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SOA principles can (and should) be applied not only to the services that compose a service-oriented business architecture, but also to the services that compose a service-oriented security ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is built around a collection of loosely coupled services that communicate among each other. The reusable services have well-defined, platform-independent interfaces ...

IBM's director of WebSphere infrastructure software, Bob Sutor, lays out his company's service-oriented architecture strategy.

The future of software is service-oriented architecture, according to Charles Stack, president of Flashline.

And that's where Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) comes in. SOA specifies IT systems as loosely coupled sets of services. Processing an employee expense report is one such service.

The service oriented architecture makes it more manageable." How closely are service oriented architecture and cloud intertwined? They are likely close to being one in the same.

Web-oriented architecture (WOA), a descriptive term for a subset of service- oriented architecture (SOA), has recently arisen as the next buzz-phrase to help further confuse the IT architect.

A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural pattern in computer software design in which application components provide services to other components via a communications protocol ...

Automotive service-oriented architecture (SOA) is designed to provide a framework for developers to create a modular, automotive software more quickly by using software and services from companies ...

The answer is neither. Microsoft is clueless about SOA (service oriented architecture) and seems intent to remain so. Microsoft can't seem to figure out what it wants to be anymore.