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Enterprise Architecture Framework and Tools

In this section, you will find information supporting enterprise architecture framework, tools and technologies, vendor selection criteria, system integrators and strategic consulting vendors. Key focus areas are given below. More articles will be coming soon. Please check back.

  • SOA
  • ERP
  • MDM
  • Database
  • Middleware
  • Infrastructure
  • Storage
  • Security
  • Network
  • Operating system
  • Opensource
  • Analytics
 

Service Oriented Architecture

Service Oriented Architecture or SOA is an application architecture, in which application components or "services" are defined using common interfaces utilizing a set of common protocols and tools to define how services will be invoked, and interact in a loosely coupled manner

  • SOA is evolution from component based architecture, object oriented model and distributed systems (DCOM, CORBA, J2EE etc)
  • SOA is not ESB but ESB is a component to enable SOA
  • SOA is not a Web Service, but SOA enables Web Services
  • SOA is the next evolutionary step in computing world
  • SOA is yet to have a standard reference model
  • SOA is still progressing towards maturity