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8 characteristics of successful SOA implementations

The SOA Consortium and CIO magazine recently announced the winners of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Case Study Competition. All of the winners successfully delivered business or mission value using an SOA approach -- and they all shared these 8 characteristics.

| Opinion | SOA | 10/06/08 at 12:17 pm |


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OppenheimerFunds gets ROI from Agile, SOA

OppenheimerFunds used to have a data entry problem. Address changes that customers made on its website had to be manually re-entered into a variety of back-end systems before they went into effect. The company had a choice: to solve this one immediate problem, or to invest a little more time and money in order to plan a little bit further ahead.

| Feature | Networking | SOA | 09/29/08 at 10:55 am |


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Oracle's Fusion app suite may not ship until 2010

Oracle may not deliver the first suite of its long-awaited Fusion Applications until 2010, according to Steve Miranda, senior vice president of Fusion application development.

| News | CRM | SOA | 09/25/08 at 9:30 am |


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Rozwat talks about cloud, but holds back on Fusion

Chuck Rozwat, Oracle's head of product development, largely deflected questions about hotly anticipated technologies such as Fusion Applications during a Q&A session with reporters at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, but did reveal more details of the vendor's plans around cloud computing.

| News | SOA | 09/24/08 at 9:14 am |


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