WHITE PAPER:
This white paper describes the key BPM, SOA, and Lean Six Sigma components, summarizes the linkages between them, and highlights recent results that leading firms have achieved. Companies that successfully combine Lean Six Sigma, BPM, and SOA initiatives will realize a competitive advantage.
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This paper describes how an enterprise service bus (ESB) enables interoperability at "the seven key points of mediation," which is necessary to achieve the goals of service oriented architecture (SOA): reuse and agility. It spotlights the first three points of mediation: transport, location, and semantics.
WHITE PAPER:
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.
WHITE PAPER:
Despite the significant progress made with open standards in the industry, most SOA platforms are delivered with many proprietary, closed extensions that focus on customer lock-in more than automation of the value chain. Red Hat believes there is a better way. We redefine SOA to be simple, open, and affordable.
DATA SHEET:
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an entirely new approach to IT that connects people, process, and technology in a dynamic, distributed environment; however, it also increases system complexity. Read this data sheet to learn how together, Oracle Enterprise Repository and Oracle Service Registry create a solid foundation for SOA governance.
EGUIDE:
The SearchSOA.com E-Guide: Data Integration provides an expert overview of the role of data integration in SOA development. It discusses the prominent function of data services platforms (DSPs) in an SOA initiative and offers insight into the seven levels of loose coupling that architects should consider when developing this infrastructure.
EGUIDE:
This e-guide discusses an architecture-driven SOA paradigm, and what's been holding back adoption of this type of approach. It also looks at the cultural, organizational and operational impact of an architecture-driven SOA, and why the SOA architect needs to step up and lead.
WEBCAST:
Did you think you could onboard a new business partner 50% faster, or reduce the time and cost to change your IT systems by 50%? You can. By leveraging an incremental approach to SOA, you can begin to make faster, better, and richer connections across your business network in less than 9 months. Watch this webcast to learn how.
WHITE PAPER:
Aligning IT with business and focusing on business models and processes is the key to enabling flexibility. Read this paper to learn how SOA can help your organization improve its flexibility while increasing revenue.
WHITE PAPER:
Working harder simply won't get you there. No matter how many people you allocate, sinking more labor into old IT practices cannot concurrently meet rising demands on IT and cut costs. Read about cost-effective, automated ways to meet this challenge head-on in our latest article, Strategies for Modernizing IT, Reducing Costs, and..