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TOGAF or Not TOGAF: Extending Enterprise Architecture Beyond RUP

whitepaper This paper contrasts the disciplines of enterprise architecture, solution architecture, and business architecture; compares these disciplines to the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) and suggests ways to combine them; and advocates applying The...

Tags: software engineering

[16 May 2008]

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. The purpose of any organization is to efficiently run its business and provide services or products to its customers and clients.

Tags: enterprise architecture

[16 May 2008]

Embracing SOA for the Legacy World: Architectural Strategies to Give Your Mainframes and Legacy Applications a New Lease on Life

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming widely accepted, but there are gaps in the industry's approach, level of experience, and understanding of how to apply SOA to enterprise IT environments.

Tags: mainframes

[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]

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]

Beyond the Obvious Web Services

whitepaper This paper examines the technology evolution from COM to Web Services and how Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can make a big difference to existing enterprise architecture. Basically they are the physical binary implementations of the business...

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

HP-UX 11i Version 2 September 2004 Overview: HP Business Critical Systems Marketing

whitepaper The release of HP-UX 11i version 2 was a major transition point for HP-UX 11i onto the Intel Itanium architecture, which offers large improvements in price/performance and performance scalability compared to current architectures.

Tags: hp-ux

[16 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]

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]

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]

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]

Facility Considerations for the Data Center

whitepaper The Cisco Enterprise Data Center Architecture - a comprehensive, adaptive network architecture designed by Cisco Systems for agile Information Technology (IT) support of business needs - critically depends upon underlying physical facilities to...

Tags: data center

[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]

Requirements Process for SOA Projects, Part 3: Gathering Requirements for Ongoing SOA Services Usage

whitepaper When the enterprise has a collection of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) services, the requirements-gathering process can be challenging. The first paper in this series discusses the technical requirements for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA...

Tags: web services

[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]

Architecture in Practice, Part 1: Realizing Service-Oriented Architecture - IBM Tools and Products for Implementing SOA Systems

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) means different things to different people. To an IT architect, SOA is an architectural style and paradigm that enables the creation of modular and loosely coupled services that can be composed and choreographed...

Tags: web services

[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. Well-designed service interfaces can accelerate project schedules and make the SOA solution more responsive to business needs.

Tags: web services

[15 May 2008]

Architecting on Demand Solutions, Part 13: Integrate BPEL With Enterprise Service Bus in WebSphere Application Server V6

whitepaper Building on Part 11 in the series, this paper helps one use BPEL and the ESB together to implement a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). In Part 2, WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker implemented the ESB patterns for the customer...

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Introducing the WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture: A Service-Based Foundation for Enterprise-Level Business Integration

whitepaper The ability to coordinate the challenges of enterprise-level integration necessitates an architecture to facilitate the modeling and managing of services spanning information, applications, and people.

Tags: web services

[14 May 2008]

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