MIT's Ross says without targeting quick IT results, architects produce large-scale but largely unhelpful business capabilities.

A review of old apps may lead you to Tolerate, Invest, Migrate or Eliminate them. How do you decide? A Gartner analyst gives some guides.

As application development has pushed past Web applications and into PaaS development, various Web-oriented development languages have taken the fore.

Today's mobile application development landscape is marked by explosive growth in the variety of devices available to end users and in those users' expectations.

Gartner's Pezzini sees good uses of the iPaaS, or integration Platform as a Service. Users say data and security issues may be obstacles.

The Open Group has paired with the SABSA Institute to create a new business view on security for enterprise architects.

Architecture changes today center on design of the API, says Gartner. The API increasingly supports REST interfaces.

SOA design underpins a business rules-based benefits management system that connects with legacy back-ends.

The golden age of geek movies will continue in 2012 with films like "The Avengers," "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "Men in Black III."

As we move from 2011 into 2012, Todd Biske predicts the next big thing in enterprise architecture -- Event processing.

As we reflect on the top news in ESBs from 2011, we see that the ESB is not solely associated with SOA, but with EAI designs as well.

SaaS provider OmegaFi has found a way to provide simpler information management. Their system includes a SOA appliance that provides security and federation.

Application infrastructure must change to support varied clients and an abundance of programmable Web interfaces, said SOA notable Anne Manes.

OAuth (Open Authorization) allows Web application users to move from site to site without an additional login. It has gained exceptional attention of late in the world of services and security.

Taking legacy applications off the mainframe and updating them with Java or .NET is a tempting idea, but the process may not be as easy as it seems.

Learn about the best practices that simplify the process of maintaining legacy applications and make legacy migration less costly.

You may or may not change languages. You may or may not change platforms. The routes to modernization are various as discussed in this Q&A.

Monolithic applications can provide huge throughput, but they may be too tightly coupled with mainframe hardware for iterative modernization projects.

Consistent vocabulary and view of the business can work wonders. Business architecture is discussed as road to app transformation in this Q&A.

Open-source project jclouds found a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that fit its unique needs in CloudBees.