Business agility is the Holy Grail that all enterprises pursue. As a result, technologies that make the integration process smoother and faster are foremost in the minds of all IT executives. The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is one such integration technology that is increasingly gaining more attention from buyers. This note provides information on:

Key Features of an SOA

The following section outlines some of the key technology features that must be present in a true service-oriented architecture implementation.

By Stephen Swoyer

A recent study from market watcher Gartner Inc. suggests that in some cases SOA adopters might be service-enabling chiefly for the sake of service-enabling.

"Example isn't another way to teach; it's the only way" -- Albert Einstein

Patterns and pattern languages capture and formally codify good designs and best experience-based practices in a way that it is possible for others to reuse them. They successfully convey insight into common problems and their solutions. After all, common concepts, a vocabulary to describe them and a language to connect them together are the underpinnings for all disciplines and communities that practice them.

A compute cloud is a utility infrastructure. It can be an internal cloud enabled by server virtualization or it can be an external enterprise infrastructure that rents access. In this video we look at three rules for getting past the hype to assess real value. The rules are:

1.Alignment is software. It’s about the applications. IT must align with business goals and objectives. Applications are the intersection point between the strategic and operational goals of the enterprise and IT.

by Dharmesh Mistry

You’ve finally got your head around service-oriented architecture (SOA) – but now a new acronym threatens to create panic amongst the IT organisation: web-oriented architecture (WOA).

WOA encompasses some big aims and hopes to spread the good work of service-orientation to web-based applications. Are the aims realistic, or are we really looking at the next piece of vendor spin?

Here is a collection of Audio Files for free download. Podcast by Indutry experts on SOA Design and SOA Concepts. Listen to the Experts and Authors on the Subject. Hope you find it useful.

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