Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Sponsored by Oracle
The company's comprehensive, standards-based family of middleware products, Oracle Fusion Middleware software spans portals and process managers to application infrastructure, developer tools, enterprise content management and business intelligence. Oracle Fusion Middleware enables organizations to increase their capacity for growth and change; improve insight into business operations; mitigate risk and drive compliance; and connect with customers, partners, and workers. More than 50,000 customers now use Oracle Fusion Middleware and include leading organizations in the Financial Services, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care and Public Sector industries. Oracle Fusion Middleware is also supported by 9,000 partners, including market-leading independent software vendors, value-added resellers and system integrators.
Sponsored Content
Business Process Management, SOA, and Web 2.0
This white paper assesses the benefits and risks of the combination of business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Web 2.0 solutions and presents real-world perspectives and case studies as the foundational elements for its analysis.
Right from the Start: SOA Lifecycle Governance
This white paper presents an overview of strategies and practices for governing the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA.
SOA Best Practices and Design Patterns: Keys to Successful Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation
This white paper gives you the tools for SOA success by examining the experiences of those organizations that have been through the process and providing an overview of the standard best practices of large-scale technology implementations.
Increasing Return on Investment with Data Services
This white paper addresses data services implementation and the role of Oracle Data Service Integrator in that process. It describes the technical benefits of a data services implementation within the context of initiatives to promote business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), portal projects, and business intelligence (BI).
Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses
This white paper examines how a feature-rich SOA application suite enables agile and intelligent businesses by providing a unique design advantage, a platform for agile and intelligent business applications, and innovation for efficient IT execution.
SOA Maturity Model — Guiding and Accelerating SOA Success
This white paper describes one specific SOA Maturity Model and how this model is used to accelerate SOA adoption by identifying specific capabilities necessary for successful SOA adoption.
SOA Strategy: A Comprehensive Yet Flexible Suite for a Pervasive Architecture
This white paper looks at some of the advantages of implementing SOA with a suite strategy, highlights the experiences of a major SOA installation, and shows how the suite strategy paid off for one global customer.
Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses
Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a significant step forward toward empowering enterprises across the chasm to the next generation business applications that is powered by a platform delivering rapid composition, comprehensive lifecycle management, customizability, and easy upgrades.
Blogs
A Fresh Look at SOA Governance
Honestly, I'd rather write about anything besides governance, particularly SOA governance. I'm not sure what it is, but despite my high tolerance for tedious topics – I actually enjoyed covering planning and zoning as a journalist – the very term “governance” causes me to lose focus and drift off...More >
The Quiet Success of Web Services 'SOA'
While experts debated the definition of service-oriented architecture, its state (alive or dead?) and the significance of ESBs for SOA, a funny thing happened. Service-oriented, if not SOA per se , quietly became ubiquitous, argues Hugh Taylor, author and a marketing director of an LA enterprise...More >
Articles & Interviews
Communities Have Gone Virtual, Why Not the Legal System?
Lora Bentley spoke with Charles Moore, CEO of RocketLawyer , regarding the gradual movement of today's law practice and legal system from bricks and mortar to virtual environments. Australia, he says, is the first country to start going down that road. Bentley: Does the legal system need to... More >
Joe McKendrick on The Evolution of SOA
Analyst and popular SOA blogger Joe McKendrick is conference chair for the ebizQ's conference, “ SOA in Action – SOA Means Business,” a two-day virtual event scheduled for Oct. 28 and 29 . He explained to IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson the meaning of the conference's premise,... More >
In Defense of the Enterprise Architect
JP Morgenthal, the Tech Evangelist blogger and a principal architect, explains to IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson why and how the enterprise architect role should be different from previous positions that promised to transform the business and align IT with business goals. Read the first part of... More >
Related Topics
WSO2 Extends SOA into Cloud Computing
The WSO2 launched the WSO2 Cloud Platform yesterday. According to the press release, published on dBusinessNews , the platform, which extends SOA into cloud computing , features the company's Cloud Virtual Machines, Cloud Connectors and WSO2 Governance-as-a-Service. In a statement released by the company, WSO2 CEO... More >
Google Launches Search Engine Service for E-Commerce Sites
Google launched a new search engine service designed specifically for e-commerce sites. Google Commerce Search is essentially a shopping cart solution for online retailers , says Search Engine Land . A hosted service, Google Commerce Search is integrated with Google Analytics and Google's Merchant Center and Product... More >
Amazon Launches Relational Database Service Beta
Amazon launched a public beta of a hosted MySQL database called Amazon RDS. The relational database service allows customers to operate and scale database clusters while leaving administration and patching to Amazon Web Services, says BNET Today . According to TechCrunch , the price starts at 11 cents an hour... More >
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