Service Oriented Architecture

Batch Application Integration allows you to process critical transactions, such as payment authorizations, in real-time, and cue fulfillment (such as packaging and shipping) or other lower priority actions for batch processing. Learn more about Batch Application Integration, and how BMC CONTROL-M makes it possible.

This white paper outlines the advantages of WebSphere Portal for System z software and provides essential information to those considering adding Web-facing workloads on their mainframe hardware. Also, with these WebSphere Portal for System z options, IBM illustrates its ongoing commitment to mainframe computing and underscores the business value that remains inherent in the System z platform. Learn more today!

WebSphere Portal remains IBM's strategic front end for SOA. It enables our clients to closely align their business objectives on standards-based platforms with role-based delivery of composite applications across and beyond their enterprise. At the end of June we delivered a new version of WebSphere Portal Version 6.1. This release significantly improves performance by tapping into the 64-bit capabilities of the IBM System z platform. Click here to learn more!

Improving access to core applications and data is just one of many mandates facing IT, along with improving collaboration, reducing administration costs and improving performance. Fortunately, shops running System z have an advantage. You can integrate and enhance your System z assets faster when you use the version 6.1 update to IBM WebSphere Portal on z/OS. Use it to quickly deploy business applications across the enterprise, reduce costs and increase flexibility with workloads centralized on System z.

In this paper, Frank Dravis, Six Factors Consulting, discusses how even with the finest marketing organizations, the success of marketing ultimately comes down to the data.

"Time is money. You can't do business if you can't access your applications. I won't settle for anything less than 99.99% application availability." Steven Sommer, veteran CIO/CTO There is no aspect more critical to a business than the ability of its end users, customers, business partners and suppliers to have high availability access the corporate applications. If applications are unavailable, business ceases. And corporations know it.

This SAP Insight explores the importance of master data and the barriers to achieving sound master data, describes the ideal master data management solution, and explains the value and benefits of effective management of master data.

This white paper introduces operational strategies and trends in ERP that drive the consideration of an Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA). You will be able to assess whether ESA can help your organization deliver operational excellence and realize new levels of innovation.

Need your business to be flexible and agile? If you depend on the assets of partners & suppliers like us, you'll enjoy this video. It shows how the IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Feature Pack for Web 2.0 uses the combined power of Web 2.0 and SOA to bring all our most important services to the forefront. Giving you immediate insight and interaction with customers partners, supplier, and retailers.

Enjoy this complimentary trial version of WebSphere Application Server Express V7. You'll see how it can provide single-step installation and configuration, wizards and default configurations, and easy to navigate documentation that includes extensive use of sample code to ensure fast and smooth start-up.

Whether you're considering your first virtual desktop solution or trying to salvage an existing implementation, Citrix XenDesktop is the clear choice on the market that offers the performance, scalability and manageability required to meet your business needs.

Application management requires visibility from multiple vantage points within the IT enterprise, combined with a centralized information store that pulls the technology pieces of the application puzzle into a coherent whole.

Forrester used in-depth interviews and Forrester's powerful "Total Economic Impact" (TEI) methodology to model and analyze the costs, risks, resource usage, and payback period of a U.S. financial services company using Actional in production. Follow their calculations and find out the results.

Based on the Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) methodology, frameworks and interviews, Forrester Consulting, in this commissioned study for Progress, measured the total economic impact and potential ROI that using Progress Actional delivered in monitoring and managing the CRM system of a leading media and entertainment services provider.

Storage costs are exploding. The culprits, according to this white paper: new Web-based applications that demand more I/O throughput and higher performance than ever. So how can you handle this onslaught while keeping your cost per GB (and cost per user) reasonable?

Companies have rapidly adopted server virtualization over the past few years, but there are big differences in their use of the technology. Most companies are able to reduce server hardware spending, but many don't realize an ongoing reduction in management costs.

Frustrated by the costs of maintain ever larger data centers-or building new ones-many companies are exploring virtualization. Virtualization lets your IT staff turn your data center into an internal cloud of computing resources controlled by a single virtual data center operating system (VDC-OS).

SAP®, the world’s largest business software company, provides a comprehensive range of enterprise software applications and business solutions to empower every aspect of business. Organizations deploying SAP have invested a significant amount of time and money in these powerful applications. By taking advantage of F5’s Application Ready infrastructure for SAP, tested and validated at SAP, organizations can achieve a secure, fast and available network infrastructure that reduces the total cost of operation and increases ROI. And F5’s FirePass SSL VPN, BIG-IP Local Traffi c Manager and WANJet appliance have been certified by SAP for integration with SAP ERP 6.0 based on NetWeaver 7.0.

In this paper, SAP and F5 present how modern application and network technologies can be combined to form productive SAP business application landscapes that perform well and securely when used globally.

The demand for (and benefits of) web-based interfaces combined with an increasingly mobile and distributed workforce has exposed inefficiencies inherent in the browser, the network and its protocols, and the data center. These inefficiencies create performance problems for applications that continue to be magnified by emerging technologies like Web 2.0 and SOA. This White Paper details how F5's approach to Application Delivery Networking eliminates the bottlenecks inherent in browsers, in the network, and in the data.

The Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series is fundamentally changing the way enterprises think about purchasing and managing storage. Built on breakthrough virtualized peer storage architecture, the EqualLogic PS Series simplifies the deployment and administration of consolidated storage environments.

This executive level brochure provides the strategy behind Information on Demand (IOD), the 5 entry points to IOD and includes a summary of the 2008, information market analyst Ovum’s independent evaluation of IBM's Information On Demand initiative which declared IBM to be at the "vanguard of the unified information management revolution." In this brochure customers will also learn how to optimize their business and create a sustainable competitive advantage.

Cloud computing is ushering in a new era of analytic data management for business intelligence (BI) by enabling organizations to analyze terabytes of data faster and more economically than ever before. The key change: cloud database software is provisioned within minutes, without data center overhead, and it's licensed on an on-demand basis.

Improve operational efficiencies with next-gen networks and servicesThere has never been a better time for service providers to streamline operations, improve responsiveness and reduce costs. Find out in this white paper how all three can be accomplished with IBM Tivoli® Netcool® solutions. Also discover methods to boost efficiency and minimize expenditures.

New business technology initiatives are constantly popping up. But how do they relate to one another, and to your business? This white paper summarizes some of the more important initiatives in play today, and the service-oriented philosophy that can help you tailor your technology to best serve the people that use it. See how IT can work more naturally to serve your business needs.