A hint--it does not describe the new headquarters building for the International Red Cross. Rather, it is either the newest empty IT buzzword or the most important innovation in corporate computing ...

My ZDNet blogging colleague David Berlind talks about the "uncomputer," based on the fact that the computer as we know it is evolving into a set of APIs. Perhaps we can extend this logic and call ...

For Web services to succeed in extending the remarkably successful "document" Web into a "trusted business services" Web that reliably spans the globe, designers must apply service-oriented security ...

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 ...

With all the attention that service-oriented architecture and Web services are getting, I thought I’d fast forward to a time when every organization has implemented SOA and Web services to some extent ...

With SOA right now, I think the big picture here is pretty clear about the notions of interfaces, the notion of true distributed computing, the notions of being able to say if Im interacting with you ...

Personnel need education, defined goals to make loosely coupled Web services a benefit to government. Service-oriented architecture has been a major buzzword throughout the U.S. Defense Department for ...

Legacyisn’t planned — it just happens. For many public-sector organizations, the challenges of operating with legacy systems are all too familiar. Legacy environments are expensive and time-consuming ...

Bob Rhubart's had some interesting follow-up to my last post. "I agree with David's assessment that the strategy of building services and then layering in SOA governance technology is unwise. The ...

Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing experience that spans from Bell Labs to startup IPOs to open-source and cloud software companies. He is CEO and founder of Nodeable, ...

The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Instead of building monolithic applications for each department, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) organizes ...

The future of software is service-oriented architecture, according to Charles Stack, president of Flashline. The enterprise application as we know it is dead. Zombie-like, it still lumbers along, ...