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News from Computer Weekly |
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| Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) can be combined to deliver the holy grail of IT in business: the ability to have real business policy statements translate automatically into outcomes delivered by IT systems.
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| Perceived inability of enterprise search to replicate usability of consumer search engines leading to frustration
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| A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a standardised IT architecture designed to support the connection of various applications and the sharing of data.
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| Steve Prentice, Gartner fellow, tells Computer Weekly's Ian Grant how to sort the hyped from the hot in the current crop of online technology, from cloud computing to web 2.0.
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| SOA adoption among large firms in Europe is "nearly universal", said analyst Gartner . A global survey of more than 300...
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| Business social network LinkedIn has unveiled a range of applications for businesses and individuals.
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| Watch Faisal's pick of the web in this weekly round-up.
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| Web 2.0 will help online retailers grow throughout...
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| Andy Burgess, a software programmer from Farringdon, London, became the first UK customer for a T-Mobile G1, the first commercial implementation of Google's Android mobile phone platform at 7am this morning.
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The web is altering the way our brains work, according to a scientist from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Gary Small, a neuroscientist...
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Top Business Issues |
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Call for clarity
Evaluation Centre's overview of the service oriented architecture (SOA), web services and enterprise integration software market...For many years, IT developers and system users have been searching for effective and efficient means of integrating their systems. Very often this results in a tangle of specially crafted interfaces and connectors.
There are issues with data format definition, operations timing and synchronisation, and more subtle problems with mismatches in semantic meaning. All this has made the provision of IT application support for rapidly evolving business processes both difficult and expensive.
In an effort to address these issues, suppliers have provided a range of solutions to make the integration process simpler and more manageable. However, the underlying problems of incompatibility still remain.
Service oriented architecture (SOA) has been heavily promoted in recent years as a solution to these issues. Based on standards such as XML, SOAP and the web services stack, an SOA is meant to provide a means of achieving the necessary agility and flexibility to support rapidly evolving business processes and changing business objectives and goals. The aim is to produce modular, re-usable and replaceable software applications. view in full >> |
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New Strategic Briefings |
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Application security: the final frontier
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| With the growing adoption of newer network architectures, such as service oriented architectures (SOAs) and Web 2.0 applications, comes a greater risk of security breaches, warns Fran Howarth of Quocirca.
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Twelve biggest SOA mistakes
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| Achieving the agility, software re-use and lower cost benefits of SOA often entails overcoming formidable technical, organisational and political hurdles. Gartner Group’s Yefim Natis and Massimo Pezzini identify the 12 most common SOA mistakes – and how to avoid them.
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Mature SOA
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| Graham Oakes comments that the problem with SOA maturity models is that organisations need to be pretty mature themselves to be able to use them effectively.
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Exclusive case study: Rohan
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| Clothing retailer Rohan has used integration software to help fine-tune its marketing campaigns and create a single view of its customers. We speak to IT & operations director, Mark Willison.
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