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ALSO CALLED: Service-oriented Integration, Service-Oriented Architectures, Service-Oriented Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, and Service Oriented Architectures
DEFINITION: A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the underlying structure supporting communications between services. SOA defines how two computing entities, such as programs, interact in such a way as to enable one entity to perform a unit of work on behalf of another entity. Service interactions  … 
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Bloor Report for ISVs: Expand Potential Market and Enhance TCO with Cost Effective Mainframe Integration
sponsored by DataDirect Shadow
WHITE PAPER: In this report, learn how Shadow v7 <b>expands the range of SOA and data connectivity options</b> available to existing System z mainframe users.
Posted: 07 Jan 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2008
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Convergence in Network and Service Management
sponsored by Comarch
WHITE PAPER: The Comarch OSS Suite includes the Network Inventory Management solution, which allows for dividing the network into domains with different user groups and roles assigned.
Posted: 06 Jan 2009 | Published: 06 Jan 2009
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Redefining the Application lifecycle: Looking beyond the Application to Align with Business Goals
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the HP approach and highlights the key opportunities to reduce the risks, costs, and time required to develop, deliver, and maintain high quality applications.
Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Published: 23 Dec 2008
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HP Customer Perspective: How IT Quality Managers Respond to SOA Change
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the challenges that IT quality managers face when applying traditional test tools and processes to SOA and shows how HP has adapted HP Quality Center and HP Performance Center software to help IT meet the new needs of SOA.
Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Published: 23 Dec 2008
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How Successful ERP Selections Are Made: The Top Things to Look for, Look at, and Look beyond When Evaluating an ERP Purchase
sponsored by IQMS
WHITE PAPER: ERP selection is not just about wants and want-nots from the various people in an organization but it is about getting what you need for now and the future.
Posted: 24 Dec 2008 | Published: 24 Dec 2008
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Ovum Examines How IBM Meets the Challenge of Delivering an Effective Unified Information Platform
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Having launched its "Information on Demand (IOD)" initiative few years ago. IBM has been among the most aggressive vendors in building an end-to-end unified information management (UIM) capability.
Posted: 22 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008
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Get the Most Business Value from Your Information
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: The need for business insight on demand, based on a unified view of accurate, trusted information about customers, products and accounts, touches organizations of virtually all sizes across all industries.
Posted: 22 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008
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The Eight Pillars of an Enterprise Application Architecture
sponsored by LANSA
WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on the benefits of adopting a sound enterprise application architecture as a means to guide and aid application development and modernization.
Posted: 20 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008
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IDC White Paper: Striving for Efficiency in Information Management with Services Oriented Storage
sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the business dynamics that are shaping the need for services oriented storage solutions and discusses the specific solution put forth by Hitachi.
Posted: 16 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008
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The Reality Facing the Mainframe World
sponsored by Acxiom Corporation
WHITE PAPER: The mainframe is alive and processing. As a mainframe executive, various solutions are available to help address your challenges and meet the needs of your business.
Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008
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Operational Intelligence: Correct Problems before They Occur
sponsored by Vitria Technology, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the burgeoning concept of Operational Intelligence, a new approach for decision-making that allows the optimal response at the right time.
Posted: 08 Dec 2008 | Published: 08 Dec 2008
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Magic Quadrant for Integration Service Providers
sponsored by E2open
WHITE PAPER: Increasing automation, international e-commerce are driving new offerings, infrastructure improvements and consolidation in the integration-as-a-service and B2B project outsourcing market segments.
Posted: 05 Dec 2008 | Published: 05 Dec 2008
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Best Practices for Automating SAP® Order-to-Cash
sponsored by Winshuttle, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how SAP® Business Suite customers can use Winshuttle software to automate the Order-to-Cash business process through the user-enabled loading of Excel data.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Published: 04 Dec 2008
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Enrich the Decisioning of Your COBOL Applications
sponsored by ILOG, Inc. (BRMS)
WHITE PAPER: With ILOG JRules and ILOG Rules for COBOL, you can externalize and manage the business rules in your organization's COBOL applications without disruption or a major development project.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 15 Mar 2008
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Business Rules Management: Meeting Evolving Business Requirements
sponsored by ILOG, Inc. (BRMS)
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses a set of tools for effective business rule management. Learn how to author, deploy and manage critical business rules with greater speed and efficiency.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2006
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Why Business Rules: A Case for Business Consumers of Information Technology
sponsored by ILOG, Inc. (BRMS)
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the relationship between business and IT groups within the typical enterprise and explores how the implementation of a Business Rules Management System (BRMS) allows both groups find common ground.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2006
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Decision Services: The Next SOA Challenge
sponsored by ILOG, Inc. (BRMS)
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the issues associated with decision services in an SOA strategy, highlighting how business rule management systems can be used to overcome these challenges.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2006
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Realising the Promise of SOA and BPM
sponsored by Informatica
WHITE PAPER: In this comprehensive report Ovum discusses how to overcome various limitations by including real-time data integration and data services as part of a successful SOA and BPM strategy.
Posted: 30 Nov 2008 | Published: 27 Nov 2008
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Client Computing with Virtual User Environment
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Intel IT developed a new computing approach that combines multiple emerging technologies, including client virtualization and streaming, to potentially transform the way we deliver computing to users.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Enabling Manageability with Intel Active Management Technology
sponsored by Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Learn how Intel IT is implementing Intel Active Management Technology across the enterprise.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Grid Computing White Paper: Oracle Grid Solutions for the Next-Generation Data Center
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This Oracle white paper describes how businesses of all sizes worldwide are using Grid best practices to modernize their IT operations and increase efficiency, availability, performance, and operational agility.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Deploying Fips-Certified SOA Gateways in Federal, State and Local Government Agencies
sponsored by Forum Systems
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn why FIPS 140-2 validation is necessary for SOA Gateways used in building secure, robust and scalable Service Oriented Architecture.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 14 Nov 2008
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E-Book: The BPM Payoff
sponsored by Accenture
WHITE PAPER: A business process is defined as a set of related activities that produce either a service or a product, the idea behind BPM is to line up these processes with the goals of a department or company.
Posted: 12 Nov 2008 | Published: 12 Nov 2008
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Top 20 Reseller Resources
sponsored by Channel Media Group
WHITE PAPER: Access the most popular guides, tutorials, chapter downloads and in-depth technical articles across our network of sites today.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Published: 06 Nov 2008
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Software + Services in the Microsoft World
sponsored by Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd
WHITE PAPER: What does the term "S+S" really mean? The first "S" stands for software, of course, but the second "S" also really stands for software, all that changes is where that software runs and who runs it.
Posted: 07 Nov 2008 | Published: 06 Nov 2008
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SOA DEFINITION (continued): …  are defined using a description language. Each interaction is self-contained and loosely coupled, so that each interaction is independent of any other interaction.

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based Web services are becoming the most common implementation of SOA. However, there are non-Web services implementations of SOA that provide similar benefits. The protocol independence of SOA means that different consumers can communicate with the service … 
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