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Executive Report

Service-Oriented Integration: A Report from the Trenches

by Jan Topinski, Bartosz Kiepuszewski, and Borys Stokalski

With so much hype around service-oriented architecture (SOA), it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between what we would like to do and what can be achieved with the technology that is available today. In this Executive Report, we present what we believe to be a true picture of the current state of the art of enterprise SOA.

 
Executive Update

Windows Presentation Foundation: The New Face of Windows Vista

by Tom Welsh

More than anything else, Windows stands or falls by its graphical user interface (GUI) -- which, with the advent of animation, video, audio, and other refinements, is rapidly turning into a multimedia user interface. That is why, ever since Windows 1.0, Microsoft has made the quality of the "user experience" a high priority. In fact, it could be argued that the rationale for Windows itself rested on the perceived superiority of a GUI -- even the slow, clunky, unreliable Windows GUI of 1986 -- over the simple but "low-tech" character-based screens of DOS.

 
E-Mail Advisor

Combining Business Process Management and Business Rules

by Curt Hall

Today, BPM and BRM are increasingly seen as complementary technologies, and organizations now seek to combine their respective capabilities into a more comprehensive environment in which the BRMS is called upon to carry out complex reasoning at specific steps in a process as specified in the (overall) BPM workflow model. Basically, BRMS can enhance the BPMS by enabling fine-grain control of complex business processes. In addition, combining BRMS with BPMS allows business rules to be changed independently of the processes they govern.

 
Webinar/Multimedia

EA Rollout & Training

Webinar by Mike Rosen

Enterprise architecture (EA) is key to managing the complexity of IT infrastructure and applications and aligning your organization's current and future IT systems to support business strategy and goals. But how can you overcome skepticism and gain support for enterprise architecture throughout your entire organization so that you can achieve this goals?

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