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Service-Oriented Architecture
A growing number of organizations are migrating to an IT architecture that naturally lends itself to flexibility, cost-efficiency and competitive agility. A service-oriented architecture establishes the key foundation companies need to compete and succeed in a dynamic globalized marketplace.
Service-Oriented Architecture Management
As organizations move to gain the advantages of service-oriented architecture (SOA), those loosely coupled systems increasingly require the oversight and governance of a robust approach to SOA management. An effective SOA management strategy will address governance, service life cycle, run-time operations, security, interoperability, reuse and agility.
Governance: The Key To Unlocking the Challenges of SOA
The service-oriented architecture (SOA) promises to reduce costs, improve performance and generate efficiencies in a wide range of industries. But to reap those benefits, organizations must understand and address a number of key SOA governance issues. In this paper, HP outlines the nine processes of a closed-loop SOA governance model and demonstrates how SOA governance facilitates service planning, service funding and runtime policy enforcement.
Transferring Data To Process Information
The approaches outlined in this paper for sharing data across the enterprise are based on architectural solutions that have been around for a few years. Nevertheless, they are still applicable in today’s world since they directly address the timely availability of a foundational component of information technology – data.
Convergence
The market is seeing an accelerated shift from early adopters to widespread adoption of convergent telecom and information technology (IT) networks globally: Convergence at the corporate level is becoming a reality. As Dr. Jack Murphy, HP Fellow Emeritus, said: “On the voice side, we are seeing a movement toward voice over IP, which takes data network technology and applies it to the voice networks. So voice begins to use data network technologies and infrastructure that was developed over the years. At the same time, we also see data networks moving in the direction of voice networks.”
Security: A Major Imperative For A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
The openness of a service oriented architecture (SOA) creates unique and significant security challenges. In this paper, we examine crucial SOA security issues – confidentiality, integrity and availability – and review the technologies, tools, standards and architectures used to ensure SOA security.
Service-Oriented Architecture In the Airline Industry
Responding directly to economic and competitive pressures, companies in the airline industry are working to closely manage costs while at the same time improving operational performance and overall customer service.
Service-Oriented Architecture In the Transportation Industry
By adopting a service-oriented architecture (SOA), hotels, cruise lines, air services firms, and transport providers can lay the foundation needed to modernize legacy software systems and introduce efficient new applications.
Banking On an SOA Evolution
Seamless service orientation can change the way your company makes use of technology to compete. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables components, applications, functions and systems to be published, consumed and combined dynamically over an intelligent network, enabling virtualization.
Creating the Customer-Centric Financial Services Institution
Creating sustainable organic growth is proving to be difficult, too slow in coming, or altogether elusive for many financial services institutions (FSIs). This is despite heavy investment in various strategies and capabilities designed to boost the value of the companies’ customers. There is a set of new competitors, however, that successfully acquire and grow customer relationships by capitalizing on the same market dynamics that hamper traditional FSIs’ ability to grow. They do this by understanding their customers’ needs, preferences, and behaviors and by using this insight to define strategies that create value. They execute these strategies across the business model in a way that personalizes and measurably increases the value of their customer relationships. We call this the customercentric FSI. Getting there can be your most powerful growth strategy.
Enterprise Content Management In a Service-Oriented Architecture
Enterprise content management (ECM) vendors typically provide an interface enabling end users to access the content management services out of the box. Problem is users must learn to use the ECM's UI. When ECM is provided as part of a Service-Oriented Architecture, end users may continue using existing familiar applications, reducing the need for training.
Harmonizing Modernization and SOA For Enterprise Transformation
Enterprises realize exponential gains by combining modernization and service-oriented architectures (SOA) while executing their plan for transformation.
Service-Oriented Architecture In the Retail Sector
In this viewpoint paper, HP describes a process-oriented, opportunity-driven approach to the implementation of SOA in the retail environment. This phased, results-oriented approach allows companies to create services that respond flexibly to changes in consumer demand, product design and supply chain operations.
SOA and Virtualization
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and virtualization naturally work together and are rapidly being adopted throughout IT environments. In this paper, we discuss how organizations can leverage these technologies to benefit from the synergies of SOA and virtualization.
The Eight Most Important Best Practices In SOA Governance
SOA governance provides a framework for making and applying the decisions that determine how the SOA will be designed, developed and operated. In technologists' haste to assess and prove the technology, the more mundane issues of how peoples' jobs should change — and even the organization itself — are usually pushed to the back. But in SOA, that is a recipe for failure. SOA requires IT to take on issues we have not had to address in the past. But now the time is come.

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