Enabling Business Flexibility
Business Flexibility, using approaches like service oriented architecture (SOA), gives organizations the ability to reconfigure business processes and the reusable IT systems that support them quickly economically and without disruption.
Additional Resources from IBM
Case study: Aurora Health Care sees a bright new dawn with a Service Oriented Architecture on IBM System z
IBM SOA Business Value Assessment
White paper: Building an ESB without limits
"Service Oriented Architecture. A practical guide to measuring return on that investment"
White paper: IBM Software for SOA and Business Flexibility
Webcast Flexibility & SOA
Managing For Agility
Today's corporations need to bend without breaking. Agile IT operations can deliver products and services promptly, and then they can update and improve and reconfigure those resources as need be. But only good management practices will keep it all working together. In this Executive Briefing, we'll look at best practices for providing and managing IT in an on-demand world.
Service-Oriented Architecture
The high concept of SOA (service-oriented architecture) continues to enthrall IT. Although this concept has been around for about a decade, recent developments suggest the grail may really exist. The economic advantages of the computing model will drive adoption in the enterprise, but we're not quite there yet.
Includes:
- Real World SOA: Applications as Services
- Building SOA Your Way
- Identity's Role in SOA
- SOA Planning and Design: Still the Wild West
- 10 Steps to SOA
- SOA Pioneer Goes the Distance
Agility Breeds Success
Business is becoming less and less predictable, cycles are getting shorter, margins are getting squeezed and globalization is changing the playing field. Many companies will survive this perfect storm, but only the agile will thrive, and IT is at the heart of it. An inside look at the technologies that companies are pursuing to ensure they stay fleet of foot.