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whitepaper Memory Manufacturer Gains Insight From Technical Experts on New Development Solution2008-05-14 Microsoft
  To increase agility and maintain pace with the industry, Kingston Technology needed to streamline product development processes. Three weeks in Proof-of-Concept Workshops at the Microsoft Technology Center in Taiwan gave company developers valuable hands-on experience with a new approach to service-oriented architecture. The result: the company increased its technical knowledge and confidence, which will help reduce time-to-market by 33 percent.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper The Information Perspective of SOA Design, Part 7: The Execution Approach for the Data Quality Analysis Pattern in SOA2008-05-08 IBM
  This is the seventh paper in a series called the "The Information Aspect of SOA Design." The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate to an architect community the execution approach of detailed data quality analysis in the context of an SOA environment. This paper focuses on the implementation of data quality analysis regardless of the specific technology in use, and will be followed by a related paper that describes in more detail how the related IBM products (WebSphere Information Analyzer) can be used in this context.

Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Distributed Manufacturing With SAP and Cisco: Extending Visibility Across the Global Manufacturing Environment2008-05-01 Cisco Systems
  To compete in today's dynamic business environment, global manufacturing organizations must be able to respond to rapidly changing market and operational conditions. Distributed Manufacturing with Cisco and SAP integrates two proven technologies to offer real-time visibility and collaboration across widely distributed processes to rapidly address critical business events. The combination of SAP's Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) application and the Cisco Service Oriented Network Architecture (SONA) provides secure connectivity between multiple locations and enterprises, and improves the quality and effectiveness of communications between decision makers.

Tags: Network Administration		   
whitepaper The eight most important best practices in SOA governance2008-05-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  The technologies used by IT to create Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are maturing. They are found to be robust and reliable. SOA governance provides a framework for making and applying the decisions that determine how the SOA will be designed, developed and operated. Work with real enterprises deploying SOAs to solve real business problems has led to the development of a set of best practices spanning SOA. This paper presents the eight best practices for SOA governance.

Tags: Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Methodology, Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development		   
whitepaper Hafslund ASA Improves Customer Management With a Single Source of Data2008-05-01 Oracle
  Hafslund wanted to centralize critical customer data spread across six different systems and integrate customer interaction, which was specific to each company and product. The challenge was to provide customer service center staff with a complete overview of customer commitments, and enable cross-selling and improve customer service by consolidating all customer information onto one system. Hafslund implemented Oracle's Siebel eEnergy and Oracle Business Intelligence to provide a ready-made solution capable of integrating Hafslund customer data as well as worked with Oracle Partner Infosys to consolidate information from disparate systems into a single application using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper German Crime Agency Bundeskriminalamt Pursues SOA to Automate Processes and Protect Data2008-05-01 Oracle
  Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) is the German federal crime agency. Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) wanted to implement a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and automate internal BKA business processes and ensure a smooth integration with the existing operational IT infrastructure. The challenge was to establish a component model to support a gradual, iterative strategy and support defined, established business processes. Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) worked with Oracle Consulting to evaluate Oracle SOA Suite to create a SOA to improve business processes throughout the organization and explored deployment of SOA to standardize data exchange between police authorities and enhance file sharing for comparative scenarios or inquiries.

Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper ChipMOS Optimizes Testing and Packaging With Award-Winning RFID Solutions2008-05-01 Oracle
  Like most semiconductor manufacturing companies, ChipMOS has invested significant amounts of money to build and maintain state-of-the-art foundries. However, the company did not have a centralized area to store finished products, but kept inventory in different areas of individual plants. During the biannual stock take and the monthly routine inventory count, staff spent hours locating and counting items scattered across the plant. This situation made it difficult for ChipMOS to know the exact amount of stock it was holding. After a series of discussions, senior management teams decided to adopt an RFID solution. The solution, dubbed the Wafer Testing Real-time Update Information System, was developed using Oracle middleware products, including Oracle SOA Suite.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Multiobjective Optimization of SLA-Aware Service Composition2008-04-25 University of Massachusetts
  In Service Oriented Architecture, each application is often designed as a set of abstract services, which defines its functions. A concrete service(s) is selected at runtime for each abstract service to fulfill its function. Since different concrete services may operate at different Quality of Service (QoS) measures, application developers are required to select an appropriate set of concrete services that satisfies a given Service Level Agreement (SLA) when a number of concrete services are available for each abstract service. This problem, the QoS-aware service composition problem, is known NP-hard, which takes a significant amount of time and costs to find optimal solutions (optimal combinations of concrete services) from a huge number of possible solutions.

Tags: SLA, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Business Integration Technology Case Study: Novus International2008-04-25 Business Integration Technology
  Based on decades of research and development at Monsanto, Novus International, Inc. was formed in 1991 and employs over 350 people in more than 20 countries. New business initiatives resulted in dramatic increases in the volume of sales orders and shipments in Novus' European operations. Although most of the 13 warehouses and 16 transporters wanted to communicate with Novus electronically, many did not have the required infrastructure. A change like this would require effort on their part to implement an integration solution. Novus hired Business Integration Technology to assist in the design, development and implementation of an integration solution for their Novus Europe team. Business Integration Technology implemented the Novus solution using an open source, standards-based architecture.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development		   
whitepaper Develop and Deploy Multitenant Web-Delivered Solutions Using IBM Middleware, Part 1: Challenges and Architectural Patterns2008-04-24 IBM
  Web-delivered solutions that follow a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model - where customers subscribe to software and access it from a service provider site rather than get licenses and have software installed on their premises - can offer compelling business value for businesses of any size. Solution developers who develop new solutions or transform existing solutions and service providers who deploy these solutions are faced with several technical challenges. One example is multitenancy, where a single instance of the software, running on a service provider's premises, serves multiple organizations. This paper series describes different patterns to address these challenges, often using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) techniques. Also learn how IBM software products can help one build and deploy scalable, configurable, and cost-effective multitenant Web-delivered solutions.

Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture		   


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