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Service-Oriented Architecture: Implications for Government and Industry

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:53:39 GMT

Service-Oriented Architecture: Implications for Government and Industry

DUBLIN, Ireland, Aug 19, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c9f3ca/serviceoriented_a) has announced the addition of the "Service-Oriented Architecture: Implications for Government and Industry" report to their offering.

This report examines the drivers, challenges, and implications of SOA within the federal technology market, and provides recommendations and strategies for contractors looking for SOA opportunities.

Description:

As the federal government works to modernize its IT foundations, reduce costs, and improve mission effectiveness, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is emerging as a powerful tool for changing how government delivers services. In some ways, SOA explodes the concept of the application into a highly dynamic and fluid marketplace of services.

The incremental progress of SOA will impact the federal technology environment on many levels - from acquisition strategies and program lifecycles to governance and organizational culture. By understanding the implications of SOA - from both the industry and government perspective - contractors have the opportunity to help shape government's perception of SOA and its potential role in meeting mission objectives.

The report includes:

-SOA drivers and challenges in the federal government

-Implications of SOA for industry (particularly acquisitions, software developers, and systems integrators)

-Recommendations for maximizing SOA opportunities

Author: Deniece Peterson

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c9f3ca/serviceoriented_a.

SOURCE: Research and Markets Ltd.

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MESA International Announces New SOA Track at Plant-To-Enterprise Conference and SOA in Manufacturing Guidebook

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:47:22 GMT

MESA International Announces New SOA Track at Plant-To-Enterprise Conference and SOA in Manufacturing Guidebook

CHANDLER, Ariz., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Manufacturing Enterprise
Solutions Association, MESA International, today announced that it has
added a new track on industrial Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to its
Annual Plant-To-Enterprise Conference: Delivering on Strategies, which will
take place September 21-23, 2008 at Rosen Plaza, Orlando, Florida. The
association has also published the new SOA in Manufacturing Guidebook,
available for free to premium MESA members at the conference and through
immediate online download at the MESA web site.

    "Due to overwhelming response, MESA has added a new educational track
on Service Oriented Architecture to help attendees in the ongoing
formulation, design and integration of SOA in their production
environments," explained Michael Yost of GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms and
MESA Conference Co-Chair. "In this track, operations and IT teams can learn
how leading manufacturers are using SOA to deliver on corporate strategic
initiatives such as lean, quality and PLM."

    Sessions in the new industrial SOA track include:
    -- SOA in Manufacturing Panel Discussion, moderated by Cap Gemini and IBM
    -- Excellence in Work Processes, presented by Chevron
    -- A Lean SOA Approach Enables "Build Anywhere," presented by Boeing
    -- Interoperability Compliance Completes the SOA Business Case, presented
       by 3M

    At the conference, premium MESA members will receive a copy of the new
SOA in Manufacturing Guidebook on CD. This guidebook describes the concepts
that have evolved into SOA and dives deeply into how the concepts are being
formalized and applied to manufacturing IT environments. Chapters range
from an overview of SOA to using standards to get the full SOA benefit.

    "As the manufacturing solution landscape evolves, both end users and
solution providers are striving to discover common approaches that
facilitate collaboration across applications, people, geographies and other
perceived boundaries," explained Dave Noller, IBM IT Architect and
co-author of the guidebook. "This evolution in manufacturing mirrors the
growing maturity of SOA which continues to gain favor and use by
practitioners around the world."

    The new guidebook is the culmination of a collaborative effort with
experts from several member companies. Nearly 70 pages, the guidebook
includes an appendix of examples of successful SOA implementations. MESA
will augment this section with an ever-growing library of examples and
references from different industries.

    For more details on the new SOA track at the 2008 MESA
Plant-To-Enterprise Conference and the new "SOA in Manufacturing
Guidebook," please visit http://www.mesa.org.

    About MESA International

    MESA is an association of manufacturers/producers, solution providers
and industry professionals, promoting innovation and best practices
sharing, with a goal of delivering valuable knowledge around
operations-centric enterprise solutions.

    MESA defines industry standard methodologies and approaches that allow
manufacturers/producers to bridge execution excellence with enterprise
level requirements. MESA's industry events, symposiums and publications
help cultivate understanding, analysis and the exchange of strategies and
innovation to achieve manufacturing leadership.

    For more information, visit http://www.mesa.org.

ISS Recommends in Favour of the Resolutions for the Proposed Acquisition of IONA Technologies by Progress Software Corporation

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:13:44 GMT

ISS Recommends in Favour of the Resolutions for the Proposed Acquisition of IONA Technologies by Progress Software Corporation

DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass., Aug 18, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- IONA(R) Technologies , a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, today announced that Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a leading global proxy advisory firm, recommends in favour of the resolutions for the proposed acquisition of IONA Technologies by Progress Software. The resolutions will be presented to IONA shareholders at both the Extraordinary General Meeting and Court Meeting to be held on August 28, 2008 in Dublin, Ireland.

About ISS Governance Services

With more than 20 years of experience, ISS Governance Services is a leader in proxy voting and corporate governance matters. ISS Governance Services' experienced research team provides comprehensive analyses of proxy issues and complete vote recommendations for more than 40,000 meetings in over 100 worldwide markets.

ISS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of RiskMetrics Group, Inc. RiskMetrics Group is a leading provider of risk management and corporate governance products and services to participants in the global financial markets.

About IONA

For more than a decade, IONA(R) Technologies has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix(R) products. IONA's Artix(TM), an advanced SOA infrastructure suite enables customers to leverage service-oriented architecture to streamline and modernize IT environments. The FUSE(TM) family of open source distributed SOA infrastructure products allows customers to take advantage of the economic benefits associated with the use of open source software.

IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide.

For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com.

About Progress Software Corporation

Progress Software Corporation provides application infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications. Our goal is to maximize the benefits of information technology while minimizing its complexity and total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000.

Disclosure Required by the Irish Takeover Rules

The directors of IONA Technologies accept responsibility for the information contained in this announcement. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the directors of IONA Technologies (who have taken all reasonable care to ensure such is the case), the information contained in this announcement is in accordance with the facts and does not omit anything likely to affect the import of such information.

Any person who is a holder of 1% or more of the share capital of IONA Technologies may have disclosure obligations under Rule 8.3 of the Irish Takeover Rules, effective from the date of the commencement of the offer period in respect of the Acquisition.

SOURCE: IONA(R) Technologies

New IBM Software Eases Data Integration and Master Data Management Challenges

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:55:33 GMT

New IBM Software Eases Data Integration and Master Data Management Challenges

SAN DIEGO, CA, Aug 18, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- Today at the TDWI World Conference, IBM introduced new versions of two software products, part of its growing InfoSphere portfolio, that deliver information on demand to the people, processes and applications that rely on it. The new products help customers create and manage trusted information from across their enterprises to improve business performance.

IBM is introducing a new version of its IBM master data management software. The company is also releasing a new version of IBM InfoSphere Information Server, which allows customers to standardize and resolve multicultural name data. In addition, IBM is offering enhanced globalization, extended mainframe support, and improved ease-of-use with new automation features to simplify and speed large-scale information integration projects across the globe.

Getting a Grip on Product Information

Master data management is a top priority for many companies as they try to get control over their data -- their most valued and often most underused asset. While master data -- which includes high-value information on customers, products, suppliers, partners, materials, and employees -- is critical for running a business, it is typically scattered across multiple front and back-office systems and cannot be easily shared across an enterprise.

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product Information Management (MDM Server for PIM) helps companies turn product information into a strategic business asset. The new version of the software, previously known as IBM WebSphere Product Center, allows customers to maintain a single view of product information for use throughout an organization as part of a comprehensive master data management strategy. The software is capable of managing millions of products, including product data that differs by geographic location.

The new release of MDM Server for PIM provides several significant enhancements that make it simpler to deploy and use. An improved user interface makes it easier for users to interact with product information. The software is also now integrated with InfoSphere Information Server so that customers can take advantage of that product's data cleansing capabilities to improve the quality of information managed by InfoSphere MDM Server for PIM. In addition, improvements to the underlying technology -- including use of the JAVA application protocol interface and easy integration with enterprise solutions based on a service-oriented architecture -- make MDM Server for PIM faster to roll out.

Expanded Global Data and Project Support for InfoSphere Information Server

To help businesses make more insightful decisions and serve customers more effectively, IBM is adding its proven multicultural name resolution technology, now called InfoSphere Global Name Recognition as a module of the InfoSphere Information Server platform. This combination will help businesses use Information Server to derive more information from multicultural names and improve name matching using SOA enabled interfaces to connect to name data across an enterprise. InfoSphere Global Name Recognition uses sophisticated linguistics analysis gleaned from more than a billion names from around the world, to help organizations better identify and understand multicultural names. This added module, as well as InfoSphere Information Server's expanded global address verification support for more than 244 countries, provides organizations with market-leading capabilities for dealing with multicultural names and addresses.

For example, Information Server can be used by banks, manufacturers or retailers to support "Know Your Customer" efforts using global name recognition, allowing them to counter fraudulent activities, offer better customer service, and better understand their customer base from around the world.

Information Server now features extended global support for eight languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, allowing developers to work with tools, documentation, online help, and error messages in their native languages.

In addition, enhanced support for grid deployment is included, allowing organizations to more easily manage and ensure service level agreements within Information Server when deployed across large server farms.

Expanded SOA and Grid Support for InfoSphere Information Server

To help clients share information across SOA projects, the new version of InfoSphere Information Server allows reusable services to be easily published for data access and data processing functions. It also includes advanced security features supporting Web services standards, support for Web 2.0 services using REST and RSS standards, as well as support for direct service publishing from Oracle databases, InfoSphere Master Data Management Server and mainframe data sources. It also automates integration tasks, helping business and IT teams collaborate more effectively and speeding project development.

Support for grid environments has been enhanced, providing new automated tools for managing and optimizing Information Server when it is deployed across large-scale server farms.

InfoSphere Information Integration Software for the Mainframe

Enhancements to IBM InfoSphere Classic Replication Sever include stand alone replication capabilities for a subset of mainframe data sources to ensure high availability of critical information and to offload query processing to a secondary environment for better system performance.

Also announced today, IBM InfoSphere Classic Data Event Publisher provides a new, file-based interface to InfoSphere Information Server in addition to the existing IBM WebSphere MQ interface for changed-data delivery. Enhancements enable lower latency capture of source data and ensure replication accuracy.

InfoSphere Classic Replication Server, InfoSphere Classic Data Event Publisher and IBM InfoSphere Classic Federation Server each provide a new, direct graphical user interface to easily view and alter mainframe configuration settings. They include tooling extensions to help automate creation of metadata and extend visual metadata to more complex scenarios.

IBM InfoSphere software is available worldwide through IBM and IBM Business Partners.

For more information, visit http://www.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere

SOURCE: IBM

Software AG Expands the webMethods Application Modernization Suite with New Discovery Edition

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:00:18 GMT

Software AG Expands the webMethods Application Modernization Suite with New Discovery Edition

-- Latest addition extends Software AG's comprehensive range of application modernization offerings
-- New Discovery Edition jumpstarts application modernization projects by providing a deeper understanding of complex applications while preparing code for reuse in SOA and BPM initiatives
-- Developers benefit from use of automated code analytics, which eliminates software deficiencies, optimizes application performance and streamlines subsequent reuse of existing code

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug 14, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today expanded the webMethods Application Modernization Suite with the introduction of the Discovery Edition. Based on Software AG's global reseller agreement with Relativity Technologies, the Discovery Edition can be used to document and analyze existing code bases - including Cobol, PL/I, RPG, Visual Basic, C/C++ and Java - in order to eliminate software deficiencies, optimize application performance and enable subsequent reuse of existing code. Key features of the Discovery Edition include code analytics and visualization, code refactoring, business rules identification and extraction, and a collaborative knowledgebase for managing software artifacts.

"While application modernization can deliver very significant ROI, the perceived risk associated with disrupting often decades-old code limits adoption," said Joe Gentry, Software AG's CTO for Enterprise Transaction Systems. "The Discovery Edition helps to eliminate these concerns by providing developers with the knowledge and insight required to proceed confidently with application modernizations projects."

One of the biggest challenges confronting enterprises contemplating application modernization initiatives is their lack of knowledge regarding the current state of their software code. In many cases, the original developers may have retired, leaving behind little-to-no documentation and replacement staff with minimal training on the application. This lack of understanding and experience may cause an organization to delay or defer efforts to update these core systems, thus hindering the organization's performance and competitiveness.

Specifically designed to 'unlock' existing applications, the webMethods Application Modernization Suite, Discovery Edition automates application discovery, code analysis, and identification of proven code for reuse. It provides all of the tools needed to automatically catalog application components, to map both business logic flows and software relationships, and to optimize code structure for improved performance. By bringing all of this knowledge and insight together within a centralized knowledgebase, developers can more quickly and confidently address application deficiencies and prepare code for subsequent reuse or redeployment.

Specific components of the Discovery Edition of the webMethods Application Modernization Suite include:

-- Modernization Workbench - A collaborative knowledgebase for managing and storing software artifacts that serves as the foundation for the Discovery Edition.

-- Application Analyzer - A powerful discovery tool that automatically catalogues existing code and artifacts, and generates in-depth diagrams, reports, metrics and documentation detailing the application.

-- Application Architect - Eliminates dead, inefficient and non-standard code while isolating proven business logic as reusable software components.

-- Business Rules Manager - An interactive tool for locating specific software constructs that embody identified business logic, which can then be stored for subsequent reuse within the Modernization Workbench.

Other add-on components to the Discovery Edition include the Application Portfolio Manager and the Function Point Analyzer. The Application Portfolio Manager identifies portfolio inefficiencies, risks and value, helping CIOs, line of business executives, analysts and developers prioritize and execute application modernization projects. The Function Point Analyzer generates industry-standard function point counts providing valuable insight into the size and complexity of an application before embarking on a modernization effort.

The core technology behind the Discovery Edition has been employed by over four hundred enterprises, including seven of the ten largest financial services providers, to manage and modernize existing applications. In these real-world implementations, enterprises have recorded efficiency gains of 70% or more over traditional, manual approaches and alternative solutions. Another important differentiator is the ability of the Discovery Edition to present key findings in a business context as a means for simplifying later decision making regarding application modernization priorities.

The webMethods Application Modernization Suite provides a full range of capabilities for extending the value of enterprise systems. The product suite's Web Edition transforms green-screen applications into browser-based interfaces; the SQL Edition provides real-time, SQL-based access to relational and non-relational data sources in order to streamline the flow of data between new and existing applications; and the SOA Edition exposes, orchestrates and governs critical functionality as standards-based services within a Service-oriented Architecture (SOA). The new Discovery Edition supports each of these approaches by providing a deeper understanding of complex applications while preparing code for reuse in SOA and BPM initiatives.

The webMethods Application Modernization Suite, Discovery Edition is available now with pricing and additional information available from an authorized Software AG representative. The Web, SQL and SOA Editions of the webMethods Application Modernization Suites are currently available as well.

About Software AG

Software AG is the world's largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Our 4,000 global enterprise customers achieve business results faster by modernizing, integrating and automating their IT systems and processes. As a result, they rapidly build measurable business value and meet changing business demands. Based on our solutions, organizations are able to liberate and govern their data, systems, applications, processes and services - achieving new levels of business flexibility.

Our leading product portfolio includes solutions for high performance data management, developing and modernizing applications, enabling service-oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By combining our technology with industry expertise and best practices experience, our customers improve and differentiate their businesses - faster.

Software AG has almost 40 years of global IT experience and over 3,600 employees serving customers in 70 countries. The company is headquartered in Germany and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW). Software AG posted total revenues of EUR 621 million in 2007.

Software AG - Get There Faster

SOURCE: Software AG

SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast from Melvin Greer, Lockheed Martin

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:57:45 GMT

SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast from Melvin Greer, Lockheed Martin on SOA Hard Problems and Spiral Solution Development

NEEDHAM, Mass., Aug 11, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The SOA Consortium(TM) today announced the availability of a podcast and slide deck of the presentation by Melvin Greer, Chief SOA Architect, Senior Research Engineer, Director of SOA Competency Center at Lockheed Martin on "SOA Hard Problems and Spiral Solution Development," recorded at the SOA Consortium meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in June. To access the podcast, visit http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-mg.

Mel began his presentation by defining hard problems and spirals. Hard problems have three characteristics. First, a hard problem doesn't go away over time. Second, left unresolved, a hard problem will have a significant negative impact on your SOA adoption. Third and most important, resolving a hard problem requires multiple disciplines that come from inside and outside your own organization. A spiral is a technique that breaks a hard problem into a series of small activities, each lasting 30-90 days. Each activity, or spiral, produces an answer that moves the hard problem towards resolution.

Lockheed Martin has identified SOA hard problems across six categories. During his talk, Mel shared examples of hard problems within each category, as well as the inter-relationships between hard problems. In closing, Mel spoke of impending challenges as third-party services, SaaS, Applications as a Service (APAS), cloud computing etc. become the new business models.

To hear all of the insights Melvin Greer presented, download the 50-minute podcast and accompanying slide presentation at http://www.soa-consortium.org/pr-mg.

About the Speaker

Melvin Greer is SOA Chief Architect, Director SOA Competency Center, Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technologies Office. He is a Certified Enterprise Architect, and a Fellow of the Federal Enterprise Architects Institute. Greer is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities and is an accomplished author. "The Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture Revolution" is his most recently published book.

Greer received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems and Technology and his Master of Science in Information Systems from American University, Washington, D.C. He has also completed the Executive Leadership Program at Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School.

Next Meeting; Information

The next SOA Consortium meeting is in Orlando, FL, USA, on September 24-25, 2008. Organizations interested in joining the SOA Consortium and attending the meeting should visit the website, http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org for more information. Visit the SOA Consortium's SOA Insights blog at http://blog.soa-consortium.org.

About the SOA Consortium

The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000 successfully adopt Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by 2010. SOA Consortium founding enterprise members include Fortune 200 companies in Financial Services, Travel, Manufacturing, Retail and Telecommunications. Sponsors are Cisco, HP, IBM Corporation, Layer 7 Technologies, Savant, Sparx Systems and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Participants include Fortune 1000 corporations, major government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Any organization may join the SOA Consortium. The SOA Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group.

For more information, please visit http://www.soa-consortium.org or email info@soa-consortium.org.

Note to editors: SOA Consortium, OMG and Object Management Group are trademarks of Object Management Group. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Object Management Group

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Don’t Forget the Data When Implementing an SOA

Gary E Smith - THE SOA NETWORK — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:54:28 GMT

Don’t Forget the Data When Implementing an SOA

Progress Software advises enterprises on how to tackle data challenges within SOAs; offers steps for implementing a common model

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading provider of application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, is advising enterprises on how to solve the semantic data integration challenges that arise when embarking on a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

“When implementing an SOA, users are typically so busy worrying about how to move information that they tend to ignore whether or not it will be understood when it gets where it’s going,” said Ken Rugg, vice president and general manager, DataXtend at Progress Software. “You can connect things through web services, but if your end points don’t have a common understanding of what’s flowing through the system, and if you don’t create a data interoperability layer, then you won’t have accurate communication much less a successful SOA.”

As SOA adoption continues to grow, data integration is rapidly emerging as one of the key challenges facing IT organizations. The pain stems from the fact that different systems use different terms to represent the same logical concept. Manually reconciling and validating data exchanged between internal and external systems adds greatly to the cost of business integration. As businesses transition application functionality into reusable services across the enterprise, they must find a way to reconcile the semantic differences, the differences in meaning. Creating an SOA without a data integration strategy to address these semantic challenges will limit an SOA project at best, and doom it to failure at worst.

“SOA teams that integrate services with an interlocking web of point-to-point data mappings are undermining the fundamental SOA principles of loose coupling,” says David Hollander, president, Mile High XML. “Moreover, untangling this web of mappings is difficult and makes change hard. And change is the one constant that the business needs to be able to manage. Deployed effectively, a common model provides the flexibility to manage change, and the ability to leverage your SOA development and integration efforts.”

The main steps required to create a data interoperability layer for an SOA are:

1. Understand how a common data model impacts projects in the SOA from the overall integration landscape.

2. Select the basis of your common model; this could be an industry standard, or a model of your own making.

3. Customize and extend the model selected in step 2 so that it meets the specific requirements of your landscape.

4. Design the data interoperability layer by integrating application services and the common model, defining how the service models relate to the common model.

5. Deploy into your service environment (SOA or ESB).

Creating a common model ensures that all the information passed between the various systems and services within the SOA is consistent. Semantic integration and data interoperability ensure that companies can govern and manage all the data flowing throughout their enterprise. This approach can significantly reduce SOA project timescales, lower development costs and avoid problems associated with poor data quality.

More guidance on how the implementation of a common model will help manage change and leverage a company’s SOA development and integration efforts is outlined in “Tackling the Data Problem in SOA: Common Models in SOA-based Integration” at http://www.progress.com/progress/dataxtend/docs/ wp_do_not_forget_data.pdf. A podcast is also available entitled, “Data Integration in SOA” at http://blogs.progress.com/soa_infrastructure/2008/05/ data-integratio.html.

About Progress Software Corporation

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) provides application infrastructure software for the development, deployment, integration and management of business applications. Our goal is to maximize the benefits of information technology while minimizing its complexity and total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com or +1-781-280-4000.

Progress and DataXtend are trademarks or registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates in the US and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

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Service-Oriented Architecture: Implications for Government and Industry

Service-Oriented Architecture: Implications for Government and Industry

MESA International Announces New SOA Track at Plant-To-Enterprise Conference and SOA in Manufacturing Guidebook

MESA International Announces New SOA Track at Plant-To-Enterprise Conference and SOA in Manufacturing Guidebook

ISS Recommends in Favour of the Resolutions for the Proposed Acquisition of IONA Technologies by Progress Software Corporation

ISS Recommends in Favour of the Resolutions for the Proposed Acquisition of IONA Technologies by Progress Software Corporation

New IBM Software Eases Data Integration and Master Data Management Challenges

New IBM Software Eases Data Integration and Master Data Management Challenges

Software AG Expands the webMethods Application Modernization Suite with New Discovery Edition

SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast from Melvin Greer, Lockheed Martin

SOA Consortium Releases New Podcast from Melvin Greer, Lockheed Martin on SOA Hard Problems and Spiral Solution Development

Don’t Forget the Data When Implementing an SOA

Don’t Forget the Data When Implementing an SOA Progress Software advises enterprises on how to tackle data challenges within SOAs; offers steps for implementing a common model

Don’t Forget the Data When Implementing an SOA

Progress Software advises enterprises on how to tackle data challenges within SOAs; offers steps for implementing a common model