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whitepaper SOA enabled business process transformation: achieving sustainable agility for the globally integrated enterprise2008-06-13 IBM
  This paper explores the nature of the globally integrated enterprise and how service oriented architecture (SOA) takes on a whole new meaning in a world where market dynamics are constantly changing and business transactions are crisscrossing company firewalls and geographic boundaries. SOA is helping companies achieve the business agility needed to effectively compete in a globalized world.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Smart SOA: Best practices for agile innovation and optimisation2008-06-13 IBM
  In this era of unprecedented change, organisations need flexibility to adapt rapidly. Part of what separates winners from losers is the ability to respond quickly and intelligently to market opportunities, competitive threats and regulatory constraints - in short, to innovate and create value. The best companies understand how to use technology for strategic advantage to help accomplish these goals. Service oriented architecture (SOA) can help.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper SOA Governance, Organization2008-04-18 IT.com
  SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Governance is an essential ingredient for SOA success. The paper has discusses what governance is comprised of, how policies implement an SOA governance model, and how these policies can be enforced using technology solutions. The paper also discusses an approach to developing an SOA governance model and the required policies to achieve business and technology objectives. SOA governance is critical to SOA success.   
whitepaper The Information Perspective of SOA Design, Part 4: The Value of Applying the Canonical Modeling Pattern in SOA2008-03-13 IBM
  Discover the approach and value of canonical modeling in SOA design. See how the canonical data models can be aligned in SOA with canonical message models. In this fourth paper in the "Information Aspect of SOA Related Design" series, learn about the concept's underlying data and message modeling regardless of the technology and tool choices. A future paper in this series describes how various IBM software products can be used to implement the concepts described here.   
whitepaper Getting SOA right: SOA Healthchecks2008-02-29 IBM
 

SOA Healthchecks from IBM can help you determine your SOA health so you don't end up having to perform costly remediation. Whether you're just getting started with SOA or are well under way, these services can answer those nagging questions.

This white paper highlights: performing diagnosis and remediation on applications, services and infrastructures; Increasing the service-oriented architecture (SOA) payoff; exposing potential bottlenecks; and helping secure funding for future SOA initiatives

   
whitepaper Services-Based Enterprise Integration Patterns Made Easy, Part 1: The Evolution of Basic Concepts2008-02-28 IBM
  This series of papers explains services-based enterprise integration patterns in an easy-to-understand, step-by-step way. In this installment, Part 1 of the series, one learns about the two earliest integration patterns - data sharing only and Remote Procedure Call (RPC) - which help introduce the concepts of service provider and service consumer, platform independence, and connectivity. Exploring RPC helps one get familiar with the basic steps necessary for two applications to share functionality. This paper also includes a general description of the concepts of loose coupling, code reuse, and layering and componentization. Part 2 of the series will continue the discussion of the early patterns, while Parts 3 and 4 cover the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based integration patterns, including examples.   
whitepaper IT Manager Webcast: Application Platform: Establishing Trust in Your SOA Ecosystem (Level 200)2008-01-31 Microsoft
  While many organizations are starting to benefit from Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), many are now challenged with efficiently scaling the number of services provided and the number of consumers supported through their current approach and implementations. These organizations are starting to recognize the profound need for capabilities provided through service life cycle management to help them address these challenges. This webcast looks at how organizations can attain a higher level of value from SOA through the development of a service life cycle management strategy. It looks at the end-to-end service life cycle, from service design, development, and deployment to versioning and retirement. The attendee will learn about the significance of infrastructure elements, such as repositories, registries, and intermediaries to facilitate and coordinate those stages.   
whitepaper How Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Impacts Your IT Infrastructure2008-01-01 IBM
  Read this paper to see how SOA impacts your IT infrastructure - in particular, how business processes and transactions are handled differently in an SOA environment than in traditional application architecture. The paper also discusses the new elements which are necessary for an IT infrastructure to support SOA and shares IBM's experience and recommendations to help you meet the new availability, performance, security, and management challenges.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Middleware		   
whitepaper SOA: The Architecture of Choice for Demand-Driven Retail2008-01-01 BEA Systems
  Retail is undergoing a massive transformation, driven by unprecedented customer expectations of instant and personalized response. To compete in a global marketplace with intensified competition, it is no longer sufficient to maintain high levels of operational excellence and efficiency. Retailers must also address diminishing customer loyalty, viral word-of-mouth, and expectations of seamless customer service across interaction channels - and do so not autonomously, but as part of a global supply-chain network. They cannot take their focus away from operational excellence, but must differentiate in service, product, and access to their customers. To meet these challenges, retailers must adopt more flexible business processes and practices, and integrate customer and operational data across their entire supply chain.   
whitepaper SOA Scenarios From IBM, Part 5: Scenario 2 - Service Connectivity Options in a Real-World SOA Scenario2007-12-18 IBM
  View SOA within a software development lifecycle context using the IBM Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Foundation Lifecycle. This installment in the Architecture in practice series focuses on the Service Connectivity scenario, the second of the SOA scenarios. Explore four ways to realize connectivity between service producers and consumers that foster reuse of services across multiple delivery channels. Learn about three Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) topologies that enable service connectivity, and associated products that provide advanced, end-to-end ESB-based solutions. Get an overview on developing mediation modules and flows using four common patterns.