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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 Rocket Gang, Inc.
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. The SearchSOA.com Pocket E-Guide: SOA Implementation features expert...
The Rules of SOA - A Road to a Successful SOA Implementation by TheServerSide.com
the key characteristics of successful SOA projects. He covers some of the patterns, and anti-patterns, tool sets, and strategies that he himself learned the hard way - through his own trial and error experiences as an architect.

You have been handed the keys and a blank slate to...
Understanding the Business Benefits of an Open Source SOA Platform by JBoss, a Division of Red Hat
provides insight into the JBoss Enterprise SOA platform.

Open source has been proven particularly effective when implementing SOA. Using open source reduces the cost of tools while providing a range of options from different providers. Having access to the source code also...
E-Guide: BPM & SOA by PointSource
A service-oriented architecture (SOA) enhances business process management (BPM), but many enterprises struggle to adopt the two practices successively. This SearchSOA.com Pocket E-Guide details why organizations should approach BPM and SOA projects with an...
E-Book: SOA: Technical Opportunities, Social Challenges by Progress Software
In this paper you will learn how SOA can directly influence the success of your business, which will result from your business’ ability to participate in these new, more dynamic, federated communities. Read on to learn how social orientation is driving both new SOA...
Using Open-Source SOA in an Enterprise Deployment by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun's modular, open-source approach to an SOA. Many companies are turning to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to use their existing IT assets in new ways. Application functionality is made available as a service, available to all applications that use that...
BPM-SOA Business Case Best Practices by IBM
she's found from analyzing many different BPM-SOA implementations. The convergence of BPM and SOA lets IT and business departments collaboratively achieve business objectives. Judith Hurwitz and Marcia Kaufman, authors of Service-oriented Architecture for Dummies...
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...
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...
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...
Achieving Business Agility with BPM and SOA Together: Smart Work in the Smart Enterprise by PointSource
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...
Enterprise Data Services in SOA using ODI Suite by Oracle Corporation
are a foundation requirement for enterprise SOA deployments by describing how 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...
Extending CA Wily Application Performance Management to SOA Environments by CA
Read this paper to learn how SOA holds the promise of accelerating application development in support of new business initiatives while at the same time reducing the overall cost of delivering these new products or services. 

Today more than ever, growth...
Gain Better Enterprise Visibility from Your SOA by Progress Software
explores how you can achieve the promise of SOA without compromising your architecture or getting locked into a single-vendor approach. Listen as Giles Nelson presents his views on the challenges that enterprises face when trying to identify business requirements...
FROM SOA TO SAAS: How SaaS Is Driving New Opportunities in Application and Data Integration by Pervasive Software
from the 451 Group to learn about the benefits of SOA vs. SaaS, projected growth of this software segment, and read about the key vendors that provide Saas integration. With IT budgets being reduced, software-as-a service (SaaS) is becoming more attractive as a tool for companies...
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...
Red Hat Service-Oriented Architecture by JBoss, a Division of Red Hat
toward service-oriented architectures (SOA). High-quality, low-cost, SOA-enabled solutions from Red Hat and JBoss let customers focus their resources on the applications and business processes that differentiate their business and give them a competitive advantage.

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The Seven Points of Mediation Applied by Progress Software
This webcast will recap what the seven points of SOA mediation are and how they help SOA integrators connect data sources and enhance enterprise application flexibility. After the recap, this session will focus on how to apply these seven points in your organization and how they...
Sun GlassFish™ Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) - The Lightweight ESB 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...
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...
Open Source SOA - Less Risk and Cost, More Flexibility by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
video to see how Sun Microsystem's open source SOA can help your company achieve these goals. In the current economy, lowering costs is an increasingly important requirement. With IT departments increasingly weighed down with a growing portfolio of existing applications...
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 Articles

The wedding of BPM and SOA was forecast for a number of years. These days it appears the marriage is working. SOA implementers are witnessing a shift in application development that leads to better business... More...

Feb 3, 2010

Several products and product upgrades for SOA, including a platform for business process management, an enhanced XML gateway and a semantic integrator, were released in August.

Intalio released Intalio|BPM 6.0, an integrated... More...

Aug 31, 2009
SOA News
IBM today announced new tools to help companies bring mainframe COBOL applications into service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments. The new offerings include IBM Rational Developer for System z v7.1, which is designed to simplify Web, SOA and cross-platform development of... More...
Nov 7, 2007
This book excerpt covers every hot topic that service-oriented architecture (SOA) developers are looking at including, Web services, Ajax, and REST all done with enterprise Java. Among the things discussed: "Ajax and Java EE support a nice... More...
Jun 13, 2007
implementation that is part of the Rogue Wave Hydra Suite as providing "a service grid for deploying high performance service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications... More...
Apr 17, 2007
As enterprises embrace governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platforms, as well SOA governance approaches, are these capabilities headed for a mash-up, if not technically than at least operationally? That is the question analyst Dana... More...
Apr 9, 2007
A consultant advising Fortune 500 companies is warning them not to rush into SOA but take a step-wise approach instead. "A company can totally disrupt its operations if it races towards SOA without getting its IT organization into shape... More...
Oct 16, 2006
Expert SOA Advice
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
Can a service repository be kept on the cloud? By Todd Biske
and probably the most important one, is whether or not there are even viable options in the cloud today. Frankly, if there are, they're not widely known, and that's not surprising. The biggest challenge that repository tools have faced, even prior to SOA, is finding the proper integration with the rest of the IT ecosystem. As a result, many of these repositories were tied to... More...
Jan 22, 2010
How do I pair BPM modeling tools with an SOA? By Todd Biske
What is one key characteristic that I should look for in BPM modeling tools, especially when looking to pair them with a service-oriented architecture? When trying to make sure your BPM tooling takes full advantage of your SOA efforts, one of the most important things to consider is the ability of the BPM tooling to take advantage of service... More...
Nov 4, 2009
Featured SOA Tips
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
Where does BPEL fit in the world of defining business processes? By Willam Brogden
processes so that more complex systems can be represented is the whole reason for the success of OOP, Web services and now SOA.

Early History of Diagramming Computer Systems

The ides of describing business processes by diagramming goes back to More...

Feb 3, 2010
Business rules systems edging into BPM By Rob Barry
coordinating force between process models and data models.

Ross said this is just a natural idea if you're thinking about SOA. From an architecture point of view, he said business rules should be treated as a service.

Business rules engines have a More...

Jan 18, 2010
Java White Papers
Mission-Critical Java by Oracle Corporation
prevented enterprises from adopting Java-based approaches for mission critical applications with extreme and predictable computing needs. However, recent advances throughout the entire...
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