SOA - Get Serious About SOA
Whether your organization's service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 50 services being used by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need SOA governance; increased business agility depends on it. SOA governance provides the ability to quickly and continuously translate and transmit business strategy and requirements into the processes, policies, and controls that will guide the evolution of your infrastructure and your enterprise.
Application Grid - Cut Costs & Modernize Applications
Find out how mainframe rehosting lets IT professionals spend more time and money on development rather than on maintaining aging systems. This free whitepaper explains how you can unlock the value of key business logic for integration and reuse and therefore create a more innovative IT environment.
Database - High Availability
As the use of IT-enabled services becomes more prevalent, modern enterprises have become increasingly dependent on their IT infrastructure and its continuous availability. Application downtime and unavailability of data directly translates into lost productivity and revenue, dissatisfied customers, and tarnished corporate image. This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture framework that provides clear and concise guidance on implementing best practices using Oracle's proven high availability technologies.
Enterprise Manager - 11g vs. DB2 Enterprise 9.5
In a recent study conducted by the Edison Group, shows how Oracle Database extends the lead over IBM DB2 9.5 for database manageability. In the whitepaper, Edison reveals how Oracle Database saves 40% in time for day-to-day administrative functions and 43% in database management costs over IBM DB2 9.5.
Engagement Trends
- Application Grid 3%
- Enterprise Manager 5%
- Database 4%
- SOA 10%
Month-over-month Engagement Increase. Middleware has been around a long time but has a new-found importance as businesses rely on middleware solutions to build more flexible and agile businesses. Service-oriented architecture (SOA), virtualization, and green computing to name a few key initiatives place unprecedented performance and automation demands on the foundational middleware offerings.
Month-over-month Engagement Increase. Today's complex applications are built with little attention paid to how IT operations will test, monitor, and manage the applications and the services they render to the organization; neither do traditional APM tools provide visibility into the sources of performance problems and how to correct them.
Learn More: Complete 360-degree IT Visibility into Applications
Month-over-month Engagement Increase. On average, data volume triples every 2 years which makes compression a key route to shrinking your overall database storage footprint, maximizing resource utilization, and reducing the costs of managing large amounts of data.
Month-over-month Engagement Increase. Properly implemented SOA enables companies to respond rapidly and cost-effectively to changes in the business environment and to re-deploy resources in innovative ways; a company's SOA roadmap should be realistic and cost-effective, and built to anticipate business opportunities and challenges alike.
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