Nortel has rercognised the value and deficiencies of service oriented architecture (SOA) and is working with partners and within standards bodies to address the mismatches between the requirements of IT and telecommunications. The aim is to provide robust, scalable...

Companies adopting a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach will need a significant paradigm shift according to Michael Barnard, senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers South Africa Advisory Services, who warns that “a strong orientation shift is required...

It's the flexibility that service oriented architecture brings to enterprise software environments which has got people talking. It is an effective strategy which allows existing and new software deployments to more accurately meet business needs even if those...

Traditional business and IT processes can be rigid and inflexible, even described as monolithic structures that are cast in stone. They are unable to quickly respond to changes in business and their lead times for amendment are too long.The IT infrastructure of an...

Matrix, one of South Africa's three leading vehicle tracking specialists, has become the latest company to commit to the Sonic enterprise service bus (ESB) from Progress Software.Sonic is typically used to help deliver service-oriented architecture (SOA), and to...

Much has been written about the promise of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for unleashing business potential by simplifying systems and achieving competitive differentiation, writes Mike Rogers, senior manager: technology & delivery at Accenture South Africa.Yet...

Enterprise content management (ECM) is invaluable to any organisation. Managed content is searchable content, and searchable content enables productive workers. Understanding this, many organisations have implemented ECM systems of some description, but few have...

IBM today is combining its  industry leading expertise in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and information management to help clients more easily share data and deliver better service by freeing information from individual applications and reusing it throughout...

Effective business process management (BPM) solutions are becoming an essential component of the technology infrastructure, particularly in companies with complex business processes.That's according to Gareth Holton, business analyst at nVisionIT, who says the...

Worldwide, we are finally seeing rapid takeup and commercial adoption of software as a service (SaaS). When the market leaders such as Microsoft, SAP and Oracle follow the example of Salesforce.com and move to a SaaS rather than the traditional model of software...

IT vendors worldwide have all clambered on to the service-orientated architecture (SOA) bandwagon and almost every single one of them is claiming their solution to be SOA-enabled to ensure customers are able to adapt quickly to changing market needs. This is, of...

While some in the field of software development are ardently advocating the advantages of reusable code and software components, others are taking the more balanced view that reusability should be applied only when it is likely that there will be a case for it. One...