Whether your organization's service-oriented architecture (SOA) has 50 services being used by one customer, or 50 customers using one service, you need SOA governance; increased business agility depends on it. 

By planning for problems now, you can avoid them all together. Check out this white paper, Quick Start Guide for Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1, for an extensive look at how you can properly implement an Oracle service-oriented architecture (SOA) at your organization. 

With this white paper, Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA, you'll get a healthy perspective on SOA and figure out which option is best for your organization. 

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g delivers a foundation for both business and IT innovation. This foundation empowers you to differentiate and succeed throughout dynamic and unpredictable market conditions, while maintaining efficiencies and controlling costs. Read this paper to learn more about this solution. 

Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers, Oracle® Solaris, Oracle Solaris Cluster, and educational and professional services from Oracle can help organizations maximize the availability of business-critical IT services. Continue reading to learn more. 

In this new release of SOA Suite, Oracle continues to emphasize the development, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission-critical environments. 

This paper discusses a Grid reference configuration based on Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers and Dell EqualLogic™ iSCSI storage. This Grid implementation is comprised of the physical Grid based on physical servers and the virtual Grid based upon Oracle virtual machines. 

Read this Oracle white paper for expert insight into disk-to-disk backup for the Oracle Exadata Database Machine with the Sun ZFS storage appliance. 

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 has been a landmark year for Oracle, the technology company headed by the charismatic and staggeringly wealthy Larry Ellison. Ellison, who is 65, has been chief executive officer since he founded Oracle in June 1977. He was listed the sixth richest person in the world in 2010. 

Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g is a significant new release of the core application grid infrastructure foundation underpinning Oracle Fusion Middleware. It has been designed to provide a standards-based, mission-critical platform for organizations that deploy application grid and service-oriented architectures. Read this paper to learn more. 

This paper explains how Oracle's Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 solution provides an integrated platform— combining highly scalable servers, next-generation storage, and networking technologies with best-of- breed software and services from Oracle- to deploy a highly reliable Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure that delivers simplicity and savings. 

Read this Forrester Research Inc. analysis of 18 leading customer relationship management (CRM) suite solutions. See what vendors offer the best systems for BPM, ERP, TCO, midsized organizations, and basic needs.