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Updated 28 Aug 2008
Needs-based versus features-based SOA: Get the right focus for your SOA initiative
Needs-based versus features-based SOA: Get the right focus for your SOA initiative
Avoid being distracted by all the SOA products, vendors, and technologies when starting an SOA initiative. Find out how to increase your chances of success by focusing on what's really important: the expected results.  More >
Best practices for SOA nonfunctional testing: Get a head start on your SOA journey! Check out a real-life SOA implementation and the challenges, nonfunctional characteristics, and tools involved in SOA nonfunctional testing.
Blog: Reusable data access: Bobby Woolf looks at the "old" way of building an application versus a much more advanced way of doing it, which involves reusable data access.
Blog: Intro to cloud computing: What's cloud computing all about? Sounds like SOA and ESBs to Bobby Woolf. Check out Bobby's insightful thoughts about this oft-discussed but not-always-understood new element of IT.
Set up a center of excellence for SOA: If your organization is considering or in the midst of major business transformation initiatives that span departments, you need an SOA COE. Get insight into setting one up in this article.
Automatic deployment toolkit for an SOA project environment, Part 1: Alleviate the time-consuming, error-prone act of installing and configuring applications on multiple machines using the Python-based automatic deployment toolkit (Automatic-DT).
Web Services for Point of Service applications, Part 1: Retail store peripherals and Web services with POS open standards: Preview WS-POS, a coming standard to address new requirements around retail store peripherals, including remote access from mobile devices and more control of peripherals from enterprise IT systems.

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