SOA Resource Library

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Red Hat Service-Oriented Architecture Strategy

CIOs can't address other problems unless they have a flexible, scalable, and affordable SOA infrastructure in place. That's what Red Hat delivers - from the operating system through multiple middleware products to rich, dynamic user interfaces, all with the lowest total cost of acquisition and ownership in the industry.

SOA redefined: Simple. Open. Affordable.

SOA can open up the integration and automation of the value chain built on IT standards. Yet despite significant progress made with open standards in the industry, most SOA platforms are delivered with many proprietary, closed extensions that focus on customer lock-in more so than auto- mation of the value chain. Examples of this include proprietary data formats and extensions to standards that could have been part of the standard, but vendors refused to open up their entire SOA stack. This drives complex, closed and expensive SOA platforms and enterprise deployments.

Gap analysis: The case for data services

Adoption of SOA and Web services, even when accompanied by industry-standard XML schemas, does not in itself address the need for uniform data access or the means by which mediation between different semantics and vocabularies should occur. Data services gather and integrate data from many different sources in real time, bridging gaps to create consolidated information views while hiding data source complexity from applications.

Webcasts & Videos:

Standards-based Middleware: a Platform for SOA Success

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SPEAKERS:Pierre Fricke, Director of Product Management, Red Hat
Michael Rowley, Director of Technology and Strategy, Active Endpoints
Alex Neihaus, Vice President of Marketing, Active Endpoints
DATE: September 25, 2008

Red Hat Service Oriented-Architecture (SOA) for Healthcare

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SPEAKERS: David Nesvisky, Director Sales, Healthcare
Charles Mosher, Principal Architect, MetaMatrix
DATE: September 18, 2008

How to Achieve Your SOA Vision in the Real World

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SPEAKERS: Pierre Fricke, Director of Product Line Management - SOA, JBoss
Alex Neihaus, VP Marketing, Active Endpoints
Mike Moniz, Product Manager, Active Endpoints
DATE: Thursday, July 24, 2008

Avoid the SOA Pitfalls that Prevent ROI

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HOSTED BY: ebizQ.com
SPEAKERS: Pierre Fricke, JBoss
Frank Martinez, SOA Software
DATE: Thursday, May 15, 2008

SOA and Interoperability

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SPEAKERS: Tom Madden, JBoss Operations Network Product Manager
Greg Hinkle, JBoss Operations Network Software Engineer
DATE: Thursday, May 15, 2008

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform Deep Dive

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SPEAKER: Burr Sutter, Technical Product Manager for SOA, JBoss
DATE: Thursday, April 17, 2008

JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 4.0: Service-oriented architecture middleware is born

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SPEAKER: Burr Sutter, Product Management
DATE: May 16, 2007

Video: JBoss Enterprise Middleware - SOA Portfolio Overview

This video addresses 5 pain points faced by enterprises worldwide and how SOA can help relieve the pain. The web cast explores what users are doing today and how they reap the benefits of SOA and open source. It describes the SOA value proposition, The JBoss Enterprise Middleware SOA value proposition, and offerings to help bring enterprises the benefits of SOA and open source to improve business performance.