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SOA

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  … 
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EMA™ Advisory Note: Virtualization and Management - Trends, Forecasts, and Recommendations (Summary)
sponsored by Configuresoft, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY: This EMA Advisory Note summarizes the most important findings from this research, and provides recommendations on how to get the most from these technologies.

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"Enterprise IT Performance Management within a Virtual Services Environment": Eliminating the Real-world Constraints on Application Performance Testing with Virtual Services
sponsored by iTKO LISA
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 15 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY: This foundational paper will show you how to leverage LISA VSE in your existing Performance Testing lab, by demonstrating examples from leading enterprise IT shops who are delivering high-performance, critical applications.

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How CIOs Can Drive Growth, Business Flexibility and Innovation
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 14 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: The IBM Institute of Business Value (IBV) has produced a study, based on its wide-ranging business experience, on the value of flexibility.

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The New Information Agenda: Do You Have One?
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 14 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
SUMMARY: This white paper defines the information agenda; describes key considerations and best practices in creating and implementing an information agenda.

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How to Build Successful Service-Oriented Architecture Applications - IT Briefing
sponsored by CA
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 13 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY: This white paper talks about service-oriented architecture and performance tradeoffs that can be made depending on the design patterns that you choose.

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Realize Positive ROI on Your SOA Investments with Vitria's M3O Suite
sponsored by Vitria
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 09 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY: The Vitria M3O Suite provides a single platform to truly bridge the gap between Business and IT by not only working in any stage of a SOA environment, but also providing a way to sense, analyze and respond to exceptional events.

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TOPICS:  ROI | SOA

SOA and BPM: Aligning Business Needs with Your Architecture
sponsored by Software AG
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 08 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY: This document presents best practices in composing SOA-enabled business processes and a case study of how to create a configurable business architecture.

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TOPICS:  BPM | Enterprise | SOA

Leveraging Web Services in an SOA
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 05 May 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
SUMMARY: This white paper examines features of the EMC® Documentum® platform that enables its industry-leading enterprise content management capabilities to participate in a service oriented architecture (SOA).

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Automating Your SOA Center of Excellence
sponsored by WebLayers
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 05 May 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007
SUMMARY: As service-oriented architecture (SOA) moves from early-adopters to mainstream corporate initiatives, companies are challenged to quickly achieve their intended goals of business agility and cost savings from service reuse.

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Technical Approaches to and Considerations for SOA Governance
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 29 Apr 2008 | Published: 26 Oct 2006
SUMMARY: Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is about more than just services -- it's about the various artifacts and assets that relate to and affect a service or set of services.

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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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