Web Service Management

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.

SOA is a set of architectural and design principles that are probably new to most iSeries people. SOA considers an enterprise as consisting of many processes and services. SOA comes with the expected set of acronyms and jargon, such as "loose coupling" and "granularity" and is typically implemented with Web Services.

Offshoring Is a Cost Effective Solution to Your IT Needs

This is a case study which shows how Leicester Theatre Trust (LTT) implemented a revolutionary communications solution based around a service-orientated Unified Communications architecture from NEC.

How can a company decide what the right decision is when it comes to outsourcing? A growing percentage of companies are reaping the benefits of leveraging technology to streamline business operations and automate their business processes to create greater efficiencies by turning to outsourced web hosting. In today's economy, more and more small to medium sized businesses with no IT staff, or an already over-burdened IT staff, are finding there is no other choice. However, even with companies that have the resources necessary to host their own websites are looking to outsource their hosting needs. For these companies not resources, but the issue of ensuring that the hosting environment is secure, reliable, and scalable is why they look towards outsourcing. Learn the pros and cons of outsourcing and how NeoSpire can help.

This document provides guidance on how to design and architect a scalable Microsoft applications mixed workload solution.

Read this white paper and get proven strategies and approaches for getting all three right. Based on the lessons of veteran service provider executives, this paper offers specific guidelines service providers can implement to boost their chances for success.

An organization cannot sustain long-term success without managing its information effectively... Building a foundation for information governance is your next step.

SOA implementations tend to be complex, IT decision makers should carefully consider their choice of a SOA platform in terms of its ability to simplify the fundamental development, deployment, and management tasks involved. Read on.

Read this white paper for an explanation of how business process management melds with complex event processing. The combination nets intelligent business processes that react to changing business conditions in real time.

This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess capabilities of vendors to support complex process improvement scenarios using BPM software.

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.

The Actional architecture enables end-to-end transaction monitoring and alerting as well as fast root cause analysis-with cost-effective scalability and high performance. This paper presents a detailed description of the unique technology that makes these and other key characteristics possible.

Learn how-and how much-you can gain in benefits from using Actional Enterprise for managing the operations of your distributed, interconnected applications. This E-kit will help you understand in measurable terms-such as the costs, cost savings, and ROI-of deploying Actional. Simply register and you will receive the resources required to help you build and communicate a business case.

Progress Actional is the leader in delivering management products and solutions for today's interconnected applications - including service-oriented architecture (SOA). Learn more about SOA and Web service management technologies by reading through our broad selection of white papers, on-demand webinars, podcasts and other helpful learning resources.

This Assessment Guide helps you to create a high-level overview for each business-critical application, detailing the context of the application, highlighting risk factors and overall effectiveness of each application. This assessment, in turn, will provide a foundation for further investigation and actions to optimize the outcomes of your business-critical transactions and mitigate risk.

Learn how-and how much-you can gain in benefits from using Actional Enterprise for managing the operations of your distributed, interconnected applications. This E-kit will help you understand in measurable terms-such as the costs, cost savings, and ROI-of deploying Actional. Simply register and you will receive the resources required to help you build and communicate a business case.

Progress Actional is the leader in delivering management products and solutions for today's interconnected applications - including service-oriented architecture (SOA). Learn more about SOA and Web service management technologies by reading through our broad selection of white papers, on-demand webinars, podcasts and other helpful learning resources.

The right software for managing critical applications can actually optimize your business results. Consider this... your critical applications are those that are vital to increasing revenue or productivity. In other words, they execute your key business transactions and are key business assets that support revenue generation, productivity, and customer satisfaction.

This Assessment Guide helps you to create a high-level overview for each business-critical application, detailing the context of the application, highlighting risk factors and overall effectiveness of each application. This assessment, in turn, will provide a foundation for further investigation and actions to optimize the outcomes of your business-critical transactions and mitigate risk.

Modern distributed, interconnected applications provide a new level of agility to businesses and IT. In these applications, the software for a business process is composed of "services," components consisting of discrete business functionality that can be recombined and reused in different business processes, enabling rapid business change. This white paper examines the challenges of, and solutions for, effectively managing their operations.

Sun Microsystems uses Puppet to improve efficiency, accelerate system updates and ensure consistent configurations across their web server architecture.

This paper discusses the management of Risk and how Vulnerability Management is one of the few counter-measures easily justified by its ability to optimize risk.

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