E-Commerce News: Web Services: What Everyone Needs to Know About SOA

chrisp — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:19:00 GMT

Here's an interesting thought...What if a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is not the future of all business applications? There's still much scepticism out there today as to what benefits SOA actually brings for every budget spent. In addition, for each vendor that lays claim to having SOA enabled software, their definitions seem to differ.

Personally, I'm contemplating how Software as a Service (as a whole) and disparate vendor enabled SOA's will all tie together, especially in the context of Web2.0 and particularly user identity.

I like this article as a primer and agree wholeheartedly with the fact that, "SOA should allow you to build dashboards of active Web services components and create applications on the fly that behave your way -- the way you want them to behave" but I feel it stops some way short of defining where any ROI comes from...

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Microsoft Partners and Offshore Development

chrisp — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:32:08 GMT

This evening session on the 24th January, London, UK, will provide an overview of the opportunity for ISV’s to outsource development to the Philippines and Vietnam. The presentations will cover various aspects of offshore software development and introduce general concepts whilst also aiming to raise potential issue awareness. Microsoft Partners will have the opportunity to meet individually with overseas partners from the Microsoft community and also with senior Microsoft UK Executives.

The event is being held in association with Harvey Nash with whom, many of our ISV Partners have already taken advantage of this approach to help with adoption of the latest Microsoft platforms, migration of legacy applications and service enablement of their latest applications. Places are very limited and this is sure to be a very fascinating evening...

You can register for the event here.

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E-Commerce News: Web Services: What Everyone Needs to Know About SOA

Microsoft Partners and Offshore Development