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Over the years, the tools to implement SOA have become more and more capable, sometimes at the price of complexity. In this new release of SOA Suite, Oracle continues to emphasize the development, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission-critical environments.

Learn the evolutionary tale of DITA and see how it will take on your content management and publishing challenges by streamlining processes, facilitating modular writing, paring down publishing costs and much more. DITA is an XML-based, end-to-end architecture for creating, producing and delivering topic-oriented content that you can reuse in multiple ways. Download this guide to join the DITA evolution.

IBM and Quark have teamed up on a solution in which users create DITA XML-based content in Quark XML Author and then manage and publish it through IBM FileNet Content Manager. Hear P.G. Barlett, Quark Senior VP of Product Management, explain how this partnership revolutionizes dynamic publishing (e.g. Use Microsoft Word to create XML content), through leveraging IBM's Enterprise Content Management for the Masses strategy and thus simplifying XML and making it easier to adopt enterprise-wide. Download this short podcast now!

Today’s enterprises rarely operate alone. Partnerships, outsourcing, external contractors and suppliers, and other cooperative agreements are all vital to today’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.

Industry debate about the relative merits of OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Ecma 376 Office Open XML (OOXML) highlights the significance of the productivity application market shift from binary and proprietary file formats to vendor- and product-independent Extensible Markup Language (XML) models. The competitive stakes are huge, and the related political posturing is sometimes perplexing.

This white paper provides an overview of the growing opportunities for EDI managers and coordinators. It highlights how their role can change from being responsible for implementation of technologies for operational activities to being infrastructure leaders. It shows how they can deliver increased efficiencies and velocity for value chain automation, which increases visibility, control and agility for a business.

Too many organizations are considering their Web services security architectures separately from their IAM and security management strategies. This is a mistake.

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.

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's market-leading access management software solution.

Ultra High Speed Internet, TV and local/long distance phone services combined into 1 superior service.

The ability to offer customers business content in multiple formats, such as Web pages, email messages, Word documents, PDF documents, etc., is vital for meeting customers' needs and expectations in today's hyper-competitive Internet economy.

DITA is one of the most important innovations in XML publishing in recent memory.  Though DITA is an IBM invention and plenty of material has been written about it already, this paper must be read as well to clear the air about any errors, omissions, or misinterpretations, from previous publications on this topic.

Security is one of the main issues when deploying Web services in the enterprise. This white paper discusses the advantages of an appliance over an agent-oriented architecture for Web services security, how cross platform interoperation is immediate with a hardened appliance, and why web services security is different from web server security.

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.

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.

This white paper discusses the three critical Web services deployment issues-security, provisioning connections, and operations. As each is owned by different factions within an enterprise, each can become a 'show stopper' to Web services deployment initially, and every time a change must be made.

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.

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.

In highly competitive markets, technologies that save time and money earn top consideration. Until now, XML Web Services, often touted for their ability to create business value, has been left off the short list for implementation. In this case study you’ll see how RouteOne LLC redefined the credit application process for automobile dealers and their customers using XML Web Services technologies.

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.

This paper presents a complete, generic framework for creating modifiable, flowing PDF forms, based on XML content and standard XSL templates. It requires no programming to generate dynamic, fillable, custom PDF forms by mapping some RenderX XSL FO extensions to form elements.

The term Business Intelligence 2.0 (BI 2.0) is cropping up more and more in the industry, generally referring to the next generation of BI just as Web 2.0 has come to refer to the next generation of the Web.

Learn the ‘bottom-up’ approach to start Business Rules Extracting, Migrating and Auto Re-architecting your current mission-critical legacy system and their data, into an SOA.

Learn the 'bottom-up' approach to start Business Rules Extracting, Migrating and Auto Re-architecting your current mission-critical legacy system and their data, into an SOA.  This is a "how-to" presentation addressing how to get started and eventually establish an internal L2S Center of Excellence.

This whitepaper describes the technology and architecture behind TEXTML Server, IXIASOFT's XML database and search engine.