In this paper Gomez poses several questions to Tim Grieser, vice president of IDC's Enterprise System Management Software program, on behalf of Gomez's customers. Read on to learn the answers to some of the most important questions regarding web-based applications. 

This podcast explores the new virtualization tools available. Discover the management and monitoring risks of virtualization, and options for mitigating these risks. Learn how to leverage server virtualization to consolidate multiple servers and improve power, cooling and space efficiency. 

You're probably familiar with the use of common formats in integration. These common representations, or in some cases mutually agreed upon formats, are often found in B2B transactions. To see how a common model can simplify SOA development, let's examine the standards at the foundation of SOA and ESB to understand what they include and... 

This webcast shows the potential roles of both general and complex event processing within your SOA initiative, and how these two approaches can be applied in a complementary fashion to meet a variety of business objectives. 

Join this webcast to learn how Enterprise Architecture integrated with Portfolio Management is empowered to integrate your strategic goals into your organization's capital planning, business planning and technology architecture activities. In this way, your strategic planning outputs become actionable. 

Service Operation, the fourth book in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3 publications, assists readers in developing management practices to ensure customers are satisfied and receive the value they expect. BMC experts have compiled an overview based on Service Operation, including valuable commentary, practical guidance and examples. 

A business process is defined as a set of related activities that produce either a service or a product, the idea behind BPM is to line up these processes with the goals of a department or company. 

Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact of those limitations on the end user experience. 

Read this white paper to learn about the latest partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability, and extended manageability capabilities available in Oracle Database 11g Release 2. 

Read this white paper to learn about a unique data protection and recovery solution that provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures and other disasters. 

Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. 

Over the last few years, BPM has seen rapid growth because it succeeds where earlier approaches have failed -— uniting business strategists and technologists together with a shared set of tools to accomplish common goals. The future promises even more explosive growth as BPM products continue to mature. Read on to learn more. 

Successful execution of an SOA strategy, combined with the release of the business value contained in legacy systems, can bring five proven benefits to the enterprise. Functioning as both a software development environment and a delivery framework, SOA provides a mechanism for defining business services and operating models.