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Home > Data Management > Service Oriented Architecture Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) expresses a perspective of software architecture that defines the use of loosely coupled software services to support the requirements of the business processes and software users. In an SOA environment, resources on a network are made available as independent services that can be accessed without knowledge of their underlying platform implementation. Results 1 - 25 of 80 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name 21st Century Workloads Running the World with Workload Automation By : CA WA Published Date: Oct 02, 2006 All things that can be automated will be automated. Beyond the careful choreography of sophisticated workflow, managing myriad simultaneous requests puts unprecedented demand on the software that must schedule and perpetually deliver against well-defined service levels, in real time. Gone are the days of simple batch processing. Welcome to the oh-so-very-flat world that is embracing service-oriented architectures, grid architectures, expansive ecosystems, and end-to-end processing. Workload scheduling has got to grow up. Download Now 5 SOA Projects That Can Pay for Themselves in 6 Months By : IBM Corp Published Date: Oct 17, 2005 Service oriented architecture (SOA) could revolutionize the way we think about IT. Why is that possible? Because SOA finally has the potential to make the concept of reuse real. Companies have been talking about reuse for years, but have never been able to transform that talk into full-scale reality. Now, you might be asking, "How can SOA succeed where previous approaches have failed?" Because the standards, best practices and governance models have finally matured to the point where reuse can actually work. Download Now A Guide to SOA Implementation By : Torry Harris Business Solutions Published Date: Jan 01, 2006 The information overload on SOA is largely on describing its merits, its principles and the vast variety of products intended to address its needs. This document is written to identify the factors to be considered, and articulate the principles and questions to be asked that will drive the decisions within each enterprise towards creating a road map for implementation. Download Now A Manufacturing Imperative: Enterprise SOA By : SAP Published Date: Sep 05, 2007 Read how Enterprise SOA goes beyond the fundamentals of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is a distributed software model that uses independent Web services to support business processes as defined by SAP and its partners and customers. Download Now A Practical Guide to SOA for IT Architects By : Systinet Published Date: Oct 21, 2005 As a strategy for creating a flexible and agile IT, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has gained considerable momentum in recent years, largely due to the advent of standards-based Web services. Download Now Adaptive SOA: Enable Composite Applications with Real-Time Agility By : Ultimus Published Date: Sep 13, 2006 By enabling Adaptive SOA, Ultimus Adaptive Discovery takes SOA to the highest level of rapid deployment and agility. It accomplishes this by enabling business processes to be developed rapidly, and to embrace change in real-time. More importantly, it empowers business professionals and analysts who own processes to discover and change processes with IT playing the supporting role to manage the infrastructure. Download Now Align Your Business, Development and Operations Teams for Strategic Advantage By : IBM Published Date: Apr 05, 2007 One of the biggest hurdles that enterprises face is a lack of trust in IT’s ability to deliver business value. While a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can sort things out by making systems more flexible and agile, this is only part of the answer. What’s missing is an effective model for engaging consistently with business teams throughout the whole lifecycle of IT investments. Download Now All You Need to Know About Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the iSeries By : LookSoftware Published Date: Nov 28, 2005 SOA is a set of architectural and design principles that are probably new to most iSeries people. SOA considers an enterprise as consisting of many processes and services. SOA comes with the expected set of acronyms and jargon, such as "loose coupling" and "granularity" and is typically implemented with Web Services. Download Now An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments By : iWay Software Published Date: Aug 16, 2006 Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today's business integration requirements? This paper provides an overview of the promises and realities of collaborative SOA environments, and describes how iWay SOA Middleware solutions make the benefits of an SOA achievable, while protecting investments in already-in-place applications, middleware, and information systems. Download Now Architecting the Infrastructure for SOA and XML By : Reactivity Published Date: Apr 27, 2006 This white paper introduces the requirements for an XML infrastructure that is designed to ensure the opportunities and benefits of SOAs and Web Services can be realized. Download Now Business Flexibility: Removing Dependencies Between Business Process and Technical Infrastructure By : IBM Published Date: Dec 12, 2005 Many of today’s businesses have already moved from rigid siloed application approaches to more flexible business process focused solutions. This is driving the need for transparency in the underlying technologies, and for better levels of standardization and virtualization of the infrastructure, along with consideration of the value chain that includes a company’s suppliers and customers. Download Now Business-Oriented Architecture: Combining BPM and SOA for Competitive Advantage By : Lombardi Software Published Date: May 17, 2006 In this paper, we will discuss the benefits of BPM and SOA in more detail and show how leading companies have recognized that implementing BPM and SOA together gives them unique capabilities. Download Now Butler Group on iWay Service Manager By : iWay Software Published Date: Aug 11, 2006 iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment. From an end-user perspective, it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications, without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure. Download Now CA SOA Security Manager By : CA Published Date: Nov 07, 2007 CA SOA Security Manager, an identity-centric web services security software product that secures access to services by inspecting the security information contained in xml requests. Download Now Comparing the Traditional Approach to SOA to Event-Driven SOA By : Infor Published Date: May 14, 2007 Given the potential for SOA to solve pressing business problems, it’s inevitable that most companies will begin adopting SOA constructs within the next year or two. As they move to SOA, the approach they choose will have both immediate and long-term effects on their ability to support and adjust their ecosystem to meet future business requirements. Download Now Connectivity and SOA: Embracing Old Assets, Furthering the New By : Quocirca Published Date: Sep 13, 2006 Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) will provide greater flexibility for those utilizing them, but will also bring greater issues for data and functional connectivity.  This paper contrasts and compares the capabilities of a point-to-point and an enterprise service bus approach. Download Now Creating a Security-Rich Environment For Your SOA By : IBM Published Date: Aug 08, 2007 For many organizations, applications have been moved to an SOA environment and now must be extended to offer a service interface to new sets of users that were not originally planned.  Extending resources in this way requires that you reassess your security risk. To minimize any risk, you need the right level of security checks for user authentication and authorization. Download Now Data Integration: Opportunities, Challenges, and MapForce By : Altova Published Date: Oct 20, 2005 The ability to seamlessly connect with customers, partners, and co-workers is vital for success; yet most enterprises store and exchange data in dissimilar formats, such as databases, flat files, EDI systems, and, increasingly, XML-based applications. Download Now Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation By : SAP Published Date: Jul 20, 2006 This white paper introduces operational strategies and trends in ERP that drive the consideration of an Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA). You will be able to assess whether ESA can help your organization deliver operational excellence and realize new levels of innovation. Download Now Delivering SOA Solutions: Service Lifecycle Management By : IBM Published Date: Dec 12, 2007 Introducing SOA into an IT organization demands both structural and policy changes, as it brings new demands for alignment among multiple processes within different areas of the business. The governance policies, procedures, rules and standards required to help an SOA deliver business benefits—greater flexibility, productivity and financial returns—are complex and can quickly become overwhelming without adequate infrastructure support. Download Now E-Book: Exploring IBM SOA Technology & Practice By : IBM Published Date: Aug 28, 2007 The e-book provides a concise and consistent overview of the IBM to approach to SOA: our methods, architectures, and products for being successful with SOA. It compiles together various SOA materials in one place and gives it a consistent narrative that ties all of the pieces together. Download it now to get an informative overview of the IBM approach to SOA. Download Now Enabling SOA Through Organizational Change and Governance By : IBM Published Date: Nov 02, 2007 Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that offers business agility, speed to market, improved profitability and reduced costs. An SOA is also widely recognized as an enabler of innovation and new business operating models. Download Now Enterprise Portal Solutions: The Case for IBM WebSphere Portal By : IBM Published Date: Aug 27, 2007 This document introduces the reader to the concept of Enterprise Portals as a means of conducting business on the Internet. We continue on to a discussion of the value of using Enterprise Portals, combined with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methods, to tie existing processes and applications together to support the Enterprise. Download Now Event-Driven Automation: Get Real, Right Now By : CA WA Published Date: Oct 18, 2006 While companies cope with increasing demands for speed from their customers, shareholders and customers alike demand that they make these changes cheaply, with minimal risk and with as few people resources as possible. Is there any way to meet these challenges? Take another look at modern enterprise job scheduling to see how it enables the real-time environment (RTE). Download Now Executive Guide to Web Services Security By : Reactivity Published Date: Apr 27, 2006 Businesses are rapidly adopting Web services to provide new levels of integration between applications. By comparison with earlier data communications techniques, Web services are faster and cheaper to develop, quicker to deploy, and easier to adapt to emerging business needs. This paper discusses the special security challenges posed by the use of Web services, and how to secure networks against them. 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