SOA is about obtaining better enterprise agility and....so is BPM... SOA is about interconnecting "stovepiped" applications and...so is BPM... SOA has business aspects and technological aspects and...so has BPM... Articles about SOA usually contain...

On 11/29, Microsoft announced continued innovation and momentum around the Web platform including more details about the next version of Silverlight, ASP.NET Extensions, and more. The purpose of this announcement is to clarify customer expectations about...

Demonstrating many of the UX principles highlighted in recent issues, this new reader is a locally installed application that enables you to take every issue of the Journal into a searchable, immersive, and easy-to-read experience. The application synchronizes...

The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of resources designed to help our customers quickly and consistently build WCF and ASMX Web services that adhere to well-known architecture...

On December 20 we will organize our next Architect Forum for the Belux region. Theme: Software + Services As today’s architect, you are confronted with exiting but equally challenging broad topics like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business...

Download Visual Studio 2008 Download the .NET Framework 3.5 Microsoft Delivers Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 to Developers REDMOND, Wash. – November 19, 2007 – The wait is over! Today, Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework...

Journal 13: Software + Services Foreword The Internet Service Bus Architecture Journal Profile: Ray Ozzie Project Astoria Implications of Software + Services Consumption for Enterprise IT Enterprise Mashups Microsoft Office as a Platform for Software...

Microsoft is announcing the availability this week of the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP. The PHP Driver delivers an API designed to enable reliable, scalable integration with SQL Server for PHP applications...

Microsoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline scenarios for applications, services and devices. Developers can build sync ecosystems that integrate any application, any type of data, using...

I’m pleased to announce the final release of the Microsoft Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Guidance for BizTalk Server 2006 R2! “The Microsoft ESB Guidance provides architectural guidance, patterns, practices, frameworks, reusable components and samples...

The case for specialized Software as a Service (SaaS) hosting can be easily rationalized by examining an incompatible pair of anecdotal fact and reality: · Fact : When we explore the expertise of software vendors today, we find that most of them will...

Another proof point for why the industry is converging to a world of both software and services: the BBC reports that the French security services have realized that if their high-level government officials use Blackberries, their email ends up in someone...