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ALSO CALLED: Service-oriented Integration, Service-Oriented Architectures, Service-Oriented Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Service Oriented Architectures DEFINITION: A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the underlying structure supporting communications between services. SOA defines how two computing 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 … Definition continues below.
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High Availability with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture framework that provides clear and concise guidance on implementing best practices using Oracle's proven high availability technologies. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Published: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Database Architectures \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| ROI \| SOA

Partitioning with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the latest partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability, and extended manageability capabilities available in Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Published: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Storage \| Database Architectures \| Database Design \| Databases \| Oracle (Product) \| Scalability Testing \| SOA

Oracle Real Application Testing 11g Release 2 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how Real Application Testing — with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 — allows businesses to quickly adopt new technologies while eliminating the risks associated with change. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Published: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Infrastructure \| Application Performance Management \| Data Management \| SOA \| SQL \| Test Results

Oracle Database 11g Product Family sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Published: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Cluster Management \| Data Center Design \| Database Management \| Database Management Software \| Databases \| IT Infrastructure \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA

Advanced Compression with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn more about how Oracle Advanced Compression can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Published: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: 802.11g \| Cluster Management \| Data Center Design \| Data Storage \| Database Administration \| Database Design \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management Software \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA

Oracle Data Guard with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about a unique data protection and recovery solution that provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures and other disasters. Posted: 25 Sep 2009 \| Published: 25 Sep 2009 TOPICS: 802.11g \| Cluster Management \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Security \| Disaster Planning \| ROI \| SOA

Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: As companies seek to lower their total cost of ownership, adopt more standards oriented platforms, and leverage existing IT assets while not compromising on the mission critical nature of their business applications, Oracle Tuxedo emerges as the platform of choice. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Infrastructure \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| C++ \| C++ Compilers \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA \| TCO

Enhance Customer Loyalty through Higher Responsiveness sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: The user experience associated with web applications relies in large part on the availability and management of their session data, its persistence, and its management. This white paper focuses on the topic of data availability and management for mission-critical web applications. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Performance Management \| Customer Loyalty \| Customer Retention \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA \| Web Applications Management

SOA Maturity Model: Guiding and Accelerating SOA Success sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: 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 successful SOA adoption. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| Business Development \| Business IT Alignment \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA

State of the Business Process Management Market 2008 sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Over the last few years, BPM has seen rapid growth because it succeeds where earlier approaches have failed -— uniting business strategists and technologists together with a shared set of tools to accomplish common goals. The future promises even more explosive growth as BPM products continue to mature. Read on to learn more. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: BPEL \| Business Development \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Performance Management \| Business Performance Management Software \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management Software \| SOA

What's New in SOA Suite 11g? sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: 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. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: 802.11g \| Business Development \| Business IT Alignment \| IT Infrastructure \| Performance Testing \| Scalability Testing \| SOA

Oracle IT Modernization: The Path to SOA sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: 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 SOA provides a key component of the answer to these problems. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Development \| Application Infrastructure \| Application Monitoring \| Application Portfolio Management \| Business Development \| Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA

Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a significant step forward toward empowering enterprises across the chasm to the next generation business applications that is powered by a platform delivering rapid composition, comprehensive lifecycle management, customizability, and easy upgrades. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: 802.11g \| Application Deployment \| Application Development \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| Oracle (Product) \| Rapid Application Development \| SOA

Application Grid: Ideal Platform for IT Consolidation sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. With an application grid you get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service. Download this free white paper now. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Cluster Management \| Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Oracle (Product) \| Scalability Testing \| SOA

Achieving the Impossible: Unlimited Application Scalability sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: For modern applications, particularly those built for the Java platform, there are proven approaches and solutions that can help an organization achieve predictable, scalable performance for their applications. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Infrastructure \| Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Java \| Oracle (Product) \| Platform as a service \| Scalability Testing \| SOA

Oracle SOA Suite - Oracle BPEL Process Manager sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: The true value of SOA is unlocked when services are leveraged for process orchestration to deliver automation of business processes. Industry's leading process orchestration engine, the Oracle BPEL Process Manager supports a 100% standard approach to orchestrating systems and services into end-to-end process flows. Posted: 18 Sep 2009 \| Published: 18 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Activity Monitoring \| Business Development \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Management \| Business Process Management \| SOA

Ensuring Reliable Inbound Supply Integration sponsored by Sterling Commerce 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: 14 Sep 2009 TOPICS: ERP \| ERP Software \| SOA \| SOA Governance \| Supply Chain Collaboration \| Supply Chain Event Management \| Supply Chain Event Management Software \| Supply Chain Execution \| Supply Chain Integration \| Supply Chain Intelligence \| Supply Chain Management \| Supply Chain Software \| Supply Chains

How Financial Firms Can Improve Business Integration Capabilities and Increase Straight-Through Processing Efficiency sponsored by Sterling Commerce 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: 11 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Management \| Business Process Management \| Business Service Management \| Business Service Management Software \| Financial Services \| Financial Services Industry \| SOA \| SOA Governance

The Value Of A Comprehensive Integration Solution sponsored by Sterling Commerce WHITE PAPER: In November 2008, Sterling Commerce commissioned Forrester Consulting to investigate the value of a comprehensive integration solution (CIS) that encompasses the bulk of the enterprise’s integration needs. Forrester also conducted an online survey of key IT roles in selected geographical locations. This paper discusses the results of these studies. Posted: 11 Sep 2009 \| Published: 11 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Integration Server Hardware \| Integration Server Software \| SOA \| SOA Governance \| Systems Integration \| Systems Integration Services \| Systems Maintenance \| Systems Operations

Sterling Commerce: Managed Services sponsored by Sterling Commerce WHITE PAPER: Sterling Commerce Managed Services include Business-to-Business (B2B) integration solutions, allowing trading organizations to interact with each other across a secure network. Long considered as only appropriate for large organizations, Sterling Commerce Managed Services provide organizations of all sizes with the ability to trade and collaborate. Posted: 11 Sep 2009 \| Published: 11 Sep 2009 TOPICS: B2B \| B2B Online Trading \| Collaboration \| Managed Security Services \| Network Management Services \| SOA \| SOA Governance \| Storage Management Services \| Systems Management \| Systems Management Services

Deterministic Garbage Collection: Unleash the Power of Java with Oracle JRockit Real Time sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This free white paper demonstrates how Java can be successfully deployed for real-time applications that were previously off-limits. Posted: 10 Sep 2009 \| Published: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Performance Management \| Applications Management \| Java \| Java Applets \| JavaScript \| SOA \| SOA Governance

Extreme Performance, Predictable Scalability, and Continuous Availability for Mission-Critical Java Applications sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This free white paper details key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy—a ‘must have’ capability for applications to operate with extreme, predictable performance and scalability. Posted: 10 Sep 2009 \| Published: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Data Management \| Database Performance Management \| Java \| JavaScript \| Oracle (Product) \| SOA \| SOA Governance

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: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Application Life-Cycle Management Software \| Applications Management \| Composite Applications Software \| Middleware \| SOA \| SOA Governance

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: 10 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Compliance (Systems Operations) \| Service Level Management \| SOA \| SOA Governance \| Testing \| Web Services \| Web Services Architecture \| Web Services Management

Increasing ROI with Data Services sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This white paper will address data services implementation and the role of Oracle Data Service Integrator in that process. It will describe the technical benefits of a data services implementation within the context of initiatives to promote business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), portal projects, and BI. Posted: 09 Sep 2009 \| Published: 09 Sep 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Portal Applications Software \| Portals \| SOA \| SOA Governance

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SOA DEFINITION (continued): … 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 implementations of SOA that provide similar benefits. The protocol independence of SOA means that different consumers can communicate with the service in different ways. Ideally, there should be a management layer between the providers and consumers to ensure complete flexibility regarding implementation protocols.Whether you realize it or not, you've probably relied upon SOA, perhaps when you made a …
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