Web Services Architecture White Papers

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The 4 Secrets of a Successful API
sponsored by MuleSoft
WHITE PAPER: This informative white paper reveals 4 secrets of building a successful application programming interface (API), including design for great user experience, optimize for use case, and more.
Posted: 28 Apr 2014 | Published: 28 Apr 2014

MuleSoft

Securing Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures with Oracle Web Services Manager 11g
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: While web services offer extraordinary value to a company, they are not free of challenges – especially when it comes to security and management. Read this white paper to learn how the Oracle Web Services Management (WSM) is equipped with the capabilities to help you tackle web-services-based SOA security and management issues.
Posted: 29 Jun 2012 | Published: 29 Jun 2012

Oracle Corporation

Cisco Application Networking for SAP Design Guide [Data Center Designs: Application Networking]
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This document provides guidelines on how to deploy a SAP application solution with optimal application networking solutions. It is intended to reduce the time to implement a SAP application deployment and increase the likelihood of success by demonstrating techniques that were found to be successful.
Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 23 Nov 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Improving Performance and Control in SAP Environments [Cisco ACE XML Gateways]
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to find out how to meet the new challenges posed by the proliferation of XML-based services. Discover an appliance that can be combined with SAP Business Suite and NetWeaver to improve performance, security, availability, and monitoring and auditing (for compliance) for applications and Web services in SAP environments.
Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

Cisco Systems, Inc.

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

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

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

Enterprise Portal Rationalization: Using a Service-Oriented Architecture to Stop Web Asset Sprawl
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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

Oracle Corporation