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

whitepaper Enterprise Architecture (EA) function is often equated with processes, metrics, and governance, but these elements are only peripheral. Enterprise architecture is a broad term, involving the creation and execution of IT strategy based on an...

Tags: software engineering

[17 May 2008]

Let's Talk: Build Your Enterprise Architecture Using Communication and the Right Framework

whitepaper These tools range from comprehensive frameworks describing the architecture to common-sense documents that describe how to implement it. Whichever tools one uses, make sure one also applies a strong dose of communications to cement the...

Tags: software engineering

[17 May 2008]

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

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

Tags: software engineering

[17 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

[17 May 2008]

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

whitepaper What is information architecture? 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...

Tags: software engineering

[17 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

[17 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

[17 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

[17 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

[17 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. Component Object Model (COM) came into existence to enable developers...

Tags: web services

[17 May 2008]

Building a Powerful, Reliable SOA With JMS and WebSphere ESB - Part 1: Combining WebSphere ESB V6.0.1 and JMS

whitepaper The recently released IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) product offers functionality that is at the core of any environment based on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The Java Message Service (JMS) standardizes reliable messaging on...

Tags: software engineering

[17 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

[17 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

[17 May 2008]

Virtualisation: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria

whitepaper Of the many approaches to system virtualisation available in the market today, VMware's hypervisor architecture has gained the greatest market acceptance. This paper examines the architectural issues, solution support, and enterprise readiness...

Tags: virtualization, virtualisation, examines, gained

[17 May 2008]

Veritas NetBackup 6.5: Unlocking the Power of Disk

whitepaper The presenter will uncover the architecture behind these new disk features and show how they help to take advantage of disk-based technologies for backup. The release of NetBackup 6.5 includes many new features and several new enterprise disk...

Tags: back-up

[17 May 2008]

MDA for the Enterprise: An Architect's Approach to More Productive Development

whitepaper Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a platform- and vendor-neutral approach to software architecture design and development. MDA is applicable to the complete development life cycle of designing, deploying, integrating, and managing applications...

Tags: xml

[17 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

[17 May 2008]

Architecting on Demand Solutions, Part 11: Build ESB Connectivity With Rational Software Architecture (RSA) WebSphere Platform Messaging Patterns

whitepaper This paper extends Part 8 of the series, where one learned to use Enterprise Patterns to quickly build Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications using Rational Software Architect (RSA). In this paper, one uses the newly released...

Tags: programming languages

[17 May 2008]

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

whitepaper The growing challenge for enterprise IT architects, however, is that because these composite applications are highly distributed, interactions between components may require several traversals across various areas of the network - each increasing...

Tags: web development and design

[17 May 2008]

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]

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