As the number of applications generating data increases, so does an organization's need to give users access to that data through a unified system compatible with multiple interfaces. Oracle Data Service Integrator is a solution that allows organizations to build data services that unify business processes for improved customer service. 

This paper presents an overview of strategies and practices for governing the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA. In particular, it explores the role of governance throughout the SOA lifecycle as well as the technology enablers that help organizations develop and maintain an SOA that delivers measurable, sustainable business value. 

This podcast discusses how to achieve application rationalization through proper application portfolio management. Learn about the benefits of this strategy and how it can help better align IT with business goals, as well as cutting costs and providing substantial performance gains. 

Many organizations struggle to carry on the processes of multiple large data integration and SOA projects for reconstructing data flows, ontologies, transformations and more. This paper addresses the obstacles faced when attempting data projects and the strategic plans for overcoming these issues to attain a higher ROI and reduce overall cost. 

Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server provides a combination of freely available and no-cost virtualization technologies, excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) ratings, very high performance hardware, and significant data center efficiency gains. Continue reading to learn more. 

Collaboration Oriented Architectures (COA) describes information architectures that comply with the COA framework, which in turn is described in the associated COA Framework paper1. 

Read this e-book to learn how to approach application lifecycle management (ALM) in order to deliver the timely, effective, modern applications that real business outcomes rely on. 

Read this white paper to learn how ALM tools designed specifically for today's modern application development can bring order, visibility, and efficiency to the complexity introduced to application lifecycles by modern delivery methods like cloud computing, distributed development, composite applications, and more. 

This resource provides a summary of key findings of Forrester's report on Alfresco's enterprise content management software. 

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. 

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. 

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 case study examines how one major telecommunications company implemented an application performance monitoring solution and gained a 63% ROI in just 1.6 years, saving an annual average of more than $5 million. Read this and learn how such an option can lower the cost of managing IT, reduce downtime risks, improve compliance and more.