November 29, 2012 3:56 AM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
Enterprise architectureIT is changing. And certain companies are going to face the changes better than others, Andy Kyte, Gartner vice president and research fellow, told a crowd at the Application Architecture, Development & Integration (AADI) Summit in Las Vegas. In particular, he said successful IT organizations...
November 28, 2012 7:06 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
data analytics,
Mobile device developmentThis week in Las Vegas, over 1,000 IT professionals, analysts and practitioners gathered at Caesars Palace to discuss top trends at Gartner's Application Architecture, Development & Integration (AADI) Summit. The theme of this year's event is game-changing, an idea centered on what Gartner...
November 28, 2012 2:37 AM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
data architecture,
SOASOA is far from being the new technology kid on the block. But once it was. Now it is an older kid, and a practical approach to fielding a host of other new technologies. It should not be overstated, but, especially in the SOA services form known as “REST,” SOA is a foundational element of...
November 9, 2012 5:56 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
data architecture,
XMLIntegration development managers face a broad array of intimidating jobs these days as they are asked to field corporate technology initiatives. Such initiatives are varied. These can range from the meshing of Java and XML efforts to EDI mapping, from marshaling Excel data into XML to the support...
November 8, 2012 8:54 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
DevelopmentB2B software company Axway said it will acquire Vordel, the SOA security gateway company that has recently come to include cloud, mobile and social networking support in its offerings. The move will expand Axway's data governance portfolio, combining Axway's current managed file, B2B and...
November 1, 2012 8:50 PM
Posted by: Jack Vaughan
.NET,
Microsoft,
SOAWhen WCF started, the focus was on decoupling. That was a basic SOA tenet, and Microsoft, though it was not that big a singer in the SOA choir, took those principles to heart in formulating .NET design patterns. Of course, the REST dialect of SOA has gained traction. REST can’t exactly be called...