SOA Governance White Papers

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Industrial SOA Series
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to read a variety of articles on service-oriented architecture (SOA), on topics ranging from SOA blueprints to SOA mobile solutions.
Posted: 30 Oct 2013 | Published: 30 Oct 2013

Oracle Corporation

A Rational approach to integration testing
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Developers need to deliver high-quality applications and lower testing costs, but as applications only increase in complexity, these can seem like impossible feats. Fortunately, this resource explores how to achieve those goals and keep up with the rate of change with continuous integration testing.
Posted: 24 Sep 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2012

IBM

Applying Lean, Six Sigma, BPM, and SOA to Drive Business Results
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the key BPM, SOA, and Lean Six Sigma components, summarizes the linkages between them, and highlights recent results that leading firms have achieved. Companies that successfully combine Lean Six Sigma, BPM, and SOA initiatives will realize a competitive advantage.
Posted: 28 Aug 2013 | Published: 27 Aug 2013

IBM

Expanding Active Decision-Making: The Power of Integrating Business Rules and Events
sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss
WHITE PAPER: This white paper demonstrates how using JBoss Enterprise BRMS, business analysts, developers, and integrators can create and manage rules and events in a single product using a shared set of authoring tools.
Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 05 Jul 2012

Red Hat and JBoss

Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Review this resource to learn a simple five-step action plan designed to enable IT execs to achieve effective SOA governance. Find out the right SOA governance plan can help you quickly and easily alleviate common SOA challenges.
Posted: 28 Jun 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

Oracle Corporation

WebSphere DataPower Integration Blade XI50B
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about WebSphere DataPower Integration Blade XI50B, a specialized, high-performance hardware appliance that can empower you t improve competitiveness by helping to strengthen business connectivity with partners and customers, and between internal organizations, add specialized connectivity, integration and more.
Posted: 12 Apr 2012 | Published: 12 Apr 2012

IBM

Transport, Location and Semantics
sponsored by Progress
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how an enterprise service bus (ESB) enables interoperability at "the seven key points of mediation," which is necessary to achieve the goals of service oriented architecture (SOA): reuse and agility. It spotlights the first three points of mediation: transport, location, and semantics.
Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

Progress

Versatile Approach for Optimizing Business Service & Application Performance in a World of Accelerating Change
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: To optimize business services and application performance, IT organizations need a complete picture of all IT assets and services that contribute to customer and user experience.
Posted: 07 Oct 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

IBM

Discover, Interact, and Optimize for Smarter Healthcare with BPM Powered by Smart SOA
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover how leveraging business process management (BPM), powered by smart service-oriented architecture (SOA), can make critical information available in a fast, consistent way which improves the quality of health care organizations.
Posted: 10 Aug 2011 | Published: 10 Aug 2011

IBM

Core System Transformation and Simplification for Banking
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper reveals five smarter banking solutions which can transform your infrastructure while reducing costs. In particular, see how smart service-oriented architecture (SOA) can provide the greater application connectivity to help financial institutions reach their goals.
Posted: 10 Aug 2011 | Published: 10 Aug 2011

IBM

Data Integration Platforms - Talend
sponsored by Talend
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, Philip Howard reviews the current market for data integration platforms, paying particular attention to open source offerings from Talend.
Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Aug 2011

Talend

Keeping Up With Ever-Expanding Enterprise Data - 2010 IOUG Database Growth Survey
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: A new survey of 581 members of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), sponsored by Oracle Corporation, finds that managing data growth is a priority for many companies, but smarter responses are needed to address the challenge. Get all the details by downloading this paper.
Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 16 Mar 2011

Oracle Corporation

Building Solutions For Smarter Governments: Six Ways to Increase Responsiveness, Service Quality, Accountability and Taxpayer Value
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how smarter government means making operations and services truly citizen-centric, integrating their service delivery, coordinating programs and allowing a choice of access channels, as well as placing the most needed transactions on the Web.
Posted: 21 Jan 2011 | Published: 21 Jan 2011

IBM

IBM Point of View: Security and Cloud Computing
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Cloud Computing is easy to deploy, flexible and cost-effective.  As federal agencies continue to outsource data management and operations to third-party cloud providers, their ability to ensure data integrity and privacy is becoming a potential security risk. Read this white paper to learn how you can manage Cloud Computing safely and efficiently.
Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 10 Jan 2011

IBM

JBoss Enterprise Middleware: Making Software from the Open Source Community Ready for the Enterprise
sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the differences between JBoss Community projects and JBoss Enterprise Middleware products. It explains how JBoss Enterprise Middleware delivers the benefits of open source software, combined with the additional testing, certification, and maintenance releases necessary for reliable long-term enterprise production use.
Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

Red Hat

Lower business risk and increase IT productivity with a managed file transfer solution for SOA
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This IBM white paper provides an introduction to the managed file transfer topic and IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition. WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition is designed to address the needs of organizations that rely on the transfer of files as well as organizations that want more control, manageability and auditability.
Posted: 30 Sep 2010 | Published: 30 Sep 2010

IBM

SOA Centers of Excellence: Preserving Order Amid Change
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: There is only one good way to approach the adoption and facilitation of SOA and Web services, and that is to establish, right from the beginning, a corporate Center of Excellence to guide the revolution from making a compelling business case to putting in place a long-term solution for measuring and improving on every success.
Posted: 23 Dec 2009 | Published: 21 Mar 2008

Oracle Corporation

Optimizing Your SAP
sponsored by Atos Origin
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper and learn how Atos Origin, the number one SAP upgrade partner and has over 20 years experience of upgrading SAP systems we have upgraded every R/3 release from 2.0 upwards, can help you bring your SAP system to where it needs to be.
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

Atos Origin

Ensuring Reliable Inbound Supply Integration
sponsored by Sterling Commerce, An IBM Company
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will enumerate the critical business challenges, as well as specific opportunities and benefits of working aggressively to achieve inbound supply integration.
Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

Sterling Commerce, An IBM Company

How Financial Firms Can Improve Business Integration Capabilities and Increase Straight-Through Processing Efficiency
sponsored by Sterling Commerce, An IBM Company
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the increased demand placed on financial services organizations to improve their straight-through processing (STP) levels across all business units.
Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

Sterling Commerce, An IBM Company

Composite Application Management: Bridging the IT Visibility Gap in Complex Composite Applications
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: As more and more IT shops deploy multitier middleware platforms and frameworks for the delivery of business-critical application services, they are expecting to garner the benefits of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) or composite application development approach: agility, flexibility, productivity, and extensibility.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2008

Oracle Corporation

Ensuring Web Service Quality for Service-Oriented Architectures
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the testing challenges presented by Web services, and introduces best practices to ensure SOA application quality through the use of Oracle’s award-winning Web service testing solution, Oracle Application Testing Suite.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 12 Jun 2008

Oracle Corporation

Oracle WebLogic Server: A Solid Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how Java EE 5 dramatically speeds the development of SOA applications and how enterprise developers can leverage its power by using Oracle WebLogic Server. Download this free white paper today.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Jun 2008

Oracle Corporation

Red Hat Continues To Redefine SOA: Simple. Open. Affordable
sponsored by Red Hat
WHITE PAPER: Despite the significant progress made with open standards in the industry, most SOA platforms are delivered with many proprietary, closed extensions that focus on customer lock-in more than automation of the value chain. Red Hat believes there is a better way. We redefine SOA to be simple, open, and affordable.
Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2008

Red Hat

Modernizing IT: Strategies for Improving Service Quality and Reducing IT Costs
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Working harder simply won't get you there. No matter how many people you allocate, sinking more labor into old IT practices cannot concurrently meet rising demands on IT and cut costs. Read about cost-effective, automated ways to meet this challenge head-on in our latest article, “Strategies for Modernizing IT, Reducing Costs, and..”
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

BMC Software, Inc.