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In rolling out the latest edition of Oracle Fusion Middleware (11g), Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware products, talked about the six major trends Oracle sees driving the market. Three are business-related trends, and three are technology... Read More..

While the basic ideas of SOA governance map quite naturally to cloud governance, some important shifts in priority and technology need to take place before SOA governance can be effective in the cloud. In a new feature article posted at... Read More..

What another week it has been for all things SOA. Our own Peter Schooff spoke with Scott Hebner, vice president of marketing and strategy for IBM Rational, who talked about the economics of IT, noting that "more and more IT... Read More..

Accenture has just issued it's annual vision statement on enterprise technology, and describes it in one, succinct term: "elastic." There is also a lot mention of Web services and REST as enablers.As the report observes early on: "Elements of the... Read More..

Service oriented architecture has been doing a stellar job of addressing issues with siloed applications and automating business processes. However, to date, SOA has not been able to address issues with data, because SOA has been about applications.That's the take... Read More..

As mentioned in previous posts, I have had the opportunity to be a part of the launch of Thomas Erl's latest book, SOA Design Patterns.Many organizations' efforts to move to SOA have been mired-by organizational issues, by conflicting vendor messages,... Read More..

IT is under a lot of pressure these days to deliver results and agility, and the business -- also under pressure as competition escalates -- seems to be growing more and more impatient. What if they had the tools right... Read More..

I've probably seen every World War II and Cold War submarine movie ever made, with their gripping dramas of stealth, danger, and in the case of WWII, men trapped within large sardine cans, riding out terrifying ordeals of undersea depth... Read More..

It's a small world after all. I ran into ebizQ's own decision management guru James Taylor at London's Heathrow airport a couple of months back, and even got the seat right behind him, so I could mercilessly bend his ear... Read More..

For SOA proponents, the year has started off with a bang, courtesy of our friend Anne Thomas Manes over at Burton Group, who declared SOA to be officially dead as of January 1st.. Actually, Anne didn't declare the drive for... Read More..