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• Cloud, mobile, Web app integration is top software issue: Expert Q&A

  In this Q&A, Dave West advises on strategies for app integration issues faced by today's software developers, architects, project managers and CIOs. Continue Reading

• App integration: The time is now

  Learn why businesses need to update their app integration processes and how to avoid technology silos. Continue Reading

• Testing SOA applications: Tips for smooth deployments

  Testing is a key step in software development. Here, Tom Nolle shares best practices for testing SOA applications to ensure unimpeded deployments. Continue Reading

• Orchestration and app performance in SOA

  Learn the fundamental and finite details of the orchestration and app performance in service-oriented architecture. Continue Reading

• Why native mobile apps are better than HTML5 apps

  Should mobile apps be implemented using HTML5 or native code? Here, a look at why native apps may be a better solution than HTML5 apps. Continue Reading

• Infrastructure basics for real-world application integration

  As the adoption rate of the cloud continues to rise, today’s businesses are faced with a significant integration issue. Instead of needing to simply stitch together internal data and applications, IT is now faced with integrating internal ...Continue Reading

• Q&A: StackMob CEO predicts Backend as a Service future, app dev trends

  In this Q&A, Ty Amell, CEO of StackMob, a Backend as a Service vendor, discusses the future of BaaS.Continue Reading

• Why SOA applications are easy to migrate to cloud

  Learn why SOA applications are the easiest of all apps to migrate to the cloud.Continue Reading

• Backend as a Service quiz

  Test your knowledge of Backend as a Service (BaaS) with this six-question quiz.Continue Reading

• Backend as a Service FAQs

  Backend as a Service has emerged as an alternative to mobile middleware. Still, questions remain about the approach. Find the answers here.Continue Reading

• SOA best practices in the mobile age

  In a 2012 survey, 52% of companies indicated that they planned to use service-oriented architecture (SOA) services to support mobile application development. Although SOA is at the foundation of a mobile development platform, developing and ...Continue Reading

• Mobile app development trends in 2012 and beyond

  Industry experts weigh in on the mobile app development trends in 2012 and shed light on what to expect in the coming year.Continue Reading

• Take new approaches to building services with SOA

  Tackle building services with a different approach to SOA, say industry viewers.Continue Reading

• Application modernization and business transformation in the Internet age

  As today's organizations race to capitalize on social, mobile and cloud computing trends, will enterprise IT's "ol' reliable"— the mainframe server— weather the storm and survive this latest round of technological innovation? Last time the ...Continue Reading

• SaaS heads drive toward new approach for application sourcing software

  Companies are approaching application sourcing differently and the force behind the change is cloud computing.Continue Reading

• Gartner: Better collaboration for new era of application integration

  Diverse teams must come together to create a successful application integration as complexity goes up. Warning: Cloud integration is no cure-all.Continue Reading

• Application architecture, BPM must align objectives

  Business process management and application architecture must work towards common goals in creating cohesive business architecture.Continue Reading

• Backend as a Service points to mobile development futures

  Mobile middleware is undergoing some changes as Backend as a Service (BaaS) upstarts bring cloud services architecture to back-end processing.Continue Reading

• Backend as a Service takes on scalability, lock-in issues

  Backend as a Service (BaaS) helps front-end mobile developers focus on the user, while capitalizing on the elastic scalability of cloud computing.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

• RESTful services take on a role in health IT infrastructure

  Gerald Beuchelt, project software systems engineer at MITRE, discusses the role of RESTful services in building a national health IT infrastructure.Continue Reading

• How three SOA integration projects are connecting apps, processes

  SOA is a potent middleware connector. At Oracle OpenWorld, project leaders shared their experiences with SOA connecting applications and processes.Continue Reading

• The future of financial services may be banking on SOA

  After recent difficulties for financial services, one active director suggests that banks invest in modernization via SOA.Continue Reading

• Selecting a SOA testing tool

  Choosing a SOA testing tool can be tricky and, if done incorrectly, can diminish ROI. Learn what to consider when selecting a SOA testing tool.Continue Reading

• Java University snapshot: Achieve service elasticity with IaaS

  Service elasticity prepares enterprise architecture for the cloud. Middleware expert Steve Millidge explains how to prepare SOA services for IaaS.Continue Reading

• BPM fills some application modernization needs, not all

  Not every legacy application can be modernized with BPM, but some organizations find success with this iterative approach to enterprise modernization.Continue Reading

• Business architecture takes the fore in application portfolio analysis

  A shift to business-focused application portfolio analysis is under way, and business architecture is coming to the fore, experts say.Continue Reading

• Cloud connectors gain traction in enterprise application integration

  More enterprises are turning to cloud connector and data integrator products to meet their enterprise application integration needs, experts say.Continue Reading

• Enterprise application development meets the consumerization of IT

  The consumerization of IT -- or the blending of personal and business technology devices and applications -- has a powerful impact on software development, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the enterprise as a whole.Continue Reading

• HTML5 guide

  HTML5 guide: The advent of HTML5 signals a new wave of Web programming methods, and a new slate of standards for enterprise application development.Continue Reading

• IT consumerization, app stores sway software development efforts

  With an emerging app store trend, IT consumerization is reaching right into the developer departments of many organizations.Continue Reading

• Business process key to insurance group's application modernization effort

  An Army and Air Force insurance association focuses on business processes as it exposes mainframe software to Web and mobile applications.Continue Reading

• Maja Tibbling on new application integration trends

  Con-way, Inc.'s Maja Tibbling talks about mobile apps, REST, semantics and a few other issues related to the future of application integration.Continue Reading

• Q&A with Maja Tibbling: Real-time application integration

  Con-way, Inc.'s Maja Tibbling talks about SOA, cloud, ESBs and a few other issues related to application integration today.Continue Reading

• Red Hat buys FuseSource to gain added application integration skills and tools

  Open source software leader Red Hat said it will purchase FuseSource to further its application integration efforts. Also an open source zealot, FuseSource has expertise in messaging middleware and services orchestration.Continue Reading

• Portfolio management tools draw roadmap for business transformation

  Business transformation, portfolio management and application infrastructure strategy are the pillars that support business integration success.Continue Reading

• API server plus services gateway equals REST services integration

  Gateway specialist Vordel has added an API server to its array of integration tools for REST and SOA management. A cloud broker is also in the offing.Continue Reading

• When do I get to build my own portal application?

  Before building out a new enterprise portal application, you should probably examine existing systems to make sure they don't need to be re-engineered.Continue Reading

• HTML5 browsers gain influence as application integration pendulum swings

  HTML5 browser front ends on new Mobile Web apps give added importance to the 'client' in the client server equation. But SOA has a back-end role too. Scalability is an issue for heavily used applications.Continue Reading

• Service virtualization arises to meet services testing obstacles

  Service virtualization allows teams to simulate services before they are truly available. That’s a plus for Agile development and integration testing.Continue Reading

• App integration advisory: Use ESBs for message routing, translation

  Middleware experts advise that an ESB can help a SOA, but it can be harmful if used in the wrong cases.Continue Reading

• Grady Booch puts application developers at the center of the universe

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• Crucial application integration trends for 2012 and beyond

  Watch this half-hour video for Forrester Analyst Ken Vollmer's advice on application integration in the coming years.Continue Reading

• Mobile application development: MIT panelists say HTML5 will lag native approaches

  There are hopes that HTML5 will ease mobile device development soon. But at the 2012 MIT Hi-Tech Conference, game developers said it will take time.Continue Reading

• ESB performance depends on service design

  ESBs have found increased use among SOA infrastructure tools - but they may not provide greater services reusability, if configured incorrectly.Continue Reading

• No green fields for application integration

  Application integration efforts cannot be built on a green field, but must leverage existing systems. This calls for a variety of middleware tools.Continue Reading

• The state of service-oriented architecture: SOA trends in 2012

  The SearchSOA.com 2011-2012 reader survey shows a big upswing in use of SOA to support new mobile and cloud computing applications.Continue Reading

• Mobile app integration gets SOA-ized: SOA goes mainstream 2012

  Mobile trends will prompt IT and business leaders to ensure mobile-friendly infrastructure. Experts are divided on what that will mean for SOA.Continue Reading

• Take a business-driven approach to application modernization

  Taking a business-driven approach to application modernization can improve key stakeholder's views of IT and change the funding paradigm for the better.Continue Reading

• Will HTML5 applications change enterprise application development?

  HTML5 applications should have a very positive impact on enterprise application development, particularly with Web applications and mobile application development.Continue Reading

• A look at ''Service Design Patterns'': Q&A with Rob Daigneau

  SearchSOA.com’s Jack Vaughan spoke with Rob Daigneau, whose new book Service Design Patterns offers solutions to common service design challenges.Continue Reading

• Cloud service brokers: Q&A with Robert Fox

  Rob Fox explains the state of cloud computing and how cloud service brokers can help companies with the new challenges of managing services in the cloud.Continue Reading

• Take ''T-I-M-E'' to understand legacy applications

  A review of old apps may lead you to Tolerate, Invest, Migrate or Eliminate them. How do you decide? A Gartner analyst gives some guides.Continue Reading

• Developing mobile apps today

  Today's mobile application development landscape is marked by explosive growth in the variety of devices available to end users and in those users' expectations.Continue Reading

• IPaaS seen as important player in early cloud application integration

  Gartner's Pezzini sees good uses of the iPaaS, or integration Platform as a Service. Users say data and security issues may be obstacles.Continue Reading

• Successful SOA implementations require planning: User stories

  User stories demonstrate how careful planning and integration are crucial to effective SOA-based system upgrades and successful cloud adoption.Continue Reading

• Service-oriented cloud computing infrastructure guidelines released

  The Open Group, a vendor and technology-neutral standards body, has released the first set of guidelines for service-oriented cloud computing infrastructure.Continue Reading

• Gartner analyst: REST APIs gain added importance in application integration design

  Architecture changes today center on design of the API, says Gartner. The API increasingly supports REST interfaces.Continue Reading

• App integration is result of good architecture: Pradip Sitaram, early cloud adopter

  Managers should ensure development teams don't overlook good planning in their rush to deploy cloud applications.Continue Reading

• IBM acquires cloud software test service

  IBM announced a deal this morning to acquire Green Hat, a cloud software quality and testing service.Continue Reading

• Platform as a Service predictions: What will 2012 bring?

  Analysts, developers and vendors make their predictions for the Platform as a Service market; it boomed in 2011 and more is expected in 2012.Continue Reading

• Web architect shares experiences with Oracle Service Bus

  An ESB coupled to a portal is central to a health care system upgrade. The SOA-based project runs on an Oracle Service Bus.Continue Reading

• Top five ESB and application integration articles from 2011

  As we reflect on the top news in ESBs from 2011, we see that the ESB is not solely associated with SOA, but with EAI designs as well.Continue Reading

• Top five service-oriented cloud computing articles in 2011

  Cloud computing has gained momentum as a force in enterprise architecture throughout 2011. Here is a look back at the top 5 stories on service-oriented cloud computing.Continue Reading

• Application modernization moves toward business transformation: Looking to 2012

  In the coming year the tenor of application modernization efforts may change, as overall business transformation takes on greater importance.Continue Reading

• SOA application gateways gaining features: Outlook 2012

  With 2012 near, we look at the new Forrester Wave analysis of SOA application gateways. This essential SOA infrastructure piece is adding features.Continue Reading

• How to build a high performance application development organization

  Forrester Analyst David West explained how to build a highly effective application development organization from the perspective of a highly productive and valuable testing program.Continue Reading

• Forrester's David West on Lean applications, Agile and SOA

  SearchSOA.com's Jack Vaughan sat down with Forrester Analyst David West at Forrester's Application Development & Delivery Forum to see what aspects of the burgeoning Agile movement were playing out in the world of services creation and integration.Continue Reading

• Gartner AADI 2011: Cloud, mobile, CEP are shaping trends for application development and integration

  Application development is about to undergo a number of major shifts, Gartner's Jeff Schulman told Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit 2011 attendees.Continue Reading

• OAuth protocol gains for securing Web services authorization

  OAuth (Open Authorization) allows Web application users to move from site to site without an additional login. It has gained exceptional attention of late in the world of services and security.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

• Legacy application migration best practices

  Learn about the best practices that simplify the process of maintaining legacy applications and make legacy migration less costly.Continue Reading

• Monolithic applications present monumental development challenges

  Monolithic applications can provide huge throughput, but they may be too tightly coupled with mainframe hardware for iterative modernization projects.Continue Reading

• Modernizing legacy applications advice from Forrester’s Phil Murphy

  Forrester Analyst Phil Murphy discusses important considerations for enterprise architects that are modernizing monolithic mainframe applications.Continue Reading

• Evolving software services security - from SOA to cloud computing

  To some extent, the state of cloud security depends on perspective. Doomsayers see it as a dangerous “Wild West,” while cloud boosters believe those concerns are greatly exaggerated.Continue Reading

• Mobile middleware services help connect devices to back ends

  Enterprise middleware's role as mediator is being replayed these days in the fast moving world of mobile services development. There, mobile middleware is assuming the mediator's role.Continue Reading

• cloud service governance

  Cloud services governance is a general term for applying specific policies or principles to the use of cloud computing services. The goal of cloud services governance is to secure applications and data when they are located remotely.Continue Reading

• Forming a strategy for mobile application services

  The path to mobile development requires a look at native platforms, HTML5, application integration middleware and variations thereof.Continue Reading

• How to make an enterprise service bus work for your SOA

  An enterprise service bus (ESB) is best utilized for mediation and operational policy enforcement, according to SOA governance expert Todd Biske.Continue Reading

• Service-oriented software today: Delivery and mobility rule

  The bulk of application development has moved on from in-house applications to Web applications and mobile apps, explains SearchSOA.com's Jack Vaughan.Continue Reading

• Mobile application interfaces: Three tips for meeting user demands

  As user expectations for mobile applications get more strict, development teams must package up their services more deftly. Gomez experts clue you in.Continue Reading

• 'Service chunking' integrates mobile apps into enterprise portfolios

  "Chunking" SOA services is a useful technique when recreating enterprise applications as mobile apps for business.Continue Reading

• Cloud computing architecture overview

  Cloud computing today combines various established distributed software techniques with newer Web-oriented architecture.Continue Reading

• Enterprise architect tool belt: TOGAF 9, UML, BPMN and others help

  As it matures, SOA is increasingly about articulating business needs, according to software architect Ramsay Millar. A mix of modeling tools helps architects meet these needs, he told SearchSOA.com.Continue Reading

• Services designer opens up mainframe IDMS for JSON, SOAP, REST development

  At Share 2011 in Orlando, GT Software showed Ivory Service Architect with support for Web services that natively access CA IDMS programs. This widens the integration options for IDMS.Continue Reading

• Gartner: Cloud services brokerages can lead way to cloud computing

  The Value Area Network (VAN) might morph into a SOA-oriented information broker and advanced cloud services brokerage. Mohawk Fine Papers used a Liaison CSB to streamline application integration of its business ecosystem.Continue Reading

• Optimizing cloud application development: Re-make or re-model?

  Cloud computing has brought many changes to the development world, not least of which is the question of how the languages developers most frequently use will work as expected there. In this chapter, learn about the different options for developing ...Continue Reading

• IBM middleware leader Robert LeBlanc on systems of systems, Smarter Planet and Web applications

  Interdependencies, interrelations and complexity of systems of systems are on the mind of top IBM middleware manager Robert LeBlanc in this video.Continue Reading

• Enterprise architecture challenges face application development leaders

  The enterprise architecture challenges that CTOs and other high-level developers face have changed considerably over the past decade as SOA has grown and matured.Continue Reading

• ESBs and application integration

  Increasingly, the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is taking on any aspect of application integration middleware that might be required. Will this work?Continue Reading

• Meshing service-oriented architecture with the cloud

  Success with SOA (and ITIL) implies a maturity around service management. A mature service management approach should correlate with making better decisions around the cloud.Continue Reading

• Enterprise application mashup orchestration

  Enterprise application mashup expert Mike Ogrinz explains mashup orchestration in terms of three separate aspects: facilitation, encouragement and of course governance.Continue Reading

• ESB and SOA infrastructure: The role of ESBs in application integration

  How important are enterprise service buses (ESBs) to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the enterprise? Will new efforts to understand ESBs pay off in the long-term? This e-book provides valuable insight on the role of ESBs in application ...Continue Reading

• Adrian Cole discusses open source Platform as a Service

  At JBoss World 2011, Adrian Cole, an independent developer and consultant, closely tied to jclouds, talks about open source options for PaaS and other cloud computing options.Continue Reading

• Forrester analyst says consider process fine points when adapting BPM tools

  Forrester Research analyst Derek Miers says the 'process' in BPM signifies importance when pursuing flexibility in IT systems.Continue Reading

• ESB Tutorial

  Our ESB tutorial provides the expert advice, definitions, implementation examples, trends and news you need to get started with or optimize the performance of an enterprise service bus.Continue Reading

• Java application server futures as seen by JBoss middleware leader Muzilla

  Enterprise integration via Java app server brought common integration patterns to more systems. JBoss's Craig Muzilla discusses on-going moves to micro-containers and other issues.Continue Reading

• Look past tools to make modernization efforts more agile

  While open source operating systems have made substantial headway on mainframe platforms, the ranks of open source asset discovery tools are thin.Continue Reading

• Enterprise mashup applications cause concern for SOA governance

  Do emerging enterprise mashup applications cause concern for SOA governance? They sure do, but SOA governance guru Todd Biske has some tips for minimizing the risk.Continue Reading

• Forrester: Stress holistic, lean approaches for application integration

  Different styles of integration can lead to islands of integration. Forrester's Ken Vollmer says lean and holistic methods, coupled with integration competency centers, can help.Continue Reading