Integration & SOA Services: Related White Papers
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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 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.
- Banking On A SOA Evolution PDF, 414K
- 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.
- Banking on a SOA Revolution
- A service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables components, applications, functions and systems to be published, consumed and combined dynamically over an intelligent network, enabling virtualization. EDS has experience implementing SOA solutions for financial industry clients and can help your enterprise benefit from a service-oriented paradigm.
- 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.
- 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.
- Service-Oriented Architecture In the Hospitality Industry: How Are We Doing?
- It has been a year and a half since our article entitled, “Service-Oriented Architecture and the Hospitality Industry: Cure or Chimera,” was published in
Magazine. Much has transpired in hospitality industry technology since then, but what specifically has been occurring with regard to service-oriented architecture (SOA)? - Service-Oriented Architecture In the Retail Sector
- In this viewpoint paper, EDS describes a process-oriented, opportunity-driven approach to the implementation of SOA in the retail environment. This phased, results-oriented approach allows companies to create services that respond flexibly to changes in consumer demand, product design and supply-chain operations. This approach encourages companies to start small, to generate efficiencies and revenues from specific process improvements, and then to extend the shared benefits of SOA as new opportunities arise.
- Seven Steps To A Service-Oriented Evolution PDF, 159K
- Adoption of the Service-oriented paradigm is an evolutionary process where enterprises must embrace the architectural concepts and steadily incorporate them into existing applications as well as take the appropriate steps during upcoming implementations.