Analyst reports
ZapThink Whitepaper: SOA in Any Economic Climate
In changing economic conditions, IT organizations need to contain the scope and risk of any new project. SOA is conducive to iterative approaches that reduce risk. Embarking on an iterative approach, organizations can realize quick wins from SOA, which is important in any economic climate.
Last updated: 14 May 2009
Wintergreen report: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Infrastructure Market Shares, Market Strategy, and Market Forecasts, 2008-2014
Service oriented architecture (SOA) components help corporations integrate their existing data and applications into new business systems. SOA software components allow customers to more quickly react to changing market conditions by using process models to design and build more flexible applications.
Last updated: 22 May 2008
Books
Dynamic SOA and BPM: Best Practices for Business Process Management and SOA Agility
Top IBM SOA architect Marc Fiammante takes you step-by-step through combining BPM and SOA, and using them together to build a more flexible, dynamic enterprise. Throughout the book, he emphasizes hands-on solutions based on his experience supporting dozens of enterprise SOA implementations.
Last updated: 14 Jul 2009
Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic
Leading IBM information forensics expert Neal Fishman helps you identify the unique challenges of data quality in your SOA environment and implement solutions that deliver the best results for the long term at the lowest cost.
Last updated: 06 Jul 2009
SOA for Dummies 2nd Edition eBook
This book introduces you to the basics of SOA in context with the real life experiences of seven companies. Seen through the varied business environments depicted in each of the case studies, we hope you will recognize that SOA is more than a bunch of new software products strung together.
Last updated: 04 May 2009
The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0
The emergence of service oriented architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, and open standards, technology enables companies to achieve those goals. In The New Language of Business, one of IBM’s top SOA strategist demonstrates how leaders can use innovations in technology to drive dramatic process improvements and support change.
Last updated: 20 Feb 2007
Brochures
WebSphere SOA Application Foundation Brochure
This flash brochure describes how an IBM Smart SOA™ application foundation with IBM WebSphere software provides the innovation and performance that allow you to build, deploy and manage robust, agile and reusable SOA applications and services of all types.
Last updated: 05 Oct 2009
Case studies
Deep Dive into Customer SOA Stories
An in-depth look at how customers are implementing SOA.
Last updated: 04 May 2009
Smart Work with SOA eBook
To work smarter, we’ll need smarter organizations – enhancing and benefiting from their people’s expertise, enterprise and creativity, rather than inhibiting them. In this eBook, you’ll get an in-depth look at how some of IBM’s clients are leveraging Smart Work.
Last updated: 04 May 2009
Videos
WebSphere Smart SOA Application Foundation Video
This video will introduce the key capabilities of the Smart SOA Application Foundation and provide examples of how IBM was able to help JK Enterprises adjust their business model and work smarter to succeed in today's economy.
Last updated: 15 May 2009
White papers
Making Sense of SOA and today's IT innovations
Welcome to Making Sense of SOA and today's IT innovations
Last updated: 15 May 2009
SOA Business Initiatives Whitepaper - Increase SOA infrastructure ROI today
This white paper defines the challenges facing today’s IT executives and steps you can take now to support your organization’s SOA-based initiatives by cutting costs, leveraging your existing IT infrastructure and improving productivity.
Last updated: 14 May 2009
Driving Business Agility through SOA Connectivity & Integration
This paper describes some of the business and IT issues that enterprises must address to become more agile and to improve their responses to challenges and opportunities.
Last updated: 15 Jan 2009
IBM’s Smart SOA Approach Delivers 21st Century Transaction Integrity
IBM's approach to transaction Integrity extends to SOA implementations. John Santoro explains why IBM is uniquely positioned to leverage years of experience and innovation in delivering transaction integrity to customers beyond the traditional siloed applications.
Last updated: 23 Jul 2008
Author: John Santoro
Business-Driven SOA 2 - How business governs the SOA process
Read how to overcome six key challenges to successful SOA implementations.
Last updated: 28 Apr 2008
The SOA Governance Framework
This paper details how the layers of the SOA Governance Framework deliver business and technical results.
Last updated: 28 Apr 2008
Service registry and repository: get the most business value from your SOA
Service oriented architecture (SOA) has the potential to drive business flexibility, performance and innovation by better aligning your information technologies to your business objectives. Maximizing this potential depends on how well you manage the services in your SOA throughout their life cycle.
Last updated: 25 Apr 2008
Entry points into SOA: Taking a business-centric approach
How can you achieve innovation that matters when your business is only as flexible as the IT environment that supports it? Service oriented architecture (SOA) helps you innovate by helping to ensure that your IT systems can adapt quickly, easily and economically to support your rapidly changing business needs.
Last updated: 01 Oct 2006
Five SOA projects that can pay for themselves in six months
See how to use a service-oriented approach to solve immediate business challenges with Service Oriented Architecture.
Last updated: 19 Oct 2005
The Business Value of Deploying WebSphere Portal in an SOA Environment
See how WebSphere Portal contributes to the successful deployment of SOA
Last updated: 01 Oct 2005
IBM SOA Foundation: Providing What You Need to Get Started with SOA
The IBM SOA Foundation easies SOA implementation across varied business requirements.
Last updated: 20 Sep 2005
