Research & Analysis
Get in-depth analysis and research to support your SOA and IT governance and quality efforts, with this complimentary research offered for the LISA community.
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NEW: ZapThink Whitepaper: "SOA Quality Across the Service Lifecycle" As organizations move beyond straighforward implementations of Web Services to the more complex world of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), maintaining the quality of the implementation in the face of changing business requirements becomes an increasingly difficult challenge. In the final analysis, quality represents how well a system meets the needs of the business, so when the business case for SOA calls for business agility, SOA quality means meeting business requirements as those requirements are in an ongoing, continual state of change. |
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Zapthink Zapnotetm iTKO Ensuring Continuous SOA Quality Quality means far more than simply reducing defects. Fundamentally, quality means building something that meets the requirements of its users, now and into the future. However, requirements continue to evolve, both during projects as well as once the projects are complete. |
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Aberdeen: SOA and Web Services Testing: How Different Can It Be? iTKO, Inc., a leading provider of testing solutions for integration and SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) software, today announced the availability of a co-sponsored Aberdeen Group Research report titled, "SOA and Web Services Testing: How Different Can It Be?" The research notes that it is necessary for companies who implement a Service Oriented Architecture to take a much more advanced approach to their testing and quality assurance strategy. |
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Aberdeen: "The Composite Applications Benchmark Report - How SOA Standards are Accelerating Business Change" January 2007 Application integration is a major IT headache and takes up about 40% of the typical IT budget, according to recent Aberdeen research. A typical enterprise's business processes are found in multiple IT applications, and the service-oriented architecture (SOA), which can encompass web services as well as the integration, business logic, and legacy technologies behind it, is seen as the technological means to solving the application integration problem. |
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The Aberdeen Group SOA Governance Report: Planning for an Optimized SOA Application Lifecycle  How are the Best in Class companies driving down IT maintenance and development costs, increasing reuse and getting better results? Measure your own SOA progress against the market with this fresh and insightful fact-based research from Aberdeen Group. A $399 value, with complimentary download sponsored by iTKO. |