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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 Protecting virtual macchines: the "best of Vmworld" approach2008-06-06 Citrix Systems
  By enabling IT managers to move virtual machines (and the applications they host) between physical servers, server virtualization gives them a powerful method for reducing planned downtime and speeding recovery. But protecting virtual machines from unplanned downtime and unforeseen outages is a challenge. IT managers need availability solutions that are simple, non-disruptive and costeffective so they can extend availability to any virtual machine to ensure business resiliency.

This white paper will explore a completely new approach to availability for virtual machines - an approach recognized with the Best of VMworld 2007 - New Technology award.

Tags: Storage Management, Database Management, Service-Oriented Architecture, Virtualization		   
whitepaper SOA Management: Bringing SOA into the mainstream of IT operations2008-06-06 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Managing SOA services is usually done by a specific project team initially. However, in the long run, SOA must be managed in production by IT operations to take advantage of trusted operational processes. This paper describes an approach to SOA management that integrates SOA into the fabric of IT by addressing the unique aspects of SOA management and balances the needs of the initial SOA project team with the needs of the enterprise.

Tags: Resources Mgmt., Strategic Planning, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper The Evolving Role of the Business Analyst: The Business Rules Analyst Emerges as a New Star in the Business World2008-06-03 IBM
  Traditionally, the business analyst has been responsible for analyzing the business needs of companies by identifying business problems and proposing solutions. With the advent of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the business analyst has to think about issues such as IT services and how to define business logic as rules for easier and faster change cycles. Thus, a new position called the business rules analyst has emerged. This paper will examine the role of this new star in the business world and will also help one understand how this role can help improve the Return On Investment (ROI) on one's business applications.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper China Southern Airlines Builds Database Archiving Platform in Three Months Using SOA Technologies2008-06-01 Oracle
  China Southern Airlines wanted to develop an archiving platform to store data generated by the electronic ticketing and the electronic customer systems and integrate the platform with the ticketing and customer systems and move data between individual systems with complex interdependencies that change with new business requirements. The challenge was to ensure the platform can efficiently process large amounts of data every week without affecting production systems and enable any process changes to be quickly implemented. China Southern Airlines cut development time from a projected five months to three by using tools from Oracle SOA Suite and used Oracle BPEL Process Manager 10g to establish, deploy, and manage data archiving workflows for the platform.

Tags: Programming Languages, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Acciaierie Venete S.p.A. Implements Flexible and Scalable Infrastructure Software Solution2008-06-01 Oracle
  Acciaierie Venete wanted to streamline and simplify IT management and overcome difficulties integrating a number of applications from different environments. The challenge was to obtain a homogeneous, flexible system that can adapt quickly to changing market conditions and evolving company strategy and open a new plant and integrate its IT environment with that of the company's other facilities. Acciaierie Venete achieved the integration of applications in various systems to centralize management and make it compatible with the central administrative organization as well as used BPEL as an interface engine for integration of logistics management in the payables cycle and production management, obtaining complete management of administration even for complex reception tasks such as arrival of scrap.

Tags: Programming Languages, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Increase Business Agility Through BRM Systems and SOA: Best Bets to Increase ROI on Your Enterprise Applications2008-05-27 IBM
  The widespread acceptance of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) proves that enterprises have realized the promise of this technology. That promise of increased agility comes from a basic software design principle: loose coupling. SOA allows for business functions to be exposed as independent services. Web services, which is one way to implement SOA, makes any business functionality available over the Internet. Another technology that promises to extend that agility to business users is Business Rules Management (BRM) systems. A BRM gives business users direct control over the business logic, allowing them to change it without much intervention from IT. This paper explores how these two technologies - SOA and BRM - promise to help businesses respond more quickly and cost effectively to changing market conditions.

Tags: ROI - TCO, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper The Information Perspective of SOA Design, Part 8: Use of IBM WebSphere Information Analyzer in SOA Design2008-05-22 IBM
  WebSphere Information Analyzer is a tool that allows for profiling and discovery of quality related aspects of existing data stores. It also helps users perform gap analysis between source and target systems. This paper demonstrates to an architect community how tools from IBM - in particular IBM WebSphere Information Analyzer and the unified metadata management of IBM Information Server - can be used to address the data quality analysis pattern in an SOA engagement. It describes the key features of the products that support the data quality analysis pattern presented in Part 6 of this series.

Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Automatically Determining Compatibility of Evolving Services2008-05-21 Hewlett-Packard
  A major advantage of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) is composition and coordination of loosely coupled services. Because the development lifecycles of services and clients are de-coupled, multiple service versions have to be maintained to continue supporting older clients. Typically versions are managed within the SOA by updating service descriptions using conventions on version numbers and namespaces. This paper describes a method to automatically determine when two service descriptions are backward compatible. They then describe a case study to illustrate how they leveraged version compatibility information in a SOA environment and present initial performance overheads of doing so.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Service Oriented Architecture to Manage Units of Learning Based on the IMS LD Specification2008-05-16 University of Santiago de Compostela
  A learning design describes the method that enables learners to achieve learning objectives after carrying out a set of activities using the resources of an environment. Among the current proposals, the IMS Learning Design (IMS LD) (IMS Consortium, 2003) specification has emerged as the de facto standard that facilitates the representation of learning designs independently of the chosen pedagogical focus. Nowadays, the CopperCore engine is the most used platform available for executing IMS LD learning designs.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   


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