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Is SOA testing tough enough?

Comment When individual countries are analysed, just 26 per cent of German organisations implementing full SOA deployments are using these tools. Commissioned by Fortify Software, Quocirca recently conducted a survey across Germany, the UK and US to assess...

Tags: applications, security, soa

[20 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

[20 May 2008]

Introducing IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, Part 1: A Day in the Life of WebSphere Service Registry and Repository in the SOA Life Cycle

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) offers the promise of business agility and resilience through reuse, loose coupling, flexibility, interoperability, integration and governance. Standards-based service metadata artifacts, such as Web Service...

Tags: web services

[20 May 2008]

SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Keys to Successful Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation

whitepaper 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...

Tags: infrastructure management

[20 May 2008]

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

whitepaper SOA structures IT assets as a series of reusable services, which are loosely coupled and are platform- and implementation-neutral. SOA designs solutions as assemblies of services, which are connected through well-specified interfaces and contracts.

Tags: web services

[20 May 2008]

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

whitepaper SOA is an architectural framework consisting of a set of tools and technologies that enable the rapid implementation of services; a set of design patterns and standards for the development of services; and a methodology for finding, reusing...

Tags: web services

[20 May 2008]

Migrating to a Service-Oriented Architecture: Know the Benefits, Consider the Risks, Plan for Success

whitepaper Migrating from a systems-based architecture to an SOA means that the architecture consists of small and individual services, which can be reused while building larger business services. These days the SOA concept is largely based on Web services...

Tags: web services

[20 May 2008]

Discover How Automated Meter Management and SOA Can Light the Way for Utility Companies: Establishing the Necessary Infrastructure to Maximize Flexibility and Component Reuse

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can play a crucial role in helping the utility industry transform itself to become more flexible and more streamlined. The introduction of Automated Meter Management (AMM) has intensified the need for corporate...

Tags: infrastructure management

[20 May 2008]

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

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

Tags: software engineering

[20 May 2008]

Introducing IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, Part 2: Architecture, APIs, and Content

whitepaper In the first paper, one explored Registry and Repository concepts and capabilities and the role of Registry and Repository throughout the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) life cycle. This paper provides an overview of Registry and Repository...

Tags: systems integration

[20 May 2008]

Using SOA With WebSphere Process Integration Products, Part 2: Integration Development

whitepaper This paper series builds a complete working sample of a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) application using WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer and WebSphere Process Server.

Tags: service-oriented architecture

[20 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

[20 May 2008]

SAP touts "collaborative" SOA

News SAP says collaborative working through service oriented architecture (SOA) technology represents the future for businesses. And he added SOA has an important part to play in this. The entry ticket to manage these networks is SOA.

Tags: business process, network, collaboration, sap

[19 May 2008]

Asset Lifecycle Management for Service-Oriented Architectures

whitepaper This paper examines the use of asset lifecycle management practices, tools, and standards in the development of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions. Effective lifecycle management of services enables organizations to apply tools and...

Tags: asset management

[19 May 2008]

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

whitepaper This paper concentrates on the technical aspects of SOA projects and how one should define the technical requirements for such projects. Compared to traditional Information Technology (IT) projects, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects face...

Tags: web services

[19 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 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. One may be convinced that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is right for one's IT system - or one may not be.

Tags: web services

[19 May 2008]

Applying a BPM and SOA Approach to Achieve Agile Business Integration

whitepaper Learn how to leverage a new kind of Business Integration, including BPM and SOA, to transform technical capabilities into business agility. This free white paper demonstrates how to base Business Integration initiatives on a uniquely effective...

Tags: business management

[19 May 2008]

The Integration Journey - A Field Guide to Enterprise Integration for SOA

whitepaper The result is a full tour of Service-Oriented Architecture's (SOA's) capabilities, and how SOA can enhance and extend your existing IT investments -in short, an ideal SOA business resource. For a remarkably clear picture of SOA's key benefits...

Tags: systems integration

[19 May 2008]

Simplify Integration Architectures With an Enterprise Service Bus

whitepaper With the growing emphasis on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the growing complexity in the family of Web services specifications, there is understandably confusion about such big-sounding terms as Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Tags: web services

[19 May 2008]

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

whitepaper The industry has evolved from monolithic applications and hard to manage client-server solutions and has now discovered that the incremental development of components, enabled via a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), increases the quality of...

Tags: web services

[19 May 2008]

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