If you consider the traditional quality assurance process — in which QA is a set of tasks that occur in a serial fashion after development — it becomes clear that many of the desired SOA ...

I appreciated the comment-swarm around last week's piece on consensus. But I am afraid many missed the key word in the headline. The word is mysterious. The way in which consensus works is opaque, ...

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is supposed to bring flexibility to IT resources and lower costs by letting IT personnel reuse software components instead of coding from scratch. However, some ...

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In an insightful essay, ZapThink's Ronald Schmelzer suggests that the factor that separates SOA from other past programming movements is business process. SOA, he contends, has the potential to take ...

With service-oriented architectures (SOA) on the rise, IT groups are increasingly discovering that they need to add SOA governance into the mix as a means of controlling what services are deployed and ...

I have seen many companies fall into two different traps when attempting to implement SOA governance. The first trap is not having a robust enough governance model. The second trap is having so much ...