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Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA – Customer Perspectives on Evaluating Complexity and Business Value by Oracle Corporation
With this white paper, Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA, you'll get a healthy perspective on SOA and figure out which option is best for your organization.

Implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) in your business comes with plenty of benefits, such as lower costs...

SOA Maturity Model: Guiding and Accelerating SOA Success by Oracle Corporation
This paper outlines the Oracle SOA Maturity Model and explains how the model is used to accelerate SOA adoption by identifying specific capabilities that are either completely lacking or which are lagging with respect to the other capabilities necessary for...
Own your process, own your information, own your business with SOA by IBM
management, information management and SOA governance across the enterprise is critical to SOA success. It also presents real-world examples of IBM customers that have done so and are now reaping the benefits of SOA, including service reuse, business agility and business...
Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives by Oracle Corporation
successful service-oriented architecture (SOA) transformations and what you need to do to make yours one of them.

Whether your organization’s service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 50 services being used by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need SOA...

Quick Start Guide – Oracle SOA Suite 11g by Oracle Corporation
this white paper, Quick Start Guide for Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1, for an extensive look at how you can properly implement an Oracle service-oriented architecture (SOA) at your organization.

If you've decided to implement Oracle's service-oriented architecture (SOA), you're off to a good...

Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Architects by Oracle Corporation
s service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 50 services being used by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need SOA governance; increased business agility depends on it.

Whether your organization's service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 50 services...

SOA Strategy: A Comprehensive Yet Flexible Suite for a Pervasive Architecture by Oracle Corporation
looks at some of the advantages of implementing SOA with a suite strategy, and specifically focuses on the Oracle SOA Suite of products. Then by briefly highlighting the experiences of a major SOA installation, shows how the suite strategy paid off for one global customer.

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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...

Right from the Start: SOA Lifecycle Governance by Oracle Corporation
the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA. In particular, it explores the role of governance throughout the SOA lifecycle as well as the technology enablers that help organizations develop and maintain an SOA that delivers measurable, sustainable business value.

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Right from the Start: SOA Lifecycle Governance by Oracle Corporation
the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA. In particular, it explores the role of governance throughout the SOA lifecycle as well as the technology enablers that help organizations develop and maintain an SOA that delivers measurable, sustainable business value...
SOA Governance - Framework and Best Practices by Oracle Corporation
system of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance can make a difference during implementation.

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) will make things possible for your business. Things like improved performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.  Important...

SCA: Bringing Modern SOA Programming to Tuxedo by Oracle Corporation
customers to quickly develop and compose SOA-based applications.

Oracle Tuxedo is one of the original service-oriented architecture (SOA) platforms with a simple programming model that lends itself to rapid development and easy reuse of services. By combining Tuxedo’s...

eBook: 100 SOA Questions by IBM
This book serves as an exhaustive guide to the SOA implementation journey, providing answers to 100 questions on topics ranging from the basics to highly specific areas like governance and information management.

An excerpt from the recently published 100 SOA Questions...

Right from the Start: SOA Lifecycle Governance by Oracle Corporation
the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA.

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) promise unlimited agility and organizational flexibility. However, achieving these benefits is entirely contingent upon the ability to effectively manage the SOA environment across...

Tuxedo in a SOA World: An Oracle White Paper by Oracle Corporation
Oracle Tuxedo is one of the original SOA platforms. Tuxedo services are location and implementation independent, adhere to a contract, and are interoperable with other Tuxedo services and other service oriented platforms.  Read this paper for more information about...
Oracle IT Modernization: The Path to SOA by Oracle Corporation
More and more organizations are looking to SOA as the basis of their future computer architecture. Recognizing that legacy application design and implementation approaches have led to applications that are costly to operate, hard to change, organizations are hoping that...
Seven Steps to Successful SOA Governance by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
SOA governance is the framework that enables, measures, defines and enforces the rules for communication, collaboration and control across the enterprise and among IT and business decision-makers. This paper provides seven key...
Top Reasons to Implement an SOA Governance Strategy: A List for IT Executives by Oracle Corporation
of service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance and discover a strategy that works for you.

For businesses seeking to increase flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency, a service-oriented architecture (SOA) could be the solution. It has the power to make your...

3 Things Business Decision Makers Need To Know About SOA by IFS
know about service-oriented architecture (SOA) in order to be sure you are getting the most efficient and effective performance out of your enterprise application architecture.

Evaluating the effectiveness of your service-oriented (SOA) in your enterprise applications...

Five Ways SOA Can Help Your Company Deploy More Agile & Adaptable Business Applications by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
a service-oriented architecture (SOA), particurally if your business id commited to increasing agility.

Service-oriencted architecture (SOA) can enhance integration across the organization and provide a consistent framework for creating, managing, rolling out...

SOA & Cloud: Successful Strategies from Early Adopters (mp3) by Oracle Corporation
integrate service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the cloud while lowering costs, increasing visibility, and improving business efficiency.

Rapid adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) for the cloud was a hot topic at a recent worldwide conference.  The steps an...

SOA & Cloud: Successful Strategies from Early Adopters (mp3) by Oracle Corporation
This podcast outlines the best way to integrate SOA and the cloud while lowering costs, increasing visibility, and improving business efficiency.

Rapid adoption of SOA for the cloud was a hot topic at a recent worldwide conference.  The steps an organization should take before...

Application Upgrades and Service Oriented Architecture by Oracle Corporation
Read this whitepaper to understand why and how SOA-enablement will reduce cost and risk of Application upgrades for your organization.

In a recent Forrester study, upgrades made the top concerns list of ERP customers together with Improving Integrations and Shifting the...

SOA Articles

Mirroring a growing need for enterprises to integrate BPM into SOA implementations, the Eclipse Foundation will add BPM to the list of tools in its evolving open source SOA platform. In April, Eclipse launched a new working group charged with... More...

May 24, 2010
Briefly, DataXtend allows you to import definitions for a common model, create the relevant mappings, govern the use of a common data model in SOA, and manage change."

The Progress product provides the kind of agility for managing data that SOA provides for business applications, said Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with... More...

Mar 5, 2008
SOA News
SOA and cloud computing are joined at the hip, and the best practices of one are the same that should be applied to the other. That's the point raised by David... More...
Oct 13, 2010
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology in Oracle Fusion middleware products was the focus of CEO Larry Ellison's keynote at Oracle OpenWorld on Wednesday. He stressed that Fusion... More...
Nov 15, 2007
CEP) arena, today announced new versions of their CEP platforms. Some analysts consider CEP to be a key feature in service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications, especially in the financial and telecommunications industries... More...
Jun 18, 2007
For every successful implementation of service-oriented architecture (SOA), there seem to be 10 that fail, estimates Clive Longbottom, head of research, at Quocirca, the business and IT analyst firm. Lack of knowledge about the basics of... More...
Jun 13, 2007
Layer 7 Technologies Inc., a provider of XML security and networking for service-oriented architecture (SOA), today announced general availability of its SecureSpan Custom Policy Assertion SDK (software development kit). The kit is designed for developers... More...
May 22, 2007
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
Deterministic Garbage Collection: Unleash the Power of Java with Oracle JRockit Real Time by Oracle Corporation
This free white paper demonstrates how Java can be successfully deployed for real-time applications that were previously off-limits.

This free white paper details key steps for achieving a...

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