SOA News Desk

The ever-increasing movement towards implementing complex SOA-based applications has triggered a direct attention of leading industry researchers and practitioners to the subject of layering in such applications, in general, and the relationship between the fields of database engineering and SOA, in particular. Common notion of interoperability, loose-coupling between consumers and providers, and complexity-hiding, and demands for enabling extensive reuse of application services to address unforeseen business requirements for new user types, for new types of information and for new composite views has brought to the forefront the concept of Data Services Layer (DSL) as a distinct architectural layer. DSL is an essential part of an application architecture that combines data access functions and corresponding database structures and promises ensuring the next harvest... (more)

APCO Launches Member-to-Member Katrina Relief Website

The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International today launched the "Members  Helping Members" web forum to assist the public safety answering points (PSAPs) in the Gulf Coast region affected by Hurricane Katrina. "APCO members are all about helping," APCO International President Greg Ballentine said. "They do it every day in their working lives in communications centers and emergency response roles all around the country and the world." The APCO International "Members Helping Members" web forum is meant to serve as a way for APCO International membe... (more)

Salesforce.com Launches App Marketplace

On-demand software vendor Salesforce.com launched an application marketplace aimed at developing an ecosystem of third-party developers. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, making the announcement at the company's quarterly users' conference on Monday, said the goal was to create an array of applications similar to eBay's. Marc Benioff "The next level is not just building applications, but saving and sharing them," Benioff said. "This will help to break through the application backlog and create a greater critical mass."  The marketplace, called AppExchange, went live on Monday, see... (more)

IBM Embraces SOA / Web Services...In a Bear-Hug

IBM is embracing SOA...in a bear hug. In a teleconference today fronted by Steve Mills (pictured), Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Software Group and the General Manager of WebSphere, Robert LeBlanc, it was manifestly apparent that the company – which considers itself the world's leading provider of technologies that support Business Integration and Business Process Integration – is not looking over its shoulder, not at Oracle, SAP, BEA, Microsoft nor anyone else. And IBM Global Services turns out to be the secret ingredient of Blue's software portfolio... (more)

Salesforce.com CEO Benioff "Another Employee Memo"

salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is showing no early signs of backing off from the challenge of competing with Oracle head-to-head in the CRM marketplace. Benioff, a former Oracle executive, commented earlier in the week about the Oracle-Siebel acquisition. Here is his latest memo to employees on this topic: "Oracle's Lucky Seven CRM Applications - Which One Is For You? Or, perhaps, none at all? Now that Oracle has bought Siebel, Oracle now has seven different CRM offerings: 1. Oracle CRM On Premise 2. Oracle Sales On Line On Demand 3. Oracle JD Edwards Youcentric On Premise 4. Orac... (more)