WHITE PAPER - In this white paper, uncover the three most important things you should know about service-oriented architecture (SOA) in order to be sure you are getting the most efficient and effective performance out of your enterprise application architecture.
Posted: January 18, 2012 | Published: January 18, 2012


Topics:  Application Integration | Architectures | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Systems | ERP | ERP Software | Manufacturing Execution Systems | Manufacturing Industry | Manufacturing Industry Organizations | Manufacturing Systems | SOA

IT BRIEFING - A capability-led approach to enterprise architecture provides the rigour and structure that will allow companies to ‘do EA properly’ and deliver real business value, this paper argues.
Posted: January 13, 2012 | Published: January 13, 2012


Topics:  Architectures | Enterprise Architectures | ROI

IT BRIEFING - This paper from the Open Group, documents an approach to enhance the TOGAF enterprise architecture methodology with the SABSA security architecture approach to create one holistic architecture methodology.
Posted: January 5, 2012 | Published: October 11, 2011


Topics:  Architectures | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Best Practices | Enterprise Architectures | Security Architectures | Standards

WHITE PAPER - This White Paper discusses methodology and language support for requirements management in TOGAF.
Posted: October 21, 2011 | Published: October 8, 2010


Topics:  Architectures | Enterprise | Enterprise Architectures | Infrastructure Management

VIDEO - This video answers important questions related to application portfolio management, including why now is such an important time to modernize and rationalize your applications, and the best practices and tools which can ensure success.
Posted: September 15, 2011 | Premiered: September 15, 2011


Topics:  Business Management | Cloud Computing | Data Quality | Data Security | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Architectures | Information Architects | Information Governance

WHITE PAPER - This white paper highlights the rise of virtualization and discusses how it will effect backup, recovery, and related processes. We will also look at what applications have been virtualized and how the old backup and recovery tools may not be up to the challenge of supporting this new dynamic infrastructure.
Posted: September 7, 2011 | Published: September 7, 2011


Topics:  Backup for Virtualized Servers | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments | Enterprise Architectures | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - Cloud storage offers tremendous opportunities for simplicity, flexibility, scalability and reducing costs.  How can enterprise take advantage of these capabilities while maintaining datacenter storage for mission-critical applications?  A Cloud-as-a-Tier Architecture integrates cloud storage seamlessly into the enterprise. Read on to learn more.
Posted: May 5, 2011 | Published: May 5, 2011


Topics:  Cloud Storage | Enterprise Architectures | High Performance Computing | Storage Management | Tiered Storage | Virtual Machine

WHITE PAPER - Selecting a supplier for manufacturing ERP solutions is more important than ever before, due to the increasingly complex set of business processes involved.  Manufacturers now require the ability to share data in real time across all functional areas touching the manufacturing process. This paper takes a fresh look at manufacturing ERP options.
Posted: April 21, 2011 | Published: April 21, 2011


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning Software | Cost Benefit Analysis | Disaster Recovery | Enterprise Applications Software | Enterprise Architectures | ERP | ERP Software | Manufacturing Software | Software as a Service | Vendor Selection

WHITE PAPER - Data abstraction overcomes data structure incompatibility by transforming data from its native structure and syntax into reusable views and data services. But some data abstraction approaches work better than others. Composite data virtualization is an optimal way to implement an abstraction layer at enterprise scale.
Posted: March 31, 2011 | Published: March 31, 2011


Topics:  Application Development | Architectures | Composite Applications Software | Data Integration | Data Management | Enterprise Application Integration Middleware | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Information Management (EIM) | Middleware

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses some of the most important goals of the modern enterprise and the ways in which Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) are innovatively addressing them, with an emphasis on solving today'schallenges and putting in place an enterprise-wide architecture and framework for future successes.
Posted: February 1, 2011 | Published: February 1, 2011


Topics:  Applications Management | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | Business Processes | Enterprise Architectures | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Enterprise analysis by a Business Analyst (BA) is a method used to identify and define why an organizational change is needed. Read this whitepaper to learn the importance of this process to an organization.
Posted: August 26, 2010 | Published: August 26, 2010


Topics:  Business Metrics | Business Models | Business Process Management | Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Asset Management Software | Project Management | Project Management Software | Project Portfolio Management

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: June 4, 2010 | Published: March 6, 2010


Topics:  Application Integration | Application Life-Cycle Management | Applications Management | Enterprise Architectures | Oracle (Product) | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This paper proposes several sample virtualization architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture.
Posted: June 9, 2009 | Published: December 5, 2008


Topics:  Enterprise Architectures | High Availability | SAN | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices

WHITE PAPER - Join Glenn Weadock, Global Knowledge Instructor, MCITP, MCSE, MCT, A+, for this Windows 7 Review Guide. This white paper introduces the key areas in which Windows 7 differs from Vista - areas you'll need to focus on if you're thinking of moving to Windows 7, either from Vista or from XP.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: May 13, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise Architectures | Enterprise Systems | Microsoft Certified Professional | Microsoft Excel | Microsoft Exchange | Microsoft Office XP | Microsoft Operations Manager | Operating Systems | Windows 7