Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables different programs, applications, and tools to interact via self-contained services that do not depend on the context or state of the other service. This white paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration, and how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices. 

This white paper discusses the importance of data integration and help you identify the key challenges of integrating data. It also provides you with an overview of data warehousing and its variations, as well as summarizes the benefits and approaches to integrating data. 

Never has operational responsiveness, the pursuit of how continually and quickly to deliver maximum value to customers while deriving maximum profitability, been nearer the top of the business agenda. As this paper will demonstrate, harnessing business events, smart interpretation & fast response are definite objectives, and the need is immediate. 

This paper provides a brief overview of the benefits of open source and the business drivers behind its market momentum. The paper also describes Sun's modular, open-source approach to an SOA. 

This paper examines the challenges faced by organizations today regarding their BI, data integration, and data warehousing environments, why traditional solutions fall short, and the rise of upstart open source companies. Read on to learn more about open source BI, data integration, and data warehousing solutions. 

This document presents a few selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data integration and its associated benefits. 

This white paper will explain what to look for in a complete integration platform and how to use BI technology in conjunction with BAM tools to achieve zero information latency and self-correcting processes. 

This whitepaper examines the business implications of the SaaS movement, the escalating performance and security expectations, and how a growing number of companies are safeguarding and accelerating these ondemand applications with proxy-based wide-area network (WAN) application delivery solutions. 

Adoption of SaaS solutions has increased as companies look to streamline costs and processes. Companies looking to integrate fax with SAP application no longer have to choose among efficiency, cost or functionality. SAP customers can take advantage of fax as service without software or hardware, and without sacrificing security or SAP integration. 

Research has shown more than 30 percent of IT spending is on integration, with software costs running into the millions of dollars for large enterprises. 

This whitepaper will demonstrate why Data Services are a foundation requirement for enterprise SOA deployments by describing how just how valuable, and complex, business data is for the businesses that rely on it. 

Ovum has been following Oracle's Accelerate program over the last couple of years because they thought it was a smart strategy for penetrating the upper mid-market. Although Oracle developed Accelerate largely in response to slowing growth in its core large-enterprise market, the program seems prescient as the global business climate worsens. 

Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.