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Cost-Benefit Analysis: Using SOA and Application Grid to both enhance performance and availability of customer facing applications and reduce mainframe usage charges

By david.chappell on July 24, 2009 10:12 AM

I have been working with Carl Dumont, the CTO of Wellpoint, for some time now on integrating Application Grid into Wellpoint’s SOA projects. Next week, at Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference in San Diego, I will co-present with Carl on two exciting projects that both involve using Oracle Application Grid in a SOA environment to cache results from service calls to dramatically reduce load on backend systems.

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Techtarget Survey: SOA Still on the Rise

By david.chappell on March 23, 2009 10:00 AM

Among the survey respondents, 49% said their organization has one or more SOA projects under way, and 60% characterize their current or future SOA projects as enterprise level as opposed to departmental/divisional level (21%), or single, isolated projects (19%).

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