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IBM Rational, SOA development and all that Jazz

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is changing the way developers work and IBM Rational is responding with an attempt to bring the collaborative community approach of open source to the development of commercial tools through its Jazz project.

"Jazz is an open commercial community," said Dave Locke, director for IBM Rational worldwide marketing strategy, in an interview on the eve of the opening of this week's IBM Rational Software Development Conference in Orland, Fla. The expanding role of the Jazz community in the creation of tools for SOA development is being highlighted at the conference. Jazz is IBM Rational response to the way SOA, which is a collaborative approach itself, is changing the software world, according to Locke.

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What does service-oriented architecture (SOA) mean to business people with little knowledge or interest in the technological side of Web services? Michael Liebow, who heads IBM’s Business Consulting Services for SOA, discusses the good, the bad and the hopeful.

IBM's Michael Liebow answers the following questions:
(1) What's happening in terms of the business side of enterprises adopting SOA?
(2) What's Missing?
(3) But some organizations are moving forward with incremental SOA?
(4) Has IBM worked up a unified SOA story for business people that makes sense to them?
(5) From the business perspective is it always mostly going to be about ROI, so you don't need to talk about the specific technology?
(6) Struggling how?
(7) Speaking over governance, what are you saying to people in terms of SOA governance?


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Case Study: Composite Applications at Safeco

Safeco is an Insurance company, headquartered in Seattle which provides auto, homeowners and small-business policies. In early 2006, Safeco initiated the development of a Service Oriented Architecture to support the business in two strategic areas: new product development and business process improvements. The development team at Safeco got together to write a case study about their experiences applying SOA and how they used enabling technologies SCA, BPEL, and composite application approaches to reuse legacy code, enable runtime modifiability thanks to decoupling, Java and .NET interoperability, and the ability to deliver a complex solution integrating over 5 systems in less than 8 weeks with a small team.

http://www.infoq.com/articles/soa-at-safeco