Friday, September 21, 2007





DMTF Hammers Out SMASH 2.0

The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), an industry organization advocating the development of interoperable server management

Posted: Friday, September 21, 2007





Enterprise Mashups Hurtle Toward Mainstream

Enterprise mashups have reached the peak of their hype cycle and are on their way to popping up in the enterprise.

Posted: Friday, September 21, 2007





Brash Upstarts Lead Rising Web Application Platforms

Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle have driven the software market for so many years, we're accustomed to seeing them lead new forays

Posted: Friday, September 21, 2007





Who owns the SOA business case?

Who owns the business case for service-oriented architecture (SOA)?

Posted: Friday, September 21, 2007





Layer 7 and Nexaweb Partner to Bridge SOA and Rich Internet Apps

SOA security gateway maker Layer 7 Technologies and enterprise Web 2.0 software vendor Nexaweb have announced a partnership

Posted: Friday, September 21, 2007





Making SOA work

Making service-oriented architecture (SOA) work successfully in business was the theme of this year's ITWeb SOA conference

Posted: Friday, September 21, 2007





IBM Portal Leads Market With SOA Vision and Web 2.0 Features

IBM now offers customers all five of the initial accelerators identified as part of a new strategy announced April

Posted: Thursday, September 20, 2007





Development Bonanza Brings New Ruby, PHP, Java Tools

The development field got an infusion of new tools this week, with major releases from Eclipse, Sun Microsystems and CodeGear targeting hot technologies.

Posted: Thursday, September 20, 2007





ESBs in 2007: Taking the Open Source Bus to SOA (Part I of II)

This article is the first of two that digs deeper into the ESB portion of the mid-stack, highlighting the place of the up and coming OSS ESB crop.

Posted: Thursday, September 20, 2007





Oracle gives business users a bigger say in SOA

The latest version of Oracle's Business Process Analysis (BPA) Suite is aimed squarely at getting business users more involved

Posted: Thursday, September 20, 2007





Has the SOA Advance Stalled?

Since the start of the slow recovery from the dot.com crash of 2001, the assumption has been that new investments in IT

Posted: Thursday, September 20, 2007





Is a lightweight ESB right for your SOA?

It's a classic conflict: Developers focused on a project and facing deadline pressure want to use a lightweight enterprise service

Posted: Thursday, September 20, 2007





Beyond AJAX and JavaServer Faces

First released in March 2004, the server-side component model introduced by JavaServer Faces (JSF) brought the promise of simplifying Web-user interface

Posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2007





The first word in CEP for SOA is 'complex'

The relationship of complex event processing (CEP) to service-oriented architecture (SOA) remains, in a word, complex.

Posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2007





The New Face of IT Service Management

In today’s business and technology environments - where expectations of IT are higher, but where change, risk, and complexity

Posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2007





IBM SOA Business Catalog: Recipe for Reuse

The IBM SOA Business Catalog provides access to hundreds of reusable assets from IBM Software Group

Posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2007





Google Launches AdSense for Mobile

There are about 6.6 billion people in the world and about half that many mobile phone subscriptions. Better still, ad blocking on mobile handsets isn't an issue. At least not yet.

Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2007





Implementing SOA Without Enterprise Mashups? You Might As Well Kiss Your Job Goodbye!

Ok, ok, it's an overstatement. But the ROI of SOA is difficult, at best, to define and measure.

Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2007





Take advantage of the benefits of loosely coupled Web services

Loosely coupled components can operate independently of each other with no problems. This is an excellent fit when designing Web services, where all components are not always available.

Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2007





SearchWebServices.com Definitions

SOA networking is the use of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) model to enhance the capabilities of networks

Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2007





Oracle links business process analysis, SOA

Closed-loop support allows for analyst and IT collaboration as Oracle pledges tighter alignment between development stages

Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2007





‘Guide to Secure Web Services’

A new NIST publication, called ‘Guide to Secure Web Services’ (NIST Special Publication 800-95), provides details

Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2007





Insurers Ahead Of The Pack In Use Of Web Technology

Developing Web mashups, creating new products and services for customers, upgrading desktop productivity software, and deploying Web services are some areas where insurance companies are out in front.

Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2007





SOA + WOA = NOA

It's an exciting time for developers. Many development teams are working on exposing services in service-oriented architectures

Posted: Monday, September 17, 2007





Redmond Issues Live ID SDKs

Microsoft has released a pair of Windows Live SDKs that it says can manage the process of authenticating users of Web

Posted: Monday, September 17, 2007





Customer-Facing Analytics

To file taxes last year, I used a popular online tax service. The tax software walked me through all the required tax questions

Posted: Monday, September 17, 2007





SolutionBase: Make the move from IIS to Apache 2.2.x

Ever since Netcraft has started tracking statistics regarding Web server usage, IIS has never beat Apache when it comes to the number of sites

Posted: Monday, September 17, 2007





How SOA hits home: Five ways SOA makes a difference

One of the most valuable and often overlooked benefits of an Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy is the impact it has on the general population

Posted: Monday, September 17, 2007





How difficult is SOA?

Granted, service-oriented architecture requires you to do a lot of things. It takes no small amount of time to redesign your architecture

Posted: Monday, September 17, 2007





What exactly is SOA?

Bringing IT and business into closer alignment is the concern of every enterprise; more so large enterprises who operate in a highly competitive business

Posted: Monday, September 17, 2007





SOA Quick Start

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an evolution in enterprise architecture, not a revolution.

Posted: Monday, September 17, 2007





Web Services Policy 1.5, W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium issued a critical Web standard for extending the features of Web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Posted: Sunday, September 16, 2007





An Open Marketplace for Services

We cannot foresee the full potential of service-oriented architecture (SOA) any more than Henry Ford could have foreseen

Posted: Saturday, September 15, 2007





SOA failing to bridge business-IT gap

Research has revealed that service oriented architecture (SOA) is turning out to be IT's "great white hope",

Posted: Friday, September 14, 2007





Extended XQuery for SOA

In a services-oriented architecture (SOA), a business process is implemented as a web service that programs (orchestrates in SOA terminology)

Posted: Friday, September 14, 2007





Getting SOA Right the First Time

David Linthicum warms us to consider business needs first, starting with core requirements, and think about technology needs after that.

Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007





Industry Group Releases Server Management Standards

The new specs will help to provide a consistent method for automated management of computer servers from multiple vendors.

Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007





SOA still not bridging gap between IT and the business

The majority of business managers have little or no understanding of service oriented architecture (SOA) and the benefits it can bring

Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007





CPM - Corporate Performance Management - Analytical Services in a SOA

New version 4.0 of Volume 2 of the series "iBonD - intelligent Business on Demand".

Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2007





SOA Software Adds SOA Management for Microsoft BizTalk Server

SOA Software, a provider of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance, Security, Mediation, and Management solutions

Posted: Wednesday, September 12, 2007





Amazon Sponsoring Web Services Contest

Amazon is attempting to drum up interest among developers for its Web Services offering by sponsoring a contest

Posted: Wednesday, September 12, 2007





Rapid SOA Deployment: Provisioning Web Services from Existing Assets

Creating an agile SOA infrastructure includes creating new services as well as service enabling existing solutions

Posted: Wednesday, September 12, 2007





How to Develop a Web Service for the iPhone

The full AJAX support in the Safari based browser provides the ability to create a mobile experience way beyond WAP

Posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2007





Survey claims growing bond between SOA and BPM

Paul Harmon and Celia Wolf, editors of BPTrends.com, published last week the results of a survey* on the relationship between SOA and BPM

Posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2007





BizTalk Server R2 Ships With SOA Flavor

Branch offices are part of the focus in the latest version of BizTalk Server from Microsoft which began shipping Release 2

Posted: Tuesday, September 11, 2007





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