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  • SOA growth reveals benefits and lessons

    Service-oriented architecture is a way of including roles (customers, suppliers, engineers, etc) and viewing everything as a service. Generally, we recognize services that are provided by people, machines and both. SOA is the most important development in the last ten years and is 1) Business-oriented - "describe what not how" and 2) Message - "just ask and the service is given".

  • MIT's Ross says EAs must make business-side address their core model

    Enterprise architects must drive business leaders to better articulate core company goals, the MIT researcher tells SearchSOA.com.

  • MIT’s Ross says exploiting IT business capabilities is next EA step

    Without targeting quick IT results – and without clear communication from business executives – architects produce large-scale but largely unhelpful business capabilities. As a result, many companies find their architecture initiatives underutilized and their money wasted. SearchSOA’s Jack Vaughan spoke to Jeanne Ross, Director and Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at the MIT Sloan School of Management, about these and other issues.

• Java

  • Java 7 and the intricacies of safe and unsafe casting

    One of the problems with casting is that it does have the potential to cause a loss of precision, especially if the number that gets cast does indeed fall outside of the range of the target type. Here we will explain why this happens.

  • Vowels don't cost $500: Pontificating on Java 7 variable naming conventions

    When naming your variables, put a little bit of thought into it and name them well. Well thought out variable names make Java programs both easier to read and easier to maintain. Good names can even make Java programming fun.

  • Has Computer Programming Really Changed Much Since Lovelace's Time?

    Everyone always talks about these new computer programming languages, and how great one is over the other. But really, has computer programming really changed that much over time?

• Windows Development

  • Testing methods in Visual Studio 2010

    This is the second part in a two part series on unit testing in Visual Studio 2010.

  • Unit testing in Visual Studio 2010

    Visual Studio 2010 contains a unit testing framework, and I’ll show you how to use it to automate your own unit tests.

  • Understanding the testing tools in Visual Studio 2010

    Get an overview of the testing tools available in Visual Studio. You will learn which testing features are in which Visual Studio edition.

• Oracle

  • Oracle details integration with RightNow

    Oracle has finalized its $1.5 billion acquisition of CRM SaaS provider RightNow Technologies, and to celebrate executives held a webcast outlining their future plans for all the CRM and cloud products the two have on the table.

  • A brief history of SaaS trends in the enterprise

    Despite all the talk about Software as a Service (SaaS) in recent years, the idea of it in IT isn’t new.

  • BI, collaboration lead SaaS trends

    Software as a Service (SaaS) and the cloud are new to many IT pros, but they’re poised to grow in BI and collaboration, according to experts.

• Cloud computing

  • Hybrid cloud management tools and strategies

    Determining how to manage hybrid clouds can seem daunting. The trick is to identify what you need to manage and the best types of tools for the job.

  • Six principles of HP Cloud Services

    Lining up cloud platforms from major vendors can cause vertigo. What’s the difference among private cloud products? Take a look at HP Cloud Services.

  • Amazon attempts to win over enterprises with cloud storage gateway

    Facing reluctance from enterprises to adopt public cloud services, Amazon tries to entice them by bridging private and public data storage models.

• Business Analytics

  • Mobile BI brings more than security concerns to the table, TDWI says

    Interest in mobile BI is growing, but democratizing data also presents hurdles for building a business case, according to new research from TDWI.

  • From the Editors: Getting started on a 'big data' analytics program

    Does your organization have a firm grasp on what "big data" is? That's a good place to begin on a big data analytics project, but don’t forget about basic IT blocking and tackling.

  • When shopping for a 'big data' analytics platform, talk the talk

    Enterprise Strategy Group provides a few tips on how to narrow down the product and deployment options before investing in a “big data” analytics platform.

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