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SOA Software, iTKO team up to offer SOA lifecycle management and QA

I took a briefing recently on LISA and was really impressed with the approach and value. It's worth a look if you're not familiar with iTKO. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Team, SOA Software Inc., QA, Lifecycle Management, iTKO, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-06-14

Is SOA Software as a Service, delivered internally?

Is SOA Software as a Service, delivered internally?Intranet SaaS'Intrapreneurial' SaaS is also called as Intranet SaaS. We have developed a product called SednaSpace(www.sednaspace.com), which is a intranet SaaS platform. Using this tool applications can be built quickly and also create webservices on the fly. This tool will be ideal for...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Intranet SaaS, Intranet, SaaS Platform, SOA Software Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-20

Consultants hold an influential SOA role, and the vendors are a courtin' it

It's hard to find a software vendor that aligns to services oriented architectures SOAs that isn't in full seduction mode right now when it comes to enterprise consultants and integrators.Whether you're a best of breeder, open source supporter, or a stack master, the role of professional services for ushering SOAs...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, Open Source, IT Management

Blog posts 2007-06-09

Will vendors ever get serious about the 'unserved' SOA market?

You know the drill. Vendors trip over each other working to reach the Big Enchiladas -- the enterprise SOA market, the Global 1000s. Its like that Capital One commercial, where one stuffy banker says to the other, "...but we only care about BIG business!" Open source software may help...

Tags: General, Business ROI

Blog posts 2007-04-02

Is SOA Software as a Service, delivered internally?

Is SOA essentially "Software as a Service" contained within the enterprise walls? The analogy makes a great elevator speech, especially if one is hard-pressed to describe the philosophy of SOA to end-user customers. Rather than building, maintaining, or delivering their own services, business units subscribe to SOA-based services from...

Tags: General, Web Services

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Ecological tag-team approach ramps up in SOA

BEA Systems and SOA Software are demonstrating a degree of vendor cooperation that could well form a harbinger of how interchangeability and support of contemporary heterogeneity -- not just support of legacy heterogeneity -- becomes the norm in SOA implementations.SOA Software has completed a technical integration between its directory-oriented policy,...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Middleware, Web services, SOA, BEA Systems Inc., SOA Software Inc., Enterprise Service Bus

Blog posts 2006-10-30

Testability of Software in Service-Oriented Architecture

Service-Oriented Architecture SOA is a system architecture in which a collection of loosely coupled services communicate with each other using standard interfaces and message-exchanging protocols. As an emerging technology in software development, the SOA presents a new paradigm, and it affects the entire software development cycle including analysis, specification, design,...

Tags: SOA Software Inc., SOA, Arizona State University, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Software Development, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development

White papers 2006-06-29

SOA vendor consolidation ramps up

Today's announcement of a merger between SOA Software and Blue Titan not only marks a ramp-up in vendor consolidation, but also reinforces the need for platform neutral infrastructure for truly enterprise-wide SOA implementations. The new combined privately held company, which will take the SOA Software name, is betting...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-05-08

SOA vendor bullish on mainframes

Financial services firms -- with their unforgiving demands for near real-time transaction processing -- are proving to be the testing ground for the SOA model. So it's no surprise that SOA Software has just announced it was acquiring software that has been pressed through the rigors of a major financial...

Tags: SOA Software, mainframe

Blog posts 2005-12-05

Registry is hot, hot, hot

A few days ago, my blogmate Britton reported on Sun's new registry, which will be incorporated into the Java Enterprise System 4 server middleware stack, to be released this fall.Today, both SOA Software and Systinet announced new offerings employing UDDI, which is becoming the most commonly accepted registry standard. ...

Tags: Systinet Corp., registry

Blog posts 2005-06-21

National Insurance Carrier: SOA Software Development Process Improvement and Management

The client needed to provide agents with an intelligent interface that integrated critical independent systems, and to revamp legacy claims systems to expedite the claim resolution process. The transition from legacy to new technologies, though, presented several challenges. The client faced a shortage of SOA, and had difficulty understanding the...

Tags: Process Improvement, SOA Software Inc., Client, SOA, Insurance, LiquidHub, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software Development, Web Services, Development Tools, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development

Case studies

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The Real Reason Why Acme Packet Bought Covergence

Last week the SBC market was shaken up when Acme Packet purchased Covergence, Inc. At first glance, this would seem to be a simple consolidation play with a large competitor purchasing a smaller rival. Yet behind the scenes, Covergence gives Acme Packet some important strategic technologies that could ultimately enable...

Tags: Acme Packet, Covergence Inc., Covergence Acquisition, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telephony, VOIP, Collaboration, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Networking, Telecommunications, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-05-06

News to know: Microsoft's killer instinct; Google's blunder; Palm OS; Windows 7;

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Jason Perlow: Why Microsoft's Killer Instinct Must Return Ryan Naraine: Google flags entire Web as 'malware' Google blames 'human error' for search...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile, Operating System, Palm OS, Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-02

News to know: AOL layoffs, SAP layoffs, Cox Cable, DTV bill, Dell

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Sam Diaz: AOL to layoff 700, consolidate groups Andrew Nusca: AOL lays off 700 due to ad meltdown...

Tags: Layoff, Dell Computer Corp., America Online Inc., Cox Cable, SAP AG, Digital Television, Sam Diaz, Workforce Management, Human Resources

Blog posts 2009-01-29

M/I Homes, Inc. Improves Productivity With Real-Time Construction and Financial Information

M/I Homes, Inc. wanted to increase productivity and profitability in the increasingly tight homebuilding market and increase operational control at the corporate level. The challenge was to facilitate improved communication between parties involved in the building process, including suppliers and subcontractors. M/I Homes, Inc. implemented Oracle Application Server and Oracle...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, M/I Homes Inc., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Application Servers, Operational Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Middleware, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Marketing

Case studies 2008-08-01

News to know: Vista SP1 hacks and 551 bugs; Apple patch; RIM outage

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Vista SP1 rolls up 551 bug fixes. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: More information on the Vista SP1 activation hack. Gallery right. George Ou: Vista SP1 still vulnerable to speech recognition 'analog' hole RIM notifies of 'critical' BlackBerry outage. Russell...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Outage, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Manufacturing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Middleware field consolidates in services direction as Workday acquires Cape Clear

On-demand business applications provider Workday has acquired SOA and enterprise integration middleware vendor Cape Clear Software, the companies announced Wednesday. The acquisition is novel in several respects. A middleware software vendor is being absorbed by a software as a service SaaS provider to expand its enterprise solutions...

Tags: Acquisition, Cape Clear Software, Consolidation, Workday, Integration, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-02-06

Epicor Software Case Study: Physician Sales and Service

Physician Sales & Service, Inc. PSS was founded in 1983 with a mission to fulfill the inventory needs of office-based physicians by providing unique and innovative services. With a team of 4,200 employees - including more than 750 sales consultants, and 33 service centers distributing medical supplies to approximately 100,000...

Tags: Physician, Epicor Software Corp., Help Desk, Call Centers, Service Level Management, It Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), It Operations, It service Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-12-20

ZDNet 2007: What the tag cloud tells us

Our engineering team put ZDNet blogs through a cloud tag blender to render a weighted list of top topics for 2008. In an age when the consumer and enterprise worlds are colliding but no exploding, Google, iPhone, Apple and Microsoft captured the big buzz of the year in our blogs....

Tags: Web, Network, Enterprise Software, Blog, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Blogging, Virtualization, Social Networking, Internet, Marketing, Hardware, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-18

Top Technologies for 2008

Gartner has just published its list of top 10 strategic technologies for 2008. I guess I'm a sucker for stuff like this having just spoken with a bunch of CIOs and reported on the results here. The biggest finding that I found in my research was...

Tags: Web, Software-as-a-service, Analyst, Gartner Inc., Technology, Mashup, Metadata Management, Computing Fabric, Channel Management, Virtualization, Roi/Tco, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Utility Computing, Marketing, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2007-10-10