Automating Cloud Computing

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:00:00 EDT

A mid-sized on-premise ERP software company has used Salesforce.com to manage its sales process for two years. As a rapidly growing, recently public company, the manual processes used to manage sales and fulfillment that were originally more than adequate showed signs of strain: Account reps complained that they had to re-key the same order data into four separate forms/applications.

Blending Discovery, Governance, Security, and Management in SOA

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:57:00 EST

With power comes responsibility. The promise of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) offers significant opportunity for service reuse and the realization of a fully integrated enterprise. But left unchecked, the flexibility enabled by an SOA will result in a Wild Wild West of enterprise IT. To properly harness the power of SOA while delivering value for the enterprise, certain controls are essential. Incorporating service discovery, service security, service management, and policy governance in a ubiquitous and transparent framework is essential to the success of any enterprise SOA deployment.

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