We intentionally avoided getting into the technical details of BP’s RTAP/Web Services solution in the first part of this article (OGJ, Jan. 2, 2006, p. 36). At this point, it may be helpful to ...

Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA) have become fundamental components in modern distributed systems, enabling interoperable, flexible and scalable digital ecosystems. However, as ...

Service oriented computing is a paradigm that underpins modern distributed systems by encapsulating discrete, self‐contained units of functionality—known as services—which interact over standard ...

Despite the tension between Software Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture initiatives in recent years, and their competition, the two efforts actually go hand in hand. IT budgets generally ...

The realities of project deadlines, team skills, and tight budgets mean that building a Web services SOA (service-oriented architecture) is less about choosing a technology than it is about spotting ...

Its CEO's vision for Service-now.com for the startup's underlying architecture was that the software must be "simple, approachable, configurable, and easy to integrate" and had to be as "restless and ...

Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and unified communications are a bit like chocolate and peanut butter: Two great tastes that taste great together. That may sound weird (particularly if you aren’t ...

How to test service-oriented architectures is no idle question. A failure in a SOA system at Heathrow Airport’s $8.6 billion (U.S.) Terminal 5 caused £1.6 million ($3.2 million U.S.) in losses in one ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following story was updated on Jan. 14, 2005, to reflect further reporting. The next version of Microsoft's customer-relationship-management application will make greater use of its ...