While enterprise architects (EAs) and services oriented architecture (SOA) architects are often at loggerheads today, the two will working hand in hand toward the same goals in a matter of a few ...

There's been a resurgent role for service-oriented architecture as a practical and relevant ingredient for effective design and use of cloud, mobile, and big-data technologies.

One of the more striking differences between IT and the online world these days is the contrast between traditional enterprise service-oriented architecture and its equivalent on the Web, open APIs.

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 ...

What do enterprise architecture, virtualization, security, business intelligence, and organizational culture have in common with each other and with SOA? If you answered “very little to nothing ...

What do you do when the organizing strategy for IT you’ve been selling for years–enterprise architecture–is threatened by a new order–SOA? Do you invoke revisionist history and erase all ...

The architecture determines the standards, protocols, tools and technologies the enterprise will use to build services. Governance addresses issues such as which services to develop in the first place ...

Michael Poulin explains the necessity for SOA governance to ensure an Enterprise SOA's success, relying on concepts from the OASIS SOA Reference Model and Reference Architecture.

Knowing what SOA project to start with could be a matter of finding a receptive audience, says Joseph Gaus, enterprise architect at Dow Corning in Midland, Mich. “Early on, target systems that ...

Web-oriented architecture (WOA), a descriptive term for a subset of service- oriented architecture (SOA), has recently arisen as the next buzz-phrase to help further confuse the IT architect.

What is SOA: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software design strategy in which there is a service provider and many service consumers. SOA is similar to the distributed computing ...

At the Enterprise Architecture Conference (EAC) this week in New Orleans, as I stated in my last posting. So, what are the trends here? Not a whole lot other than the fact that the traditional EA ...