WHITE PAPER - This white paper examines APM's ability to mitigate escalating risks while generating significant ROI opportunities.
Posted: February 8, 2010 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Portfolio Management | CMDB | Configuration Management | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | IT Service Management | ITIL | ROI | SOA | Software Development Tools

PODCAST - This podcast explores how you can achieve the promise of SOA without compromising your architecture or getting locked into a single-vendor approach. Listen as Giles Nelson presents his views on the challenges that enterprises face when trying to identify business requirements, deploy smart solutions that will support these requirements.
Posted: February 5, 2010 | Premiered: February 5, 2010


Topics:  Collaboration | IT Infrastructure | ROI | SOA | SOA Governance | Software Infrastructure | Software Virtualization | Systems Integration | Systems Integration Services | Systems Management

WEBCAST - This webcast will recap what the seven points of SOA mediation are and how they help SOA integrators connect data sources and enhance enterprise application flexibility. After the recap, this session will focus on how to apply these seven points in your organization and how they enable companies to achieve better business results.
Posted: February 5, 2010 | Premiered: February 5, 2010


Topics:  Change Management | Collaboration | IT Infrastructure | QOS | SOA | SOA Governance | Systems Integration | Systems Integration Services | Systems Management

EBOOK - In this paper you will learn how SOA can directly influence the success of your business, which will result from your business’ ability to participate in these new, more dynamic, federated communities. Read on to learn how social orientation is driving both new SOA technology needs and management changes in how technology is delivered and governed.
Posted: February 5, 2010 | Published: February 5, 2010


Topics:  Collaboration | ERP | SLA | SOA | SOA Governance | Social Computing | Systems Management | Value Chains | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - Integration projects succeed due to the completeness of thought in the requirements gathering and design phases. This paper presents “Eight Things to Consider” as you evaluate your existing infrastructure, current and future needs, and prepare to evaluate potential solutions.
Posted: February 5, 2010 | Published: February 5, 2010


Topics:  Change Management | IT Infrastructure | SLA | SOA | Software Development Life-Cycles | Software Development Methodologies | Software Virtualization | Systems Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Too often, even IT-savvy executives make the mistake of treating a network as simply "plumbing" for moving data around. In an era of fast-paced global competition, this mistaken approach to networking can be disastrous. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: February 1, 2010 | Published: February 1, 2010


Topics:  Interoperability | LAN | Network Design | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Security | Personalization | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Find out how to measure ROI for your business. Companies of all sizes constantly evaluate their operations, seeking to make changes that will increase effectiveness while controlling costs. This paper offers concrete practices, processes, and recommendations to drive the ROI of a company's IT investment (ROIT).
Posted: January 29, 2010 | Published: January 29, 2010


Topics:  eCommerce | Investments | IT Asset Management | IT Best Practices | IT Management | IT Spending | Project Management | ROI | SOA | TCO | Value Chains | Web 2.0

WHITE PAPER - Learn how a new, interconnected economy is forcing companies to manage an ever-growing information network -- and the best way to adopt new technologies to give you greater flexibility for faster growth while maintaining business integrity.
Posted: January 29, 2010 | Published: January 29, 2010


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | ERP | ROI | SaaS ERP | SAP (Product) | SOA | Software as a Service | TCO | Web 2.0

PODCAST - The Enterprise Integration Triangle – How the World's Favorite Airline Has Mastered the Code!
Posted: January 29, 2010 | Premiered: January 29, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Application Infrastructure | Applications Software | Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Data Integration | Integrated Development Environments | SOA | Software Infrastructure | Software Installation

WEBCAST - The Enterprise Integration Triangle – How the World’s Favorite Airline Has Mastered the Code!
Posted: January 29, 2010 | Premiered: January 29, 2010


Topics:  Application Development | Application Integration | Applications Software | Business Integration | Business Process Automation Software | Data Integration | Integrated Development Environments | SOA | Software Infrastructure | Software Installation

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE - Service-Oriented architecture (SOA) allows organizations to quickly and efficiently respond to changes in the business environment and to leverage such change for competitive advantage. The SearchSOA.com Pocket E-Guide: SOA Implementation features expert insight into the key areas critical to the successful planning and implementation of an SOA.
Posted: January 27, 2010 | Published: January 27, 2010


Topics:  Applications Management Services | Business Intelligence Software | Business Systems | IT Infrastructure | SOA | SOA Governance | Software Implementation | Systems Development Life-cycles | Web Services | Web Services Architecture

ANALYST REPORT - Enterprises are aggressively moving to service-oriented IT delivery. By investing in internal and public cloud computing, enterprises claim decreased total cost of ownership by 30% to 40% as well as improved IT agility in responding to fluctuating business demands. Forrester Consulting conducted a study to better understand how companies succeed.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: October 26, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Enterprise Computing | IT Infrastructure | IT Spending | Network Design | Network Infrastructure | Network Performance | ROI | SOA

RESOURCE CENTER - Businesses are depending on Enterprise and IT Architects to implement a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The right implementation will add immediate value and business agility.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: January 25, 2010


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Enterprise Application Integration Middleware | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Architectures | IT Infrastructure | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This tutorial provides a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to the Open ESB technology that is making its way into Sun commercial products - GlassFish ESB and Java CAPS 6. You will tackle six mini-projects that come together to provide a small, proof-of-concept, composite application.
Posted: January 8, 2010 | Published: June 6, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Application Integration | Business Integration | ESB | Open Source Software | SOA | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides a brief overview of the benefits of open source and the business drivers behind its market momentum. The paper also describes Sun's modular, open-source approach to an SOA.
Posted: January 7, 2010 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Applications Management | Business Integration | Enterprise Applications Software | ESB | Open Source | Open Source Software | SOA | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is Sun Microsystem's lightweight and agile integration product suite for services-based and composite application development. This whitepaper details a reference architecture for a very typical deployment solution based on a real-world scenario.
Posted: January 5, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Clustering | ESB | High Availability | Open Source | Open Source Software | SOA

WHITE PAPER - A constrained economy hasn't offset the need for increased business integration within the fast and responsive enterprise. Learn how a careful choice of technologies and middleware such as Sun's LightWeight services platform, become even more critical.
Posted: January 5, 2010 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Server Hardware | Application Server Software | Business Integration | Economic Environment | ESB | Identity Management | Middleware | SOA | Software Development Methodologies | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) has been designed to catalyze a lightweight business integration deployment project. It offers a "fit-to-purpose" mix of features, functionality, extensibility, and support at the best cost possible, with minimal overheads for development.
Posted: January 5, 2010 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Application Integration | Application Server Software | Enterprise Computing | Enterprise Systems | ESB | Java | Open Source | Open Source Software | SOA

WEBCAST - In this webinar, learn how you can use business rules to rapidly respond to discovered relationships between data and performance. You will learn why strategies need to adapt to new conditions and how business process automation can benefit from updated business rules to effect change and manage exception cases.
Posted: December 24, 2009 | Premiered: December 24, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Process Modeling | Business Processes | Data Management | Product Management | SOA | SOA Governance

WHITE PAPER - 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 SOA principles.
Posted: December 23, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Integration | Business IT Alignment | Business Management | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Oracle (Product) | SOA

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Blueprint is designed to be easy-to-use and collaborative so that a wide range of stakeholders can work together synchronously or asynchronously to map, refine and improve processes.
Posted: December 20, 2009 | Published: December 20, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Business Process Modeling | Business Processes | Cloud Computing | Collaboration | SOA | Software as a Service | Web 2.0

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to learn how this insurance provider then turned to Teamworks. With Teamworks they were able to implement a process that automates routing of disputes, streamlines research timelines, and gives managers control of all disputes being processed. Learn all of the benefits this insurance company reaped from deploying Teamworks.
Posted: December 18, 2009 | Published: December 18, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Business Process Modeling | Business Processes | Collaboration | SOA | Software as a Service

CASE STUDY - Mondial Assistant Group wanted to share best processes across their 28 global business units but they lacked a platform for sharing process knowledge. So they turned to Lombardi Blueprint, a hosted service that fosters easy collaboration among non-technical business users who want to document and analyze their processes. Read on to learn more.
Posted: December 18, 2009 | Published: December 18, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Business Process Modeling | Business Process Outsourcing | Business Processes | Collaboration | SOA | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - One of the most popular business motto’s within the past year is "more for less." Organizations want things better, faster, and cheaper. In the IT world this is all too true as well. BPM is the tool that delivers faster, better, and cheaper solutions. Read this paper for an in-depth look into BPM from the perspective of the CIO.
Posted: December 18, 2009 | Published: December 18, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Process Modeling | Business Process Outsourcing | Business Processes | CIOs | Collaboration | IT Management | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses how Blueprint takes direct aim at MS Word, PowerPoint, and Visio as the tools of choice for process analysts. Read more to learn how Blueprint is a lightweight process discovery tool that is tailored to support geographically dispersed process discovery teams.
Posted: December 18, 2009 | Published: December 18, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Process Modeling | Business Process Outsourcing | Business Processes | Collaboration | Process Control Software | SOA | Software as a Service