Resources

We have compiled a range of resources to assist you wherever you are on your path to SOA.

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Internet SnapShot Seminars - Making SOA a Reality

Making SOA a Reality

Griffiths Waite and Oracle have launched a series of Internet SnapShot Seminars - 'Making SOA a Reality' introducing SOA principles and benefits, SOA implementation best practice and how to apply Oracle BPA & SOA Suite.

Resources

  • Oracle's SOA Maturity Model - Quick Reference Guide Oracle's SOA Maturity Model and Maturity Assessment are the driving force behind creating an SOA roadmap enabling organisations to formulate an SOA strategy and build capabilities to deliver on that strategy.
  • SOA Maturity Domains - Quick Reference Guide Assessment of an SOA Program is based on SOA Maturity Domains and is benchmarked against the Oracle SOA Maturity Model.
  • Butler Group Report: Planning & Implementing SOA Detailed management summary, full report can be purchased from www.butlergroup.com - also includes best and worst practices suggested by delegates at Butler Group's BPM&I Symposium.
  • Butler Group Technology Audit: Oracle BPM November 2007In combination, Oracle BPA Suite and Oracle SOA Suite, bring together all the expected components of an end-to-end enterprise BPM offering - discovery, modeling, measurement, and management. The Technology Audit found Oracle's BPM solution has a comprehensive toolset that provides a high-performance highly scalable BPM and SOA solution.
  • Butler Group SOA Platforms Report Butler Group identifies Oracle as a leader now and in the future. This report provides a detailed management summary, full report can be purchased from: www.butlergroup.com.
  • The Forrester Wave™: Application Server Platforms,"Q3 2007"Forrester evaluated the major application server platform suites and vendors across 175 criteria and found that Oracle received the highest scores across all of the scenarios we evaluated, due to its wide range of features and strong strategy. The full report can be purchased from: www.forrester.com.
  • Using BAM to Close the Loop Joint article between Griffiths Waite and Markus Zirn, Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle Fusion Middleware. The article details how Oracle BAM can add continuous improvement capabilities to BPM.
  • Article: Six Sigma, Lean and BPM Tim Jennings of the Butler Group observes that trialing a business process improvement initiative using Lean Six Sigma is likely to have greater business impact than piloting a SOA project from a technical perspective and will make it considerably easier to promote the value of the approach to senior management.
  • Gartner Magic Quandrant Report Oracle is a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Service-Oriented Business Application Projects, 2Q07
  • InfoWorld Article : Infoworld Ranks Oracle SOA Suite as "Excellent" InfoWorld Test Center states "Oracle SOA Suite meets or exceeds most needs for governance, security, insight and optimization at a price that's hard to beat."
  • Butler Group Article: X Marks the Spot Oracle's hard work on its Fusion Middleware over the last two to three years is paying off.