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whitepaper Modeling and Sharing Architectural Decisions, Part 1: Concepts From Retrospective Decision Capturing to Proactive Decision Modeling2008-08-05 IBM
  Architectural decisions capture precious knowledge that is worth sharing. Text templates and tools designed solely for documentation purposes fail to facilitate such knowledge exchange. In this series of paper, learn about a domain meta model specifically designed to capture and share architectural decisions, explore a reusable architectural decision model for SOA, and find out more about Architectural Decision Knowledge Wiki, a Web 2.0 collaboration platform. This first paper outlines why and how architects should consciously identify, make, and enforce architectural decisions.

Tags: Software Engineering, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Avis Budget Group, Inc. Improves Customer Experience With Service-Oriented Architecture2008-08-01 Oracle
  Avis Budget Group, Inc. is one of the world leaders in vehicle rental services, reflecting the company's commitment to service, innovation, and professionalism. To help ensure a positive and consistent customer experience and keep loyal renters coming back time and again, Avis Budget's technology team implemented a new SOA infrastructure in 2004 to support all customer contact channels - including call centers, airport rental counters, standalone facilities, and the internet. The infrastructure, known as One Merged Enterprise & Global Architecture (OMEGA), is a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) built on Oracle WebLogic Server (previously known as BEA WebLogic Server). Today, the OMEGA foundation enables Avis to seamlessly process more than 60,000 transactions daily.

Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Nadace CEZ Maximizes Charitable Donations by Leveraging SOA Technology to Cut Management Costs2008-08-01 Oracle
  Nadace CEZ wanted to gain a single, up-to-date database of all funding applications, together with full details of all projects supported. The challenge was to make real-time data accessible to all fund managers and cut fund management overhead by streamlining application processing through best practices and automation. Nadace CEZ replaced Microsoft Excel-based spreadsheets containing details of applicants and projects with a Web-based register built by Oracle Partner SEFIRA spol s.r.o. using TopLink and Oracle Application Development Framework and chose Oracle Application Development Framework for its robust, secure, scalable, flexible platform designed for agile, multi-tier enterprise applications.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development		   
whitepaper State of Queretaro Judicial Branch Extends Information Visibility and Accelerates Cases by 80%2008-08-01 Oracle
  Poder Judicial del Estado de Queretaro wanted to implement a highly available IT infrastructure to guarantee secure information transfer and automate administrative processes to collect information from files quickly and reliably. The challenge was to achieve operating efficiency to accelerate cases and offer excellent service to citizens and eliminate inefficient manual procedures and reprocessing of information. Poder Judicial del Estado de Queretaro implemented a highly available IT infrastructure, facilitating secure collaboration and information transfer between the judicial branch and the attorney general's office and automated administrative processes, ensuring detailed and reliable follow-up of 26,000 files and judicial documents per year.

Tags: Security Management, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper BBVA Bancomer Increases Operating Efficiency With a Flexible and Scalable IT Infrastructure2008-08-01 Oracle
  BBVA Bancomer wanted to create a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure to provide operational efficiency throughout the organization and automate manual verification and quality approval processes in banking services and in application development. The challenge was to improve visibility into operations and accelerate application design and development and standardize quality controls among branches to guarantee availability of services throughout the region. BBVA Bancomer worked with Oracle University to implement Oracle SOA Suite, creating an integrated architecture for developing applications on a flexible platform as well as automated more than 300 manual quality controls with BPEL Process Manager, reducing the time for approving new services and for application development.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development		   
whitepaper M/I Homes, Inc. Improves Productivity With Real-Time Construction and Financial Information2008-08-01 Oracle
  M/I Homes, Inc. wanted to increase productivity and profitability in the increasingly tight homebuilding market and increase operational control at the corporate level. The challenge was to facilitate improved communication between parties involved in the building process, including suppliers and subcontractors. M/I Homes, Inc. implemented Oracle Application Server and Oracle SOA Suite to integrate M/I Home's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system with industry-specific scheduling and supply chain software, Hyphen BuildPro as well as leveraged Oracle SOA Suite to streamline business processes.

Tags: ERP, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Part 4: Exposing Services Through Rich User Interfaces2008-08-01 Oracle
  A rich User Interface (rich UI) is an interface that is similar in look and feel to that of a desktop application. These types of interfaces carry advantages and disadvantages, but have the power to leverage Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) by exposing the advantages of such an architecture to end users rather than just to IT. Although there is no universally accepted standard definition for rich UIs, there are some key characteristics that are typically found in applications that are considered rich in nature: increased responsiveness, asynchronous communication with the server and behaviors not available in HTML alone.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper How Business Networks are Evolving Today2008-08-01 SAP
  View this short SAP Executive View video as Geoffrey Moore, Managing Director at TCG Advisors and leading professor in the field of Business Networks, presents how SOA and business process platforms create the common ground for coordination and collaboration beyond business boundaries.

Tags: Supply Chain Management, Web Services, Collaborative Web, Strategic Planning, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Creating Business Value Through Process Integration and Composition2008-08-01 SAP
  To move at the speed of business, your company has to leverage existing applications and processes quickly and easily. Laborious, hard-coded integration techniques don't provide the agility and reusability you need to support continuous innovation.

Watch this RealTime with SAP Webcast to learn:
  • How The Home Depot and ITC Ltd are using the integration and composition capabilities of the SAP NetWeaver technology platform to solve key business problems
  • How enterprise service-oriented architecture is helping these leading companies leverage existing IT resources to put accurate, integrated information at the fingertips of distributors and store associates


Tags: Supply Chain Management, Web Services, Strategic Planning, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper SOA Meets Situational Applications, Part 3: Examples and Lessons Learned2008-07-03 IBM
  In this paper, one examines three SAs. These applications were selected to represent a wide variety of business challenges that SAs can be leveraged to solve. Some of these commonly occur across Lines Of Business (LOBs) and are of general interest. Others are LOB-specific, yet with typical challenges that can be successfully addressed by an SA. In addition to a business context, along with each examined application this paper describes the business challenge and an architectural overview of the resulting solution with the enabling technologies and tangible business results achieved by each.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   


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