Resources

Service Oriented Architecture
Articles and recommendations to facilitate success with SOA. Link to Resource.

Technical Marketing and Positioning
Literature and materials that help increase revenue and satisfy customers.
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Software Development Lifecycle
Some guidelines and suggestions to help you in streamlining your SDLC.
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Work in progress
Here’s a summary of what we’re focusing on now. Link to Resource.

Live events
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Service Oriented Architecture Resources

Ten strategies for implementing SOA governance technology

It's nearly impossible to govern a SOA implementation without supporting technology. This presentation (delivered at the 2009 BT Summit in Bangalore), provides some ideas on how to deploy this vital infrastructure. Click here

Web service-enabling relational databases for SOA

Relational databases are often your most valuable IT assets. Here's an example of the role they can play in service-orientation. Learn more

What every developer should know about SOA governance

It’s very hard for a SOA initiative to succeed without getting developers on board. Here’s why

The latest free soapUI Pro training Webinar

Get productive with soapUI Pro, fast. Here’s how

Technical Marketing Resources

Technically Motivate from Think88

An informative podcast about technical marketing best practices, aimed at marketing, sales, and technology professionals. Latest edition

Optimizing your technical services practice with hosted collaboration software

A White paper that illustrates the dramatic benefits provided by Software as a Service-based (SaaS) collaboration technology. Learn more

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Sales Engineers

In a competitive market, well-trained and motivated sales engineers can make all the difference. Learn more

Software Development Lifecycle Resources

Guides to low/no-cost Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) technologies

A series of instructional papers illustrating how to quickly create cost-effective data migration and transformation between databases such as SQL Server and Oracle, using connectivity software from DataDirect.

        Using Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) Click here
        Using Clover ETL Click here
        Using Jasper ETL Click here

Test rich Internet applications using Ajax and Selenium

View a tutorial that shows how to use the Selenium IDE to record and playback a functional test. You can then repurpose this test for load and availability monitoring. See how

Agile Web and REST service testing with soapUI

A presentation from the 2009 ServerSide Java Symposium that shows how modern test and service virtualization technology can be used to validate complicated service-oriented implementations. Download

7 Fundamentals of Mission-Critical Service Testing

Delivered at the 2009 QCon event in San Francisco, this presentation provides a series of best practices for testing your Web and REST-style services for maximum performance, functionality, and availability. Get it here

Work in progress

Since governance is such a key factor in the potential success of a service-oriented initiative, we’re excited to be contributing to the upcoming SOA Governance book that will be part of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl.

On the technical marketing front, we’re in the midst of creating a series of best practices that technology firms with an indirect sales model can use to help drive incremental revenue.

Finally, as part of the upcoming series of Cloud Computing training courses to be offered by Wiseclouds.com, we'll soon be announcing the availability of the Guide to Cloud Computing for Managers.