Enterprise Architecture Planning

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the rise of virtualization and discusses how it will effect backup, recovery, and related processes. We will also look at what applications have been virtualized and how the old backup and recovery tools may not be up to the challenge of supporting this new dynamic infrastructure.

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 | Published: 07 Sep 2011

VIDEO: This video answers important questions related to application portfolio management, including why now is such an important time to modernize and rationalize your applications, and the best practices and tools which can ensure success.

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 | Premiered: 15 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses some of the most important goals of the modern enterprise and the ways in which Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) are innovatively addressing them, with an emphasis on solving today'schallenges and putting in place an enterprise-wide architecture and framework for future successes.

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011

IT BRIEFING: A capability-led approach to enterprise architecture provides the rigour and structure that will allow companies to ‘do EA properly’ and deliver real business value, this paper argues.

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Cloud storage offers tremendous opportunities for simplicity, flexibility, scalability and reducing costs.  How can enterprise take advantage of these capabilities while maintaining datacenter storage for mission-critical applications?  A Cloud-as-a-Tier Architecture integrates cloud storage seamlessly into the enterprise. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 05 May 2011 | Published: 05 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Data abstraction overcomes data structure incompatibility by transforming data from its native structure and syntax into reusable views and data services. But some data abstraction approaches work better than others. Composite data virtualization is an optimal way to implement an abstraction layer at enterprise scale.

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Published: 31 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Enterprise analysis by a Business Analyst (BA) is a method used to identify and define why an organizational change is needed. Read this whitepaper to learn the importance of this process to an organization.

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 | Published: 26 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle Tuxedo is one of the original SOA platforms. Tuxedo services are location and implementation independent, adhere to a contract, and are interoperable with other Tuxedo services and other service oriented platforms.  Read this paper for more information about integrating Tuxedo applications into an SOA environment.

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 | Published: 04 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This White Paper discusses methodology and language support for requirements management in TOGAF.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Selecting a supplier for manufacturing ERP solutions is more important than ever before, due to the increasingly complex set of business processes involved.  Manufacturers now require the ability to share data in real time across all functional areas touching the manufacturing process. This paper takes a fresh look at manufacturing ERP options.

Posted: 21 Apr 2011 | Published: 21 Apr 2011