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<title><![CDATA[whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/Data Management/Service Oriented Architecture]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) expresses a perspective of software architecture that defines the use of loosely coupled software services to support the requirements of the business processes and software users. In an SOA environment, resources on a network are made available as independent services that can be accessed without knowledge of their underlying platform implementation.]]></description>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/data-management/data-management/</link>
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<title><![CDATA[Data Integration: Opportunities, Challenges, and MapForce]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper231/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-23 16:32:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The ability to seamlessly connect with customers, partners, and co-workers is vital for success; yet most enterprises store and exchange data in dissimilar formats, such as databases, flat files, EDI systems, and, increasingly, XML-based applications.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[All You Need to Know About Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the iSeries]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper438/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-24 22:32:54</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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 &quot;loose coupling&quot; and &quot;granularity&quot; and is typically implemented with Web Services.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Extending XML-based Services Beyond the Perimeter]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper541/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-27 12:41:07</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The vast majority of IT professionals and business people agree that security is the leading concern for SOA and XML messages and most quickly realize that SSL is limited by not providing content security, auditability or reliability.  This paper will discuss how to extend SOA beyond the perimeter through high performance.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Executive Guide to Web Services Security]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper542/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-27 12:37:07</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Businesses are rapidly adopting Web services to provide new levels of integration between applications. By comparison with earlier data communications techniques, Web services are faster and cheaper to develop, quicker to deploy, and easier to adapt to emerging business needs.  This paper discusses the special security challenges posed by the use of Web services, and how to secure networks against them.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Architecting the Infrastructure for SOA and XML]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper544/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-27 12:35:06</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper introduces the requirements for an XML infrastructure that is designed to ensure the opportunities and benefits of SOAs and Web Services can be realized. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Service Virtualization: Key to Managing Change in SOA]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper545/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-29 13:15:06</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Load balancers, name servers (e.g. DNS), even stock brokerage services are existing examples of virtual services in the worlds of networking and financial services. This paper will introduce the concept of virtual services for SOAs and provide details of the characteristics of virtual services that enable SOA success.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Practical Guide to SOA for IT Architects]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper617/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-30 11:38:30</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Service-Oriented Architecture: Revolutionizing IT Systems Development]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper658/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-29 15:32:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Points to Consider in a Business Integration Vendor]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper659/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-29 15:37:22</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Making the Transformation to SOA]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper660/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-29 15:31:17</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Business Case for SOA: Rationalizing the Benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper661/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-29 15:34:35</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most significant IT initiatives underway is the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA), where IT assets are aligned to business services in a standard, flexible and architected fashion. The concept is often discussed in conjunction with Web services, though the two are not synonymous.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Service-Oriented Architecture ( SOA )  – A New Alternative to Traditional Technology Integration]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper713/</link>
<pubDate>2007-11-16 16:11:51</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Service-oriented architectures are being heralded by industry analysts and vendors as the only viable way to overcome the complexities involved in creating agile, reusable business systems. This paper examines the basic premises underlying SOAs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Butler Group on iWay Service Manager]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper714/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-10 10:29:46</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment. From an end-user perspective, it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications, without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Role of ESB in SOA: Creating a Loosely Coupled Integration Architecture]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper715/</link>
<pubDate>2007-11-16 16:12:12</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper discusses the relationship between ESB, loose coupling, and the effort needed to align IT with business process owners in order to ensure a successful SOA implementation in any organization.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper716/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-10 10:29:35</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today&#39;s business integration requirements? This paper provides an overview of the promises and realities of collaborative SOA environments, and describes how iWay SOA Middleware solutions make the benefits of an SOA achievable, while protecting investments in already-in-place applications, middleware, and information systems.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Connectivity and SOA: Embracing Old Assets, Furthering the New]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper772/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-25 13:33:53</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) will provide greater flexibility for those utilizing them, but will also bring greater issues for data and functional connectivity.&nbsp; This paper contrasts and compares the capabilities of a point-to-point and an enterprise service bus approach.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What to Look For When Considering On-Demand Applications]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper785/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-30 11:01:52</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You&rsquo;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.&nbsp; The last hurdle is the service component itself &mdash; making sure that critical factors like security, speed, and reliability that will affect your users&rsquo; experience meet your standards.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business-Oriented Architecture: Combining BPM and SOA for Competitive Advantage]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper792/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-24 22:22:35</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Software As A Service Overview (SaaS)]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper796/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-29 16:20:15</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper on Software as a Service (SaaS) highlights the application development shifts that software vendors must go through to accommodate SaaS.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Definition of a Business Service for Customer Data Integration]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper801/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:34:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper will define different vendor approaches to developing business services and the relative cost implications of each approach for the customer.&nbsp;]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Leveraging Lifecycle Management for Software and Business Adapt Ability]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper845/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-27 13:33:20</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this white paper, you&#39;ll learn how to clearly define business requirements, align them with testing, and evolve development processes to prevent defects. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Functional Re-Use and SOA: The Service Interface as an Enabler for Software Re-Use Best Practice]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper851/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-30 12:01:15</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides a foundation to achieve software reuse. A key part of the SOA value proposition is the benefits realized from software reuse. Learn more in this new white paper from Quocirca. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Universal Federation Architecture: Enabling Unified Identity Federation & Web Services Security]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper878/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-25 10:37:36</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Effective identity federation benefits both users and enterprises. It provides the end-user with a seamless cross-domain Internet experience through single sign-on and it allows the enterprise to expose resources to a larger class of users not directly administered by the enterprise. Learn more in this white paper.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Securing Web Services]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper879/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-25 10:35:11</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While Web services offer many advantages over current alternatives, they still present key challenges, especially in terms of security. This document describes CA TransactionMinder in detail and is intended for technical people already familiar with Web services, XML security and CA SiteMinder, the company&#39;s market-leading access management software solution.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Guide to SOA Implementation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper932/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The information overload on SOA is largely on describing its merits, its principles and the vast variety of products intended to address its needs. This document is written to identify the factors to be considered, and articulate the principles and questions to be asked that will drive the decisions within each enterprise towards creating a road map for implementation. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Information and SOA: Gaining Greater Insights Through MDM]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1079/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Information management, which includes both data and content management, is an essential building block for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).&nbsp; By taking a service oriented approach to information, you can achieve much greater value from your information assets.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comparing the Traditional Approach to SOA to Event-Driven SOA]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1113/</link>
<pubDate>2007-09-24 11:34:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Given the potential for SOA to solve pressing business problems, it&rsquo;s inevitable that most companies will begin adopting SOA constructs within the next year or two. As they move to SOA, the approach they choose will have both immediate and long-term effects on their ability to support and adjust their ecosystem to meet future business requirements. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Implementing SOA with an Offshore Partner]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1175/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-30 14:38:45</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This whitepaper is written as a guide to an alternative mechanism for project implementation for business owners holding responsibility to deliver IT solutions in the SOA space. It could also be of interest to those who would like to know more about how the phenomenon of offshore/onsite coordination, that emerged in the nineties, can be effectively applied towards realizing the promise of SOA. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[People and SOA: Improving Productivity through People Collaboration]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1195/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SOA enables composite applications or collections of services that have been assembled to support a company&rsquo;s business processes.&nbsp; Portal and collaboration software delivers the essential people-focused capabilities of the SOA strategy to provide significant value to the organisation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Dynamics: Enabling Real-World SOA to Connect Your Business Vision with Software]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1224/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper walks you through the tools and technologies that enable service orientation. The purpose of this paper is to share with you the value of Real-World SOA and a few success stories from our customers who have taken on Real-World SOA projects to support their business vision.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Web Services Security Should Be a Key Part of Your Web IAM Security Strategy]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1237/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-25 10:38:46</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Too many organizations are considering their Web services security architectures separately from their IAM and security management strategies. This is a mistake.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Adaptive SOA: Enable Composite Applications with Real-Time Agility]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1304/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-17 08:58:59</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By enabling Adaptive SOA, Ultimus Adaptive Discovery takes SOA to the highest level of rapid deployment and agility. It accomplishes this by enabling business processes to be developed rapidly, and to embrace change in real-time. More importantly, it empowers business professionals and analysts who own processes to discover and change processes with IT playing the supporting role to manage the infrastructure.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Moving to a Blade World: How Blade Computing Improves Your Business]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1571/</link>
<pubDate>2007-11-13 09:53:34</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The evolution of Blade Computing has moved from mere server consolidation to a way of managing IT assets which brings significant business benefits. This paper aims to explain those benefits to the business and IT manager, and show how blade computing can be implemented to save money and improve the way IT serves the business needs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Worst Practices in SOA Implementation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1588/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-27 13:50:39</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Designed to help organizations learn from the mistakes of others, this paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration. It also provides guidance on how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices in order to realize the true value of an open, reusable integration architecture. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid SOA integration failure and achieve success with your initiatives.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Test Your Enterprise SOA Apps Before Rollout]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1602/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-24 14:19:23</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How SAP uses Shunra VE to keep production problems at bay with pre-production testing on the virtual WAN.&nbsp; These testing approaches and methodologies&nbsp; reached far beyond conventional application testing and have become the preferred approach to ensure success. SAP does it, so should you!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pivotal CRM and Microsoft: Evolving in Lock Step]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1716/</link>
<pubDate>2008-01-24 15:49:20</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For more than a decade, Pivotal CRM has been the choice of Microsoft-centric organizations that want the flexibility to model their specific business practices within their customer relationship management system. The Pivotal CRM product line leverages the Microsoft technology stack to provide usability and productivity advantages through integration to Microsoft Office, and more.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Service-Oriented Data Access: Building Interoperable, Robust & Reusable Data Services]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1760/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-21 15:14:23</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach to organizing IT resources and data to meet the changing needs of the business. Implementing SOA depends upon the IT organization being able to build interoperable, robust, reusable, and composable Services that abstract the underlying application functionality and data in the organization.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ZapThink: The Mainframe as a First Class SOA Participant]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1763/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-14 16:16:08</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this whitepaper, ZapThink research analyst Jason Bloomberg explores the challenges customers face when attempting to integrate their legacy systems with new technologies and architectures, and the issues associated with traditional mainframe integration methods. He guides the reader to a better understanding and approach that involves a single mainframe architecture for reduced complexity, cost and risk.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Manufacturing Imperative: Enterprise SOA]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1810/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-24 17:44:21</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Read how Enterprise SOA goes beyond the fundamentals of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is a distributed software model that uses independent Web services to support business processes as defined by SAP and its partners and customers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper1896/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-18 10:37:09</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enterprise Portal Solutions: The Case for IBM WebSphere Portal]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2175/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This document introduces the reader to the concept of Enterprise Portals as a means of conducting business on the Internet. We continue on to a discussion of the value of using Enterprise Portals, combined with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) methods, to tie existing processes and applications together to support the Enterprise.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SOA - Actionable Information for Business Optimization]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2321/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We live and work in a fast-moving and dynamic world, caught between a host of conflicting demands on our time and attention. Against this backdrop we&rsquo;re called on to boil an ocean of information in order to support the decisions that we have to make on an hour-by-hour basis.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IDC: Information as a Service]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2322/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As the old adage says, &quot;Information is power.&quot; The ability of an organization to best understand the behaviors and needs of its customers and partners, manage effective processes with timely insight, target new opportunities, and ensure that it is operating in a compliant and financially responsible manner on a day-to-day basis provides a foundation for innovation and success, let alone its survival.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SOA Governance: Necessary Protection for a Strategic Business Investment]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2323/</link>
<pubDate>2008-10-01 14:11:12</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Governance &ndash; including standardization, planning, funding, acquisition and ongoing management &ndash; is what prevents strategic SOA investments from fragmenting into dozens, hundreds or even thousands of ineffective, resource-sapping &ldquo;point solutions.&rdquo; This research paper will present a business guide for SOA governance based on the most recent user enterprise research and analysis from Saugatuck Technology.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Getting SOA Right: SOA Healthchecks]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2324/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ready or not, here comes SOA. More and more organizations are turning to SOA to speed application development, increase reusability across and beyond the enterprise, integrate historically separate systems resulting from acquisitions and mergers, and drive costs down and service quality up.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enabling SOA Through Organizational Change and Governance]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2325/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that offers business agility, speed to market, improved profitability and reduced costs. An SOA is also widely recognized as an enabler of innovation and new business operating models.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SOA Governance with IBM Rational Asset Manager]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2326/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For service-oriented architecture (SOA) to succeed, it needs to begin before run-time, with a strong SOA-based development and delivery environment. This paper discusses some of the challenges around SOA governance in the context of a lifecycle of services, and introduces IBM Rational Asset Manager software as a solution to those challenges.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SOA Governance: IBM's Approach]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2327/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-03 08:46:02</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Implementing an SOA includes implementing a governance model that supports SOA. In fact, without a robust SOA governance model, an SOA implementation will not realize the benefits that the architecture has to offer. Without effective governance, an SOA project &mdash; no matter how big or small &mdash; will fail.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Delivering SOA Solutions: Service Lifecycle Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2328/</link>
<pubDate>2008-10-01 14:14:22</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Introducing SOA into an IT organization demands both structural and policy changes, as it brings new demands for alignment among multiple processes within different areas of the business. The governance policies, procedures, rules and standards required to help an SOA deliver business benefits&mdash;greater flexibility, productivity and financial returns&mdash;are complex and can quickly become overwhelming without adequate infrastructure support.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SOA Identity Aware ESB]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2329/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Along with its many benefits in creating and connecting new services and reducing complexities, the openness of an SOA also creates security and compliance challenges. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Creating a Security-Rich Environment For Your SOA]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2330/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For many organizations, applications have been moved to an SOA environment and now must be extended to offer a service interface to new sets of users that were not originally planned.&nbsp; Extending resources in this way requires that you reassess your security risk. To minimize any risk, you need the right level of security checks for user authentication and authorization.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Impacts Your IT Infrastructure]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2332/</link>
<pubDate>2008-10-01 14:10:08</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[More than likely you&rsquo;ve heard quite a bit about service-oriented architecture (SOA) and how it holds the promises of quicker response to market trends, improved customer services and lower application development costs. From an infrastructure perspective, an SOA implementation contains all the same pieces and parts as your traditional environment.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mission Critical SOA]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2333/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the beginning, an SOA-based approach was used for projects in individual departments, usually for those with high returns, short-term rewards, and relatively low risk, with typically a high degree of new development. But as the value of the SOA concept has become more apparent and its tools have grown in both scope and robustness, organizations are applying them more broadly, to organizational-size problems and mission critical issues, leveraging more and more existing code and production systems.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Major Hotel Chain Builds Brand Value with SOA and IBM WebSphere]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2334/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Managing different international hotel brands is far from simple. Each brand needs to develop and preserve its own identity in order to drive differentiation and minimize inter-brand competition. In the modern hospitality sector, Web sites provide an important first point of contact for potential customers, so it is particularly important for each brand to have its own individual look and feel on the Web.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Business Flexibility: Removing Dependencies Between Business Process and Technical Infrastructure]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2335/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many of today&rsquo;s businesses have already moved from rigid siloed application approaches to more flexible business process focused solutions. This is driving the need for transparency in the underlying technologies, and for better levels of standardization and virtualization of the infrastructure, along with consideration of the value chain that includes a company&rsquo;s suppliers and customers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Smart SOA: Best Practices for Agile Innovation and Optimization]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2340/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-12 12:40:26</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this era of unprecedented change, organizations need agility to adapt rapidly. Part of what separates winners from losers is the ability to respond quickly and intelligently to market opportunities, competitive threats and regulatory constraints &mdash; in short, to innovate and create value. The best companies understand how to use technology for strategic advantage to help accomplish these goals.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Service-Oriented Architecture: Developing the Enterprise Roadmap]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2385/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-09 11:34:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most large enterprises have launched an initiative to adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA), but SOA is not a solution that comes in a tidy little box. SOA is a new way to design systems, and it is more about culture than it is about technology. SOA will impact many aspects of an organization&mdash;from software development and operations to accounting and incentive systems. Governance is critical. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Using Virtualization to Maximize Your IT Environment]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2554/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:46:10</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The business of managing IT infrastructures has reached a crossroads. The number of global players is shrinking through mergers and acquisitions while the playing field, also known as the customer&rsquo;s IT environment, has become exceedingly complex and difficult to manage. This working paper presents CA&rsquo;s corporate and technology strategy behind appropriate virtualization management positioning and commitments as an important element in preparation for the move toward that model in your IT environment.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 SOA Projects That Can Pay for Themselves in 6 Months]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2584/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-14 08:42:23</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Service oriented architecture (SOA) could revolutionize the way we think about IT. Why is that possible? Because SOA finally has the potential to make the concept of reuse real. Companies have been talking about reuse for years, but have never been able to transform that talk into full-scale reality. Now, you might be asking, &quot;How can SOA succeed where previous approaches have failed?&quot; Because the standards, best practices and governance models have finally matured to the point where reuse can actually work.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Smart SOA- Best Practices for Agile Innovation and Optimization]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2586/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-13 13:15:08</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this era of unprecedented change, organizations need agility to adapt rapidly. Part of what separates winners from losers is the ability to respond quickly and intelligently to market opportunities, competitive threats and regulatory constraints - in short, to innovate and create value. The best companies understand how to use technology for strategic advantage to help accomplish these goals. Service oriented architecture (SOA) can help. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Smart SOA- The Experienced Approach]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2587/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-14 08:42:55</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The business value that the Smart SOA approach brings is well-established, expanding and mainstream. IBM has a track record of helping to deliver agility through the Smart SOA approach and has made it clear how to get the most out of your SOA pursuits. If you haven&#39;t already done so, consider implementing a focused Smart SOA starter project to help you achieve rapid business value. Extend your implementation end to end with BPM enabled by SOA. Get a head start by using industry frameworks and solutions. Scale up and scale out with the confidence of robust process integrity.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reinventing Workload Automation with SOA]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2612/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:51:37</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although typically thought of as an artifact of legacy computing, batch processes remain vital to today&rsquo;s real-time enterprises. Behind the real time systems that power the real time enterprise, such as customer order fulfillment, account management, supply chain scheduling and optimization, or financial trading systems, are regularly-updated back office business systems. Over the years, batch technology has evolved from script-based automation to rules or policy-driven workload automation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Evolution of Job Scheduling: CA's Approach to Workload Automation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2613/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:51:51</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This IDC White Paper presents an overview of key concerns driving IT management and how they translate into needs that can be addressed through modern approaches to job scheduling and workload automation. The paper traces evolutionary trends in job scheduling software, which is growing from traditional batch job schedulers to cross-platform and event-driven capabilities. It also explores the role of job schedulers in providing automation capabilities.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[21st Century Workloads Running the World with Workload Automation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2616/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:48:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[All things that can be automated will be automated. Beyond the careful choreography of sophisticated workflow, managing myriad simultaneous requests puts unprecedented demand on the software that must schedule and perpetually deliver against well-defined service levels, in real time. Gone are the days of simple batch processing. Welcome to the oh-so-very-flat world that is embracing service-oriented architectures, grid architectures, expansive ecosystems, and end-to-end processing. Workload scheduling has got to grow up.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Event-Driven Automation: Get Real, Right Now]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2618/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:49:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While companies cope with increasing demands for speed from their customers, shareholders and customers alike demand that they make these changes cheaply, with minimal risk and with as few people resources as possible. Is there any way to meet these challenges? Take another look at modern enterprise job scheduling to see how it enables the real-time environment (RTE).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Maximize CA Workload Automation Performance & Improve Delivery of Business Services with CA Services]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2619/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:50:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CA services can help you realize the value of your CA Workload Automation solution more quickly while reducing the overall costs of ownership. We can help you architect, deploy and establish a CA Workload Automation solution that meets your automation needs and business objectives. CA also provides training to improve the productivity of your staff and ongoing support to maximize the value of your software product investment.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CA SOA Security Manager]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2698/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-25 10:26:29</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CA SOA Security Manager, an identity-centric web services security software product that secures access to services by inspecting the security information contained in xml requests.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Lack of Identity Federation Leads to End-User Confusion and Increased Help Desk Calls]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2708/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-25 10:29:48</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s enterprises rarely operate alone. Partnerships, outsourcing, external contractors and suppliers, and other cooperative agreements are all vital to today&rsquo;s enterprises. These agreements generally require collaboration and interoperation, both organizationally and between their IT resources. They require the ability for users in one organization to easily work with resources provided by another.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IBM pureXML for SOA: Unlocking the Business Value of Information]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2724/</link>
<pubDate>2008-10-01 10:39:33</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Organizations must adapt more rapidly than ever before - which means that they must align their IT environments with their business goals and deliver information on demand, when and where it is needed. In this white paper, the experts at IBM discuss how your company can meet this need for information on demand with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), a business-centric approach to IT architecture that supports integration through linked, repeatable business tasks or services.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Improve the Efficiencies of Your SOA Solutions with Performance Testing]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2877/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[IBM Rational Testing Solutions for SOA help software delivery and QA teams to improve the quality of SOA solutions, by automating the creation, execution and analysis of functional, regression and performance tests of non-GUI business processes and services. In this webcast, we will demonstrate the benefits of IBM Rational Testing Solutions for SOA.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Magic Quadrant for Integrated SOA Governance Technology Sets]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2878/</link>
<pubDate>2008-10-01 14:09:35</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Good governance of a service-oriented architecture is becoming a core competency. This Magic Quadrant report by Gartner examines the market for SOA governance through a set of integrated technologies. It evaluates leaders, challengers and innovators in the SOA governance technology market, providing feature information and strengths and cautions for each.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[E-Book:  Exploring IBM SOA Technology & Practice]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2890/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-12 12:34:27</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The e-book provides a concise and consistent overview of the IBM to approach to SOA: our methods, architectures, and products for being successful with SOA. It compiles together various SOA materials in one place and gives it a consistent narrative that ties all of the pieces together. Download it now to get an informative overview of the IBM approach to SOA.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Impact 2008]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper2891/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Watch this short video to witness the energy and excitement and get the highlights from IBM Impact 2008, the largest SOA conference in the industry with over 500 sessions, 270 customer speakers &amp; over 6,000 attendees.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mission Critical Webcast]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3119/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Join IDC and HP on this webcast about Mission Critical Services. Matt Healey of IDC provides insights on the adoption of consolidation, virtualization and Service Oriented Architecture as aggressive strategies to align IT more closely with business goals. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP Customer Perspective: How IT Quality Managers Respond to SOA Change]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3195/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Find out how one customer, Dr. Ferhan Kilical, test manager at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, addressed the challenges she faced when applying traditional test tools and processes to SOA. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Align Your Business, Development and Operations Teams for Strategic Advantage]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3243/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest hurdles that enterprises face is a lack of trust in IT&rsquo;s ability to deliver business value. While a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can sort things out by making systems more flexible and agile, this is only part of the answer. What&rsquo;s missing is an effective model for engaging consistently with business teams throughout the whole lifecycle of IT investments. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Wyeth Transformed Its Business With SAP]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3302/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Consider how Wyeth implemented an enterprise portal and services-oriented architecture based on the SAP NetWeaver platform to help build powerful applications quickly. The award-winning portal for ordering vaccines online is simplifying the ordering process for the medical profession &ndash; and saving Wyeth time and money.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Software Quality Management for SOA]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3373/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SOA is invariably viewed from different perspectives by different parts of the organization. Enterprise architects and the SOA Center of Excellence may see every effort as a step in developing an enterprise-wide SOA. 1Project teams may see SOA as simply a new development methodology. To plan an effective quality program for SOA, IT quality managers must look past generalities to determine what they are dealing with and how that affects the test program. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SOA Performance: Scaling SOA Implementations Now And Into The Future]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3398/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-23 11:22:32</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many organizations look to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to provide greater business agility in the face of evolving business requirements and complex, heterogeneous information technology (IT) environments. To achieve this agility, architects implement a Services abstraction that loosely couples business Services from the underlying implementations of those Services. Building such an abstraction layer is not without risks, however&mdash;inherent in building such an abstraction is the risk of sacrificing performance and scalability to achieve the organization&rsquo;s required agility.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CA's Workload Automation: Product Roadmap and Integration Strategy]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsecurity.com/whitepaper3401/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 13:49:31</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper provides insight into CA&#39;s vision of advanced job scheduling. With the acquisition of Cybermation products, CA has gained components of workload automation not currently in CA Job Management solutions. The technologies from both companies combined, when integrated, will provide you with a strong solution for advanced workload automation.]]></description>
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