How about a "service oriented architecture" for data? Over at the Informatica Perspectives blogsite, I quoted from a presentation given by Madan Sheina, principal analyst within Ovum's Software ...

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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 ...

If you have seen the term online, think of it as a practical way to build modern software without locking your whole business into one giant codebase.

Enterprises now face the prospect of the development of a new generation of spaghetti architecture -- this time called cloud computing. In this recently released video, Jürgen Kress, founder of the ...

A software developers' work in complex enterprise application environments usually involves spending many hours maintaining existing applications, time that could be spent building new and innovative ...

The move from physical media like videotape to file-based production allows broadcasters to consider changing their working practices. The IT infrastructure underlying file-based production offers the ...

As the next step in the architectural evolution, service-oriented architecture captures many best practices of the architectures that preceded it. Taking into account the number of existing systems ...

Service-oriented architecture or SOA is an architecture style, not a product or a project. It’s an improvement over past architectures in that it captures and uses the best practices of the ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) policy adds important business and technical flexibility and control to an SOA-based solution. At runtime, SOA policy provides ready access to change key operating ...