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Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture: Support and Optimize SOA and Web 2.0 Applications

whitepaper Web 2.0 and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are among the top issues of concern for IT architects and executives. The growing challenge for enterprise IT architects, however, is that because these composite applications are highly distributed...

Tags: web development and design

[16 May 2008]

Building SOA Solutions With the Service Component Architecture - Part 3: Integrating SCA Modules With Imports and Exports

whitepaper In Part 1 of this series, the paper introduced the Service Component Architecture (SCA) as a programming model for building and assembling integration solutions with an overview of what SCA is, and with definitions of some related terminology.

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

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

whitepaper A relatively new subdiscipline in architecture that has gained significant prominence is the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA, frequently touted as the elixir to an enterprise's problem of application inflexibility and high maintenance cost...

Tags: web services

[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]

Create the Ideal SOA Team: Redefining the Roles of Traditional Software Development Teams

whitepaper The prevailing evolution in software development is moving from traditional software architecture to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Almost every Information Technology (IT) shop, regardless of size and budget, is currently moving toward SOA.

Tags: service-oriented architecture

[16 May 2008]

Architecture in Practice, Part 7: Scenario 3: Business Process Management and SOA - Realize Flexible Service Connectivity With Different ESBs

whitepaper View Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) within a software-development life cycle context using the IBM SOA foundation life cycle. This installment in the Architecture in practice series focuses on the Business Process Management (BPM) scenario...

Tags: business management

[16 May 2008]

Insight and Outlook, Part 4: What's the Best Software to Implement as a Service if You're Just Starting SOA? - IBM Luminaries Provide Personal Insight Into Advancing the Practice of IT Architecture to

whitepaper One may be convinced that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is right for one's IT system - or one may not be. But let's say for the sake of argument that one has decided to start the design and implementation of one's own SOA system.

Tags: web services

[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]

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

[16 May 2008]

Streamline SOA Development Using Service Mocks

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can greatly accelerate application development, namely through reusable services and through applications that require less new code because they can rely on those reusable services.

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

SOA Centers of Excellence: Preserving Order Amid Change

whitepaper When first entertaining the notion of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), most information technology (IT) professionals and business leaders rightly imagine the many benefits that their organizations will see in improved customer interaction...

Tags: business strategies

[16 May 2008]

Architecting on Demand Solutions, Part 17: Build a Hello World SOA Application

whitepaper This 17th part in the series focuses on new products that lets one implement a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) life cycle. After the business process is designed, it is implemented by combining new and existing services using WebSphere...

Tags: service-oriented architecture

[16 May 2008]

Defining SOA as an Architectural Style: Align Your Business Model With Technology

whitepaper There is a lot of talk about SOA, yet very little agreement on what this popular three-letter acronym actually means. There was little chance of selecting a single "Best" definition because SOA means different things to different people.

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]

Merging Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL): Explore the Fusion of Two Emerging Concepts

whitepaper SOA is the most promising framework today for changing the way Information Technology (IT) works - to make IT more agile and responsive to the business, more cost-effective, and more adaptive to the fast-changing business environment.

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]

SCA Application Development, Part 1: An Overview of Service Component Architecture

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a framework that combines individual business functions and processes, called services, to implement sophisticated business applications and processes. Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a specification...

Tags: web services

[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]

Requirements Process for SOA Projects, Part 1: Capturing Requirements for an SOA Application - Initial Requirements to Build Your SOA

whitepaper Compared to traditional Information Technology (IT) projects, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects face more severe challenges when it comes to requirements gathering and requirements processes.

Tags: web services

[15 May 2008]

SOA Governance for Developers and Architects: Find Out How It Affects You and Your Job Today

whitepaper Enterprise IT groups and CIOs are creating new governance policies around SOA, enterprise architecture, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and more. SOA governance is becoming a big issue. Learn about governance from a developer's perspective...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

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