Web Service Management

As a strategy for creating a flexible and agile IT, service-oriented architecture (SOA) has gained considerable momentum in recent years, largely due to the advent of standards-based Web services.

Selecting the right business integration vendor is a challenge. While it is essential to focus on what is critical for your company, it is also important to evaluate vendors using a common set of metrics. This document uses customer feedback taken from a broad portfolio of evaluations to offer key factors and considerations to use when selecting an integration software vendor.

This white paper explores why service-oriented architecture has emerged as one of the most significant developments in IT, and is followed by an overview of how businesses can make the transformation to service-orientation.

Many dashboards have limitations that can make it difficult for businesses to provide value beyond the executive level. But with IBM portals, you can create a foundation to build more effective active dashboards. This executive brief shows how next-generation dashboards can provide a competitive advantage by helping improve flexibility and decision-making.

Current trends show that the vast majority of companies are moving to services-oriented architectures (SOAs) and deploying Web services within and across their IT infrastructure.However, the success of those deployments is determined by the integrations and innovations that Web services make possible and how Web services affect the quality and performance of the mission-critical applications with which they interface.

Librarians looking to build electronic libraries face numerous challenges. This new white paper by Integration New Media provides a summary of best practices for building an eLibrary. From defining your audience and content requirements, through to choosing a technology solution that makes sense for your use cases, this paper will provide a strong checklist of items to consider. The paper also looks at the three types of users and the key elements of designing the user experience for your eLibrary.

This new white paper by Integration New Media provides marketing agencies and multimedia developers with a strong foundation of information about Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). From basic definitions through to technology explanations, this white paper is a must-read for those looking to embrace new technologies to satisfy their clients’ growing needs.

Businesses across Europe are becoming increasingly reliant on web-enabled applications that are accessed over the public internet. One of the key drivers for this is to open up communications with external organizations that are fundamental to core business processes.

To all but the savviest technologists, today's typical Web-architected enterprise product diagram is a confusing jumble of acronyms and buzzwords and pledges of "true enterprise wide" deployments. Separating the hype from reality is critical for end-users to select enterprise products that deliver the full benefits of true enterprise Web deployment.

This paper outlines these new threats and discusses the limited effectiveness of reactive legacy Web security solutions against those threats.  The paper then outlines the new reputation based, proactive security paradigm that is necessary for securing Web 2.0 applications.

SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture is an approach to building IT systems out of common parts. SOA represents a breakthrough in the way we build IT systems. webMethods customers report overwhelmingly that SOA is providing real value to them.

Discover the essential steps to delivering a solid business case for the right customer-centric MDM architecture and achieve maximum ROI.

This paper gives the reader an overview of the functionality of IBM's WebSphere Customer Center, and explains why IBM is the strategic partner that more Fortune 500 companies select as their strategic platform for Customer Data Integration.

Learn how web services integration enabled Priority Solutions’ clients and vendors to access documents in the SpringCM repository via the company’s self-service Web portal.

In this paper, we will discuss the benefits of BPM and SOA in more detail and show how leading companies have recognized that implementing BPM and SOA together gives them unique capabilities.

You’ve made the decision: the overall ease and economics of implementing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) appeal to you, and you have selected an application that delivers what you need for your business.  The last hurdle is the service component itself — making sure that critical factors like security, speed, and reliability that will affect your users’ experience meet your standards.

Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) will provide greater flexibility for those utilizing them, but will also bring greater issues for data and functional connectivity.  This paper contrasts and compares the capabilities of a point-to-point and an enterprise service bus approach.