
Issue II, November/December 2006

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An SOA Case Study: Agility in Practice
by Alcedo Coenen and Dr. Chris Harding

As boundaries within and between enterprises become increasingly permeable, there is a greater need for information flow. This is inhibited by the "information silos" formed by traditional software applications. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) replaces these silos with loosely-coupled services, enabling information to flow as needed, and delivering enterprise agility. This is a case study from ING Card, a division of the ING Group, member of the Jericho Forum of The Open Group. It describes the first phase of their SOA implementation, with services that are hard-wired rather than dynamically discoverable. It illustrates how even this stage of SOA can deliver real business agility, and contains some interesting lessons for SOA implementation...
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Business Rules in SOA: Decision Services and the Centralization of Rules Management
by James Taylor

One of the major benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that can elevate an enterprise to a state of increased agility. That is, an increased ability to respond to change in the business environment or to changing business requirements. Many elements of an SOA can contribute to the potential of this benefit, but it requires close attention to the definition of the technology architecture, as well as its supporting infrastructure, to ensure that the required level of agility is ultimately attained. This article explores aspects of SOA that help deliver agility with an emphasis on business rules centralization...
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Web Service-Enabling Relational Databases for SOA
by Robert Schneider

For architects and developers in search of quick wins to demonstrate the value of a service-oriented architecture, databases present a largely-unexplored landscape of vital information. Although previously time-consuming to integrate, new tools and technologies make it easy to service-enable these information silos. The result is an elegant, cost-effective infrastructure that preserves IT investments while facilitating modern application development in support of service-orientation...
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Issue XVIII, May 2008

Enterprise Mashups Part I: Bringing SOA to the People

Shadow IT: Edge Applications in a Service-Oriented Enterprise

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Issue XVII, April 2008

Relating Master Data Management to SOA

SOA in Healthcare (Part I)

A Program Management Methodology for SOA

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Issue XVI, March 2008

Working with SOA and RUP

SOA Engineering Misconceptions

Refactoring Considerations for Service-Enabling Applications

Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation Part II: A Comparison of Design Principles

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Issue XV, February 2008

SOA in Government: A Law Enforcement Use Case

Security in SOA - It's the Car, Not the Garage

Integration with Process-Centric Service Composition

Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation Part I: A Comparison of Goals and Concepts

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Issue XIV, January 2008

Next-Generation Grid-Enabled SOA: Not Your MOM's Bus

A Strategic Approach to SOA: Using Pilot Projects and Effective Disciplines to Ensure Successful Adoption and Governance

Defining Operational Services: How SOA Can Help Realize a Role-Based Organization

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Issue XIII, December 2007

Ten Ways to Identify Services

Services as Web Services: Are We There Yet? How Web Service Technology Stacks Alone Cannot Fulfill the Goals of SOA

SOA Design Patterns: The International Community Review of SOA Patterns and Pattern Languages

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Issue XII, November 2007

SOA Pioneers Interview Series: Intel Chief Architect Steve Birkel on SOA Practices and Intel's SOA Adoption

Smart Enough for SOA: Incorporating Enterprise Decision Management into Service Design

Processes as Services: Contract Design for Services that Encapsulate WS-BPEL Process Definitions

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Issue XI, October 2007

Checking up on the Standards: Introducing the Big SOA Grid

Beyond IT: Exploring the Business Value of SOA

Software Pipelines Theory: Understanding and Applying Concurrent Processing

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Issue X, September 2007

SOA - Ready for Primetime: The Next-Generation, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architecture

SOA Realization through Service Virtualization

SOA and the Importance of XQuery

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Issue IX, Jul/Aug 2007

The Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) and SOA Data Service Layers

SaaS, Composite Applications, and SOA: Understanding their Differences and Making Them Work Together

The Convergence of Service-Orientation and Business Strategy

SOA Methodology: Mainstream Methodology for Service-Oriented Analysis and Design

SOA Glossary: Definitions for SOA and Service-Orientation
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Issue VIII, June 2007

Defining Business Services: SOA from a Corporate Perspective

Watch Your SOA Blind Spots: A Checklist for Testing Web Services

Software Pipelines in the Real World: Two SOA Performance Case Studies
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Issue VII, May 2007

Finding Services in the Mainframe

Quality Assurance for SOA Through Process Cadence

SOA Principles: An Introduction to the Service-Orientation Paradigm
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Issue VI, April 2007

Modernizing the Mainframe for SOA: Considerations for Transforming Mainframe Assets into Services

SOA and Composite Applications

Automated Modeling and Performance Management for Service-Oriented Solutions
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Issue V, March 2007

High Performance SOA with Software Pipelines

Essential Components of an SOA Quality Foundation

SOA and the Core Competency Model: A Business Perspective for Realizing Competitive Advantages
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Issue IV, February 2007

Service Elicitation: Defining the Conceptual Service

SOA and EDA: Using Events to Bridge Decoupled Service Boundaries

SOA and the Emergence of Business Technology
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Issue III, January 2007

AJAX: Bringing SOA to the Front Lines

Commercializing Services: Web Services Distribution Channels and SOA

Implications of SOA on Business Strategy and Organizational Design
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Issue II, Nov/Dec 2006

An SOA Case Study: Agility in Practice

Business Rules in SOA: Decision Services and the Centralization of Rules Management

Web Service-Enabling Relational Databases for SOA
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Issue I, Sep/Oct 2006

SOA in the Enterprise:
A Survey of the Technical Landscape

SOA Infrastructure:
Mediation and Orchestration

An SOA Practices Checklist
for Building Implementation Roadmaps
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