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Motivated Team Of Mission Focused Technologists From Software AG Wins Rapid Integration Challenge of Plugfest

CTOvision

Some examples: The Tohoku Earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011 or last year’s wildfires of Sierra Nevada, California or typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. A robust set of agile, open standard, SOA and cloud based tools was available. For context, consider what usually happens when we have a National crisis. Precious time is wasted.

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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

An API-first approach enables organizations to take full advantage of microservices architecture, a variant of service-oriented architecture (SOA), in which applications are structured as collections of loosely coupled services. For example, you might say that for anything customer facing, the APIs should respond within 50 milliseconds.

Strategy 345
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From project to product: Architecting the future of enterprise technology

CIO Business Intelligence

This shift from traditional SOA (where services align with technical functions) to domain-oriented services represents a fundamental change in how we structure systems. Experimentation: The innovation zone Progressive cities designate innovation districts where new ideas can be tested safely.

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What’s new in TOGAF 10?

CIO Business Intelligence

The Series Guides portion of the framework includes expanded content that applies to business, information, security, enterprise, agile, digital, and technology architecture, as well as MSA/SOA architectures and information on adapting the ADM.

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It was about SOA all along! Chapter 6

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Chapter 6 is about "Internal IT” or the effect the SOA transformation can/should have on the internal IT department/functions. The functions must mirror the key business processes that SOA has formalized. And then reorganizing the IT department around SOA is only a start. The End of Business as Usual”].

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It was about SOA all along! Chapter 5

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Once again, I'm not aware of many CxOs (let alone CEOs) with such an open-mind on new technologies and the courage to initiate and lead the drastic cultural change that a SOA demands. Such forward-looking leadership is indeed a must for a successful SOA implementation. Chapter 5 describes 5 rules for successful SOA implementation.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies. Thanks to a thoughtful and far-sighted team of engineers and architects, this approach was applied at Amazon long before SOA became a buzzword in the industry. It is deeply integrated into everything we do.

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