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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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Information on Demand Brochure: Unlocking the Business Value of Information for Competitive Advantage
sponsored by IBM
BROCHURE: IBM Information On Demand helps businesses unlock the business value of information for competitive advantage.
Posted: 07 Jan 2009 | Published: 07 Jan 2009
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Is JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Right for Your Business?
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is a comprehensive and highly integrated suite of core business applications including things like financials, manufacturing, distribution, supply chain management, human capital management and so forth.
Posted: 07 Jan 2009 | Published: 07 Jan 2009
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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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eGuide: Managing Power Consumption in Today's Data Center
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
EGUIDE: This E-Guide brings you up-to-date on new energy performance metrics to compare a server's power consumption with its performance.
Posted: 31 Dec 2008 | Published: 29 Dec 2008
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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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Channel Success Stories: Simplifying IT
Case Study: Guardium
sponsored by Dell PartnerDirect and Intel
PODCAST: This Channel Success Story highlights the ways in which Guardium's innovative approach can simplify even the most complex IT challenges.
Posted: 18 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 18 Dec 2008, 09:00 EST (14:00 GMT)
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eGuide: Application Lifecycle Management
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
EGUIDE: This E-Guide discusses the benefits and drawbacks of consistency in ALM and provides an overview of the challenges associated with building and managing quality into the software development life cycle (SDLC).
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 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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ITWorx Standardizes on IBM Rational AppScan Standard Edition Software to Deliver Security-rich Applications to Its Customers Worldwide
sponsored by Logicalis
CASE STUDY: After a thorough evaluation of a number of Web application security scanners in the marketplace, ITWorx utilizes IBM Rational® AppScan software to automate security testing on the hundreds of Web applications it develops and deploys each year.
Posted: 15 Dec 2008 | Published: 15 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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ILOG JRules 6.7 - Download A 6-month Evaluation Copy Of The Full-Featured JRules
sponsored by ILOG, Inc. (BRMS)
TRIAL SOFTWARE: ILOG JRules is the easiest, most effective way to externalize business rules from code. It's faster, more flexible, and more reliable than alternatives like open source or home-grown rule engines. Download A 6-month Evaluation Copy Today!
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Apr 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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ILOG in Lending and Credit - A Solution Brief
sponsored by ILOG, Inc. (BRMS)
PRODUCT LITERATURE: This white paper discusses approaches for enabling greater product agility and efficiency in credit decisions, improving customer retention and attracting a higher number of new consumers.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006
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How Software Development Organizations Can Improve Application Architecture to Drive Long Term Cost Savings
sponsored by Coverity, Inc.
WEBCAST: This webcast will explain the growing role and value of application architecture in software development. Watch now for tips on how to ensure the integrity of application architecture in an agile and waterfall environment.
Posted: 01 Dec 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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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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