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Tutorial: Evaluating Enterprise Service Bus architectures
Bijoy Majumdar, Terance Dias, Ujval Mysore and Varun Poddar
ESB is a new architecture, based on SOA principles, often talked about as the backbone of SOA enablement. In this tutorial, the authors explore the ESB deployment architectures governed by standards such as JBI, SCA and MQM.
Spotlight: Exploring complementarities between Web 2.0 and SOA
Shaurabh Bharti, Abhishek Chatterjee and Geo Phillips
Web 2.0 can be conceptualized as a key enterprise computing trend, complementing SOA. It is now possible to envisage a rich ecosystem of interoperable business services, connected through common interfaces.
Viewpoint: Service and Process Orientation - Catalyzing Business Transformation
Manish Srivastava
People oriented organizations are better positioned to leverage their IT systems as a change agent. The author builds a case for building people oriented enterprises through service and process orientation.
Perspective: Service Oriented Architectural approach to building Healthcare solutions
Jai Ganesh, PhD and Vijaya Bhaskar Peddinti
In the healthcare domain, SOA is essential to realizing real-time access to patient data from diverse systems, owned by different stakeholders. The authors propose a reference SOA based architecture, leveraging web services for healthcare service providers.
Framework: SOA implementation in Transaction Banking domain
Jayakumar Venkataraman and Siddhartha Vijay Joshi
SOA is ideally positioned to infuse flexibility and interoperability in the IT architecture, while addressing key business concerns. The authors discuss the role of SOA in the transaction banking space, with a focus on cash management.
Practitioner's View: Recasting Enterprise Integration in SOA mould
Rakesh Mishra and Yale Yu
The roadmap ahead for leading integration products, would most probably involve recasting them with a flavor of SOA. The authors articulate the concept of SOA 'empowered" integration architecture.
Perspective: SOA-based Enterprise Architecture for Communication Service Providers
Gnanapriya C and Binildas C A
The SOA payoff for communication service providers is immense - it can help them to become total solution providers, for instance. In this perspective, the authors emphasize that SOA helps CSPs to work around issues and fill gaps to provide next generation services.
Framework: Chemistry Workbench - A composite services approach to transform drug research
Anirban Ghosh, PhD
SOA-based Chemistry Workbench remediates in the Lead Optimization Phase of Research to align to the compelling pressures of dynamic drug discovery research.
Perspective: SOA: The missing link between Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture
Jaidip Banerjee and Sohel Aziz
Though the objectives of both EA and SOA are somewhat similar, EA is a framework that covers all dimensions of enterprise IT architecture. This article explores the role of the service portfolio and repository in bridging the gap between the solution architecture and SOA.
Implementation: Addressing OEM integration through a SOA based integration layer
Mani Krishnamurthi, Anandh Rajappa and Shashikiran Suvarna
Is there a business need for retail integration in the automotive industry? What are the business and technology challenges for such an integration exercise ? This implementation guide delineates an auto retail integration solution.
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