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Making Microsoft Office Apps Into SOA ServicesOpen in New Window
"Tibco and OpenSpan are teaming up to combine functions from Office applications into a new composite that helps automate the business process." read more »
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Analyst: SOA governance stymied by lack of standardsOpen in New Window
Joe McKendrick reports on a recent presentation by Gartner analyst Frank Kenney on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and how its effective governance is being hurt by an absence of standards. read more »
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Who should lead SOA? Enterprise architects or business analysts?Open in New Window
Joe McKendrick offers a acronym laced article (SOA, EA, BA, et al.) on the service oriented architecture (SOA) frontier. Will take a little bit of knowledge of the terminology to jump into, but essentially analyzes the current debate over business vs. IT enterprise architecture. read more »
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Expert: SOA vulnerable to DNS security flaw, tooOpen in New Window
At the Black Hat security confab currently taking place in Las Vegas Dan Kaminsky disclosed his findings around the Domain Name Server flaw. Tim Wilson of Dark Reading reported on Kaminsky's presentation. The flaw enables attackers to "exploit the DNS design to quickly guess the transaction ID of an address query and potentially re-route the user to an unexpected domain." Kaminsky noted the DNS flaw can affect any system that uses the Internet, including older applications such as FTP. "Back-end IT systems such as Telnet, SNMP, authentication servers (such as Radius), backup and restoral systems, and even service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments all use DNS, and could be subject to attack via the newly discovered flaw." read more »
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Port Knocking Security: How it Works, and Why You Should Use It.Open in New Window
Learn about the ins and outs of port knocking and how you can keep crackers from getting at your SOA components. read more »
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Analyst: Microsoft ‘tone deaf’ about SOAOpen in New Window
Joe McKendrick reports, "Ron Schmelzer has been studying Microsoft's SOA strategy, and has determined that the software giant doesn't quite get SOA yet. As he put it in a recent article at SearchSOA..." He continues to analyze other opinions in the blogosphere on Microsoft's failure to understand SOA. read more »
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The importance of SOA for business intelligenceOpen in New Window
"Business intelligence tools have become mission-critical and, as a result, there is growing demand for wider accessibility across the organization." read more »
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Outgoing Bill Gates says UML on tap in Oslo SOA modelerOpen in New Window
"Microsoft will use UML as part of its effort to create its Oslo unified modeling environment for SOA, Bill Gates told attendees at TechEd 2008 for Developers in Orlando, Fla." read more »
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