HP today announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is using the company's software to optimize service-oriented architecture interoperability and to certify services across the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). SOL the SOA Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

AmberPoint, the leader in policy-driven management for composite applications, today announced that its AmberPoint Management System has achieved certified interoperability with RSA® Access Manager software from RSA, the Security Division of EMC (NYSE:EMC). As a result, joint customers are better able to minimize risk and help ensure regulatory compliance by consistently enforcing authentication and access control across distributed, heterogeneous composite applications. The certified technical interoperability has also enabled AmberPoint to join the RSA Secured® Partner Program. - Sol the SOA Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

MuleSource, the leading provider of open source service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure software, today announced that it has been included as a "Visionary" by Gartner, Inc. in the March 2009 Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets. - Sol - The SOA Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

This session presents the results of a prototype OSGi framework that provides a modernized API for bundles while still providing backward compatibility with bundles bound to the current API. Presenters will explain how the OSGi API can be enhanced by use of Java 7 platform features. Speakers B.J. Hargrave, IBM, and Peter Kriens, aQute, produced the prototype OSGi framework. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Sparx Systems, a leading vendor of modeling tools based on open standards, today announced its release of new tool support for the Service Oriented Architecture Modeling Language (SoaML). The SoaML profile is now an out-of-the-box inclusion with the latest release of Sparx Systems' award-winning modeling platform, Enterprise Architect 7.5. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Organisations must set realistic expectations, and identify a few numerical measures of success agreed with the business, to achieve value from service-oriented architecture (SOA), according to Gartner, Inc. A global Gartner survey of 200 companies conducted in the fourth quarter of 2008, found that 40 per cent of SOA users don’t measure the time to achieve return on investment, and 50 per cent of non-SOA-users have not adopted it because they cannot articulate and demonstrate the business value of it. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Tidal Software, a leading provider of application scheduling and performance management software, today announced Tidal® Transaction Analyzer for SAP Solutions version 1.9. This version is the most recent step in the company’s plans to introduce a broad set of SAP management solutions that provide automation, and accelerate problem isolation for SAP users. Tidal Transaction Analyzer captures 100% of SAP activity and allows users to access indepth reports on that data. Such visibility can help companies understand exactly how their SAP systems are being used, which can, for example, help strengthen security, and even simplify auditing. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Software AG today announced that it passed the $1 billion revenue mark in 2008. The audited financial results, published today in the company’s Annual Report, confirmed that Software AG has now passed this significant milestone. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Diving into Service Oriented Architecture? Vordel's Mark O'Neill covers basic SOA security threats and defenses--and explains how security helps increase SOA's business benefits. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Tidal Software, a leading provider of application automation and scheduling solutions, today announced a development agreement with SAP AG to integrate the Tidal® Intelligent Automation Platform with the SAP® Solution Manager application lifecycle management solution. This integration is intended to reduce mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) of issues that impact business. It will also help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) for customers running the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform and SAP Business Suite software. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Managed Methods Inc. (www.managedmethods.com ) the leader in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) visibility and SOA runtime governance today announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance support for deeper visibility for BEA’s Aqualogic ESB, WebLogic Integration (WLI) and Progress Sonic ESB 7.6. This capability expands the SOA environments that JaxView supports, including a wide range of support for applications exposed by ESBs , protocols and messaging and back end-databases and systems. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Tidal Software, a leading provider of application scheduling and performance management software, today announced that its customer, Tennant Company, has completed successfully, a comprehensive audit of global SAP transaction usage using Tidal Transaction Analyzer. According to Tennant, the Tidal solution greatly simplifies the auditing process and enhances security by providing a clear picture of transaction usage. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

GT Software ( www.gtsoftware.com), a leading global provider of mainframe integration solutions, today announced Ivory Service Architect 4.1, a revolutionary new version of its market leading mainframe service oriented architecture (SOA) product. Ivory Service Architect 4.1 delivers numerous new features designed to reduce mainframe workloads and improve SOA performance. Ivory's innovative architecture, designed from the ground-up to deliver high-performance, secure mainframe SOA solutions, now fully exploits all three IBM System z mainframe specialty engines. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

SP has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by Absa, one of the largest financial services companies in South Africa, to provide its core insurance IT platform across its entire general and life insurance business. The initial five year contract will generate SSP over $20m in licence fees, services, support and maintenance revenues. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Various upcoming Seminars - SOA, Enterprise Architecture & IT Strategy Seminars - London - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Tidal Software, a leading provider of application scheduling and performance management software, will present a Webinar that will present the benefits of modernizing a job-scheduling environment. A profile of how the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory modernized their job scheduling will be presented along with a discussion of Tidal’s Modernization and Conversion program for automating job scheduling. A demo of Tidal’s Tidal Enterprise Scheduler solution will also be presented. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The OSGi™ Alliance announced today that 100 member companies now promote and further the proven standard for modularized Java™ and Java-based technologies. The swell of support follows recent member-driven OSGi technology advancements and deployments in the enterprise and mobile markets and builds on the organization’s successful roots in embedded markets. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Tidal Software, a leading provider of application scheduling and performance management software, and International Integrated Solutions, Ltd. (IIS), a leading provider of mission critical and highly available infrastructure hardware and software solutions, today announced an alliance where by IIS can resell Tidal’s datacenter automation solution for enterprise scheduling, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

WSO2, the open source SOA company, today announced the debut of WSO2 Carbon, the industry’s first fully componentized service-oriented architecture (SOA) framework. Built on the OSGi specification, WSO2 Carbon enables an entire SOA platform comprised of integrated middleware components. Now developers using WSO2 Carbon can easily deploy only those components they need—and eliminate the complexities of middleware integration—to realize significant savings in SOA project time, money and staffing. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Oracle(R) Recognized as a Leader in Enterprise Service Buses by Independent Research Firm - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Microsoft Corp. has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant of four Gartner Magic Quadrants: the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects, the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for SOA Composite Application Projects, the Magic Quadrant for New Systematic Service-Oriented Business Application Projects and the Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today announced that Ping An Insurance of China will use its webMethods product suite to support its ambitious business expansion plans. Ping An will drive its 20-25% growth plans through offering full insurance, banking and asset management services to over 40 million customers in China. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Software Engineer - Service Oriented Architectures required in Boston - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Ricoh Company Ltd., a leading provider of digital office equipment, today announced a Global Strategic Alliance with IBM. The alliance will provide customers with comprehensive document solutions leveraging Ricoh and IBM's vast capabilities to address customers' complex business problems. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Epicor Software Corporation (NASDAQ:EPIC), a leading provider of enterprise business software solutions for the midmarket and divisions of Global 1000 companies, today announced that Epicor 9, a next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, has won the 2008 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOALogix, Inc., a leading provider of information-driven integration solutions, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the visionaries quadrant in the 'Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects' report. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

EDS, an HP company, and Virgin Atlantic Airways today announced they have signed a new information technology (IT) services agreement that extends the companies' 25-year relationship. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Clerity Solutions, Inc. (Clerity), a leading full-service provider of mainframe migration and modernization solutions, today introduced new software and services that enable legacy mainframe applications and rehosted workloads to play strategic roles in SOA and Web Services initiatives. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

With the global economy slowing to a crawl, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on SOA solutions from the large platform vendors can be hard to justify. Fortunately, the availability of proven open source SOA software means IT departments can continue to move full speed ahead with their SOA implementations. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The WSO2 webinar "WSO2 Synergies: ESB and Registry" will introduce developers to the WSO2 ESB and the WSO2 Registry, and then focus on how these two technologies can collaborate to achieve goals such as centralized configuration and control of a mediation network, automatic run-time enforcement of design-time policies, and business activity monitoring. - SOA Enterprise Network - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

OpenSpan, Inc., a worldwide leader in desktop productivity and SOA acceleration software, opens its EMEA headquarters, based in London. This move follows OpenSpan’s sixth consecutive quarter of record revenue growth and $13 million round of venture funding. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and MITAS, one of Europe's largest tire manufacturing companies, today announced an agreement under which IBM will create a new enterprise integration platform based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for MITAS. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

GoldenGate Software Inc., a leading provider of high availability and real-time data integration solutions, today announced the availability of GoldenGate(R) version 10.0, a transactional data management platform which enables real-time business operations. With today's release, GoldenGate expands support for heterogeneous databases, provides improved performance and manageability, and introduces new data integration functionality with Java Message Service (JMS) integration to support event-driven architectures (EDA) and service oriented architectures (SOA). - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

MuleSource, the leading provider of open source service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure software, today announced a partnership with NaviSite, Inc., a leading provider of application management and enterprise hosting solutions, to offer MuleSource's technology as a part of NaviSite's AppStructure platform, simplifying service oriented development across NaviSite-hosted systems, on-premise applications, and external trading partners. The new offering, available immediately, provides customers with a one-stop shop for integration and hosting services with far-reaching visibility into their SOA infrastructure and hosted environments. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Progress Software Corporation, a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced the availability of the Progress(R) OpenEdge(R) 10.2A business application development platform. With the release of OpenEdge 10.2A, Progress offers customers and Applications Partners new graphical user interface (GUI) capabilities that enable them to build a Microsoft .NET-based Windows Graphics User Interface (GUI) natively within the award-winning OpenEdge development platform - without requiring any training or prior knowledge of .NET itself. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Determining the Return on Investment for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) project is the greatest challenge facing developers working on SOA programs, according to the most recent Evans Data Corp survey of developers actively developing SOA or Web Services applications. Almost one in five cited ROI as the most challenging aspect, more than identifying available Web Services, testing and validation, or absorbing the expense. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "A Methodology for Designing Service-Oriented Applications" report to their offering. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Bostech Corporation announces the release of ChainBuilder ESB 2.0, the fast and easy way to connect applications and services to create innovative solutions. ChainBuilder ESB is installed in a diverse set of environments, helping enterprises and software vendors enable niche application adapters, composite applications and enterprise-wide infrastructures. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, relies on Red Hat solutions to deliver increased scalability and flexibility for its clients' mission-critical systems. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

WSO2, the open source SOA company, and Active Endpoints, Inc. are working together to make it easier for Java developers to build and manage SOA applications. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Preliminary results of a global survey undertaken by the SAP UK & Ireland User Group and the global SUGEN community (SAP User Group Executive Network) has revealed that 55% of UK organisations questioned either didn’t understand SOA or hadn’t got a strategy in place to implement it. SOA is the underlying architectural direction for all future applications development, yet only 13% of UK organisations questioned said that they were actively using or preparing to use SOA, while the remaining 32% were simply investigating it for their business. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

Epicor Software Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise business software solutions for the midmarket and divisions of Global 1000 companies, today announced that it has added 10 new value-added resellers (VARs) to the Company's sales channel through the third quarter of 2008. The new partners span the United States and Canada, signifying 20% growth of Epicor's channel presence in the Americas. Leveraging the technological advancements of Epicor 9, these partners will drive business without barriers -- offering a comprehensive, configurable enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution across multiple industries. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG-IT NETWORK << MORE >>

MuleSource, the leading provider of open source service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure software, today announced the general availability of Mule 2.1 Enterprise, a new enterprise-class edition of the world's most widely used open source enterprise service bus (ESB), complete with new capabilities and features including premium connectors, support for the Mule RESTpack, and retry policies designed for enterprise deployments. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOT IT NETWORK << MORE >>

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global supplier of application infrastructure software used to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today announced the launch of the Progress(R) Apama(R) Capital Markets Framework, a powerful set of pre-built capabilities for creating a broad range of capital markets trading applications. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

Memento, Inc., a leader in enterprise fraud management, today announced an agreement with IBM to deliver fraud detection solutions to the financial services industry. The two companies will jointly develop, market and sell innovative, next-generation solutions for monitoring, detecting and investigating a wide variety of fraud types, including deposit account fraud, new account fraud and insider fraud. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

SAP AG today announced that it is further expanding the scope, versatility and built-in expertise of the SAP(R) Business ByDesign(TM) solution, dedicated to benefiting its customers with enhanced user experience and added value. New and expanded early partnerships allow for four new add-on solutions from SAP's ecosystem, with customer-focused capabilities and expertise for payroll, payment reference data, B2B collaboration and tax management. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

Merlin International, one of the fastest growing public sector IT solutions providers in the United States, announced it has been awarded a contract with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Information Technology Center (SPAWAR ITC) in New Orleans to provide service-oriented architecture (SOA) integration services. Merlin will work with SPAWAR ITC's efforts to architect and engineer web services in order to support the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

STORM Networks, LLC, solutions provider for the global financial services industry, today announced the introduction of a new online application service platform for buy and sell-side institutions participating in the corporate bank loan market. Developed in conjunction with Bank of America, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, STORM Loan Marketplace™ is the only platform using real-time agent bank data driven across a dedicated, secure network to power the processes, procedures and functions relating to new issue and secondary settlement in the par and distressed markets. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - BLOG IT NETWORK << MORE >>

Tidal Software, a leading provider of application scheduling and performance management software, today announced that it will attend the Gartner Data Center Summit in Amsterdam from October 21-23, 2008. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

XAware, Inc. today announced the introduction of a QuickStart program designed to help companies quickly and cost-effectively take the first step toward building composite data services for service-oriented architecture (SOA), rich Internet applications (RIA) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) projects. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Apache Tuscany, a new Top-Level Project of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), today announced the release of version 1.3.2 of its Service Component Architecture (SCA) for Java -- the Project's latest release since its graduation from the ASF Incubator four months ago. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that industry analyst firm IDC has ranked IBM the worldwide leader in the application management services (AMS) market over Accenture, EDS and all Indian-based firms based on combined bundled and discrete services revenue in 2007. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are continuing to embrace service-oriented architecture (SOA) and apply the latest technology advancements delivered through the SAP NetWeaver(R) technology platform to accelerate innovation, standardize business processes and drive competitive differentiation. SAP business solutions built upon the SAP NetWeaver technology platform are helping organizations to better manage their most critical business processes by establishing IT landscapes that are less complex, more flexible and better suited to respond and adapt to changing markets. Taking advantage of an SOA strategy with SAP enables organizations to optimize business operations in a multitude of ways that range from providing users with access to real-time data, increasing responsiveness to customers and collaborating better with partners, to rapidly addressing new regulatory requirements or even reducing carbon footprints through the elimination of paper processes. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a provider of leading application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today released its FUSE(TM) ESB 4.0, an enterprise version of Apache ServiceMix 4.0, the most widely-deployed, standards based, open source enterprise service bus (ESB). FUSE 4.0 comprises important new capabilities that will help the productivity of developers, including support for the Java(TM) Business Integration (JBI) 2.0 standard and backwards compatibility with JBI 1.0, which ensures that FUSE 3.X (and ServiceMix 3.X) components are seamlessly deployable onto FUSE ESB 4.0. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Fiorano Software, (www.fiorano.com) a leading provider of enterprise class business process integration and messaging infrastructure technology announced today that Atypon Systems a superior provider of sophisticated e-publishing solutions to major scholarly publishers picked FioranoMQ to facilitate messaging amid diverse modules in their Premium e-publishing platform. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the expansion of its enterprise offerings for SOA deployment with the release of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 and JBoss Operations Network 2.1. The newest versions of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and JBoss Operations Network will feature cooperative support and will allow for the remote monitoring and management of open source SOA deployments. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today announced that Innovation World 2008 -- formerly webMethods Integration World -- will be held November 3-5, 2008 in Miami, Florida at the Hyatt Regency Miami. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today enhanced its position asthe world wide leader in the service oriented architecture (SOA) market with new products and services that help clients respond to rapid changes in the marketplace to gain a competitive advantage. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

WSO2, the open source SOA company, is helping database administrators and programmers to play a central role in SOA. Its new WSO2 Data Services solution, which launched this week, provides easy access to data via Web services, and WSO2 online training gets users up and running quickly. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

CA, Inc. has been optimized to manage the online customer experience and the associated Web applications in large, complex and highly distributed SOA and virtualized environments. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Prentice Hall today announced that Thomas Erl, the world’s top-selling SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) author and series editor of The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, will deliver the opening keynote at the International SOA Symposium, taking place this week in Amsterdam. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Cognos, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today unveiled new collaborative business modeling software for business users to create, maintain, govern and share business perspectives and quickly organize strategic information for improved decision-making and performance management. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Software, the leading Integrated SOA Governance vendor, announced today that it has hired Wolf Gilbert, an executive from Microsoft Corporation, to leads its rapid expansion into the European market. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

At Burton Group Catalyst Conference Europe, 20-23 October in Prague, Burton Group analysts and guest speakers from global enterprise organizations and technology vendors will delve into best practices encompassing the full spectrum of SOA including the impact SOA is having on application platforms, identity management, infrastructure services, data and the IT organization. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today introduced CentraSite ActiveSOA as the industry’s most comprehensive and advanced solution for service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance and lifecycle management. Building upon the superior performance and scalability that CentraSite™ has long been recognized for, CentraSite ActiveSOA establishes new benchmarks for what enterprises can expect in terms of stakeholder collaboration and alignment, enterprise extensibility, unified command & control, and the automation of critical governance processes. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

More than 60 New Integrations Validated through Oracle Application Integration Architecture for Partners Initiative Over the Past Year - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Attachmate Corporation today unveiled the latest version of its mainframe application integration solution, Attachmate® Verastream® Host Integrator 6.6. The new version includes new features and functionality that eliminate the technical complexity and code generation associated with legacy integration, offering IT organizations a low-risk, low-cost approach to legacy-to-SOA integration. The addition of Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) validation by the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) provide enhanced security, a requirement for any cryptographic product that will be used in a U.S. government agency network and is critical for working with strategic federal government accounts. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Prolifics, an end-to-end systems integrator specializing in IBM technologies, today announced that its second annual "Online Educational Conference for Executives and IT Management" once again proved to be an overwhelming success. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

IBM today announced new software to help businesses take advantage of the surge in new mainframe software applications and the growing momentum behind enterprise mashups. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Software, the leading Integrated SOA Governance vendor, and Compuware, one of the world's largest independent software and services companies, announced today they are partnering to accelerate the adoption of mainframe SOA. This partnership will help mainframe users adopt SOA quickly and safely by leveraging the technology and expertise of two leaders in this field. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Following its merger with Tumbleweed Communications, announced on September 4, 2008, Axway today introduced a plan to integrate Tumbleweed’s managed file transfer (MFT), email security and identity validation products into Axway’s multi-enterprise collaboration product portfolio. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Implementing an Service Oriented Architecture project does not have to be so difficult and overwhelming. This SOA Development Survival Guide contains helpful resources for project managers and architects - including webcasts, whitepapers and evaluation software - designed to ease the burden, deepen understanding and accelerate SOA development projects. << MORE >>

ZapThink, the industry's foremost experts, advisers, and educators in the field of Service-Oriented Architecture, is responding to customer demand with today's publication of the third version of its popular "ZapThink SOA Implementation Roadmap" poster. The company distributed over 100,000 copies of its first two versions of the poster, the first in 2003 and then updated in 2005. The latest version adds cutting-edge thought leadership in SOA, includes detail on architectural artifacts, and expands coverage of SOA Quality, Enterprise Mashups, and more. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Service-oriented architecture (SOA), which links a group of information technology services, is becoming increasingly important to many corporations. The latest issue of the IBM Systems Journal (Volume 47, number 3, 2008) focuses on methods for building SOAs. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

WSO2 will demonstrate service oriented architecture (SOA) interoperability with the Microsoft .NET Framework at ZendCon 2008 held this month. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The SOA Consortium(TM) today announced the availability of a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by Bruce Henderson, Chief Scientist, Savant on "Connections Between Services, Event Processing and Mashups," recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in June. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today announced the availability of webMethods Insight, a new solution for the run-time management of heterogeneous SOA environments. The release builds upon a new strategic OEM partnership with Progress Software for the Actional® line of enterprise-class SOA management products. webMethods Insight provides enterprises with a proven, best-of-breed solution for the monitoring, policy enforcement and provisioning of run-time services. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK<< MORE >>

Kicking off a global series of "Get Virtual Now" events that will reach more than 250,000 customers and partners, Microsoft Corp. today announced strong customer and partner adoption of Microsoft virtualization software, new tools and programs to drive partner success. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the acquisition of Qumranet, Inc. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA Software, a leading Integrated SOA Governance Automation vendor, announced today that the number of transactions processed by its systems each month grew by 400%, to over 2.5 billion transactions a month. The growth was due to the expansion of existing production systems and the deployment into production of new SOA Governance systems. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Oracle has agreed to acquire ClearApp, a leading supplier of application management solutions for composite applications. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

The Integration Consortium (IC) announces the launch of their new social network website designed to bring the global community of professionals to the desktop and build business value from a network of collaboration in a trusted setting. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Oracle India announced today that more than 250 mid-size financial services institutions, including co-operative and regional rural banks and co-operative credit societies, are using Oracle® Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware to help automate transactions, enabling them to conduct branch operations at a faster pace and increase the number of transactions per day. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today expanded the webMethods Application Modernization Suite with the introduction of the Discovery Edition. - SOA Enterprise Architect - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>