SMBs remain challenged to address business requirements through enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. This paper explores the solutions that SMB customers seek with quick return on investment, and the benefits from selecting a vendor based on business requirements and architectural flexibility VIEW SUMMARY

This white paper explores best practices and general design patterns for service oriented architecture (SOA). The paper covers four critical areas: vision and leadership, strategy and roadmap, policies, and security and governance. VIEW SUMMARY

This white paper describes how Service APIs can help overcome the problems that are present in development environments that create or maintain multiple websites or applications. It also discusses the concept of Service APIs, by describing the architecture, its benefits and the problems it solves. VIEW SUMMARY

This paper provides an explanation of how business process management melds with complex event processing. The combination nets intelligent business processes that react to changing business conditions in real time, providing continuous visibility-in short, an instantly responsive enterprise. VIEW SUMMARY

The results from Oracle’s State of the Data Integration Market Survey clearly indicate that the data integration market is growing both in size and corporate importance. The paper covers an in-depth analysis of the survey results. VIEW SUMMARY

This white paper looks at the problems of legacy applications and answers the questions: 'What exactly is SOA, anyway?' and 'If I use it, how is it going to help my organisation eliminate cost, increase agility, deal with dwindling legacy skill sets, and address compliance?' VIEW SUMMARY

As the number of applications and platforms generating data increases, so does an organization’s need to give users access to that data through a unified standard system compatible with multiple interfaces. Increasing that data’s accessibility and agility creates an enormous amount of business value VIEW SUMMARY

As the technologies and business practices surrounding BPM, SOA, and Web 2.0 mature, more and more organisations are adopting them—both individually and collectively. As a result, fundamental changes have arisen in the way IT and business stakeholders work together. VIEW SUMMARY

This white paper explores the benefits of data grids, with specific reference to data access, financial performance management and the impact of that on relationships with customers. VIEW SUMMARY