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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. 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  … 
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SOA White Papers (View All Report Types)
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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


Good Information is Hard to Find: Guidelines for Managers Considering Open Source Enterprise Search
sponsored by Lucid Imagination
WHITE PAPER: Lucid Imagination brings market-leading expertise to open source enterprise search, and can help any organization quickly design and optimize search solutions based on Lucene and Solr.
Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009


Operational efficiency — how to save big with BMC Software
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER: As the business demands more from your tight IT budget, it's helpful to know that you can actually fund the IT improvements your business needs from savings generated by improvements in operational efficiency. Read a short overview of how BMC Solutions drive operational efficiency.
Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009


Web Application for a Smarter Planet
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: As threats to Web applications continue to grow, IBM offers Web application security for a smarter planet—integrated, end-to-end security to build secure Web applications, run secure Web applications and protect SOA environments.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009


Take a Holistic Approach to Business-Driven Security
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper introduces actions that organizations can take to drive security efforts from a business and operational perspective and discusses how security leadership from IBM can help enable their success.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009


We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Organizations are being forced to move towards identity-based access lifecycle management tools in order to support IT agility and flexibility, safely empower staff, meet compliance requirements, and cope with the rapid evolution of data centers and core systems.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009


TCO Analysis for Modernizing an AS/400 Application to HP Integrity
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the development costs, ongoing staffing costs, and hardware costs associated with modernizing your business-critical AS/400 applications. It will also discuss how the resulting environment can assist organizations to deliver new and competitive business services as well as reduce IT administrative costs.
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009


Transforming Insight Into Action with Business Process Management
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Take action based on deep process insight with business process management. This white paper shows how your business can not only acquire deeper insight into current business operations, but also how to use that insight to drive performance, productivity and savings throughout your organization with BPM from IBM.
Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009


The HP Applications Modernization Transformation Experience Workshop
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Organizations are realizing their priorities are not about new technology –instead, they are focusing on how to use the technology they have to survive and thrive in the downturn. How can you make the most of your information technology investments in this new environment?
Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009


Rapid Bottleneck Identification - A Better Way to do Load Testing
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009


Building on SOA for greater business value
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: To thrive in today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, top businesses of all sizes and in all industries are looking for better ways to achieve operational excellence that enables them to run their companies more efficiently and cost-effectively and drive innovation that matters to recognize market needs and respond to them quickly and decisively.
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009


SOA Governance: An IBM White Paper
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: As SOA becomes a new way of implementing applications, organizations need a way to manage the assets (especially reusable services) developed as part of their SOA activities, to permit the use of these assets to be maximized and insure the results the enterprise envisions. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009


How CIOs can drive growth, business flexibility and innovation in a flex-pon-sive* company
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper is a study on the business value of service-oriented architecture (SOA). What they found was that those companies moving to what we would call the flex-pon-sive* world were seeing the results in flexibility from SOA.
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009


Driving Business Agility through SOA Connectivity & Integration Whitepaper from IBM
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper, you will learn how to work smarter so you can solve the problems of today and seize the opportunities of tomorrow.
Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009


BPM and SOA: Better Together
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: SOA standards, such as Web Services, make information resources and task automation applications available yet loosely integrated for process designers to use and reuse at will. Thus processes modeled with BPM tools can be rapidly implemented in production via SOA infrastructure.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009


Dynamic Infrastructure - Helping Build a Smarter Planet: Delivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: IBM has developed a strategy for a dynamic infrastructure that will help organizations address higher service expectations, rising cost pressures and new risks and threats.
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009


Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g Technical White Paper
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g is a significant new release of the core application grid infrastructure foundation underpinning Oracle Fusion Middleware. It has been designed to provide a standards-based, mission-critical platform for organizations that deploy application grid and service-oriented architectures.
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009


Enterprise Data Services in SOA using ODI Suite
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will demonstrate why Data Services are a foundation requirement for enterprise SOA deployments by describing how just how valuable, and complex, business data is for the businesses that rely on it.
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009


Driving business agility through SOA Connectivity and Integration
sponsored by PointSource
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes some of the business and IT issues that enterprises must address to become more agile and to improve their responses to challenges and opportunities. Included is how a service oriented architecture (SOA) can help an enterprise align its IT infrastructure with business needs.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009


Business Process Management Enabled by SOA
sponsored by PointSource
WHITE PAPER: The purpose in this IBM Redpaper is to introduce you to the concepts used in the IBM BPM Enabled by SOA methodology. The IBM® Business Process Management (BPM) Enabled by SOA Method provides a structured process for developing an organization's cross-functional, customer-focused, end-to-end core business processes.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009


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


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


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


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


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

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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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