The Business Analyst's Guide to Hadoop
Rapidly emerging as a transformative technology framework for storing and processing massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, Apache Hadoop plays a central role in ......

11 Habits of Highly Successful BPM Programs [ Source: IBM ]
April 2010- What you can do to ensure a successful BPM program? Read this overview of real customer “habits” for proven success with BPM on a long-term basis. What do they do at the start to set them up for success? How do they invest along the way? How do they establish an enterprise-wide BPM capability?
Virtualization strategy for mid-sized businesses [ Source: IBM ]
May 2010- As data mounts, small and midsize businesses cope with a sprawling and often costly infrastructure. This paper shows how these businesses can benefit by implementing a virtualization strategy. A well-executed strategy can result in fewer, better-utilized servers, rapid provisioning of servers, affordable business continuity, and more streamlined, efficient management.
Making Cloud Computing Secure for the Enterprise [ Source: CloudSwitch ]
April 2010-
Many companies are eager to take advantage of cloud computing, but concerns about possible security breaches and loss of data hold them back. Trust—or lack of it—is one of the primary reasons for the hesitancy of enterprises to put their data and applications in a multi-tenant public cloud. Security issues associated with third-party cloud environments continue to prevent organizations from benefiting from the cost savings and flexibility that the cloud can offer.
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Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g: Benefit Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- Oracle WebLogic Suite, a foundational element of Oracle Fusion Middleware, offers the ideal mix of performance, scalability, and operational efficiency to support modern IT requirements driven by ever-changing business needs.
Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g Technical [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- Businesses want to minimize the cost of running business-critical applications, deliver new products and services at light speed for competitive advantage, and cope with ever-increasing customer Quality of Service (QoS). They demand extreme and predictable performance, unlimited and linear scalability, continuous availability, efficient manageability and automatic/dynamic infrastructure provisioning at a low cost. Read this free white paper for in-depth information on how Oracle WebLogic Application Grid provides the data grid, Java runtime, and management ...
The Department of Defense and Open Source Software [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- Is open source software a viable strategy for large-scale SOA deployments, especially at the U.S. Department of Defense? This white paper looks at the pros and cons of open-source software and helps organizations understand how to build a business case that is based on cost, schedule, performance and risks across the entire program lifecycle not just up-front program inception costs and considerations.
Oracle WebLogic Server: A Solid Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- This paper discusses how Java EE 5 dramatically speeds the development of SOA applications and how enterprise developers can leverage its power by using Oracle WebLogic Server. Download this free white paper today.
Automatic Service Migration in WebLogic Server [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- WebLogic Server offers messaging, transaction, and other system services to facilitate building enterprise grade applications. Previous releases of Oracle WebLogic Server provided support for administrators to manually migrate highly available services from a failed cluster server to a healthy server, but there would still be a cost associated with server administration. Download this free whitepaper and learn how Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 adds support to the WLS Clustering infrastructure by eliminating the need for human intervention ...
Oracle WebLogic Suite: A Middleware Foundation for Application Grid [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- This free white paper shows that Oracle WebLogic Suite packages many essential middleware capabilities to help organizations implement application grid concepts. Learn about the technical components of the suite to create an infrastructure layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources on which business applications and SOA run. Download this free, compelling white paper now.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- Oracle Tuxedo is the industry’s #1 distributed transaction processing platform. It provides mainframe-class reliability, performance, and scalability, all on open, distributed systems for applications written in C, C++, and COBOL. Tuxedo is the premier platform for building mission-critical applications and re-hosting mainframe applications on open systems and commodity-based grid infrastructure. Oracle Tuxedo is cost-effective, reliable, and extremely scalable (up to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second). Finally, Tuxedo protects mainframe investments through reuse of ...
Mainframe Rehosting with Oracle Tuxedo: Accelerating Cost Reduction and Application Modernization [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- Find out how mainframe rehosting lets IT professionals spend more time and money on development rather than on maintaining aging systems. This free whitepaper explains how you can unlock the value of key business logic for integration and reuse and therefore create a more innovative IT environment.
Agile Foundation for Competitive Advantage: Oracle Tuxedo Enables Speed, Innovation, and Efficiency in Financial Services [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- Unrelenting competition is transforming the financial services industry, spurring firms to reinvent themselves to win customers and asset share. At the same time, organic growth, operational costs reduction, and risk and regulatory compliance remain among the most pressing issues facing financial institutions today. As financial institutions seek new ways to foster customer responsiveness, operational efficiency, and business agility, Oracle Tuxedo is ready to answer the call in banking, insurance, and capital markets. Already the platform ...
Unlocking the Mainframe: Modernizing Legacy System to SOA [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- Don’t let your mainframes slow down or even stall your SOA development. Discover how to eliminate the risks of mainframe dependence by unlocking data and business logic trapped in legacy systems. SOA provides an opportunity for true synthesis between mainframes and next-generation applications. Successful execution of an SOA strategy, combined with the release of the business value contained in legacy systems, can bring five proven benefits to the enterprise. To learn more, download this ...
Mission-Critical Java [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- Technology barriers have prevented enterprises from adopting Java-based approaches for mission critical applications with extreme and predictable computing needs. However, recent advances throughout the entire Java stack have overcome these barriers to position Java to power the next generation of enterprise computing. Customers can now reap the benefits of a standard Java-based infrastructure, including higher developer productivity, fewer defects, a rock-solid proven kernel, and adherence to standards. Read this free white paper to learn how ...
Deterministic Garbage Collection: Unleash the Power of Java with Oracle JRockit Real Time [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- This free white paper details key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy—a ‘must have’ capability for applications to operate with extreme, predictable performance and scalability. You’ll learn: • Why data management is a vital component of all mission-critical applications • How many of the world’s largest companies to achieve extreme, scalable performance with continuous availability for business-critical applications . How a successful data management strategy can increase business velocity while making your business ...
Data Grids & SOA [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- This white paper demonstrates that a data grid infrastructure, built with clustered caching, can help you avoid "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies. Discover why the data grid offers improved data access that can create a competitive edge, improve financial performance, and sustain customer loyalty. Download this free white paper today.
Enhance Customer Loyalty through Higher Responsiveness [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- The economic downturn is forcing businesses to tighten their belts and look for more efficient channels. Using the Internet as a business channel, and sometimes even the only channel, is becoming more prevalent. However, there are significant challenges to being successful at e-commerce. The user experience associated with web applications relies in large part on the availability and management of their session data, its persistence, and its management. This white paper focuses on the topic ...
Next-Generation, Low-Latency Front-Office Computing for Capital Markets [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- Capital markets have complex, data-intensive front-office environments that change in milliseconds. To survive and differentiate themselves, companies need predictable, high-performance technical solutions. They also must control costs. Until now, satisfying both of these requirements was a difficult challenge. Read this white paper to learn how financial organizations can embrace a portable, standards-based architecture to create a predictable, sustainable millisecond response time environment that will increase revenue generation and opportunity optimization.
Extreme Performance, Predictable, & Econ Scale & Continuous Avail for J2EE Apps [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- This free white paper details key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy—a ‘must have’ capability for applications to operate with extreme, predictable performance and scalability. You’ll learn: • Why data management is a vital component of all mission-critical applications • How many of the world’s largest companies to achieve extreme, scalable performance with continuous availability for business-critical applications . How a successful data management strategy can increase business velocity while making your business ...
Oracle WebLogic Suite and Oracle SOA Suite: A Synergistic Offering for Building, Deploying and Managing SOA Applications [ Source: Oracle ]
February 2010- Enterprises need SOA development and management tools that support rapid assembly and deployment of applications that benefit the business. In a climate of rapid change, IT needs to lead the business by providing a platform that helps enable agility. This paper will explain how an integrated middleware suite helps customers create and manage effective SOA environments. It will discuss why deploying an integrated middleware suite benefits customers. Register today for this complimentary white paper.
Achieving the Impossible: Unlimited App Scale [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- For modern applications, particularly those built for the Java platform, there are proven approaches and solutions that can help an organization achieve predictable, scalable performance for their applications. And although these approaches may be most valuable for extreme-scale applications, they can save time and money in almost any server-based application.
What's New in SOA Suite 11g? [ Source: Oracle ]
June 2009- Over the years, the tools to implement SOA have become more and more capable, sometimes at the price of complexity. In this new release of SOA Suite, Oracle continues to emphasize the development, management and monitoring of service-oriented architectures, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission-critical environments.
Application Grid: Ideal Platform for IT Consolidation [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- Application grid is an emerging architecture for application server-level infrastructure that is ideally suited for consolidation. In particular, Oracle Fusion Middleware application grid technologies, including WebLogic Server, Tuxedo, Coherence, and JRockit, provide an excellent foundation for IT consolidation efforts.
Achieving Business Agility with Application Grid [ Source: Oracle ]
April 2010- Companies are learning how to run their data centers more efficiently using less hardware, less software and less IT resources. These companies are turning to a new concept called application grid, an infrastructure layer beneath the application layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources on which those applications run. Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer that database clusters brings to the database layer. ...
Enabling Agile and Intelligent Businesses [ Source: Oracle ]
June 2009- Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a significant step forward toward empowering enterprises across the chasm to the next generation business applications that is powered by a platform delivering rapid composition, comprehensive lifecycle management, customizability, and easy upgrades.
Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition Executive Overview [ Source: Oracle ]
February 2009- Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition (ODI-EE), a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, provides a strong and reliable integration platform for your IT infrastructure. Read this paper for five key reasons why choosing ODI-EE may end up being one of the smartest decisions you make for your company.
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