Reducing the cost of IT management is one of the primary pressures for most
organizations. One of the most common ways to reduce such costs is to enable
the reuse of applications that developers have already created and configured
for the enterprise. In the past decade, especially in the past 3-5 years,
companies have spent millions of dollars on enterprise software applications
of all sorts: CRM, ERP, and other operational applications. The next few
years will be less about new application development, and more about existing
application integration and reuse.
The Service-oriented approach helps solve the challenge of reuse by imposing
a design methodology that promotes the use of self-describing, published,
loosely coupled, and dynamically bound components rather than ... (more)
Look in the network closet in any good-sized company today and you’ll find
a wide assortment of network gear: firewalls, switches, gateways, routers,
hubs, bridges, the list goes on and on. Each of these devices essentially
either directs or secures the packets that form the automobiles on the
streets and freeways of today’s networks. All data networks -- including
the mother of all data... (more)
ZapThink today announces the availability of its online, computer-based
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA)
training and credentialing course. In this first-of-its-kind offering,
attendees can get access to over 20 hours of self-paced video instruction and
slides, online testing and evaluation, and opportunity to submit
architectural exercises to ZapThin... (more)
Traditional market research focuses on the size and growth of well-defined
market segments. As vendors enter and compete in those markets, customers
participate by purchasing products and services within those segments, and
market research seeks to establish the patterns of such transactions in order
to predict the future trends for such markets. In the Information Technology
(IT) space,... (more)
Notable SOA experts and pundits are getting together to explore the future of
SOA at the ZapForum evening networking event in Washington, DC on October 1,
2009 from 5:30PM to 8:30PM. At ZapForum DC, dozens of experts, pundits, and
influential guests will gather for an evening of networking and discussion on
the topics of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Architecture
(EA... (more)