Project Insight recently integrated project budget information from its hosted service to the back-end accounting system for customer, R.W. Smith & Company, using Web Services APIs. Project Insight helps project teams like American Honda, Merrill Lynch, and Regist...

ILOG announced that Groupe Mutuel chose ILOG JRules to automate its claims management processes. ILOG JRules will be used as a core component of Groupe Mutuel's new service-oriented architecture (SOA). Groupe Mutuel comprises 14 insurance companies and provides ...

ABBYY announced Recognition Server 2.0, the next generation of its OCR and PDF conversion solution. Its compatibility with service-oriented architecture (SOA) through a Web Service interface, combined with seamless output to Microsoft SharePoint and document inp...

Software AG introduced the webMethods Application Modernization Suite as a comprehensive product suite for revitalizing and extending mainframe applications. The release fully leverages the company's global leadership in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) a...

Companies adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA) spent $1.4 million on software and services in 2007, according to a report released by AMR Research. 'The SOA Spending Report 2007-2008,' which surveyed IT executives from the United States, Germany, and China...

FINEOS Corporation announced its acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty after successfully completing IBM's rigorous SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement, FINEOS integrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA and will also be list...

According to a new study from Aberdeen, comprehensive, consistent and proactive performance measurement and testing best maximize the business value of service-oriented architecture (SOA) investments. The new Aberdeen study found that 64% of Best-in-Class compan...

JBoss and iWay Software announced an agreement designed to bring a full range of information management capabilities to global organizations. The combined power of iWay Software's pre-built data and application connectors and JBoss' enterprise application platform...

SOA Software announced that it has certified the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform as a Governed Service Platform. Certified Governed Service Platform status means that customers can be confident that their platforms won't compromise the fidelity of the governance sys...

businessMart AG announced it has accelerated its entry into new business markets thanks to a new Web-based trading platform built on IBM's service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technology. Combining a flexible infrastructure with mashup technology, bus...

MomentumSI announced Harmony - a SOA framework that blends enterprise architectural methods with practical implementation techniques. The assets that comprise the Harmony offering are crucial to corporations seeking to ensure successful SOA deployment.

Software AG introduced the webMethods Application Modernization Suite as a comprehensive product suite for revitalizing and extending mainframe applications. The release fully leverages the company's global leadership in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) a...

IDS Scheer announced support for the OASIS SOA Reference Model used in tandem with ARIS SOA Architect. The structure and management of a business process-oriented service landscape requires close cooperation between specialized departments and IT within companies....

DataDirect has announced DataDirect Shadow mainframe-to-SOA integration support for IBM's new System z10 mainframe. DataDirect Shadow version 7 is a mainframe integration platform capable of diverting SOA and data workloads from IBM's general purpose mainframe p...

Open source has made signficant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to the enterprise. There are many custom Enterprise Service Bus deployments waiting to be ...

AccuRev and Electric Cloud announced a technology partnership designed to improve software development productivity and efficiency. The combined solution, which integrates the automated build, test and deployment functionality of Electric Cloud's ElectricComman...

ERUCES announced its acceptance to the IBM Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Specialty after completing IBM's SOA technical and business requirements. With this achievement ERUCES' Tricryption application integrates with the IBM software and strategy for SOA.

Active Endpoints announced the availability of ActiveVOS 5.0. ActiveVOS 5.0 revolutionizes the design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance of composite applications for line of business developer project teams who are struggling to balance the techn...

AccuRev announced the availability of AccuRev 4.6 for ClearCase, the latest add-on to its software configuration management (SCM) solution. AccuRev 4.6 for ClearCase provides coexistence for optimal support of parallel, geographically distributed and Agile devel...

TDCI announced the availability of a new BuyDesign iSeries Adapter along with BuyDesign release 5.2. Built on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework, the BuyDesign iSeries Adapter makes it easy to incorporate the Microsoft Windows-based BuyDesign product ...

The success of SOA runs two ways. SOA serves as the catalyst for organizational change, yet an organization must be ready to embrace these new dimensions opened up by SOA. The latest survey data shows most organizations are just starting on their SOA journeys. Why...

Dramatic industry changes - including vendor consolidation, outsourcing and the growth of open source - highlight the need for a better way. When a SOA implementation costs too much, the culprit is often the old-fashioned, proprietary and expensive server or hub-b...

SOA implementations are increasingly reliant on streams of data that are time-critical, reliably delivered and sourced from mixed infrastructures in a highly distributed environment. Data formats, delivery mechanisms, fault tolerance capabilities and stateful se...

While SOA can deliver dramatic cost reduction of an organization's business operations, it is a complex, multidisciplinary undertaking, and therefore introduces significant risk. This session presents a list of the most important risk factors and ways to mitigat...

While everyone wants to do SOA right the first time, the typical results are not always stellar. Indeed, the pitfalls of building any complex architecture, including SOA, are something that the SOA practitioners must contend with, and most are ill-equipped. Howeve...

Popular assumptions can often be dangerous. We will start by considering how the many unique architectural characteristics of SOA, such as loose-coupling, can actually be a two-edged sword affecting the requirements, nature and success of many important aspects of...

SOA is mostly associated to technologies such as BPEL, SCA and Web Services. But does SOA really imply these technologies? In this session we will show how you can use the service oriented approach while staying inside the Java world. jBPM is a powerful lightweigh...

Open source has made signficant inroads into middleware deployments in the enterprise. More and more, open source is being used to deliver the benefits of SOA and open source to the enterprise. There are many custom Enterprise Service Bus deployments waiting to be ...

Many organizations make the faulty assumption that SOA is a panacea that can, and should be, applied to every situation. The reality is that service orientation is not the right answer for every scenario. The expense of service orientation cannot always be recoupe...

SOA Software announced that it was profitable for FY2007 facilitated by a 113% growth in product business. SOA Software announced a net income of $2.2 million for FY2007. SOA Software is a leader in the emerging Integrated SOA Governance market. The company's perf...

ILOG announced that Groupe Mutuel chose ILOG JRules, a key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line, to automate its claims management processes. ILOG JRules will be used as a core component of Groupe Mutuel's new service-oriented architecture (SOA).

SOA Software announced 30 new consulting partners, expanding the program to a total of 40 partners. The growth of SOA Software's program is attributed to an industry wide recognition of SOA Software's leadership position by the system integrator community. Recen...

In an effort to further expand its global TEM services and provide access to important financial and IT related information, TnT Expense Management launched a new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that will enable clients to access inventory, spend and rate inf...

Epicor Software unveiled Epicor Internet Component Environment (ICE) 2.0. Epicor ICE 2.0 is the Company's next-generation service-oriented architecture (SOA) for building business applications, and will exploit the capabilities of Microsoft Windows Server 2008, SQ...

VeNotion said it expects to earn $5m from the three-year contract. Its Business ServiceWare software consists of an automated business services and related IT assets modeler, which organizes IT and SOA services by business context. It said the technology improves ...

The European Commission (EC), the executive arm of the European Union, today imposed a fine of $1.35 billion on Microsoft for defying sanctions imposed on it by the EC for antitrust violations, making Microsoft the first company in 50 years of EU competition polic...

'While the subprime credit crisis, the weakened housing sector and the relentless stream of negative economic reports in the media would lead one to expect a softening in demand, we have not yet seen it. Outside of a handful of sectors, demand for IT professionals...

Rogue Wave Software introduced RogueWave HydraExpress. HydraExpress provides a framework for developing and hosting high performance C++ Web Services to help developers modernize existing C++ applications. HydraExpress is the next generation of Rogue Wave LEIF...

VeNotion Technologies announced that Software AG and VeNotion Technologies signed an agreement to integrate Software AG's SOA technology with VeNotion's SOA Business ServiceWare. VeNotion provides a Business ServiceWare software solution which consists of an aut...

Layer 7 Technologies announced the availability of its SecureSpan Mainframe SOA Gateway. The appliance is used to expose mission-critical mainframe applications, business logic and data as a composite business service without costly coding or porting efforts. Th...