SOA White Papers

WHITE PAPER: See how manufacturers are adding value to product offerings with a new business model. Using their ecosystems to build a solution provider network, they are enabling supply network collaboration with suppliers, engineers, and financial services organizations, as well as developing industry coalitions to drive more value to customers.

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 | Published: 07 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat can alleviate common infrastructure problems by moving organizations 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.

Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 16 Jul 2009

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

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, learn about tools being developed to balance workload and improve thermal management in the data center. Access now to discover predictive information - combined with server virtualization, a service-oriented architecture and digital power and operating system controls - can optimize operating efficiencies and reduce costs by 20-30%.

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights four primary ways to use integration to make your business better during a down economy. You'll discover how, with the right integration plan and supporting software in place, your company can increase efficiency, minimize expenses, and streamline and accelerate core processes.

Posted: 22 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

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

WHITE PAPER: IT executives and their teams need a comprehensive and accurate view of IT services. A service catalog includes all relevant details about your services, including which service level agreements (SLAs) are associated with it, who is able to request it, how much it costs, and how to fulfill it. This paper describes the IT Infrastructure...

Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT organizations are under increasing pressure to reduce costs while at the same time increase their ability to react to ongoing business demands. To achieve this they need to take advantage of the cost savings and flexibility of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Read this white paper to learn about more about SOA and its benefits.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper shows how Oracle WebLogic Server supports the next generation of enterprise applications and services. Learn how to leverage the Java EE 5 advantage and dramatically speed development of SOA applications.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides insight into the dark pools of liquidity, discusses the mechanism of dark pools trading, advantages and how technology would impact the operations or provide benefits in trading over this medium.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 12 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of the problem of Web sprawl, and an account of the rationalization strategies organizations are adopting to gain the upper hand on sprawl. Adopting a service-oriented architecture based on integrated application platform infrastructure emerges as the key to rationalizing sprawl.

Posted: 03 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details a holistic approach for Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) security using additional, application-level industry standards to secure web services and multi-step transactions in a SOA environment.

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines a framework and best practices for governance as it specifically relates to Service Orientated Architecture (SOA). It also introduces a Six Steps to Successful SOA Governance model.

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 May 2007

WHITE PAPER: The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Cookbook highlights SOA best practices and challenges, detailing the importance of BPEL and other standards-based technologies in accelerating the adoption of an SOA.

Posted: 16 Mar 2009 | Published: 02 Aug 2007

WHITE PAPER: It is estimated that 90% of most external attacks take advantage of known vulnerabilities and misconfigured systems. This white paper provides comprehensive guidance on integrating security and access-control best practices into your SOA and WSOA initiatives. It includes such topics as access control and SOA security implementation models.

Posted: 03 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn about the five best practices for deploying successful SOA and see rapid return on your investment.

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This research shows that a lack of trust in IT's ability to deliver business value is one of the biggest hurdles that enterprises face in bringing IT and business closer together.

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reveals how WebSphere® adapter nodes within IBM® WebSphere Message Broker V6.1 speed and simplify the tasks of creating integrated processes, resulting in greater productivity and lower cost.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 11 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the key insights from the IBM Global CEO Study and relate them to the new CIO challenge: driving transformation as "change leaders" and implementing transformation as "change agents".

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: IBM has the vision, expertise, experience and product offerings that enable you to build an optimal architecture for application performance that drives business success.

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 | Published: 16 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: The focus of this paper is to provide readers a comprehensive understanding of real-world deployment practices, trends and ROI anecdotes for enterprise portal technologies.

Posted: 14 Jan 2009 | Published: 14 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the effective management of human capital, which includes not just the organization's own employees, but also members of the outsourcing team as well, is a key success factor.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: With IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules and IBM WebSphere ILOG Rules for COBOL, you can externalize and manage the business rules in your organization’s COBOL applications without disruption or a major development project. Furthermore, you can use the externalized rules as decision services within an SOA strategy.

Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 15 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: The eKit includes demos on how Rational Asset Manager tracks and audits your assets in order to utilize them for reuse.

Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Published: 25 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Learn how Intel IT is implementing Intel Active Management Technology across the enterprise.

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008