Evaluate
Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.
Evaluate
Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.
What do you really know about app modernization?
Increasing demands for cloud- and mobile-ready applications are making legacy modernization efforts more critical than ever. This quiz will test your knowledge on modernization techniques and the ways to avoid common project pitfalls. Continue Reading
AppDynamics introduces Application Integration Platform
Learn why AppDynamics Application Intelligence Platform is the June 2015 selection for our innovation spotlight. Continue Reading
How Runscope overcame microservices challenges
Learn how Runscope overcame a number of challenges surrounding deployment and service discovery work once the company began using microservices. Continue Reading
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Metrics can help improve website user experience
An expert says enterprise architects need to develop relevant performance metrics to capture website user experience. Continue Reading
Docker technology roadmap boasts new features
The Docker technology roadmap for the coming year includes Microsoft support, open source orchestration tools and updated container offerings. Continue Reading
Cache networks for better mobile application performance
Architects find they can improve mobile application performance by leveraging caching networks and new data synchronization protocols.Continue Reading
Integration tools that bridge the mobile DevOps gap
A new generation of mobile DevOps integration tools promises to streamline the application development lifecycle and reduce the severity of bugs.Continue Reading
Ten top iBPM use cases
Intelligent BPM, or iBPM, combines the best of traditional BPM with disruptive technologies. Check out some of the best uses for intelligent BPM.Continue Reading
Rise to the challenges in using HTML5 for mobile apps
Developers and architects should know the benefits and limitations of HTML5 for mobile apps. Starting with this tip could be a good first step.Continue Reading
Your favorite enterprise IT architecture stories of 2014
Take a look back at some of the most-viewed enterprise IT architecture stories published this year.Continue Reading
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Cloud-based systems accelerate mobile application development
Mobile developers are looking to new technologies and approaches to alleviate pressure placed on them by increasingly short timelines and budget cuts. They’ve found that mobile application development and cloud computing are a perfect fit. For ...Continue Reading
Web services vs. cloud services: Are they the same?
Learn how Web services and cloud services differ, and how working together impacts business efficiency.Continue Reading
Where JMS 2.0 misses the mark
JMS 2.0 added significant ease-of-use and messaging features to the popular API. Bill Claybrook looks at what's new in JMS 2.0 and what's missing.Continue Reading
Read and write considerations when designing APIs
This is the third installment of a four-part series offering enterprise architects advice for designing APIs.Continue Reading
Quiz: What do you know about Web services technology?
Prove your knowledge of the basics of Web services technology with our seven-question quiz!Continue Reading
How to leverage the power of open source BPM
Establishing a relationship with open source BPM providers can help users quickly resolve technical issues and reduce internal IT staff.Continue Reading
Five steps for successful app modernization and legacy migration
Some systems can't keep up with ever-increasing demands. Follow this legacy migration checklist to mitigate risks during a modernization project.Continue Reading
You've got mail! Messaging platform aids ops director with large load
Messaging Operations Director James Thompson shares how he selected a messaging platform to meet his company's growing volume of email deployments.Continue Reading
Quiz: What do you know about API development?
Do you have what it takes to develop and manage a successful API? Test your knowledge of API development with this six-question quiz.Continue Reading
Seven steps to develop an IT service catalog: Template for success
Careful IT documentation with a service catalog may seem simple, but there are a number of pitfalls that can make it less than useful.Continue Reading
Using a service catalog to aid in IT documentation
Optimize business capabilities with a service repository
Service catalog best practices: Know your audience
Effective service catalog management includes focusing on your primary audience
Be mindful of data organization and define services
REST vs. SOAP for mobile application development
Deciding why and when to use an integration framework
An integration framework is an important tool for managing the movement of data between applications and organizations.Continue Reading
Social media loosens up sober BPM
Companies are switching from closed-door BPM to a more democratic approach, and their cue comes from the madding crowd of social media.Continue Reading
Quiz: Mobile middleware and application development
What do you know about mobile middleware and development? Find out with our seven-question quiz!Continue Reading
Time to give your application modernization strategies a facelift?
API design: How to properly build an application program interface
Don't let your entire API project go awry. Knowing the applications well is just one way to nail the design and foster developer loyalty.Continue Reading
API service a touchdown with NFL stats data company
Quiz: What do you know about the service delivery model called PaaS?
Think you know everything about the service delivery model called Platform as a Service? Prove your knowledge of PaaS with this seven-question quiz.Continue Reading
Mobile development: The pros of HTML5, hybrid, native applications
Whether to make use of a hybrid, HTML5 or a native application depends on each specific situation.Continue Reading
Considerations for starting a mobile business application project
Top 10 Q&As: SOA experts get honest about app dev, integration trends
App dev and integration have undergone a slew of changes in recent years -- from the rise of RESTful services to mobile back ends. Hear what top SOA experts have to say.Continue Reading
How application integration maintenance is like taking care of a car
Forrester analyst Randy Heffner offers some best practices and his predictions for software integration management.Continue Reading
Backend as a Service players, users and trends
Today, Backend as a Service (BaaS) vendors vie with alternatives for mobile apps that must deftly integrate back and front ends.Continue Reading
SOA and EAI in the land of enterprise service bus integration
Like a Swiss Army Knife with many blades and tools, the enterprise service bus (ESB) is many things to many people. It finds use in both EAI and SOA.Continue Reading
Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)
The Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) is a set of standards defining the way in which information is shared among diverse components of large, heterogeneous grid systems.Continue Reading
The impact of HTML5 on Web applications
HTML, the HyperText Markup Language, is an essential part of the Internet experience. HTML5 is one part of what WHATWG sees as essential to the future of Web applications.Continue Reading
Developing applications that work with message-oriented middleware requires mind shift
Message-oriented middleware helps developers create applications with asynchronous functionality increasingly vital to modern distributed applications. But programmers must be ready to cede control over orchestration to make the jump to messaging ...Continue Reading
WSTx (Web Services Transactions)
WSTx (Web Services Transaction) is a set of XML markup specifications designed to permit the use of open, standard protocols for secure, reliable transactions across the Web... (Continued)Continue Reading
Service Data Objects (SDO)
Service Data Objects (SDO) is the name of a specification designed to streamline the processing of SOA (service-oriented architecture) data from diverse sources such as XML documents, relational databases and Web services... (Continued)Continue Reading
service-component architecture (SCA)
Service-component architecture (SCA) is a group of specifications intended for the development of applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA), which defines how computing entities interact to perform work for each other... (Continued)Continue Reading
Web Services Trust Language
Web Services Trust Language (WS-Trust) is a specification that uses the secure messaging mechanisms of WS-Security to facilitate trust relationships in diverse Web service environments... (Continued)Continue Reading
service-oriented management
Service-oriented management (SOM) is the operational management of service delivery within a service-oriented architecture (SOA).Continue Reading
service oriented management
Service-oriented management (SOM) is the operational management of service delivery within a service-oriented architecture (SOA).Continue Reading
SPML (Services Provisioning Markup Language)
SPML (Services Provisioning Markup Language) is an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based language that facilitates the exchange of provisioning information among applications and organizations, corporations, or agencies.Continue Reading
management service provider
Also see two related terms, application service provider and storage service provider.Continue Reading
business service provider
A business service provider (BSP) is a company that rents third-party software application packages to their customers.Continue Reading