Enterprise Architecture and SOA White Papers

Activities Streams Base An Integrated Social Layer

The enterprise social software market is exploding thanks to converging trends of consumerization, cloud, and mobile. In this must-read report, "The Forrester Wave: Activities Streams, Q2 2012", Forrester Research Inc. evaluated five social software vendors with core strengths in the stream based on the overall strength of vendors' current offerings, a clear product strategy, and vendor market presence. In a detailed look at the space, Forrester named Yammer as a leader.

Sponsor: Yammer

Beyond EDI: Reducing Your Automation Deficit with Business Intergration

In this white paper, we compare EDI integration with other business integration models, and identify four keys to achieving broader business automation, "Beyond EDI".

Sponsor: EXTOL

Five Steps to Successful IT Consolidation

Mapping out a 5 step consolidation process can ensure that the goals of IT consolidation are achieved. Read this white paper to learn how to reduce IT management overhead, ease revision control, guarantee data security, scale systems more quickly and reduce server and software costs.

Sponsor: Riverbed

Shape Your Apps Strategy to Reflect New SaaS Licensing and Pricing Trends by Forrester Research

Forrester's review of 11 vendors in SaaS enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply chain management (SCM) confirms that, motivated by heavy competition for new customers, these resource management software vendors remain vigilant in mitigating such end-user concerns. In fact, SaaS vendors continue to improve and refine subscription models for new buying scenarios beyond cost/user/month.

Sponsor: Workday

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Process Platforms 2011 Vendor Analysis

This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess the capabilities of vendors to support midrange to complex process improvement scenarios using business process management software. Business process platforms provide development and runtime environments to improve and automate a wide range of processes and support advanced use cases around orchestration, process interoperability, end-to-end process monitoring, and event-driven process management. That means BP platforms are capable of combining people- and system-centric use cases.

Sponsor: Oracle

Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA - Customer Perspectives on Evaluating Complexity and Business Value

Implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in your business comes with plenty of benefits. Lower costs, faster computing, and the ability to develop mission-critical applications on a shorter timeframe and those are just the beginning. However, SOAs come with challenges too, especially when it comes to implementation. Your best course of action is to pick an SOA that you know you can live with, but which one? SOAs from Oracle and IBM are currently leading the industry, but there is still debate about which one is better.
Download this white paper, Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA for a comprehensive comparison between these two market leaders.
-Discover the unique benefits to each SOA product.
-Learn how certain drawbacks can become major issues down the road.
-Inform your SOA decision makers.
With this white paper, Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA, you'll get a healthy perspective on SOA and figure out which one is best for your organization.

Sponsor: Oracle