Service Oriented Architecture

Communicate to line-of-business managers how they can deliver the right information at the right time to support better, faster decisions, and thus ensure long-term company success.

Fixing dysfunctional service-related processes requires addressing four general problem areas first. Read how to identify and fix those areas, and service will consistently exceed customer expectations.

In this paper, independent analyst Bruce Silver examines the Appian/MEGA integration of BPA and BPM, calling it a unique solution that "does it right".

Many organizations are adopting service-oriented architecture (SOA) to improve business agility and simplify the complexity of their IT environments. SOA represents a fundamental shift in the way enterprise applications are designed, developed and deployed as modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused.

Siebel provides a wide range of business-critical applications for sales, marketing, contact center, self-service and more. Ensuring Siebel application quality and performance is critical, but also challenging.

Virtualization has brought undoubted benefits to organizations forced with consolidating data centers. However, despite its triumphs in large-scale organizations, virtualization can fall short in safeguarding against unplanned downtime or consolidating beyond servers in areas of storage, data, and applications. According to this IDG white paper, next-generation grid-based solutions and strategies are now addressing the same issues that virtualization can tackle, but without compromising uptime and service delivery. Read ahead to see how grid computing is delivering above and beyond the promises of virtualization.

Many businesses struggle to guarantee application and data availability for Windows applications. They may protect the application from one type of outage (like a disk failure) while ignoring other risks. Or they can end up deploying multiple point solutions to handle different aspects of availability, increasing overall cost and complexity.

Organizations across the world are using grid computing with Oracle to make the most of their IT resources. And now, Oracle is making grid computing even more accessible. Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

In this whitepaper presented by the Edison Group, reveals how Oracle Database widens the manageability lead over Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The study shows how Oracle Database can save 43% in time and 41% in database management costs over Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

What are the key trends driving IT management? This eBook provides the answers with in-depth articles on how organizations are driving down costs, reducing risks and increasing quality of service and agility.

Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs.

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.

Application grid is an emerging architecture for application server-level infrastructure that is ideally suited for consolidation. In particular, Oracle Fusion Middleware application grid technologies, including WebLogic Server, Tuxedo, Coherence, and JRockit, provide an excellent foundation for IT consolidation efforts.

The economic downturn is forcing businesses to tighten their belts and look for more efficient channels. Using the Internet as a business channel, and sometimes even the only channel, is becoming more prevalent.

Organizations have to be agile to compete globally and adapt to changes in technology. Most organizations run middleware applications based on disparate systems and technologies. However, use of these disparate technologies poses many challenges and complexities to the administrators, including over-inflated management costs.

In a recent Forrester study, upgrades made the top concerns list of ERP customers together with Improving Integrations and Shifting the Process Orientation. This is not surprising, given that Applications upgrades are prone to cost overruns, delays and unexpected outages. Maintenance costs, for major point releases as well as more frequent patches, is a topic that catches the attention of most ERP and CRM customers. A study by SOA Industry Analyst Zapthink shows that maintenance and change costs of SOA-based integrations, architected properly, are dramatically lower than traditional integration approaches. Read this whitepaper to understand why and how SOA-enablement will reduce cost and risk of Application upgrades for your organization.

In a recent study conducted by the Edison Group, shows how Oracle Database extends the lead over IBM DB2 9.5 for database manageability. In the whitepaper, Edison reveals how Oracle Database saves 40% in time for day-to-day administrative functions and 43% in database management costs over IBM DB2 9.5.

When properly architected and executed, Data Services can provide the missing link that unifies conventional data systems with the emerging SOA paradigm. By offering a decoupled data facade and an easily virtualized API, Data Services can give SOA the opportunity to establish system control without always forcing enterprise data through an inefficient XML layer.

Companies are learning how to run their data centers more efficiently using less hardware, less software and less IT resources. These companies are turning to a new concept called application grid, an infrastructure layer beneath the application layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources on which those applications run. Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. With an application grid you get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service. Download this free white paper now.

As more and more IT shops deploy multitier middleware platforms and frameworks for the delivery of business-critical application services, they are expecting to garner the benefits of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) or composite application development approach: agility, flexibility, productivity, and extensibility.

This white paper demonstrates that a data grid infrastructure, built with clustered cahing, can help you avoid "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies. Discover why the data grid offers improved data access that can create a competition

This white paper will address data services implementation and the role of Oracle Data Service Integrator in that process. It will describe 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).

The challenges faced by today's government agencies and commercial operations are many and varied-and to stay afloat, these organizations must not only promote change from within, but they must also be agile enough to quickly adapt to evolving markets, policies, regulations, and business models.

In today's rapidly changing business environment, organizations of all types face one common and persistent challenge: how to become-and remain-agile enough to satisfy ever-increasing customer expectations and accommodate new compliance mandates, all while staying ahead of the competition. The solution is building business based on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles.

Whether your organization's service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 50 services being used by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need SOA governance; increased business agility depends on it. SOA governance provides the ability to quickly and continuously translate and transmit business strategy and requirements into the processes, policies, and controls that will guide the evolution of your infrastructure and your enterprise. Failure to provide effective SOA governance exposes your organization to serious risks resulting from:Insufficient adoption of services,Fragmented approaches to SOA, Resources wasted on services that can't be reused, Rampant and redundant service creation across siloed SOA initiatives,Ineffective communication of priorities and best practices, Cultural resistance to change For any organization that has adopted SOA as its primary approach to enterprise architecture, governance becomes the conduit that connects and aligns corporate, IT, and business unit objectives. For these organizations, effective governance ensures that communication, collaboration, and the two-way flow of information keep SOA initiatives and investments inextricably connected to the enterprise to deliver sustainable business value.