WHITE PAPER - Discover why applications are necessary for greater business agility and innovation, how they have come to play such a critical role, and what IT needs to do to create and implement a world-class approach to leveraging applications for business benefit.
Posted: January 4, 2012 | Published: January 4, 2012


Topics:  Application Deployment | Application Development | Application Infrastructure | Application Monitoring | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Legacy Applications Software | Network Architectures | Network Infrastructure | Network Management

WHITE PAPER - This analyst insight looks at the performance of companies that have more recent enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations and compare them to companies that have systems over 15 years old.
Posted: January 4, 2012 | Published: January 4, 2012


Topics:  ERP | ERP Software | Legacy Applications Software | Software Upgrades | Systems Integration

EGUIDE - In this SearchSOA.com tip guide, readers will learn legacy application migration best practices and the important considerations when wrappering, migrating, or rewriting mainframe applications.
Posted: December 14, 2011 | Published: November 21, 2011


Topics:  Application Integration | COBOL | Legacy Applications Software | Mainframe Operating Systems | SOA | SOAP | Web Services Architecture | Web Services Management | Web to Host Connectivity Software | XML

WHITE PAPER - Read this SearchSOA.com tip guide to learn why organizations should look beyond tools for discovery and modernization efforts and look more towards an agile process. Learn why combining a modernization strategy with an agile approach will help organizations modernize more quickly and avoid common hurdles.
Posted: December 14, 2011 | Published: November 21, 2011


Topics:  Application Integration | Enterprise Application Integration Middleware | Enterprise Services Architecture | Legacy Applications Software | Linux | Mainframe Operating Systems | Open Source | Service Creation | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This guide reviews the recommended approach for planning and implementing the migration of applications on an IBM Power system running AIX to Oracle’s Sun Fire X4800 Server with the Intel Xeon Processor 7560 running Oracle Linux 5.5 Operating System.
Posted: December 6, 2011 | Published: December 6, 2011


Topics:  Application Integration | Applications Management | Applications Management Services | Database Management | Databases | Legacy Applications Software | Oracle (Product)

RESOURCE CENTER - In modernizing their applications, enterprises want faster integrations, using SOA only when it is pragmatic. They still wrapper mainframes with services, but they are also migrating functions within the mainframe portfolio. Check out this expert advice to learn how to implement both complex and simple integrations for the short and long term.
Posted: November 30, 2011 | Published: November 29, 2011


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Integration | Application Portfolio Management | Legacy Applications Software | Mainframe Operating Systems | SOA

ANALYST REPORT - In this report Ovum calls for a rethink of the traditional IT technology stack, to ensure better interoperability and adaptability.
Posted: November 23, 2011 | Published: November 23, 2011


Topics:  Architectures | Cloud Computing | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management | Infrastructure Management | Legacy Applications Software | Software | Software Architectures

VIDEO - This transformation workshop seeks to foster a collaborative effort to enable an integrated modernized IT environment. Check out this brief video to get a preview of the application transformation workshop that clients are calling "a day well spent".
Posted: September 21, 2011 | Premiered: September 20, 2011


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Portfolio Management | IT Governance | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | Legacy Applications Software | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Conventional backup and recovery approaches are not robust enough to meet today’s data and information management challenges, let alone those of tomorrow. A new strategy is essential.
Posted: August 9, 2011 | Published: August 9, 2011


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Consolidation | Data Management | Data Recovery | Enterprise | Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) | Legacy Applications Software | Server Virtualization | SLA | Storage Management

CASE STUDY - In recent years, the Hillingdon's IT team has faced nearly 100 percent year-on-year data growth, driven mainly by the e-mail volume increases, expanding document retention requirements and the proliferation of digital images in planning applications and property and highway inspections. Read this case study to learn Hillingdon's solution.
Posted: June 30, 2011 | Published: June 30, 2011


Topics:  Data Replication | Green Storage | Legacy Applications Software | Power Consumption Monitoring | SAN | Solid State Disks | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | VMware

EBOOK - This handbook will cover best practices for moving to Microsoft Windows 7, including assessing Windows 7 to determine if it’s a good move for your organization, which applications in your organization should move over, what help is out there for your migration project and licensing.
Posted: May 23, 2011 | Published: May 23, 2011


Topics:  Applications Management | Best Practices | Legacy Applications Software | Licensing | ROI | Windows | Windows 7 | Windows XP

WHITE PAPER - How can IT organizations reduce complexity, address the problems caused by inconsistent data and enhance integration of IT resources across the enterprise? One solution that is being tried more and more frequently by innovative IT departments is to standardize on a single database platform.
Posted: December 8, 2010 | Published: December 8, 2010


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Design | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Database Security | Databases | Legacy Applications Software

WHITE PAPER - With the recent profusion of tiered storage solutions into the enterprise storage market, organizations are increasingly adopting tiering strategies to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs. Yet most solutions fail to maximize the potential benefits of tiered storage. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: November 11, 2010 | Published: November 11, 2010


Topics:  Data Management | Disk Storage Systems | Enterprise | Legacy Applications Software | RAID | Real Time Operating Systems | Storage Architectures | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses the case for system consolidation and legacy decommissioning and the best practices approach to ensure data protection and access to legacy data while lowering costs. Learn how the Dolphin platform for data and document management provides flexible applications, tools and best practices for optimizing the SAP environment.
Posted: September 20, 2010 | Published: September 20, 2010


Topics:  Data Management | Data Management Software | Document Management | Document Management Software | Legacy Applications Software | SAP (Product) | Systems Integration | Systems Maintenance | Systems Management | Systems Management Software

WHITE PAPER - Successful execution of an SOA strategy, combined with the release of the business value contained in legacy systems, can bring five proven benefits to the enterprise. Functioning as both a software development environment and a delivery framework, SOA provides a mechanism for defining business services and operating models.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: July 24, 2008


Topics:  Business Processes | Business Service Management | Business Service Management Software | Business Systems | Legacy Applications Software | SOA | SOA Governance