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  • HP aims to better manage business services

    Hewlett-Packard stepped up its commitment to the emerging area of service-oriented architecture Monday, announcing consulting and software that draw heavily on its acquisition of Mercury Interactive.

  • Vendors don't get SOA: ING

    ING Insurance claims most vendors have been unable to understand its service oriented architecture (SOA) transformation and are instead pushing systems that quickly become legacy.

  • Plotting a course for SOA

    With all the hype surrounding Web services, little mention is made of the risks an enterprise faces when migrating from conventional software to a service-oriented architecture.

  • Defence turns to SOA for better battles

    The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) is testing a service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based system to relay information from various intelligence sources and create a detailed image of a battlefield.

  • RFID, SOA top CIOs' shopping lists for next year

    With IT budgets set to remain flat, CIOs are thinking hard about what to spend their cash on -- and RFID, SOA and VoIP are set to top the list.

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    When did coding become a dirty word?

    Nobody ever said that writing integration code was fun, but maybe it's time that vendors recognised that it's still an important task in most IT departments.

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    KM, meet Web 2.0

    Many Web 2.0 technologies and functions fall under the umbrella of KM: wikis for collaboration; tagging and "folksonomy", which is known to the fuddy-duddies as taxonomy; and blogging, which behind the firewall would otherwise be known as intranet publishing.

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  • Succeeding at Service Oriented Architecture

    Because SOA, Web Services and XML share the essential qualities of their long-lived predecessors, they will not only survive, but have the potential to change the way that systems are built and connected.

  • Plotting a course for SOA

    With all the hype surrounding Web services, little mention is made of the risks an enterprise faces when migrating from conventional software to a service-oriented architecture.

  • Will virtualisation create a mainframe renaissance?

    The current buzz around virtualisation may sound familiar to anyone with experience of high-end computing's origins " so what makes today's scenario so different?

  • Can the government solve its IT woes?

    Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

  • Scandinavian Airlines pilots SOA

    Service oriented architectures (SOAs) can ease application development but they impose a significant administrative burden. David Braue finds out how Scandinavian Airlines dealt with the challenge of SOA proliferation with flying colours.

Reviews (1)

  • Crystal Vision Server

    The new Crystal Vision product line combines technology from Crystal Reports, Crystal Xcelsius and Business Objects' Live Office -- aimed at the mid-market segment in Australia.

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