SOA White Papers

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Building a Robust Business Case for High Quality Master Data
sponsored by Melissa
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the key elements for building a proper, quantified business case. It presents the measures that are favored by corporate finance departments, and helps develop a strong business case for data quality and MDM projects. A number of real-life examples with quantifiable benefits are also included.
Posted: 19 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

Melissa

Rehosting Mainframe Workloads
sponsored by Clerity
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about Clerity’s unique approach to leveraging existing skill sets, application code, and administrative tools, benefiting the bottom line today and better preparing the enterprise to sustain competitive advantage in the future.
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 17 Mar 2010

Clerity

Time to Change: New Thoughts on Supporting Business Change
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Learn how a new, interconnected economy is forcing companies to manage an ever-growing information network -- and the best way to adopt new technologies to give you greater flexibility for faster growth while maintaining business integrity.
Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

SAP America, Inc.

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

The Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition Architecture
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Read this technical brief to learn more about the Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition architecture in detail.
Posted: 22 Dec 2009 | Published: 01 Feb 2009

Oracle Corporation

CIO Perspective: To Be Great at IT, You Must Be Great at BPM
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: One of the most popular business motto’s within the past year is "more for less." Organizations want things better, faster, and cheaper. In the IT world this is all too true as well. BPM is the tool that delivers faster, better, and cheaper solutions. Read this paper for an in-depth look into BPM from the perspective of the CIO.
Posted: 18 Dec 2009 | Published: 18 Dec 2009

IBM

Time to Change New Thoughts on Supporting Business Change Fast and Flexibly
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This joint paper from SAP and Capgemini discusses the challenges of the interconnected economy and describes solutions that enable companies to use technology to innovate the way they do business.
Posted: 18 Dec 2009 | Published: 18 Dec 2009

SAP America, Inc.

Platform-as-a-Service Private Cloud with Oracle Fusion Middleware
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Download this free white paper to learn how platform-as-a-service private cloud offers enterprises one of the best ways to take advantage of cloud computing.
Posted: 30 Nov 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

Oracle Corporation

Enhancing Your Infrastructure in an Uncertain Economy to Support Your SOA Business Initiatives
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper defines the challenges facing today's IT executives and steps you can take now to support your organization’s SOA-based initiatives by cutting costs, leveraging your existing IT infrastructure and improving productivity.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 15 Jan 2009

IBM

Empowering the Business to Sense and Respond: Delivering Business Event Processing with IBM WebSphere Business Events
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses one of the critical IBM technologies for supporting agility and alignment, Business Event Processing (BEP).
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 25 Jul 2008

IBM

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

Atos Origin

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: 06 Mar 2008

IBM

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: 01 Jun 2009

Oracle Corporation

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: 01 Apr 2007

IBM

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

IBM

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

IBM

Partitioning with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
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 Corporation UK Ltd

High Availability with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
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 Corporation UK Ltd

Oracle Data Guard with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
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

Oracle Corporation UK Ltd

Ensuring Reliable Inbound Supply Integration
sponsored by Sterling Commerce, An IBM Company
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: 01 Sep 2009

Sterling Commerce, An IBM Company

How Financial Firms Can Improve Business Integration Capabilities and Increase Straight-Through Processing Efficiency
sponsored by Sterling Commerce, An IBM Company
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: 01 Sep 2009

Sterling Commerce, An IBM Company

Introduction to XML Gateways: Best Practices, Benefits & Requirements
sponsored by Forum Systems
WHITE PAPER: This paper will give you an overview of enabling virtualization and control, enforcing data-level privacy and integrity and control and audit information flow. You'll learn the best practices, benefits and requirements of XML Gateways.
Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009

Forum Systems

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: 19 Nov 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

Oracle WebLogic Server: A Solid Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how Java EE 5 dramatically speeds the development of SOA applications and how enterprise developers can leverage its power by using Oracle WebLogic Server. Download this free white paper today.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Jun 2008

Oracle Corporation