For today's enterprises, enterprise SOA based on SAP and the Internet provide a complementary and highly agile platform for rapidly extending the enterprise to reach customers, partners and employees in markets globally. 

Learn how open source software standardizes Web application platforms and dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of an SOA deployment. 

Read this white paper for a discussion of server and storage infrastructure, application integration demand growth, service-oriented architecture, and enterprise application portfolios. 

This great collection of case studies from around the world and across a variety of industries shows how clients are achieving success and getting real value from their SOA deployments, regardless of their stage of SOA adoption. 

The promise of BPM is to make business more efficient and deliver that ever elusive continuous improvement. This is a challenge for all businesses. The key question remains, “How can I know what needs to be improved?” This paper will shed light on how to continuously improve business processes in order to stay competitive. 

BPM is the best investment a company can make in establishing a platform for continuous improvement. The challenge for many companies is justifying the BPM investment instead of traditional paths for solving process problems – like buying an application or building a custom application. This paper provides a virtual checklist for the benefits. 

Read this paper for an outline of the steps an organization needs to take to achieve enterprise-wide business process management success. 

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. 

Learn best practices for achieving a measurable ROI from your IT investments while sustaining business process improvements, increasing senior-management buy in and improving end-user satisfaction. 

Read this whitepaper to learn about how Message-Driven SOA now offers a proven third alternative that protects current investments and offers a migratory path to the next generation of solutions (low risk/high returns). 

The move toward cloud computing affects all software application deployment in the future. This paper addresses the software infrastructure requirements for SOA-enabled systems to leverage Cloud Computing for the deployment of the next generation of business applications. 

This white paper discusses the critical role of an ESB and an open standards-based reference architecture in a successful SOA initiative. 

Software-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption is complex and successful strategies based on a maturity model and lessons learned provide an excellent pathway for your roadmap. This data sheet provides an executive overview of Oracle's proven approach to SOA.