Web Service Management

User experience is essential for effective e-commerce and applications that create the shopping experience, from interactive catalogs and shopping carts to payment systems, must always operate at peak efficiency.

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Many organizations have been exploring how to realize the economic benefits of cloud computing within their own datacenter.

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.

Companies have invested huge amounts in new applications to deliver better and more cost-effective services to their customers. However, studies have shown that more than 40% of software applications are released with critical defects.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Current trends show that the vast majority of companies are moving to services-oriented architectures (SOAs) and deploying Web services within and across their IT infrastructure.However, the success of those deployments is determined by the integrations and innovations that Web services make possible and how Web services affect the quality and performance of the mission-critical applications with which they interface.

The Vertica Analytic Database is the only database built from scratch to handle today's heavy business intelligence workloads. In customer benchmarks, Vertica has been shown to manage terabytes of data running on extraordinarily low-cost hardware and answers queries 50 to 200 times faster than competing row-oriented databases and specialized analytic hardware. This document summarizes the key aspects of Vertica's technology that enable such dramatic performance benefits, and compares the design of Vertica to other popular relational systems.

If you are responsible for BI (Business Intelligence) in your organization, there are three questions you should ask yourself: - Are there applications in my organization for combining operational processes with analytical insight that we can't deploy because of performance and capacity constraints with our existing BI environment?

Learn how the IBM WebSphere Portal can help extend the value of your System z platform to the web. Download this free white paper from IBM today!

When you're doing business on the Web, every second counts. More than ever, your Website's performance matters. The average online shopper expects your pages to load in two seconds or less, down from four seconds in 2006; after three seconds, up to 40% will abandon your site. Learn what you can do to stay ahead of the curb.

Read this topical and informative white paper from EMA Research and see how you can attain peace of mind that your end user's application performance will exceed expectations.

Oracle Real User Experience Insight (RUEI) is designed for measuring, analyzing, improving and controlling the availability and performance of internet, extranet and intranet deployment scenarios, including E-business applications, Web transactions and ERP systems. This white paper discusses Oracle RUEI from a technical perspective, providing information concerning product architecture, technical specifications, and some practical information on configuration and deployment considerations.

Service-oriented architecture is one of the most widely accepted architectural approaches to building and integrating applications. Oracle Tuxedo is one of the original SOA platforms. Everything in Tuxedo is a service and invoked as a service.

Oracle Tuxedo is one of the original service-oriented architecture (SOA) platforms with a simple programming model that lends itself to rapid development and easy reuse of services. By combining Tuxedo's robust native SOA infrastructure with the SOA programming model provided by service component architecture (SCA), the resulting solution offers a compelling approach to developing high-performance, scalable, and extremely reliable SOA-based applications. This white paper provides an introduction into this new SCA-based programming model for Tuxedo that allows customers to quickly develop and compose SOA-based applications.

Revenue assurance analysts at a top-tier US-based carrier studied this every day. Primarily focused on detecting fraud, revenue sharing contract violations and incomplete revenue collections, they had the need to query and analyze call detail record (CDR) databases that grow by millions of new CDRs every day.

Leverage the tacit knowledge in your organization to identify, understand, and proactively reduce risk.

Virtualization continues to grow at 20 percent or more per year, but it is not expected to overtake existing physical architectures at least through 2010. This white paper examines the unique challenges of virtualization and offers tips for its successful management alongside IT's physical deployments.

There are success stories of businesses that have implemented Business Service Management (BSM) with well-documented, bottom-line results. What do these organizations know that their discouraged counterparts don't?

For over a decade, IT organizations have been plagued by high data warehousing costs, with millions of dollars spent annually on specialized, high-end hardware and DBA personnel overhead for performance tuning. The root cause: using data warehouse database management (DBMS) software, like Oracle and SQLServer that were designed 20-30 years ago to handle write-intensive OLTP workloads, not query-intensive analytic workloads.