Oracle Fusion Update (Nucleus Research)

Oracle’s latest Fusion announcement provides PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Oracle users with a clear view of future product plans and Oracle’s view of the SOA world. Everyone recognizes that Oracle’s challenge will be to execute on Fusion’s promises, and some question if Oracle is up to that task. With a strong product portfolio, solid track record, and vision for how companies can leverage what they have today while planning for tomorrow, it’s a safe bet that the answer is yes. more...

SOA: The Missing Link (Line56)

Organizations adopting an SOA approach are missing out if they ignore the potential for re-use of User Interfaces

SAP fills SOA language gap with Blue Titan (searchSAP.com)

SAP is eliminating a common language barrier in service oriented architectures by partnering with Blue Titan Inc., a Web services management vendor that sells SOA networking software.

SAP reports one of its best years ever (InfoWorld)

Program to lure former PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards customers away from Oracle resulted in around 200 businesses switching to SAP

Progress Will Gain Key WSM Functionality With Actional Buy (Gartner)

The acquisition of Actional will strengthen Progress Software's position as a supplier of service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure. But it will not make Progress a dominant force in the management of SOA environments.

Business Process: at the heart of SOA (IT-Analysis)

It is becoming increasingly clear that without a clear focus on business process, a service oriented architecture cannot be useful without a business process management infrastructure. Since a true SOA plan requires that business services be created that are independent of each other, it is imperative that there be a mechanism in place to enable these components to be linked together. Many of the products that we have seen over the years have taken either a very tactical top-down or bottoms-up approach to creating processes.

Real-World SOA: Applications as Services (Infoworld)

To understand and apply the principles of SOA,
you’d think we would have to agree first on what we
mean by a “service.” To a surprising degree, we haven’t,
but this is hardly the first time a powerful idea has been
tricky to nail down. Definitions of “objects’ and “components”
— the ideas that powered earlier phases of
software’s evolution — were just as elusive.

SOA Company StrikeIron Introduces Web Services via Salesforce.com (sys-con)

Web Services allow AppExchange partners to enhance applications with real-time, on-demand information

Oracle bundles SOA products (cbr)

Having built or bought the pieces over the past 12 to 18 months, Oracle Corp is now offering a services-oriented architecture suite that includes almost everything but the kitchen sink.

How Popular is SOA? (destinationCRM)

Slow adoption rates can be attributed to companies not yet realizing the true value of the architecture.

Oracle offers all-in-one SOA deployment suite (Techworld)

Oracle is packaging several of its Fusion middleware products together as the Oracle SOA Suite, in an attempt to meet the growing interest in SOA.

Oracle offers SOA deployment suite (InfoWorld)

Seeking to offer one-stop shopping for SOA, Oracle (Profile, Products, Articles) is packaging several of its existing Fusion middleware products together as the Oracle SOA Suite.

SOA Can Save Enterprises Billions in IT Spending, Says AberdeenGroup (Tekrati)

The world's largest companies can save up to $53 billion in information technology (IT) spending over the next five years by implementing service-oriented architectures, according to a new benchmark report from AberdeenGroup. Industry analyst William Mougayar says that so far, the business benefits of SOA remain largely untapped, and only 16 percent of companies have had more than 24 months of SOA experience. Free benchmark report.

The SOA in IT Benchmark Report (Aberdeen Group)

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) brings with it real promise - and at the same time places a lot of pressure on today’s CIO to lower costs and make IT more responsive to the business.

Lessons from an SOA pioneer (TMCnet)

(InfoWorld Electronic News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)Today, SOA (service-oriented architecture) is the undisputed champion of IT trends. But IT professionals have seen other megatrends come and go, some successful, some disastrous. Many companies remain skeptical about SOA, in part because most deployments are recent, leaving any assessment of long-term viability inconclusive.

Yet a handful of deployments that began before the SOA acronym was coined are beginning to suggest how effective the service-based approach to application architecture and business agility can be over the long haul. Among these, Con-Way Transportation Services stands out as an ambitious, successful reinvention of one enterprise's application infrastructure.

Web 2.0 = The Global SOA (InfoWorld)

With all of the talk about Web 2.0, I was wondering were the heck that term came from. The term Web 2.0 was originally coined by O'Reilly's Dale Dougherty to describe the forces behind the huge post-dot-com success of Internet companies like Google, eBay, Amazon, and iTunes, as well as noncommercial, emergent Web-born creations such as Wikipedia and BitTorrent. Clearly, the Web has become the platform of choice for many organizations, and with success of SaaS (Software as a Service) companies such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite, this is quickly becoming true. Also, we are clearly moving from dynamic visual interfaces to dynamic non-visual services, all accessible over the Internet. All of this is Web 2.0, or better yet the Global SOA.

My Five SOA Predictions for 2006 (InfoWorld)

It's 2006 already? So, what are we going to call this year? The year of SOA? The year of Web 2.0? Or the year we finally get SOA working for the business? You pick.

Software 2006: Changes Ahead (Red Herring)

While software as a service and open source gain more traction in 2006, large software companies will have to adapt and change.