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. 

This paper discusses the case for system consolidation and legacy decommissioning and the best practices approach to ensure data protection and access to legacy data while lowering costs. Learn how the Dolphin platform for data and document management provides flexible applications, tools and best practices for optimizing the SAP environment. 

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

In this white paper, Dan Moore, the senior vice president of professional services at IBM, Cast Iron reviews the current application environment in light of emerging trends, describes an ideal complete integration solution and discusses common sense best practices as well as pitfalls. 

This white paper details why building in business process management, information management and SOA governance across the enterprise is critical to SOA success. It also presents real-world examples of IBM customers that have done so and are now reaping the benefits of SOA, including service reuse, business agility and business transformation. 

This white paper discusses the issues associated with decision services in an SOA strategy, highlighting how business rule management systems can be used to overcome these challenges. 

HP Enterprise Applications Services for Microsoft Dynamics provides a comprehensive enterprise CRM solution based on Microsoft’s market-leading Dynamics CRM software application. Read this white paper to learn more about this technology suite and how it can help you reduce risks, lower costs and accelerate growth while improving productivity. 

Read this white paper to learn how to make the most of your IT investments by transforming your existing applications. 

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. 

Cloud computing has emerged as one of the prevailing IT trends today. Cloud computing can help organizations become more nimble, reduce operating costs, improve application performance, and better allocate their compute resources. Inside, learn more about this emerging technology and what it can do for your organization. 

This white paper discusses the business and technology reasons behind customers' continued choice of Oracle Database for their PeopleSoft application deployments. 

A new approach to Business Process Management (BPM) is the use of BPM and SOA together in a layering strategy. This white paper explores the BPM layered concept and offers a case study of how ABN AMRO, one of the world's largest financial institutions, has benefited from its deployment. 

This white paper presents how a secured shared infrastructure can help simplify your journey to virtualization, gain integration with existing open source technology, address storage management issues, and achieve rapid results. Read on to learn more about how you can meet ongoing growth requirements as they arise.