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Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA – Customer Perspectives on Evaluating Complexity and Business Value by Oracle Corporation
vs. IBM service-oriented architecture (SOA) and figure out which one is best for your organization.

Implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) in your business comes with plenty of benefits. Lower costs, faster computing, and the ability to develop mission-critical...
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...
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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IDC SOA Whitepaper by IBM
explores service-oriented architecture's (SOA’s) relationship with and relevance to IT and business. Recent survey-based research and IDC’s top-line forecast for SOA are presented in this paper and help communicate the value, opportunities and challenges associated with SOA.

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Preparing for Mission-Critical SOA with Next-Generation Governance Technologies by Oracle Corporation
Whether you are just embarking on an SOA program or expanding an existing initiative, the latest governance solutions can guide you along the path to demonstrable, measurable SOA success. Read this white paper now to see why there’s never been a better time to...
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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SOA and Business Processes: Making the Connection by Oracle Corporation
Read this paper for a discussion of SOA Suite 11g, a family of products that take SOA to a new level and correct some of the problems caused by the very combination of components and multiplication of languages that make SOA a flexible, agile system.

What are the true...
Preparing for Mission-Critical SOA with Next-Generation Governance Technologies by Oracle Corporation
Whether you are just embarking on an SOA program or expanding an existing initiative, the latest governance solutions can guide you along the path to demonstrable, measurable SOA success. Read this white paper now to see why there’s never been a better time to...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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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Oracle SOA Suite 11g by Oracle Corporation
adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a means of dealing with changing markets, competitive pressures, and evolving customer needs. This data sheet provides a brief overview of the Oracle SOA Suite and highlights key benefits.

Leading companies are adopting...
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...
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...
Seven SOA Practices to Unlock Business Value by Software AG
informative paper and uncover the 7 essential SOA practices that can help your company gain competitive advantage and increase revenues.

Enabling organizations to build an infrastructure that delivers business capabilities as services, service-oriented architecture...
Current Analysis: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform by Red Hat
exactly what sets Red Hat JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform apart from other vendors. Gain an in-depth overview of the product and how it has evolved to become a marketplace leader.  Weigh the pros and cons of a Red Hat investment and decide if it's the right move for you.

Red Hat offers...
SOA for Dummies: IBM® Limited Edition Mini eBook by IBM
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) makes technology a true business enabler and empowers business and technology leaders to respond to change with increased agility. This e-book introduces you to the basics of SOA in context with the real-life experiences.

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5 Ways IT Managers Can Leverage SOA to 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 Articles

IBM integrated its WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances with Tivoli Security Policy Manager. The integration of the two tool sets allows enterprise architects and security operations teams to centrally manage security... More...

Aug 27, 2009
so few people outside Microsoft can understand what the software giant is talking about when it talks about service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Views differ as to whether Microsoft knows what it is doing with SOA, but doesn't know how to communicate it, or whether it doesn't really know what it is doing with SOA and is... More...

Jul 2, 2008
SOA News
The use of service-oriented architecture (SOA) means QA engineers and testers must include integration, regression, business process, performance and security testing in their test plans. More than... More...
Oct 30, 2007
IBM announced its new Metadata Workbench designed for service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementations. The new product gives developers a way to visualize the impact of any data change and see how it will impact business and technical... More...
Jul 6, 2007
A debate is raging across the blogsphere about the potential of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services-based technologies that make up the interactive applications known as Enterprise 2.0, writes Joe McKendrick. Several bloggers are... More...
May 9, 2007
Should SOA implementations be held to the same ROI standards as general application development projects? Joe McKendrick's argument that SOA is a different animal... More...
Mar 22, 2007
that "You can almost picture our macho industry icons standing atop their software stacks--like siege towers--hurling insults back and forth." She adds that SOA hopefully "will bring down these siege tower silos... More...
Oct 24, 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
RESIN CLOUD SUPPORT 3rd Generation Clustering For Elastic Cloud Scaling by Caucho Technology
Java and PHP Web applications can de difficult to deploy, scale and maintain in cloud environments using existing technology. Read this white paper to...
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