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.
Link to Resource.
Software Development Lifecycle
Some guidelines and suggestions to help you in streamlining your SDLC.
Link to Resource.
Work in progress
Here’s a summary of what we’re focusing on now. Link
to Resource.
Live events
Upcoming speaking engagements Link
to Resource
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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