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for managing unexpected issues that arise during SOA deployment. Gain insight into the fundamental characteristics of SOA initiatives and the challenges associated with typical SOA deployment models. While the benefits of SOA have been well documented, the challenges associated with an enterprise-wide SOA deployment have not. The distributed nature of this loosely-coupled architecture encourages reuse and provides a high level of agility for the business, but can...

This webcast talks about SOA governance, the IBM SOA governance model and the ways IBM assists clients with SOA governance. In Part 1, Gil Long, an IBM Distinguished Engineer and SOA governance integration lead, talks about SOA governance, the IBM SOA governance model and the ways IBM assists clients with SOA governance. In Part 2, Sunil Murthy, product manager, IBM WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository, explains what it does and talks about the...

relates to Service Orientated Architecture (SOA). It also introduces a Six Steps to Successful SOA Governance model. An SOA implementation which lacks governance is often unable to deliver expected SOA benefits, resulting in incompatible services, unreliable composite applications, inconsistent data and poor service reuse. Such implementations are subsequently unable to achieve business and SOA objectives, minimizing the projects overall rate of...

Orientated Architecture value, highlighting essential SOA value patterns and real-world case studies that attained measurable business benefits. In order to address complex business issues, organizations are utilizing SOA initiatives as a means to enhance the efficiency and flexibility of IT. Many organizations, however, are struggling to implement a successful SOA initiative as they continually create monolithic, tightly-coupled application code and are...

HP has propelled itself into a leadership position in the SOA governance space. Governance consists of creating, communicating, and enforcing policies in a corporate environment. In many ways, it is the key to maintaining the balance between executive control and employee and customer empowerment. Implementing SOA requires governance in order to ensure that the organization applies and enforces the policies that apply to the Services that the organization creates as part...

the steps necessary for implementing a collaborative SOA. Discover the tools essential for to combining the strategic advantages of BPM with SOA to align IT initiatives with business objectives. While an SOA addresses the issues associated with the security, reliability, and re-use of services, it is still a technical approach. Organizations relying on this loosely-coupled infrastructure often struggle to elevate service enablement beyond just technology functions. An...

Videocast discusses how to develop a business case for an SOA. Discover the role SOA plays in business process management. This Videocast discusses how to develop a business case for an SOA. Discover the role SOA plays in business process management. Gain insight into the importance of business rules engines in managing business-driven SOA projects as well as the business intelligence opportunities created by this loosely-coupled infrastructure. Explore the advent of rich...

Architecture makes it easier for companies to change. SOA views a business as linked services and considers the outcomes they bring. Learn guiding principles for implementing SOA in this paper. In this document, Sandy Carter, Vice President of SOA and WebSphere Strategy, IBM Corporation, takes readers through a specific roadmap on how, where, when, and why to embrace a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy in her new book, The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0. Highlights of...

This research paper will present a business guide for SOA governance based on the most recent user enterprise research and analysis from Saugatuck Technology. This research paper will present a business guide for SOA governance based on the most recent user enterprise research and analysis from Saugatuck Technology. We will include a snapshot of SOA realities in today's markets, with typical rationales behind SOA investment and adoption. But the core focus will be on the...

Process Execution Language (BPEL) Cookbook highlights SOA best practices and challenges, detailing the importance of BPEL and other standards-based technologies in accelerating the adoption of an SOA. As the popularity of SOAs continues to grow, the need for standards-based technologies to accelerate the adoption of an SOA increases. Organizations which lack this standards-based foundation are unable to examine their SOA in terms of services, and are, therefore...

This SearchSoftwareQuality.com E-Guide: SOA Performance provides expert insight into how the role of performance monitoring and management has evolved with the introduction of SOA. Businesses can no longer simply “throw more resources” at an SOA to improve performance. Performance management has evolved into a multidisciplinary activity, requiring businesses to investigate a wide range of problems beyond resource bottlenecks. Read this...

provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration. SOA enables different programs, applications, and tools to interact via self-contained services that do not depend on the context or state of the other service. Working within a distributed systems architecture, SOA has gained momentum because it creates reusable integrated business processes.

While tracking mediocre results, and even failure2, in the implementation of service-...

and the Microsoft approach to achieving successful SOA implementations. The ability to readily change and optimize business processes is the key to organizational competitiveness and growth. Organizational agility can be compromised when supporting IT assets can not flexibly respond to changing business needs. Unlocking IT resources from their application silos and making their functionality broadly available across the organization promotes business...

Learn how to get smarter business outcomes at the IBM Smart SOA Global Virtual Forum on November 5th, 10:30am ET. Learn how to get smarter business outcomes at the IBM Smart SOA Global Virtual Forum on November 5th, 10:30am ET. Immerse yourself in our cool virtual business environment and learn how to achieve the business results you seek – from cutting costs to growing your business – while delivering fast ROI. Don't miss the keynote presentation by Steve Mills, Tom Rosamilia and Sandy...

first, sensitive steps of the long journey to companywide SOA enablement. The service-oriented approach delivers IT systems as a set of reusable services that are assembled to create a composite application that automates a business process. This “assembly approach” accelerates the time to market for new applications and reduces IT costs. As a result, organizations can react faster, seize new opportunities and respond more quickly to competitive threats. However, to...

Many organizations look SOA to provide greater business agility in the face of evolving business requirements. To achieve this agility architects implement a Services abstraction that loosely couples business Services from the underlying implementations. Many organizations look to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to provide greater business agility in the face of evolving business requirements and complex, heterogeneous...

the issues associated with decision services in an SOA strategy, highlighting how business rule management systems can be used to overcome these challenges. As SOA grows in popularity, decision services have become central to the workings of the enterprise, representing core functions of a business process. These services, however, are typically hard coded, making them difficult to maintain, audit and reuse. Unless resolved, these issues limit an organization’s ability to...

IBM has identified five key aspects of SOA service lifecycle management, each of which crosscuts the entire SOA lifecycle. In this whitepaper learn how they bridge multiple technologies and environments, and highlight crucial elements of a successful SOA. The key to a successful SOA implementation is managing and governing activities throughout the entire SOA delivery lifecycle by ensuring that services conform to the needs of all of the business’s...

DataDirect’s Shadow is well-established mainframe SOA/data integration middleware that has built a leading position in bridging the gap between the mainframe environment and the growing range of other systems, tools and applications. Lower operational costs have been addressed in a way that not only reduces the cost of running existing applications, but also adds the value of SOA and web services capabilities at little extra capital cost and virtually zero additional...

A successful SOA implementation relies as much on the flexibility of your network as it does the services which will be delivered on it. This white paper explores the unique challenges when implementing a service oriented architecture. A successful SOA implementation relies as much on the flexibility of your network as it does the services which will be delivered on it. Just as brittle, inflexible application integration...

details how to effectively implement a secure, scalable SOA through the use of location technology. An IT organization must leverage the domain expertise of its employees to fully understand the capabilities of a location-based system when implementing an SOA. Without doing so, these organizations are unable to ensure deployed applications can be effectively administered, scale and meet the expectations of its customers.

This white paper discusses how location...

highlights a set of guidelines for implementing a Smart SOA approach. Smart SOA benefits both business and IT by extending the business value of deployment to achieve the desired level of agility and IT alignment within an organization. Many organizations struggle to maintain the level of business agility necessary to sustain potential growth. Such organizations are often unable to assume a holistic approach to operations and effectively support their business...

to participate in a service oriented architecture (SOA). This white paper examines features of the EMC® Documentum® platform that enables its industry-leading enterprise content management capabilities to participate in a service oriented architecture (SOA) and communicate with other systems via web services. The primary enabling features, EMC Documentum Foundation Services (DFS), is examined in technical detail, and sample code fragments that...

highlights a set of guidelines for implementing a Smart SOA approach. Smart SOA benefits both business and IT by extending the business value of deployment to achieve the desired level of agility and IT alignment within an organization. Many organizations struggle to maintain the level of business agility necessary to sustain potential growth. Such organizations are often unable to assume a holistic approach to operations and effectively support their business...