Weitzner brings 30 years of publishing experience to ZDE, starting in editorial at Hearst Business Communications and moving over to the business side at CMP Media. As CMP Media COO and CEO, he transformed the company from a print-centric publisher focused on mult...

Dr. Richard Mark Soley, executive director of the SOA Consortium - the world's largest consortium of its type - and chairman and chief executive officer of the Object Management Group, will be keynoting in New York City in June at SOAWorld Conference & Expo 2008 E...

GemStone Systems announced the release of GemFire Enterprise 5.5, a core component of its high-performance EDF. The release will offer distributed event processing capabilities with the introduction of continuous querying and durable event notifications to hundred...

There is more data than ever to understand and improve corporate performance, and it's growing by 30% a year, according to recent industry analyst estimates. Accordingly an increasing number of verticals are using Data Services - services that deal with the produc...

Lockheed Martin's Savi business launched SmartChain 5.0, a platform and application suite providing new capabilities that enhance the performance, business processes and efficiency of supply chains for commercial and government customers. Savi SmartChain 5.0 lever...

Martin Dawes Systems announced the launch of its Business Process Engine (BPE), a SOA-based solution for service providers who want to customize their customer service management systems. The latest addition to the Martin Dawes Systems product family, BPE is a ful...

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 ...

GT Software announced that its flagship GT Software Ivory Service Architect solution was utilized by SunTrust Bank for extending banking services to customers' cell phones. The new service uses GT Software's flagship solution, Ivory Service Architect, to connect ...

Thetus and CommIT are expanding the boundaries of service-oriented architecture (SOA) through participation in aXiom, a U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Charleston-led initiative to improve situational awareness. The aXiom project deploys applied semant...

Strangeloop Networks announced the WS1000 Web Services Accelerator, an appliance that accelerates enterprise applications in Service-O riented-Architecture (SOA) environments by caching web services. Deployed as an appliance that sits between web applications and t...

IBM announced that Cars.com has selected IBM software to drive a multi-year service oriented architecture (SOA) project that will help the online car shopping destination accelerate its business growth by delivering information on demand to car shoppers and advertisers.

Intel Corporation announced Intel SOA Expressway for Healthcare, software that provides a way to exchange healthcare information inside hospitals and with health information networks. The product will allow healthcare providers to connect with one another so tha...

WaveMaker announced the appointment of Roger Sippl to the Board of Directors. With over 30 years of experience in building and managing enterprise software companies, Sippl will help guide WaveMaker as it continues to expand its AJAX open source Web application de...

WSO2 announced the expansion of its management team to advance WSO2's product initiatives and services for the company's growing enterprise customer base. Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder, has been promoted to CTO from his previous role as vice president of technic...

MuleSource announced that TM Software has joined the MuleSource Partner Program. Touting a 20-year history of technology innovation, Iceland-based TM Software supports more than 1,200 customers worldwide. TM Software specializes in providing solutions for the heal...

'Diligent's data de-duplication software is a critical technology that will be integrated into the IBM Storage portfolio,' said Andy Monshaw, general manager, IBM System Storage, as IBM today announced that it has acquired Diligent Technologies. Data de-duplicatio...

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...

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...

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...

We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and enhancing the user experience of consumers of the services becomes an important part in designing and implementing SOA. But if you decide to develop rich clients, you'll be facing the dilemma - which...

Development of service-oriented environments is an evolutionary process for organizations of all sizes. The architecture and design decisions made by system architects and developers will impact manageability and flexibility of service infrastructures. Efficient...

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...

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...

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) can deliver tremendous value in flexibility, adaptability and cost savings. But SOA environments are complex by definition, with lots of loosely coupled components and a potentially vast combination of platforms, software, da...

This session will investigate what is happening out there in the world of Mobility that uses Services, some are calling this MOA (Mobile Oriented Architecture). We will also discuss architectures, application design & considerations for mobility

Adoption of federated identity technology has been slower than the hype might indicate, despite the maturity of standards such as SAML 2.0 and Web Services Security. This presentation examines the distinct business and technical identity management issues in both ...

Depending on your perspective, SOA and virtualization are either synergistic or threaten increased complexity. This session will explain how implementing the right network architecture can make the most of both, promoting agility and reducing complexity. 'Service ...

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...

The SOA Consortium announced that HP, a founding member of the SOA Consortium, has increased its support by becoming a Sponsor. The SOA Consortium is an advocacy group of end users, service providers and technology vendors committed to helping the Global 1000, maj...

Crosscheck Networks launched SOAPSimulator, a service simulation product for SOA developers and testers. SOAPSimulator enables SOA professionals to reduce project expense and duration and deliver interoperable and secure Service Oriented Architecture. SOAPSimula...

Ken Vollmer, a Forrester analyst who has assisted hundreds of clients in North America & Europe with their integration projects and is a thought leader in the space, joins SYS-CON's Jeremy Geelan and Russell Scherwin from Sterling Commerce on Tuesday April 15 to d...

XAware announced that Active Endpoints and Appcelerator have joined the XAware Ecosystem. Together, these three technology vendors offer customers a combination of open, standards-based systems that provide broad, enterprise-class solutions. The XAware Ecosystem g...

AmberPoint announced that its SOA Management System has been named Product of the Year in the Service Management/Monitoring category by SearchSOA.com. This is the latest in a series of honors for AmberPoint software. In March 2008, AmberPoint was ranked the best S...

Exploring the boundaries between the Enterprise and the Internet, this talk focuses on Architectural approaches from the service pattern, process pattern and event pattern to help SOA practitioners understand topics such as Web 2.0, AJAX, SaaS, Social Networks and...

SOA Software announced that SOLA, its flagship mainframe SOA product, has reached the five year mark in running reliably high volume production environments. During this period SOLA has not been responsible for a single production outage, despite handling tens of ...

TIBCO announced that by adopting its integration and messaging solutions, Postbank AG has implemented EU guidelines set by MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. After an evaluation process, Postbank Systems selected TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks an...

OpenSpan announced that OpenSpan and Project Brokers have entered into a strategic agreement whereby Project Brokers will become a certified OpenSpan partner for Europe. Project Brokers will leverage the OpenSpan Platform to accelerate SOA and application integrat...

WebLayers launched an automated governance solution for mainframes. An extension of WebLayers' flagship solution, WebLayers Center for z/OS empowers enterprises to take a comprehensive approach to governance as they transition to a Service Oriented Architecture ...

IBM announced new services and advanced tools to help customers better focus on the architectural decisions when implementing a service oriented architecture (SOA). A recent study of SOA engagements by the IBM Academy of Technology found that the chief cause for...

Nastel announced that its flagship AutoPilot M6 Suite of software products has achieved IBM's SOA Specialty Certification. IBM SOA Specialty Certification means that the AutoPilot M6 suite of products has been tested by IBM technical certification teams and has be...