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(8/9/2007) Service-oriented architecture (SOA) may be the hot button of the moment in enterprise application development, but at the Ontario government, it's really nothing new. "For us, SOA is more a re-branding of an approach we've had in play since about 1999," says Ron Huxter, chief technology officer. "We referred to it then as a common components approach." | (8/8/2007) Much homework and hard footwork is needed to drive a compelling case for a SOA project. At SIMS (a shared information management services provider), the strategy is to start with a universal service that's required across all departments or agencies. A project like linking IDs, for example, aligns with the province's broader business objectives to improve services. | (8/7/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (8/7/2007) Service-oriented architecture or SOA is an architecture style, not a product or a project. It's an improvement over past architectures in that it captures and uses the best practices of the architectures that came before it. As such, SOA is an evolution in architecture, not a revolution. | (8/7/2007) U.K. Members of Parliament have called on the government to speed up its efforts to promote data sharing between government departments and local authorities to boost the uptake of council tax benefits. The MPs acknowledged concerns over privacy, but noted witnesses' evidence that the public may not share the same fears about data protection. | (8/6/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (8/3/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (8/3/2007) The federal government supports SOA development across the public sector and has posted two documents outlining SOA strategy and a series primer. Gary Doucet, executive director of architecture for the CIO branch of Treasury Board Secretariat, says the concepts of SOA and service orientation overlap. | (8/3/2007) Tucked into an affidavit filed by an FBI agent last month was the first hard evidence that federal agents are equipped with more than automatic pistols and handcuffs: The agency was asking a federal judge to let it infect a PC with spyware so they could finger its owner. | (8/3/2007) Tucked into an affidavit filed by an FBI agent last month was the first hard evidence that federal agents are equipped with more than automatic pistols and handcuffs: The agency was asking a federal judge to let it infect a PC with spyware so they could finger its owner. |
  | |  | | Blog Spotlight: Sandford Borins |  | As Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, Sandford Borins brings InterGovWorld.com readers exclusive insights into how and why the public sector is changing. You'll find new perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers. Cover to Cover, the blog by Prof. Sandford Borins, appears every Thursday. Inside Cover to Cover | |
| | | Unified Communications |  | Unity is a word often heard in the public sector, with myriad agencies and departments looking to foster collective thinking around some of today's most pressing issues. The word, however, doesn't usually get mentioned in the same breath as technology. That's a situation, though, that might soon be changing, thanks to a new software platform known as unified communications.
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