Applications: Related White Papers
- Banking On an SOA Evolution
- Seamless service orientation can change the way your company makes use of technology to compete. A service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables components, applications, functions and systems to be published, consumed and combined dynamically over an intelligent network, enabling virtualization.
- Breaking the Vicious Circle: Business Dynamics and Application Platforms
- In this paper, Datamonitor outlines a starkly different approach to AMS i.e. a virtuous cycle of “adaptive innovation” based on an agile application platform that exploits the opportunity cost of maintenance.
- Convergence
- The market is seeing an accelerated shift from early adopters to widespread adoption of convergent telecom and information technology (IT) networks globally: Convergence at the corporate level is becoming a reality. As Dr. Jack Murphy, EDS Fellow Emeritus, said: “On the voice side, we are seeing a movement toward voice over IP, which takes data network technology and applies it to the voice networks. So voice begins to use data network technologies and infrastructure that was developed over the years. At the same time, we also see data networks moving in the direction of voice networks.”
- EDS Designed for Run™ – The Quest For Enterprise Agility
- Forward-looking organizations seek agility so that they can adapt quickly, efficiently and appropriately to changes in their environment or business strategy. And to be agile, a business must also be seamless. Organizations that will thrive in the future will be those that create a seamless enterprise from one end of their value chain to the other.
- Enterprise Content Management In a Service-Oriented Architecture
- Enterprise content management (ECM) vendors typically provide an interface enabling end users to access the content management services out of the box. Problem is users must learn to use the ECM's UI. When ECM is provided as part of a Service-Oriented Architecture, end users may continue using existing familiar applications, reducing the need for training.
- Governance: The Key To Unlocking the Challenges of SOA
- The service-oriented architecture (SOA) promises to reduce costs, improve performance and generate efficiencies in a wide range of industries. But to reap those benefits, organizations must understand and address a number of key SOA governance issues. In this paper, EDS outlines the nine processes of a closed-loop SOA governance model and demonstrates how SOA governance facilitates service planning, service funding and runtime policy enforcement.
- Security: A Major Imperative For A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Service Oriented Architectures deliver a number of recognized advantages, including more open and efficient access to key enterprise services, applications and information. But the very openness of an SOA also creates unique and significant security challenges for organizations. In this EDS paper, we examine crucial SOA security issues – including confidentiality, integrity and availability – and review the technologies, tools, standards and architectures used to ensure SOA security.
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Organizations across virtually every business sector now face the challenges of globalization, increased competitive and regulatory pressures, and the need to respond more quickly and effectively to changing market conditions. In this demanding business environment, companies must transform themselves into leaner, faster and more agile enterprises. They must streamline and modernize their IT infrastructures, while addressing legacy system and application issues and the need to operate existing systems with minimal or no disturbance to the business.
- Service-Oriented Architecture In the Airline Industry
- Responding directly to economic and competitive pressures, companies in the airline industry are working to closely manage costs while at the same time improving operational performance and overall customer service.
- Service-Oriented Architecture In the Transportation Industry
- Companies in the transportation industry face a number of challenges, from globalization and lower-cost competitors to the need to be more nimble and responsive to market changes. By adopting an enterprise-class service-oriented architecture (SOA), transportation providers can lay the foundation needed to modernize existing software systems and introduce efficient new applications.
- Service-Oriented Architecture Management
- As organizations move to gain the advantages of service-oriented architecture (SOA), those loosely coupled systems increasingly require the oversight and governance of a robust approach to SOA management. An effective SOA management strategy will address governance, service life cycle, run-time operations, security, interoperability, reuse and agility.
- The Eight Most Important Best Practices In SOA Governance
- SOA governance provides a framework for making and applying the decisions that determine how the SOA will be designed, developed and operated. In technologists' haste to assess and prove the technology, the more mundane issues of how peoples' jobs should change — and even the organization itself — are usually pushed to the back. But in SOA, that is a recipe for failure. SOA requires IT to take on issues we have not had to address in the past. But now the time is come.
- The Subprime Decline and IT: Technology’s Role in Restoring The Market
- The market for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and other investment instruments tied to subprime mortgage loans has shrunk dramatically in the wake of the subprime sector's decline. EDS explores IT's role in reviving the business.