These days, it seems that everyone is pitching the merits of using SOA to
better integrate systems and businesses. "Drastically reduce integration
costs, increase time-to-market, and improve business flexibility using SOA!"
claim many Web Services (cum-SOA) integration vendors. How much of these
promises are hype, and how much is reality? In order to understand what
impact Web Services will have on integration, it is important to understand
its true costs, which means comparing different integration approaches and
finding out whether SOA, rather than simply Web Services, can offer a
positive return on investment. With this knowledge businesses can decide
whether their SOA implementations will truly save them money, or conversely,
their Web Services integrations add to t... (more)
Over the past two years, governments around the world have caught the
enterprise architecture and SOA fever. This is especially the case in the US
Federal Government, where a number of regulations, EA frameworks, and major
spending initiatives are all pointing towards continued and lasting
expenditure and investment in the area of EA. One can also notice this trend
based on the number of... (more)
ZapThink today announces the availability of a series of SOA training and
certification courses in Johannesburg, South Africa, run in conjunction with
realIRM. ZapThink will run its four-day Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA)
Boot Camp, providing in-depth, hands-on training and certification on
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and taught by notable SOA expert Jason
Bloomberg as well as... (more)
As XML becomes ubiquitous throughout the enterprise, it increasingly taxes
the systems that must deal with it. Even though there are a wide range of
hardware and software solutions coming to market that aim to alleviate XML's
performance bottlenecks (See ZapThink's XML Proxies Report), many developers
are nevertheless resorting to a variety of tactics to improve the performance
of XML pr... (more)
As we predicted earlier in the year, cloud computing is starting to take
hold, especially if you believe the marketing literature of vendors and
consulting firms. Yet, we are seeing an increasing number of Cloud success
stories, ranging from simplistic consumption of utility Services and
offloading of compute resources to the sort of application and process clouds
we discussed in a previ... (more)
Ron Schmelzer is founder and senior analyst of ZapThink. A well-known expert in the field of XML and XML-based standards and initiatives, Ron has been featured in and written for periodicals and has spoken on the subject of XML at numerous industry conferences.
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