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. 

Forrester Research conducted briefings and demonstration reviews with five commercial and four open source enterprise service bus (ESB) product vendors and evaluated their capabilities in each of the five following functional categories: architecture, connection, mediation, orchestration, and change and control. 

Read this paper to find out why the FAA's System Wide Information Management program selected four open source service-oriented architecture (SOA) components to combine with its other development and management tools to create an enterprise infrastructure that will be deployed between 2010 and 2015 to support NextGen satellite air traffic control. 

This webcast covers how an enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture enables interoperability at the seven points of mediation that represent a set of principles that, if adhered to, can provide the agility and reuse that service oriented architecture (SOA) promises. 

In this session, co-author of the book "Enterprise Integration Patterns" Gregor Hohpe shares some of the “behind the scenes” story of how the included enterprise application integration and message-oriented middleware design patterns originated, how they are being applied, and what other patterns he would like to see documented. 

This paper describes how an enterprise service bus (ESB) enables interoperability at "the seven key points of mediation," which is necessary to achieve the goals of service oriented architecture (SOA): reuse and agility. It spotlights the first three points of mediation: transport, location, and semantics. 

Read this paper to discover an alternative approach to data integration that ensures that not only is data correct and valid based on your business rules, but more importantly provides the means to fully operationalize those rules in a manner that is both intelligible to business and agile across all segments of the change lifecycle. 

This podcast details the steps an organization should take before moving to the cloud and outlines the best way to integrate service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the cloud while lowering costs, increasing visibility, and improving business efficiency. 

With this white paper, Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA, you'll get a healthy perspective on SOA and figure out which option is best for your organization. 

Oracle Tuxedo is one of the original SOA platforms. Tuxedo services are location and implementation independent, adhere to a contract, and are interoperable with other Tuxedo services and other service oriented platforms.  Read this paper for more information about integrating Tuxedo applications into an SOA environment. 

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. 

Over the course of 2010 and 2011, Forrester Research spoke to hundreds of customers about their enterprise service bus (ESB) activities, and conducted briefings and demonstration reviews as well as over twenty customer interviews to evaluate five commercial and four open source ESB product vendors. Access this paper to examine Forrester's findings. 

In this white paper, Philip Howard reviews the current market for data integration platforms, paying particular attention to open source offerings from Talend.