Rajiv Gupta

As the name suggests, a Service Oriented Architecture is one where application functionality is packaged as autonomous services that adhere to industry standard interfaces (WSDL, SOAP), and the services are then deployed in an IT architecture that makes for their most effective u... (more)

The concept of Web services has seen more than its fair share of media coverage over the last year. And so has the concept of service-oriented architectures, which is the use of Web services to define a model of loose coupling between applications. But the industry buzz regarding... (more)

Ever since batch computing and keypunch cards, IT has been obliged to become increasingly responsive to the enterprise and faster at adapting technology to meet business needs. Right now businesses' upcoming need is for e-services, because IT's core competency is becoming the man... (more)