In today's rapidly changing business environment, organizations of all types face one common and persistent challenge: how to become—and remain—agile enough to satisfy ever-increasing customer expectations and accommodate new compliance mandates, all while staying ahead of the competition. The solution is building business based on SOA principles. 

Read this presentation transcript to gain insight from survey results and explanations as to why Quebec organizations, compared to others in Canada, display much higher satisfaction with their IT effectiveness. 

Quebec organizations, compared to others in Canada, display much higher satisfaction with their IT effectiveness. They continually place a high priority on IT process improvement and the establishment of procedures for management and oversight of IT operations. 

Sun GlassFish ESB has been designed to catalyze a lightweight business integration deployment project. It offers a "fit-to-purpose" mix of features, functionality, extensibility, and support at the best cost possible, with minimal overheads for development</p> 

Discover the 4 worst practices for business intelligence (BI) deployment and gain insight on how to overcome these pitfalls in order to tap into the power of BI. Learn how to achieve success with your departmental or enterprise-wide BI initiatives. 

This paper outlines the technology building blocks that enable you to create an information-rich environment that empowers your workforce to perform at its peak. Learn how to use data to its fullest--without having to become IT experts. 

This tutorial provides a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to the Open ESB technology that is making its way into Sun commercial products - GlassFish ESB and Java CAPS 6. You will tackle six mini-projects that come together to provide a small, proof-of-concept, composite application. 

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization. 

In this case study learn how one company deployed a simple, easily integrated and cost-effective EDI solution to interface with existing Microsoft Dynamics® SL ERP software. 

With IT budgets being reduced, software-as-a service (SaaS) is becoming more attractive as a tool for companies handling data and application integration. Read this report from the 451 Group to learn about the benefits of SOA vs. SaaS, projected growth of this software segment, and read about the key vendors that provide Saas integration. 

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. 

Read this paper to learn how enterprises have struggled with WLA implementation because of its complexities, dependencies, and costs. These obstacles existed primarily because WLA was simply not a mature technology.