Ask an IT executive to define service-oriented architecture (SOA), and there’s a good chance you’ll get at least some kind of a reasonable answer. Ask that executive’s functional peers the same ...

Any company will face up-front costs associated with implementing SOA, but many IT experts say it can lower expenses in the long run. You can’t look at SOA in terms of short-term return on investment, ...

Vitria Technology and CA today are releasing service-oriented architecture software products aimed at letting customers more easily monitor and fix problems that occur in an SOA environment. Vitria ...