SOA Governance Reports

EBOOK: How important are enterprise service buses (ESBs) to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the enterprise? Will new efforts to understand ESBs pay off in the long-term? This e-book provides valuable insight on the role of ESBs in application integration and the modern enterprise.

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 | Published: 02 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how an enterprise service bus (ESB) enables interoperability at "the seven key points of mediation," which is necessary to achieve the goals of service oriented architecture (SOA): reuse and agility. It spotlights the first three points of mediation: transport, location, and semantics.

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2010

VIDEO: This video provides a brief overview of how service-oriented architectures (SOAs) can help the mortgage industry stay on track and provide good service to its customers.

Posted: 08 Nov 2011 | Premiered: 08 Nov 2011

WEBCAST: Did you think you could onboard a new business partner 50% faster, or reduce the time and cost to change your IT systems by 50%? You can. By leveraging an incremental approach to SOA, you can begin to make faster, better, and richer connections across your business network in less than 9 months. Watch this webcast to learn how.

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 | Premiered: Oct 27, 2011

WHITE PAPER: To optimize business services and application performance, IT organizations need a complete picture of all IT assets and services that contribute to customer and user experience.

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

EBOOK: This e-book will help you to better understand the effective use of the WebSphere DataPower family of appliances. It provides guidance on the best methods identified to date for building the various components that implement solutions as well as a checklist of items to consider when planning a solution.

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover how leveraging business process management (BPM), powered by smart service-oriented architecture (SOA), can make critical information available in a fast, consistent way which improves the quality of health care organizations.

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 | Published: 10 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reveals five smarter banking solutions which can transform your infrastructure while reducing costs. In particular, see how smart service-oriented architecture (SOA) can provide the greater application connectivity to help financial institutions reach their goals.

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 | Published: 10 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, Philip Howard reviews the current market for data integration platforms, paying particular attention to open source offerings from Talend.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: Various types of application integration have grown up over the years, leading to something of an oxymoron: islands of integration. Read this expert E-guide to uncover how cloud data services can help your organization by providing self-service integrated information from siloed systems.

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 | Published: 05 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: A new survey of 581 members of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), sponsored by Oracle Corporation, finds that managing data growth is a priority for many companies, but smarter responses are needed to address the challenge. Get all the details by downloading this paper.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 16 Mar 2011

EBOOK: In today’s unpredictable economy, it is more vital than ever to know your business processes and understand how you can gain a competitive edge. Read this e-book and see how IBM’s suite of solutions can simplify work processes and provide you with unrivaled connectivity and seamless integration.

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 | Published: 07 Mar 2011

PODCAST: Listen to software development experts from the IBM® Software Development Laboratory and some of their U.S.-based counterparts explain how to reduce complexity, improve access to vital business information, and optimize IT budgets in this exclusive, listen-at-your-own-pace podcast series on Smart SOA Connectivity and Integration.

Posted: 07 Mar 2011 | Premiered: Mar 7, 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: Cloud Computing is easy to deploy, flexible and cost-effective.  As federal agencies continue to outsource data management and operations to third-party cloud providers, their ability to ensure data integrity and privacy is becoming a potential security risk. Read this white paper to learn how you can manage Cloud Computing safely and efficiently.

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 10 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the differences between JBoss Community projects and JBoss Enterprise Middleware products. It explains how JBoss Enterprise Middleware delivers the benefits of open source software, combined with the additional testing, certification, and maintenance releases necessary for reliable long-term enterprise production use.

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

EZINE: This e-zine covers the topic of testing and retesting defects and cites the Blackberry blackouts of 2007 and 2008 as examples of issues that could have been detected by regressing testing.

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 | Published: 09 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: This e-guide discusses an architecture-driven SOA paradigm, and what's been holding back adoption of this type of approach. It also looks at the cultural, organizational and operational impact of an architecture-driven SOA, and why the SOA architect needs to step up and lead.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 20 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This IBM white paper provides an introduction to the managed file transfer topic and IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition. WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition is designed to address the needs of organizations that rely on the transfer of files as well as organizations that want more control, manageability and auditability.

Posted: 30 Sep 2010 | Published: 30 Sep 2010

EGUIDE: The SearchSOA.com E-Guide: Data Integration provides an expert overview of the role of data integration in SOA development. It discusses the prominent function of data services platforms (DSPs) in an SOA initiative and offers insight into the seven levels of loose coupling that architects should consider when developing this infrastructure.

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 | Published: 29 Jun 2010

EBOOK: In this paper you will learn how SOA can directly influence the success of your business, which will result from your business’ ability to participate in these new, more dynamic, federated communities. Read on to learn how social orientation is driving both new SOA technology needs and management changes in how technology is delivered and governed.

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 | Published: 05 Feb 2010

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

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

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

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