You have to hand it to some organizations, they are indeed thinking proactively around SOA. Case is point is the "Government of Canada Service Oriented Architecture Strategy - Statement of Direction." ...

What has changed about SOA over the past year? Well, many companies have finally moved on beyond the experimentation and pilot stages. As Judith Hurwitz would put it, there are a lot more SOA ...

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In recent times, SOA plunged down the "hype" mountain into the "trough of disillusionment," and is now finally coasting along in a gradual upward trajectory in the ...

Legacyisn’t planned — it just happens. For many public-sector organizations, the challenges of operating with legacy systems are all too familiar. Legacy environments are expensive and time-consuming ...

Editor’s Note: Angela Rouelle is CIO of the Vermont Agency of Human Services. Dave McCurley is global managing director of Accenture Software, Health and Public Service. Tony Dicuffa is ...

In a nutshell, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an old — but overlooked — way to design distributed information technology applications so they align with business needs and processes instead of ...

Personnel need education, defined goals to make loosely coupled Web services a benefit to government. Service-oriented architecture has been a major buzzword throughout the U.S. Defense Department for ...

The future of software is service-oriented architecture, according to Charles Stack, president of Flashline. The enterprise application as we know it is dead. Zombie-like, it still lumbers along, ...