We are entering a new phase of IT where organizations must orient delivery of service across the entire IT supply chain to behave and operate in a real time manner. Those organizations that don’t ...

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

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http://www.executivebrief.com – Service orientation is the successful combination of technology, business processes, and methodologies. Service orientation is ...

SOA has matured enough now that nearly a hundred design patterns have emerged to help you make a transition to service-orientation. This gentle introduction to design patterns can guide you into sober ...

Service oriented computing is a paradigm that underpins modern distributed systems by encapsulating discrete, self‐contained units of functionality—known as services—which interact over standard ...

I just ran my five-point service orientation maturity chart over at Insurance Networking News, and thought it would be helpful to report it here again as well, since folks in all industries are at ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) emerged in the early part of this century as an evolution of distributed computing. Before SOA, services were understood as the end result of the application ...

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