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SOA Architecture & Infrastructure: Working with basic building blocks of SOA infrastructure by Talend
This E-book reveals how building a SOA infrastructure for the cloud requires a truly service-oriented approach and a thorough understanding of the value of services

Today's SOA infrastructure elements include the application server, messaging middleware, the...
BPM and SOA: A Strategic Alliance by Wipro Technologies
describes the concept of combining BPM and SOA to create greater business agility. It details the disadvantages of BPM and SOA in silos and lists the advantages of using BPM and SOA together. Many organizations do not recognize the power behind the combination of SOA and BPM...
SOA Reference Architecture by ComputerWeekly.com

 

 

A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) facilitates the creation of flexible, re-usable assets for enabling end-to-end business solutions. Increasingly, companies are adopting the principles and techniques associated with SOA for different types of projects in...
SOA - What’s New in Oracle SOA Suite 11g? by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
implement Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) have become more and more capable, sometimes at the price of complexity. Oracle has always put the emphasis on the integration of the tools and simplification of the user experience...

Over the years, tools used to implement Service...
SOA Best Practices: The BPEL Cookbook by Oracle Corporation
Execution Language (BPEL) Cookbook highlights SOA best practices and challenges, detailing the importance of BPEL and other standards-based technologies in accelerating the adoption of an SOA. As the popularity of SOAs continues to grow, the need for standards-based...
Smart SOA: Best Practices for Agile Innovation and Optimization by IBM Software Group
This white paper outlines IBM's approach to SOA, garnered from best practices and lessons learned from experiences with clients to help extend the value of SOA deployments in a set of guiding principles. SOA enables you to integrate your business as linked, repeatable...
Optimizing the Business Outcomes of SOA by Hewlett-Packard Company
steps of the long journey to companywide SOA enablement. The service-oriented approach delivers IT systems as a set of reusable services that are assembled to create a composite application that automates a business process. This "assembly approach" accelerates...
What's New in SOA Platform 5.0 by Red Hat
Hat recently released its new JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform v5. This release adds significant new capabilities improving developer and deployment productivity in JBoss Developer Studio v3, as well as new monitoring capabilities. Learn about the new capabilities of SOA...
IT Strategies from Oracle – Oracle’s Approach to SOA by Oracle Corporation
Software-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption is complex and successful strategies based on a maturity model and lessons learned provide an excellent pathway for your roadmap. This data sheet provides an executive overview of Oracle's proven approach to SOA.

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ESB & SOA Infrastructure by FuseSource
ESBs) to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the enterprise? Will new efforts to understand ESBs pay off in the long-term? This e-book provides valuable insight on the role of ESBs in application integration and the modern enterprise.

While some industry experts claim...
Intelligent Service Automation Working with Service Oriented Architecture by UC4 Software, Inc
move to a service oriented architecture (SOA). Read this white paper to learn how to ease the SOA transition with technology that enables the inclusion of background processing.

Most organizations rely heavily on background (batch) processing to support their existing...
Common Models in SOA: Tackling the Data Integration Problem by Progress Software
To see how a common model can simplify SOA development, let's examine the standards at the foundation of SOA and ESB to understand what they include and... Mainframes, client-server and now SOA continue a trend in computer architecture - over time systems are being designed...
SOA Governance: An IBM White Paper by IBM
As SOA becomes a new way of implementing applications, organizations need a way to manage the assets (especially reusable services) developed as part of their SOA activities, to permit the use of these assets to be maximized and insure...
Rapid, Cost-Effective Deployment of Data Services in a Service-Oriented Architecture by Red Hat
cost, and agility. But many companies still face SOA-related challenges. Read this paper to uncover the most common challenges faced by companies seeking to embrace SOA and learn about a metadata-driven, model-based approach to overcoming them.

IT organizations are eager to reap...
SOA Best Practice Report - Governance Led Practices to Deliver Effective Semantic Integration by Progress Software
Poor quality data can spell disaster for SOA or BPM initiatives. Enterprise-wide data initiatives cross many boundaries, both technical and departmental, and are often high risk. This paper describes how a governance led approach can progressively deliver semantic...
Benefits and methods of implementing BPM on System z by IBM
This white paper is intended to inform the reader of what business process management (BPM) is about, the benefits that can be obtained from its implementation, how to place BPM into operation and why IBM WebSphere® Process Server should be deployed on...
Solution Spotlight: Maja Tibbling on New Application Integration Trends by IBM
prominent service-oriented architecture (SOA) thought leader Maja Tibbling on the top concerns today's organizations face when it comes to application integration.

Application integration best practices and technologies continue to evolve as today’s organizations...
The Need for SOA to Achieve Flexibility and Agility within Plant Operations by Apriso Corporation
to rapidly changing business conditions. SOA creates the flexibility to adapt information technology (IT) rapidly in the face of constantly changing market conditions. Systems built according to SOA principles are less expensive to maintain and adapt over the long run...
A 15-minute Guide to Service-Oriented Architecture and ECM by EMC Corporation
SOA defines a type of architecture for building business applications as a set of loosely coupled components or "services" that are linked together via business processes. SOA defines a type of architecture for building...
Intel® SOA Expressway Performance Comparison to IBM* DataPower XI50 by Intel
Intel® SOA Expressway (SOAE) provides superior performance for service mediation and governance use cases outpacing IBM® DataPower in a direct "apples-to-apples" comparison by 1.5X to 8X at half the cost. This paper presents benchmark test...
eGuide: Essential playbook for SOA governance by IBM

As with the service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects of yesterday, governance is crucial for mitigating the challenges of cloud integration. However, there are a few ways that best practices for cloud governance and SOA governance differ.

Check out this e-guide to explore...
SOA and BPM: Aligning Business Needs with Your Architecture by SoftwareAG Inc., USA
document presents best practices in composing SOA-enabled business processes and a case study of how to create a configurable business architecture. This document presents best practices in composing SOA-enabled business processes and a case study of how to create a...
Discover, Interact, and Optimize for Smarter Healthcare with BPM Powered by Smart SOA by IBM
by smart service-oriented architecture (SOA), can make critical information available in a fast, consistent way which improves the quality of health care organizations.

As health care challenges mount, organizations are looking to IT to help increase care quality despite...
The Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM) Version 2 by ComputerWeekly.com
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that supports service orientation. A service is a business task with an externalized service description that often represents a contract between a provider and a consumer.

 

As organizations adopt...
SOA Articles

Building a consistent architecture for data is what MDM is about. When SOA is involved, that means building a consistent approach to encapsulating and delivering data as services.

Observers suggest that some SOA projects that have taken on MDM have... More...

Aug 26, 2009
The Rolta SOA Center of Excellence has rolled out the iPerspective tools sets for governance and management of services. The software is delivered as part of Rolta's SOA solutions.

The new tools... More...

May 27, 2009
SOA News
SOA Software Inc. announced it has joined Microsoft's Business Process Alliance. As part of the partnership, SOA Software's Workbench and Service Manager... More...
Dec 4, 2007
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the only way for Comcast Corp. to integrate legacy systems to provide its 20 million subscribers with new services, Andy Baer, CIO of the cable company, told... More...
Sep 13, 2007
Open source software, considered a major driver in adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) has now reached the point where it is a viable option for enterprise deployments, said Matt Szulik, CEO Red Hat Inc. Open source now gives the enterprise wide... More...
May 23, 2007
Sun Microsystems Inc. has released a Fortress interpreter. Fortress is a replacement for Fortran, and may offer another option for programmers working on SOA projects... More...
Jan 16, 2007
Joe McKendrick ponders what's happening in cases where a company is increasing the annual budget for integration, but no SOA projects or even pilots are emerging to take advantage of it... More...
Aug 10, 2006
Expert SOA Advice
The trick to SOA governance enforcement By Todd Biske
How can an enterprise architect enforce SOA governance without becoming the bad guy? The fear is that one can be seen as uncooperative and counterproductive if one... More...
Nov 22, 2010
When should you consider SOA governance tools? By Todd Biske
When should a company invest in a dedicated SOA governance tool, and when can an Enterprise Architect achieve good governance without additional investment?

The... More...

May 5, 2010
Can enterprise mashups leverage my firm's existing RSS assets? By Michael Ogrinz
tools let you take RSS feeds and output custom APIs against them. That's right—you can create a SOAP API that lets you query a feed as if it was a read-only data store. Or maybe you'd prefer a REST API that returns JSON.

RSS is essentially "SOA-light" in many organizations. What it lacks in rich functionality it makes up for in its ubiquity. At its core it's a simple... More...

Mar 18, 2010
Featured SOA Tips
Facing up to common architect-developer communications conundrums By Jack Vaughan
Among the host of new challenges facing SOA and other development efforts are some that are, well, traditional. A prime example is the familiar communications gap More...
Nov 16, 2010
Interview: Anne Thomas Manes outlines challenges to successful SOA By Alan Earls
Like the legendary comic, Rodney Dangerfield, 'SOA doesn't get any respect.' Burton Group have been leading an effort to rehabilitate SOA, most recently with a report on The More...
Nov 12, 2010
A view on W3C security standards for Web services By James Denman
across different corporate firewalls.

OASIS and W3C are the two major organizations most active in Web services and SOA security standards and protocols. These two organizations have a similar approach to Web services security, but there More...
Nov 11, 2010
Java White Papers
Integrating Java EE applications and C-based implementations in WebSphere Application Server by IBM
key tips on how to successfully integrate Java-based applications deployed on WebSphere Application Server with C-based implementations by leveraging Java Native Interfaces (JNI). Discover the...
SOA Definitions
cloud computing
and how the concept moves beyond what has been traditionally identified as grid computing. Grid applications and SOA infrastructures This expert answer details how the on-demand concept of grid computing dovetails with the creation of a service-oriented... More...
Dec 28, 2007