Let’s say that your business has been successfully transacting business online for a number of years; you deliver great information about your product, people like your product, and customers use your Web site to purchase your product. You’re taking advantage of innovative online marketing strategies and you’re seeing a nice rise traffic, clicks and consumption.… Continue reading →

When focusing or comparing SOA versus API approaches, it’s easy to take shortcuts and thus not considering the whole scope. This inevitably brings the reflexion to a partial, if not wrong result. Across its blog and a SOA versus API trilogy, SOA software provides you with a realistic view of this exciting topic. Feel free… Continue reading →

The proliferation of APIs is a sign of the tech times, with many companies just starting to understand their power in the wake of both the social media explosion and the inroads that mobile marketing are making into the consumer sphere. For the business person who’s just coming onto this burgeoning scene, it’s certainly not… Continue reading →

The better part of my May and June was spent travelling to industry conferences and meeting some incredibly smart customers, partner, and analysts at #gartnerAADI, #gartnerEA, #gluecon, #RedHatSummit and #CloudExpo, and the primary topic was cloud computing. I heard so much about cost savings, ease of implementation, improving agility and all the other aspects of… Continue reading →

The concept of a services-oriented architecture has been around for more than a decade, and it’s now so entrenched in our vernacular that it’s almost short-hand for what constitutes a smart enterprise environment. Over the past few years, however, “the Cloud” has gotten a lot of attention as a platform, and in some corners, there… Continue reading →

By now, unless you’ve been on an extended vacation in a remote, unwired, non-connected country (actually sounds kind of nice) you’ve heard the promises around cloud computing: lower costs, eradicate daily management, massively reduced overhead, your health will improve, you’ll be better-looking and life will generally be better. So, maybe cloud doesn’t truly deliver on… Continue reading →

If you’ve been in tech for any length of time, chances are you’ve worked for IBM, worked for a company that was acquired by IBM, or your job is predicated upon successfully using IBM products. No matter how IBM has been a part of what you do, there aren’t many who can deny the incredible… Continue reading →

When creating an SOA-based architecture, it’s nearly impossible to anticipate all the potential needs a customer might have. There are so many aspects to this type of framework, and when implementing it, one needs to consider an entire range of elements: security, policy management, proxy validation, pattern definition and others. Naturally, as providers of SOA… Continue reading →

With the release of Atmosphere, SOA Software is now in the API business. With this blog, I’ll cover issues that go along with API management, such as security, mobile strategies, virtualization, policies, and the state of the API market. But first, let’s talk about the elephant in the room. We acknowledge that not everyone will… Continue reading →