The SOA Maturity Model (SOAMM) is used by Microsoft to assess the state of SOA at a customer and provide a roadmap for getting in position to deliver the business agility promised by SOA. SOAMM is ...

Sonic Software, AmberPoint, BearingPoint and Systinet this week introduced a model intended to guide businesses that are evaluating service-oriented architecture. The SOA Maturity Model allows IT ...

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In the first part of this article, we provided an overview of the value BP will derive from a broad service-oriented architecture (SOA) program as well as the issues that exist today in realizing this ...

In about a week, three SOA vendors will be announcing the launch of something they call the "SOA Maturity Model," which embodies the five key phases of the SOA lifecycle, from initial projects to ...

This guest BriefingsDirect post comes courtesy of Heather Kreger, IBM’s lead architect for SOA Standards in the IBM Software Group. Architecture standards are especially valuable for creating a common ...

The business of running IT for major organizations has been moving in a maturity model direction for some time. ITIL, IT service management methods, various compliance measures, and the seemingly ...

As I have been doing client work recently I've come across the notion of "SOA Levels" more than once, as consulting and product organizations attempt to define the space for their customer and client ...

The Open Group, a consortium focused on standards and interoperability for enterprises, on Monday will announce the availability of what it describes as industry standards for the adoption of SOA and ...

SOA planning is committee work, and it often requires that IT architects meet to assess a steady stream of proposals for services to run on the corporate network. “In P&C, we have a high-level project ...