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. 

This webcast explains that you don't have to move everything to the cloud, and that – in some cases – it's actually preferable to keep some things on premise. Learn how you can develop a hybrid approach and find an adaptable provider able to pull data from legacy systems to the cloud and vice versa. 

Access this expert e-guide to learn the reasoning behind mainframe modernization and whether it is right for your organization. Discover the crucial information you need to consider before deciding to modernize. 

In this week's Computer Weekly: Amazon and Microsoft earn $5bn in public cloud revenue – we ask if public cloud is now ready for the mainstream. Banks face huge challenges replacing legacy IT – but is the short-term nature of CIOs hindering progress? And we look at how user experience can deliver return on investment for IT. Read the issue now. 

Explore how a data access and integration solution saved one of North America's oldest wholesale grocers from replacing its ten year old distribution system and spending up to five million dollars on a brand new enterprise solution. 

This expert guide examines how new mobile technologies and hardware have made mobile enterprise resource planning (ERP) an option for manufacturers, and offers key advice to help guide you through the selection process. Also inside, learn top mobile ERP implementation mistakes to avoid. 

This exclusive whitepaper discusses helpful strategies for effective and efficient application migration from legacy UNIX and RISC-based systems to x86-compatible platforms, such as Linux. Read on to learn how to make your transition smooth and simple. 

This e-guide, expertly compiled by ebizQ.com, reveals the true value of modernizing legacy applications. Inside, learn how using a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to migrate and modernize legacy applications can enable organizations to stay competitive and productive. 

Legacy messaging technologies lack the performance and flexibility necessary to support today’s computing environments. Attend this webinar to learn how Informatica’s Ultra Messaging technology can help realize up to 10x performance improvements over legacy messaging solutions while dramatically reducing costs and improving deployment flexibility. 

Read this presentation transcript of the webcast "Reduce IT Costs by Rationalizing Your Application Portfolio" to learn the best practices of application retirement and how to effectively retire legacy applications and reduce IT costs while still having the ability to simply and efficiently access the retired data. 

Read this SearchSOA.com e-book to learn more the mainframe's evolving role in modern enterprise IT. Find out how leading companies are approaching modernization projects, and discover the surprising role that business process management (BPM) can play in modernization efforts. 

This paper explores the challenges and hidden costs of supporting a remote workforce with legacy tools. In addition, it identifies best practices that decision makers can use to choose enterprise helpdesk support tools that better meet the needs of remote employees, while helping to reduce costs. 

For customers running Sybase ASE 12.5 on Solaris 8, the long-planned end of support for that platform means that they must move their workloads to a new environment or face special support contracts. Moving to HP infrastructure brings immediate payback through lower support costs and reduction in power and cooling requirements.