service oriented
Turbulent times call for an agile application foundation.
White Paper A service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a foundation that enables agility and aligns IT to business goals. Does your IT change as fast as the market? This interactive presentation from IBM® will... [16 Nov 2009]
How to Plan a Successful Finance Transformation
White Paper To redefine itself as a cost-effective, service-oriented partner to the business, Finance should design its transformation strategy to meet key stakeholder requirements and consider the better practices... [13 Nov 2009]
Turning the Tide With Concentric Perimeter Email Protection
White Paper The Concentric Filtering Engine (CAFE) takes a new, service provider oriented approach and operates on a much larger scale. Turning the tide of spam and other email threats that are destroying the... [13 Nov 2009]
Semantic Firewall: An Approach Towards Autonomous Web Security in Service Oriented Environments
White Paper As the technical infrastructure to support Grid environments matures, attention must be focused on integrating such technical infrastructure with technologies to support more dynamic access to services, and ensuring that such access is... [12 Nov 2009]
Advanced QoS Methods for Grid Workflows Based on Meta-Negotiations and SLA-Mappings
White Paper In novel market-oriented resource sharing models, resource consumers pay for the resource usage and expect that non-functional requirements for the application execution, termed as Quality of Service... [12 Nov 2009]
Towards a Meta-Negotiation Architecture for SLA-Aware Grid Services
White Paper In novel market-oriented resource sharing models resource consumers pay for the resource usage and expect that non-functional requirements for the application execution, termed as Quality of Service... [12 Nov 2009]
SLA-Driven Distributed Application Development
White Paper The management of Service Level Agreements (SLA) in the development of business processes in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) often requires much manual and error-prone effort by... [12 Nov 2009]
Toward Better Understanding of Service Level Agreement (SLA) Expectations, for Improved Conformance Among Stakeholders in a Distributed, Dynamic, Composite Software Solution
White Paper Software development has evolved towards increased reuse of pre-existing components and delivery of functional capabilities through Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). The situation drives... [12 Nov 2009]
A Policy-Based Middleware for Web Services SLA Negotiation
White Paper The paper proposes a Negotiation Broker (NB) middleware framework to facilitate automated negotiations of SLAs for Web services in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Negotiation of... [12 Nov 2009]
Service Governance and Virtualization for SOA
White Paper Best practices expressed as patterns emerged and have become widely adopted as developers moved from structured programming to object oriented programming to Service Oriented... [09 Nov 2009]
The Role of SONA in Enterprise Architecture Frameworks and Strategies
White Paper With SONA, Cisco describes a flexible, service-oriented communications network and identifies the high-level relationship and interfaces between the network and general application-level systems. SONA... [30 Oct 2009]
Microsoft Dynamics: Enabling Real-World SOA to connect your business vision with software
White Paper Microsoft Dynamics has made investments in Web services and other Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies across our product lines to help customers take a "Real-World" approach to SOA. This... [28 Oct 2009]
Teachers Association Turns to Centralized Data Repository to Improve Member Service
White Paper It provides a full range of offerings, including the improvement of teaching conditions, representation in the political arena, insurance, and education-oriented publications. The California Teachers Association (CTA)... [28 Oct 2009]
Accelerate results by aligning Lean Six Sigma, BPM and SOA
White Paper Lean Six Sigma (LSS) produces real results, and when combined with business process management (BPM) and service oriented architecture (SOA) can position a company for growth as the economy begins to... [20 Oct 2009]
Ensuring Web Service Quality for Service-Oriented Architectures
White Paper Current trends show that the vast majority of companies are moving to services-oriented architectures (SOAs) and deploying Web services within and across their IT infrastructure. As such, it is crucial to thoroughly test... [15 Oct 2009]