SOA projects are constantly beset by clashing business and technical agendas. Perhaps it's time to pull out the enterprise architect's best tool for addressing these conflicts: the Zachman Framework.

While enterprise architects (EAs) and services oriented architecture (SOA) architects are often at loggerheads today, the two will working hand in hand toward the same goals in a matter of a few years ...

What do enterprise architecture, virtualization, security, business intelligence, and organizational culture have in common with each other and with SOA? If you answered “very little to nothing at all ...

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach for abstracting enterprise software capabilities as reusable services in order to support more flexible business processes and ideally, more agile ...

Gartner expects service-oriented architectures to provide the basis for 80 percent of new development projects by 2008. Most enterprises today, however, report having launched only isolated Web ...

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Enterprise service oriented architecture (SOA), or, according to SAP, enterprise services architecture (ESA) took center stage in Orlando Tuesday during the SAPPHIRE '06 afternoon keynotes, delivered ...

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 ...

At the Enterprise Architecture Conference (EAC) this week in New Orleans, as I stated in my last posting. So, what are the trends here? Not a whole lot other than the fact that the traditional EA ...