The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Cookbook highlights SOA best practices and challenges, detailing the importance of BPEL and other standards-based technologies in accelerating the adoption of an SOA. 

The current economic downturn has resulted in contraction of IT Department budgets and a mandate to allocate resources to only the most critical projects, then execute it flawlessly. In these tough times, it is imperative for CIOs to deliver more value as IT budgets fall. 

Attend this fast-paced presentation and hear from Dan Rawsthorne, as he introduces Agile Release Planning, which is actually the development of a release strategy that must be implemented in an agile way.  Dan shows you how a Release Plan is generated, and then shows how the Release Plan is monitored and managed with metrics from sprint to sprint. 

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. 

Various types of application integration have grown up over the years, leading to something of an oxymoron: islands of integration. Read this expert E-guide to uncover how cloud data services can help your organization by providing self-service integrated information from siloed systems. 

Application integration practices have their own patterns and languages and over the past few years the number of practices have grown immensely. This eguide will gives you expert advice on strategies for multiple application integration practices. 

Check out this white paper to learn about the five best practices for deploying successful SOA and see rapid return on your investment. 

In this SearchSOA.com tip guide, readers will learn legacy application migration best practices and the important considerations when wrappering, migrating, or rewriting mainframe applications. 

Poor quality data can spell disaster for SOA or BPM initiatives. Enterprise-wide data initiatives cross many boundaries, both technical and departmental, and are often high risk. This paper describes how a governance led approach can progressively deliver semantic integration with minimum short term cost, less complexity and reduced maintenance.  

This paper outlines a framework and best practices for governance as it specifically relates to Service Orientated Architecture (SOA). It also introduces a Six Steps to Successful SOA Governance model. 

This eBook discusses how SOA can be used to overcome business process inefficiencies. Explore practices for effectively implementing SOA and developing service-oriented applications. 

In this white paper, discover third-party software for integrating and managing SAP applications, both within the SAP landscape and with non-SAP products. Read on for more information and best practices on minimizing the risk of business impact, improving impact analysis and cross-project collaboration, and more. 

In this white paper, explore the four levels of DevOps -- transparency, reuse, reporting, and review -- and discover how they can expand and improve upon your software development and production processes.