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ALSO CALLED: Service-oriented Integration, Service-Oriented Architectures, Service-Oriented Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, and Service Oriented Architectures DEFINITION: A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the underlying structure supporting communications between services. In this context, a service is defined as a unit of work to be performed on behalf of some computing entity, such as a human user or another program. SOA defines how two computing … Definition continues below.

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Managing Application Performance by Understanding Applications sponsored by Shunra Virtual Enterprise WHITE PAPER: Posted: 03 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Apr 2008 SUMMARY: This paper describe how IT organizations can use WAN emulation tools to improve the performance of applications, plan for change and improve the relationship between the application groups and the network group. TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Performance Management \| Data Center Consolidation \| LAN \| Server Consolidation \| SOA \| VoIP \| Vulnerability Management \| WAN

Modernize and Manage Your SAP environment sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company PRODUCT LITERATURE: Posted: 02 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Oct 2007 SUMMARY: Modernizing SAP environment results on faster return on SAP investments while lowering costs, reducing complexity, and minimizing risk. TOPICS: Business IT Alignment \| ERP \| NetWeaver \| SAP (Product) \| SOA

Optimizing the Quality and Performance of SAP Applications sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: Posted: 02 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Jun 2007 SUMMARY: This white paper describes how HP and SAP can optimize the application lifecycle for our mutual customers. TOPICS: CRM \| ERP \| NetWeaver \| SAP (Product) \| SOA \| Supply Chain Management

Cross Platform IAM from the Mainframe to the Web-Integrating z/Series Security sponsored by CA WEBCAST: Posted: 27 Jun 2008 \| When: Available On Demand SUMMARY: CA solutions can help reduce costs, facilitate new business opportunities, enable regulatory compliance, and mitigate security risks associated with users and their access to resources and applications. TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Applications Management \| Quality Control \| SOA \| Software Quality Assurance \| Web Services

Calculating the ROI of a SOA Project sponsored by Wipro Technologies WHITE PAPER: Posted: 27 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 SUMMARY: ROI is gaining momentum as many sponsors are finding hard to justify SOA initiatives without ROI and ROI often comes as a bottleneck or a barricade in justifying SOA initiative. TOPICS: Business Process Management \| Customer Service \| IVR \| ROI \| SOA

PODCAST: The Strategy of Success: Best Practices in Building your SAP Consulting Business sponsored by SAP America Inc PODCAST: Posted: 26 Jun 2008 \| Premiered: 26 Jun 2008 SUMMARY: In this Podcast, independent SAP analyst Jon Reed will discuss SAP trends and their effect on consultants, tips for honing your business strategy and consulting best practices. TOPICS: Best Practices \| IT Consulting Services \| Market Trends \| SAP (Product) \| SOA \| Strategic Planning \| Web Services

Accenture CIO Survey: Information Management Trends in Portals and Content Management sponsored by Accenture WHITE PAPER: Posted: 26 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2008 SUMMARY: In 2007, Accenture undertook a global survey of 162 chief information officers and with the help of this survey they learned about the drivers and challenges for adopting these information management technologies. TOPICS: Content Management \| Enterprise Portals \| Information Management \| SOA

Choose Your Next SOA Implementation Step Carefully sponsored by Seros WHITE PAPER: Posted: 25 Jun 2008 \| Published: 25 Jun 2008 SUMMARY: This white paper discusses the critical role of an ESB and an open standards-based reference architecture in a successful SOA initiative. TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Application Performance Management Software \| ESB \| IT Infrastructure \| SOA \| Standards

Top 10 Reasons to Implement Automated Application Quality Management sponsored by CA WHITE PAPER: Posted: 25 Jun 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 SUMMARY: This paper explores 10 reasons why companies should consider implementing Automated Application Quality Management -- a collection of processes and tools designed to enable predictable, measurable, and optimal application performance. TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| High Availability \| Quality Control \| SOA \| Software Quality Assurance \| Web Services

Service-Oriented Automation: Agile, Loosely-Coupled Business Process sponsored by CA WEBCAST: Posted: 23 Jun 2008 \| When: Available On Demand SUMMARY: In today's webcast learn how to implementt a flexible and agile environment and enabling business change by: changing regulatory requirements, implementing cost saving methodologies, and understanding how to approach change with your IT organization. TOPICS: Application Integration \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Business Process Management \| Business Process Management Software \| Change Management \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| SOA \| SOA Governance

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SOA DEFINITION (continued): … entities, such as programs, interact in such a way as to enable one entity to perform a unit of work on behalf of another entity. Service interactions are defined using a description language. Each interaction is self-contained and loosely coupled, so that each interaction is independent of any other interaction.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based Web services are becoming the most common implementation of SOA. However, there are non-Web services …
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