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whitepaper Live Webcast: Virtual Service Oriented Grids: Transforming the Enterprise2008-04-22 Intel
  One of the most powerful features of computing grids is the capability of being able to identify and allocate resources needed to build and run an application on demand and in almost real time, without months of negotiation or waiting for the hardware procurement cycle to facilitate it.

While most discussions in the industry have been focused on the enhanced performance from grid computing in niche applications, the overlooked real payoff from combining grids with virtualization and service orientation will come in terms of a quantum jump in capability for business agility and flexibility.

With grid computing, three entities - data, storage, and processing - can be allocated independently and metered precisely to support most business goals. Thus, allowing a solution provider to put together a business application that best fit the goals of the application from anywhere in the world. This solution can be assembled from a combination of in-sourced and out-sourced components working seamlessly.

Join this live webcast with Q&A and featuring Enrique Castro-Leon, Enterprise and Data Center Architect and Technology strategist, Intel Corporation and Jackson He, Lead Architect, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel Corporation and hosted by James Hilliard of TechRepublic to learn how organizations can transform their enterprise via a virtual service oriented grids.

Tags: ERP, High Performance Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture, Virtualization		   
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 6: The Value of Applying the Data Quality Analysis Pattern in SOA2008-04-17 IBM
  For SOA services to be successful and reusable, it is important that the data they expose is of acceptable quality for all the consumers. Exposing quality data is necessary in any SOA initiative. Whether it is application services being exposed or a simple generated data query service, the resulting data must be accurate and appropriate to the business context to be of any value. Data profiling and, in particular, quality analysis are traditional components of enterprise data architecture.

Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper SOA Strategy: A Comprehensive Yet Flexible Suite for a Pervasive Architecture2008-04-09 Oracle
  This paper looks at some of the advantages of implementing SOA with a suite strategy, and specifically focuses on the Oracle SOA Suite of products. Then by briefly highlighting the experiences of a major SOA installation, it shows how the suite strategy paid off for one global customer.

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Tags: Web Services, Strategic Planning, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Croatia-Based Oil Firm Enhances Operations, Achieves 100 Per Cent Accurate Retail Data2008-04-09 Microsoft Tips
  INA is a leading oil and gas provider in Croatia. Established in 1964, the company employs more than 15,000 people at its regional offices, and gas and retail stores. Until 2006, INA business and marketing teams relied on the sales data provided by gas and retail stores to manage stock and plan new marketing initiatives. However, the process for consolidating data was unreliable and employees frequently worked with inaccurate and outdated information. In June 2004, INA collaborated with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner IN2, to develop a service-orientated architecture. With the new solution, based on Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, marketing and business teams can access real-time data from the company's systems and use this to effectively support business operations.

Tags: Business Management, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper E-Learning (MOODLE) Based on Service Oriented Architecture2008-04-07 De Montfort University
  Technological development has become so manifest in all fields that it is now highly crucial to take it into consideration whenever possible. Such development has resulted in the tremendous amount of information that exists nowadays. Therefore, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become an active area of research and development. Web services as an example of SOA support the integration of software applications in an incremental way, using existing platforms and languages that utilize and adopt existing legacy systems. Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are one of the emerging domains that require to be extended to SOA.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Keys to Successful Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation2008-04-03 Oracle
  There is no question that the successful implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) relies on a careful and holistic approach to business planning. One of the most important tools in the evaluation, purchase, and ongoing use of SOA is the body of best practices that vendors, consultants, and customers have compiled. The promise of business agility, improved customer service, and competitive advantage with SOA is real. What varies most is the time, cost, and ease of SOA implementation. By learning from the experiences of those organizations that have been through the process and looking at the standard best practices of large-scale technology implementations, success can come earlier and more dramatically.

Tags: Web Services, Strategic Planning, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper The Future Is Here... Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI): Composite Technologies to Meet New Demands in Sales and Customer Service2008-04-01 SAP
  Regardless of the specific market requirements, however, it is clear that without sufficiently adaptive IT landscapes, utilities across the board will find it difficult to deliver on the promise of AMI. This is where enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (enterprise SOA) comes into play. Enterprise SOA is a business-driven software architecture that goes beyond the fundamentals of service-oriented architecture, allowing utilities to flexibly expose various technology components within the IT landscape as Web services and more easily compose solutions to support AMI. This paper examines how AMI is gaining a foothold in energy markets and explains how utilities can use enterprise SOA to make AMI a reality for those facing new and unanswered market challenges.

Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper QUT Builds Flexible Environment to Sustain Innovation and Accommodate Growth2008-04-01 Oracle
  Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a culturally diverse Australian education provider with campuses in Brisbane and southeast Queensland. As a leader in information technology deployment, QUT constantly assesses ways it can reduce costs and better service staff, students, and alumni. QUT decided to upgrade its environment, including implementing a new student management system and a new online learning system. Following an extensive review, QUT opted to use Oracle products to develop a flexible architecture incorporating high availability, redundancy, flexibility, and efficiency. This series of projects includes implementation of grid computing, clustering, and an SOA.

Tags: High Performance Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture		   
whitepaper Realizing Business Value From an Integrated Service-Oriented Architecture System in a Multivendor World2008-04-01 IBM
  Most analyst surveys agree that close to half of the companies around the world today are already investing in functional deployments, piloting, or seriously considering a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) system. The projections vary widely, with investments expected to reach anywhere from $18.4 billion by 2012 to as high as $160 billion. But the message is clear: businesses need to reduce time to market, improve business alignment for growth, and do a better job of unlocking valuable information within an organization. An SOA environment, with its emphasis on reusability and flexibility, is often the optimal answer for many companies.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture		   


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