Service-Oriented Architecture

Companies are now crawling with Apple sales representatives — not paid representatives, but end-users.

Chief Infrastructure, Integration, Innovation or Intelligence Officer? CIOs now wear many hats.

‘More and more and more businesses will be going public and profiting on the creative leadership of innovative developers.’

Should IT departments attempt to inject themselves into the do-it-yourself app phenomenon? Dave Blazek takes a humorous perspective on this question.

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In today’s tech scene, matching professionals to job openings may be more of a mating dance than a business transaction.

Integration market to keep growing at 5% annual rate, fueled by cloud, virtualization, and government IT streamlining.

Most app developers make less than $5,000 in revenues from their apps. This can go up, if they look at the lessons already learned by generations of software publishers.

Soon, any and all forms of computing will be taking advantage of a mix of network and local resources. Why bother to call it anything but ‘computing’?

Two IT executive surveys find a bullish attitude toward IT operations and corporate growth.

‘The minute you tell a businessperson that they own a service, it suddenly gets better’

Steve Jobs once threw rocks at IBM. Now, Big Blue treats him like a rock star.

Geek & Poke’s Oliver Widder points to the challenges of presenting IT or enterprise architecture as simply and plainly as possible to the business side.

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Driven by cloud computing, finance and IT departments are now set on an unprecedented ‘course of collaboration.’ What does this mean for CIOs?

AmazonSupply has an advantage over B2B e-commerce competitors because it is an SOA-enabled platform-based model, ‘with interoperability at the very core of the DNA.’

APIs range from ‘the well-formed and functional to the fiendishly complex and arcane.’ Be prepared for the latter.