BPM & SOA

How does Business Process Management relate to Service Oriented Architecture? I'd suggest the following article for a good overview of this discussion. http://www.cio.com/article/print/106609 Once again, let me know what you thought of the article. Thanks.

An Introduction to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

What to read an excellant 6-page overview of SOA? Take a look at http://www.cio.com/article/40941/ABC_An_Introduction_to_Service_oriented_Architecture_SOA. Let me know what you think?

IBM Announces 8 New Industry-Specific SOA Roadmaps

Java Developer's Journal interveiwed Sandy Carter, who is responsible for IBM's cross-company, worldwide SOA marketing initiatives, after the IMPACT 2007 Conference in Orlando. In this article she discusses six new SOA professional services that are focused on SOA Diagnostic, SOA Strategy, SOA Implementation Planning, Business Process Management Enabled by SOA, SOA Design Development and Integration, and SOA Management. For more go to: http://soa.sys-con.com/read/400082.htm

SOA without Web Services

It seems that you can build an SOA event-driven system on Java Message Services and Enterprise Java Beans-based services without a Web Service. For more go to: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=904

New Life for Main Frames / Don't Deep Six Them Yet!

Many companies are deciding to "Modernize" their Main Frames rather than replace them. Not everything old is useless! for more, read: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=907

70 Million Blogs with 120,000 New Blogs per day

"In April the blog search engine Technorati reported that it was tracking 70 million blogs, with 120,000 new ones arriving every day." Read more on:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133119/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws

SOA On-Demand Becoming a Reality

If you've kept up with SaaS and SOA you know that Salesforce.com does an on-demand SOA solution. Apex is its on-demand development and deployment platform, including a complete development environment, programming language, database, and now the ability to create, expose, and consume Web Services. To Read More go to:
http://soa.sys-con.com/read/393664.htm