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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...
eGuide: SOA Implementation by Oracle Corporation
Service-Oriented architecture (SOA) allows organizations to quickly and efficiently respond to changes in the business environment and to leverage such change for competitive advantage. This e-guide features expert insight into the key areas critical to the...
BPM and SOA Require Robust and Scalable Information Systems by IBM
of the principles for the convergence of BPM and SOA from an information system perspective. The primary audiences are IT leaders and architects that need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and SOA in support of business integrity and operational excellence.

In today...
SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Key to Successful Service Oriented Architecture Implementation by Oracle Corporation
of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) relies on a careful and holistic approach to business planning. One of the most important tools in the evaluation, purchase, and ongoing use of SOA is this body of best practices that vendors, consultants, and customers have...
What's New in SOA Platform 5.0 by JBoss, a Division of 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...
Right from the Start: SOA Lifestyle 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...
Achieving Business Agility with BPM and SOA Together: Smart Work in the Smart Enterprise by IBM
the principles for the convergence of BPM and SOA from a business perspective. The primary audiences are leaders and architects that need to understand how to effectively combine BPM and SOA as a key differentiator for successful enterprises in their drive toward business...
Tuxedo in a SOA World 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...
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...
Unlocking the Mainframe: Modernizing Legacy System to SOA by Oracle Corporation
Successful execution of an SOA strategy, combined with the release of the business value contained in legacy systems, can bring five proven benefits to the enterprise. Functioning as both a software development environment and a delivery framework, SOA...
Enterprise Data Services in SOA using ODI Suite by Oracle Corporation
are a foundation requirement for enterprise SOA deployments by describing just how valuable, and complex, business data is for the businesses that rely on it.

This whitepaper will demonstrate why Data Services are a foundation requirement for enterprise SOA deployments by...
E-Guide: Data Integration by Oracle Corporation
overview of the role of data integration in SOA development. It discusses the prominent function of data services platforms (DSPs) in an SOA initiative and offers insight into the seven levels of loose coupling that architects should consider when developing this...
How to Accelerate your SOA with Real-time Data Integration by Oracle Corporation
How can real-time data integration accelerate SOA projects? This webcast demonstrates that by leveraging best practices in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in combination with a comprehensive data integration approach, companies can lower costs through consolidation...
What's New in SOA Suite 11g? by Oracle Corporation
In this new release of SOA Suite, Oracle continues to emphasize the development, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission-critical environments. Over...
Oracle SOA Suite 11g by Oracle Corporation
In this new release of SOA Suite (11g), Oracle continues to emphasize on simplification of the development, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission...
Smart SOA: Responding to the New Normal - Real life case study by Ultramatics, Inc.
how Ultramatics was engaged to provide a robust SOA Strategy to deliver high impact, highly reusable Web Services for external and internal consumers.

View this videocast to learn about a case study of a healthcare company whose current technology could not keep pace with their...
Sun GlassFish ESB, The Lightweight Enterprise Service Bus by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has evolved from this requirement to facilitate application, services, and data reuse by making them interoperable and widely available. An enterprise service bus (ESB) forms the backbone of SOA deployments and is the efficient...
Data Grids & SOA by Oracle Corporation
weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies. Discover why the data grid offers improved data access that can create a competitive edge, improve financial performance, and sustain customer loyalty. This white paper demonstrates that a data grid...
SOA Solutions in the Cloud: Delivering IT and Business value using SOASafeguard.com by Ultramatics, Inc.
businesses the ability to deliver integrated SOA solutions faster, with reduced deployment risk, and greater cost efficiency.

In any progressive systems environment that enables extensive online communication with external contacts, the tradeoff is increased security...
The Evolving Role of the Business Analyst by IBM
advent of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the business analyst now has to think about issues such as IT services and how to define business logic as rules for easier and faster change cycles. Thus, a new position called the business rules analyst has emerged. This article...
Maintaining Control & Compliance in the Cloud with Data-Centric Security by SafeNet, Inc.
costs, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Virtualization are leading IT to the new outsourced computing model known as Cloud. This session will provide details on the impact of Cloud on information security and the data-centric solutions for specific use-cases.

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A Revolution in Agility: Business Integration Through Service Oriented Architecture by Oracle Corporation
The solution is building business based on SOA principles.

In today's rapidly changing business environment, organizations of all types face one common and persistent challenge: how to become—and remain—agile enough to satisfy ever-increasing customer...
Learning from BPM Leaders: Benefits, Prerequisites and the Impact of Successful BPM Initiatives by SAP America, Inc.
The experiences of BPM leaders have created, for CIOs just beginning the implementation process, a road map to success: improved business and IT communication, an overall refresh of roles and responsibilities and greater process flexibility - those...
SOA Articles
Web service, it is not surprising that complete testing is difficult, writes William Brogden. That is the context from which must address SOA testing of cool Ajax front-ends.

Testing Web services: Unit testing and monitoring – SearchSOA.com
William Brogden writes that tools such as TCPMON or soapUI let you record the... More...

Nov 25, 2008
ESB to route Web services traffic and schedule data synchronizations. Concur has also deployed the WSO2 Registry for governance.

Brad Svee, the SOA project lead at Concur, is building data services mashups that allow end users ranging from the executive level to operational support people to easily view information that was... More...

Oct 9, 2008
SOA News
Adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) are driving the demand for portals, according to a report issued today by BEA Systems Inc. The report, "State of the Portal... More...
Oct 15, 2007
It isn't that Microsoft doesn't get service-oriented architecture (SOA), says Dave Rosenberg, CEO of MuleSource Inc., it's that the Redmond, Wash.-based software vendor has "nefarious" plans to play SOA its own way. "The Microsoft... More...
Sep 12, 2007
Open CSA) Member Section. The new group will "promote the further development and adoption" of the specifications for service-oriented architecture (SOA), which entered the OASIS process March 21... More...
Apr 11, 2007
Solstice Software Inc., an SOA testing vendor, announced it has joined SOA Link, the multi-vendor SOA governance and interoperability initiative established in May 2006. Solstice said... More...
Feb 12, 2007
Legacy terminal applications can get a new lease on life in the SOA world, according to Seagull Software Inc. The company is offering a new product for the "SOA-ization" of the old technology, and has coined a new term in service... More...
Nov 8, 2006
Expert SOA Advice
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?

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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
What do enterprise mashups have in common with RAD from the 1990s? By Michael Ogrinz
stored procedures. That division of labor necessitated that teams deliver assets quickly because of their interdependent schedules. But projects still mostly ran under a modified waterfall model.

What happened next is what brought us to SOA and, eventually, enterprise mashups. As the Web gained momentum, businesses shifted funding away from heavy desktop... More...

Feb 12, 2010
Featured SOA Tips
Drill-down on soapUI for software services testing By Jack Vaughan
work has been rolled up into a special report comprising several tutorials.

The soapUI WebServices testing tool for SOA (discussed here a while back as a "WSDL tamer" ) has gained amazing traction of late. Kelly's walk-throughs on More...

Jul 8, 2010
Roles are key when marking up master data for SOA By Mike Pontacoloni with reporting by Rob Barry

Getting different departments to agree on the definitions during a SOA-oriented Master Data Management initiative can be difficult. Departments naturally want to stick with established More...

Apr 29, 2010
Enterprise architects must look beyond project boundaries for better BPM By Mike Pontacoloni
outside the boundaries of the project," said Todd Biske, an enterprise architect for a global corporation and author of SOA Governance. "The real question is, are all the BPM activities project focused, or are people looking for the cross-project More...
Feb 16, 2010
Java White Papers
Resin Application Server Java EE 6 Web Profile by Caucho Technology
server on the newly finalized Java EE 6 Web Profile. This white paper discusses the Java EE 6 Web Profile and how it fits with the development philosophy of Resin as well as the details of...
Faster PHP Through Java by Caucho Technology
this paper explores how Quercus - Caucho's Java implementation of PHP - can perform faster than the standard Apache-based PHP both in synthetic benchmarks and real-world applications. The results...
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