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BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, helping enable companies to improve business responsiveness through service-oriented architecture (SOA), a software design approach that more closely aligns IT with business objectives. With 15,000 customers worldwide including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, BEA and its WebLogic(R) and Tuxedo(R) brands are among the most trusted names in business technology. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 75 offices in 36 countries. More information on BEA products and services is available at www.bea.com

SOA Readiness Self-Assessment Tool
Find out how you can benefit from Service-Oriented Architecture by taking BEA's SOA Self-Assessment, a web-based application that will aid in organizing your approach to SOA. This assessment is based on BEA's SOA Domain Model and provides a complementary SOA benchmark report that includes a customized SOA Maturity Profile, numerical and graphical rating against the commercial peer group, recommendations for improving your SOA readiness, and a list of available resources focused on SOA.

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SOA Organization & Governance: Ensuring Successful Adoption
This IDC white paper, "BEA Systems: Expediting SOA Governance Initiatives" provides an in-depth third-party review of the importance of SOA governance, with two customer case studies plus commentary on the BEA approach to SOA and solution capabilities.

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The Integration Journey- a Field Guide to Enterprise Integration for SOA
Integration. The word triggers an array of impressions ranging from trepidation–about configuring connections between a variety of applications and working with complex tools–to frustration about large projects run over budget and schedule. The path to IT efficiency is looking much clearer today however, now that technologies have turned a corner away from complex and rigid integration solutions. IT has a new approach that is service-oriented, open, and extensible that promises to ease integration challenges, making the rapid creation and delivery of new composite applications and business processes attainable. Download this white paper to learn more.

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SOA Research: Financial Justification
Find out what early adopters are thinking about SOA financial justification! Where do they see the costs and benefits? The most significant roadblocks? This concise independent research study of SOA decision makers has all the facts and figures you'll need for input into your SOA justification process. Covers the most common funding sources, the titles of those who most typically approve funding, and the metrics they want to see.

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www.oracle.com

Oracle's business is information - how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software that lets organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems. For more information, visit www.oracle.com

The Business Value of SOA
Oracle worked directly with over 100 early adopters to understand what types of projects benefited from an SOA approach. Our research identified three common patterns with 100% - 500% improvement. Read this white paper to find out more, along with real-world case studies for each SOA value pattern.

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InfoWorld Test Center: Oracle SOA Suite is "Excellent"
InfoWorld Test Center performed a hands-on, in-depth review that highlighted Oracle SOA Suite as "hands down, the most comprehensive and easy to use product on the market today".

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SOA Best Practices: The BPEL Cookbook
In this cookbook, 10 SOA practitioners share their SOA best practices and provide practical viewpoint to tackle many of the common problems SOA promises to solve. It's organized into three sections: "Service Oriented Integration," "Building Modern Applications," and "SOA Techniques." Sections 1 and 2 will inspire you to take the plunge into the world of services and test-drive SOA yourself; Section 3 will equip you with best-practice techniques for building a better SOA application.

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webMethods provides business process integration to 1,400 customers around the globe, including many of the world's largest corporations and government agencies. webMethods flagship product suite, webMethods Fabric, is the only integrated platform to deliver both Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM). With webMethods, customers can take a process-centric approach to their business problems, allowing them to leverage their existing IT assets, dramatically improve business process productivity and ROI, and rapidly increase competitive differentiation. webMethods (NASDAQ: WEBM) is headquartered in Fairfax, VA, USA and has offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan.

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AMR Research says webMethods Customers Achieve "SOA Nirvana"

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More than 3,000 enterprises rely on Software AG to uncover the full potential of their IT and add value to existing systems. At the forefront of advanced SOA, Software AG is a global leader in mission-critical software infrastructure solutions based on open standards. Our solutions enable organizations to create powerful enterprise applications, especially in heterogeneous IT environments. With technology from Software AG, enterprises can: create flexible business applications and processes; extend the life and value of core systems; manage data effectively across the enterprise; and control and govern an SOA. Software AG has over 35 years of global IT experience.

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The Economics of SOA

The Economics of SOA whitepaper is an analysis that compares the costs of using a tradition, hub-based approach to integration to a distributed SOA. The whitepaper includes specific calculations from a global telecommunication vendor that covers both deployment and maintenance costs. Learn from this case study how SOA built with distributed technologies can be adopted and adapted incrementally for significant savings and dramically reduces IT expenditures.

Click here to download this SOA whitepaper now.

Silver Sponsor

Progress Software's enterprise infrastructure products enable organizations to gain business advantage from the shift to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and include: Sonic ESB®, the worldwide leader in enterprise service bus technologies; Actional® SOA Management software for visibility, security and control; and DataXtend® Semantic Integrator, for high performance data transformation using a common data model. www.progress.com

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