SOA-Enabling Standards: An Overview
White Papers This paper provides a brief overview of these standards, focusing specifically on how they enable and contribute to SOA principles. Nowadays, the primary "Building materials" for SOA are known as Web services standards.
[March 9, 2007, 23:00]
Probabilistic Ontologies For Efficient Resource Sharing In Semantic Web Services
White Papers Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a key technology to support interoperability among data and processing resources. This paper defines probabilistic ontologies, discusses their application to SOA, and presents a conceptual scheme for using a...
[March 20, 2007, 23:00]
Incorporating IBM Speech Solutions Into A Service Oriented Architecture
White Papers As companies begin to understand the benefits of On Demand Business, IBM has been a leader in embracing the SOA approach, with a comprehensive portfolio of hardware, software and services designed to enable companies to implement SOA.
[April 21, 2007, 0:00]
SOA Governance: Framework And Best Practices
White Papers Based on analysis of the eight critical dimensions of SOA adoption, this paper describes appropriate policies to govern your SOA initiatives that will enable you to deliver on your SOA strategy and business objectives.
[April 22, 2008, 0:00]
ESB University Course 1: The Principles Of SOA Design Using An Enterprise Service Bus
White Papers This first session focuses on the SOA creation process, principles of good SOA design, and the use of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to enable SOA projects. Enterprise Service Bus: The new technology platform for realizing SOA
[April 20, 2007, 0:00]
What You Need To Know About Transitioning To SOA
White Papers Unlike traditional IT architectures that lock business and process logic tightly within a single application and user interface, SOA approaches enable organizations to build applications by assembling discrete application components and...
[March 14, 2007, 23:00]
White Paper: SOA Solutions Using WebSphere On IBM System P5 Servers
White Papers This white paper explains how, by deploying SOA on top of an IBM System p platform, you can enable innovation across your company, simplifying the complexity of the IT environment and helping reduce uncertainty around systems security and...
[November 29, 2007, 23:00]
SOA - Design Concepts
White Papers In the business world where IT infrastructure is a growing number with the demand for self-contained and independent services, the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a flexible set of guidelines to enable systems to interact with open standards.
[March 29, 2007, 0:00]
SOA And Customer Data Integration
White Papers This white paper details how an SOA can enable effective Customer Data Integration to overcome the customer-related challenges. Many enterprises are increasingly adopting 'Customer-driven' approach to derive maximum customer value.
[March 20, 2007, 23:00]
Merging Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) And IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL): Explore The Fusion Of Two Emerging Concepts
White Papers 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...
[May 6, 2008, 0:00]
Managing On Demand With A Service-Oriented Management Architecture: Virtualizing The Management Of Virtual Systems
White Papers SOA and Web services are key to transforming the management, security, and functional aspects of business processes to enable them to be more easily and affordably composed into globally federated systems.
[March 26, 2007, 0:00]
Collaboration Services In A Services Oriented Architecture
White Papers Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) holds the promise to transform the ways in which enterprises do business. This white paper evaluates the benefits of service oriented architectures, present analysis from leading research firms, discuss the...
[March 29, 2007, 0:00]
Microsoft Dynamics: Enabling Real-World SOA To Connect Your Business Vision With Software
White Papers Microsoft Dynamics has made investments in Web services and other Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies across our product lines to help customers take a "Real-World" approach to SOA. The purpose of this paper is to share with you the...
[January 3, 2008, 23:00]
Introducing The WebSphere Integration Reference Architecture: A Service-Based Foundation For Enterprise-Level Business Integration
White Papers The concepts embodied in SOA enable an enterprise to integrate its business processes across its lines of business and their supporting information systems. The industry has evolved from monolithic applications and hard to manage client-server...
[May 15, 2008, 0:00]
MSDN Architecture Webcast: .NET Interoperability With The OS/390 And Z/OS Data Center (Level 100)
White Papers He or she will see how to demonstrate valuable application integration and data access features to SOA-enable legacy systems using the .NET Framework, build operational data stores using SQL Server, or improve productivity workers by delivering...
[March 31, 2007, 0:00]
MSDN Webcast: Connected Systems Kit And Service Oriented Architecture (Level 200)
White Papers Join us as we explore the elements of the Connected Systems Kit that will enable you to pilot and deploy Connected Systems and SOA for your customers, including full sample applications. Has the media hype surrounding Connected Systems and Service...
[March 26, 2007, 0:00]
Onto SOA: From Ontology-Enabled SOA To Service-Enabled Ontologies
White Papers The significant potential of the combination of ontologies and SOA has been recognized in the field of Semantic Web Services (SWS). The authors also investigate ontologies and SOA but the initial focus is on the software architectural aspects of...
[March 9, 2007, 23:00]
Building Security Into A Service-Oriented Architecture
White Papers Such a management solution must enable and support loose coupling, so that the security infrastructure in an SOA can itself be However, Service-oriented approaches to security require a management solution that both supports and enables the SOA as...
[March 26, 2007, 0:00]
The Mainframe As A First Class SOA Participant - Enhancing The Legacy Value Proposition With SOA
White Papers In this whitepaper, ZapThink analyst Jason Bloomberg explores how using DataDirect's Shadow can enable organisations to transform the mainframe into a first class citizen within a SOA. Today's business imperative for IT is to do more with less, and...
[March 5, 2007, 23:00]
SOA Scenarios From IBM, Part 5: Scenario 2 - Service Connectivity Options In A Real-World SOA Scenario
White Papers View SOA within a software development lifecycle context using the IBM Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Foundation Lifecycle. This installment in the Architecture in practice series focuses on the Service Connectivity scenario, the second of the...
[April 25, 2008, 0:00]

