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. 

This document presents a few selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data integration and its associated benefits. 

This document presents a few selected case studies, illustrating real-life implementations of open source data integration and its associated benefits. 

Whether organizations hard code between core legacy applications and various data sources or employ a looser service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, data integration and visualization remains a persistent challenge. 

This white paper highlights four primary ways to use integration to make your business better during a down economy. You'll discover how, with the right integration plan and supporting software in place, your company can increase efficiency, minimize expenses, and streamline and accelerate core processes. 

This white paper explains the different alternatives to open source data integration, and presents the visible and hidden costs of these alternatives, on several types of projects. 

Research has shown more than 30 percent of IT spending is on integration, with software costs running into the millions of dollars for large enterprises. 

This paper describes some of the business and IT issues that enterprises must address to become more agile and to improve their responses to challenges and opportunities. Included is how a service oriented architecture (SOA) can help an enterprise align its IT infrastructure with business needs. 

Talend is an open source provider of data integration products or, in traditional parlance, ETL (extract, transform and load), although the product also supports an ELT approach. 

Frequently, organizations that operate contact centers are faced with the challenge of working with inadequate telephony equipment. Frustrations range from having to get a few more years out of telephone equipment to having disparate systems. Read this white paper to learn about how contact centers can resolve these telecommunications complexities. 

Dell Application Compatibility Reporting Assessment provides a detailed compatibility analysis of your application portfolio. ACR includes extensive testing and investigation of each application to determine installation and functional compatibility with Microsoft® Windows® 7 and will accommodate either MSI or unpackaged applications. 

Pratt & Whitney Canada, poised to begin manufacturing of a new generation of engines, realized that greater speed of production and real-time analysis of parts quality would be necessary to sustain this initiative.