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Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 1: Build an Enterprise Architecture - Creating Your Organization's IT Blueprint

whitepaper Organizations rely on Enterprise Architecture (EA) to fulfill their business requirements with IT tools and services. Through these architectures, an organization can better understand its needs as they interact with others in the market and gain...

Tags: enterprise architecture

[16 May 2008]

Avoiding Common Pitfalls in SOA Adoption: Tips to Help You Reap the Benefits of an SOA Implementation

whitepaper IT architecture has matured significantly as an approach to successfully address typical IT problem domains. A relatively new subdiscipline in architecture that has gained significant prominence is the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Deploying Operating Systems With Configuration Manager 2007 (Part 1 of 2) (Level 300)

whitepaper With an architecture that allows for granular control over deployment, Configuration Manager 2007 can helps to get the right desktop image, applications, and configuration to the right hardware. In this webcast, the presenter starts with a look at...

Tags: monitoring systems

[16 May 2008]

Insight and Outlook, Part 9: The Defining Element of SOA - A Different Look at Governance

whitepaper One has probably been hearing a lot about Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) from IBM and others in the IT industry: about its inevitability as an enterprise software architectural style of choice; about how, if one has anything to do with...

Tags: service-oriented architecture

[16 May 2008]

Implementing Custom Databinding and Custom Function Selectors in IBM WebSphere Adapters

whitepaper Data bindings transform the data produced by Enterprise Information Service (EIS) services into data consumed by Service Component Architecture (SCA) components and vice versa. One can use data bindings to transform binary data to an Service Data...

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise: PeopleTools 8.48 64-Bit on the IBM System p Platform

whitepaper PeopleTools 8.48 provides customers with an expanded ability to adopt a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and also allows customers to create and natively support Web services and integrate legacy or custom applications with PeopleSoft...

Tags: unix

[16 May 2008]

Introducing the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Part 1: Understand TOGAF and IT Architecture in Today's World - Connecting Business Needs With the Technology Infrastructure

whitepaper One's architecture might be straightforward, even simple. In the case of enterprise applications, however, a lot of thought has to go into just that topic - what one needs to do and how one needs to do it - before one can even start coding the...

Tags: application development

[16 May 2008]

Introducing the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Part 3: Create an Enterprise Architecture With TOGAF

whitepaper When considering the implementation of an enterprise architecture, one can begin to feel overwhelmed with all the pieces. This paper walks through how to begin that process by leveraging an existing architectural model like The Open Group...

Tags: enterprise architecture

[15 May 2008]

Introducing the Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Part 2: Explore an Industry Standard for Defining an Enterprise Architecture

whitepaper TOGAF is a complete package for creating an enterprise architecture. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) provides architects a methodology for gaining control over enterprise architecture and IT.

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 2: Begin With the Business Architecture - You Are What You Know

whitepaper While building an enterprise architecture, one must start at the beginning - that is, with a full understanding of the nature of one's business. The best way to do that is to map the business itself to an architecture of its own, then use that map...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 3: Move on to the Information Architecture - Store, Protect, and Manage Your Organization's Data

whitepaper As one progress toward the design of the enterprise architecture, one must supplement the new business architecture with an information architecture - an architecture that outlines mission-critical information and how to store it, protect it, and...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Bobby Woolf: A Quick Intro to WebSphere Business Process Management

whitepaper IBM WebSphere Business Process Management is a solution for modeling, assembling, deploying, and managing applications that embody a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and are integrated using an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Tags: business management

[15 May 2008]

Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 4: Update Your Infrastructure Architecture to Serve and Protect Your Enterprise

whitepaper Traditional enterprise architecture designs tend to focus on the creation of the solutions, or development, architecture before the creation or design of the infrastructure architecture, but because most organizations today already have an...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Best Practices for Service Interface Design in SOA, Part 1: Exploring the Development, Interfaces, and Operation Semantics of Services

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) emphasizes loose coupling between different systems within an enterprise. Service interface structure is of primary importance in SOA because poorly designed service interfaces can have a negative effect on all...

Tags: web services

[15 May 2008]

Information Architecture 101: A Crash Course for the Enterprise Architect - Synergies, Alignment, and the Relationship Between SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization

whitepaper The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AlfIA), an Information Architecture (IA) industry body of practitioners, states that IA is ".the design of shared information environments," especially as it relates to Web sites, intranets...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Enterprise Architecture and the Role of Technology: Delivering Value to Stakeholders

whitepaper Enterprise architecture is a broad term, involving the creation and execution of IT strategy based on an organization's vision and business goals. Enterprise Architecture (EA) function is often equated with processes, metrics, and governance, but...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Make Composite Business Services Adaptable With Points of Variability, Part 1: Choosing the Right Implementation

whitepaper Explore options for building Points Of Variability (POV) in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) composite business services in this series. Topics include business rules and selectors; mediation using an Enterprise Service Bus; dynamic routing...

Tags: groupware - workflow

[15 May 2008]

Design and Implement a Composite Workflow Solution Using IBM Middleware, Part 1: Using Business Process Management and a Services-Based Approach to Create a Highly Responsive IT Architecture

whitepaper The approach to designing IT architecture and implementation is changing from a technology-centered paradigm to a solution that is based on business process orchestration. When IT solutions are centered around business processes, an enterprise can...

Tags: business management

[15 May 2008]

SOA Programming Model for Implementing Web Services, Part 1: Introduction to the IBM SOA Programming Model

whitepaper The IBM programming model for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enables non-programmers to create and reuse IT assets without mastering IT skills. The model includes component types, wiring, templates, application adapters, uniform data...

Tags: programming languages

[15 May 2008]

Design an SOA Solution Using a Reference Architecture: Improve Your Development Process Using the SOA Solution Stack

whitepaper The reference architecture, also referred to as the SOA solution stack, defines the layers, architectural building blocks, architectural and design decisions, patterns, options, and the separation of concerns that can help the enterprise better...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

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