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. 

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. 

If application performance management isn't at the top of your businesses to-do list, it should be. No matter how well-designed your app is, if performance is sluggish end-users won't use it. Read on to learn about a performance management strategy top companies are leveraging, its business value, and more. 

Upgrades help businesses to maintain a competitive edge in the market. Yet, upgrades pose their own set of challenges. This white paper lists the best practices that should be followed when upgrading to achieve maximum reliability. 

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. 

Over the past decade, a powerful new approach to development - open source software - has risen to prominence, dramatically increasing the opportunity to re-use existing software. This report describes a set of seven best practices whose objective is to encourage development based on component re-use and software assembly. 

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

The paper includes calculations showing the cost of downtime expected for a given level of EHR solution uptime in practices of various sizes, as well as products associated with specific uptime levels. The report also includes a “cost per hour” tool that estimates the financial impact of downtime in practices they administer, oversee or assist. 

Agile techniques and SOA principles are necessary elements to successfully delivering business software in this environment but by themselves they’re not sufficient. This report highlights key features of tools that you should consider if you’re interested in delivering IT capabilities that integrate people, processes and systems in flexible ways. 

This paper addresses the top 4 worst practices in business intelligence (BI) and provides you with essential strategies for how to overcome these common mishaps. 

This white paper examines existing data-loading methods and best practices to easily incorporate data into SAP solutions. 

This white paper discusses five steps for protecting Windows Server applications from downtime, offering established best practices to reduce potential single points of failure and ensure rapid recovery or continued operations in the event of failure.