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For more detailed information about how IONA approaches the integration of IT assets, and how that approach is reflected in the company's products and solutions, please download our whitepapers.
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Strategy
The End of Middleware
Middleware is one of the largest consumers of precious IT resources, but fortunately it does not need to be. By eliminating dependencies on centralized servers, organizations can reuse existing infrastructure components and create an agile enterprise.
The IONA Approach to SOA
The white paper discusses how IONA's unique approach to SOA offers organizations unprecedented flexibility in SOA design, governance, management and deployment.
Governing a Distributed SOA
As mainstream IT organizations adopt SOA principles, the challenge becomes how to govern ubiquitous, distributed services. This paper covers how to enforce service reuse and how to govern proper usage.
The Economics of SOA: Case Study
An economic analysis that compares the costs of using a traditional, hub-based approach to integration to a distributed SOA. Analysis includes specific calculations from a global telecommunications vendor and covers both deployment and maintenance costs.
EAI: Rip and Replace or Leave and Leverage?
This white paper discusses a SOA migration strategy for executives and architects. IT executives find that by leaving existing EAI components in place and leverage them as a part of a migration strategy, most of the work is already done.
IT Solutions
Simple Adjustment to the SOA Life Cycle Will Save Millions
By following 4 simple objectives, IT organizations can increase the ROI of SOA initiatives and eliminated missed expectations.
Creating a High-Performance SOA Solution
Learn how IONA provides a distributed framework for SOA enablement that leverages existing investments and enables a high-performance business system without bottlenecks.
Mainframe Systems: How and When to Migrate
Guide for architects and project leaders to determine whether to keep or migrate away from existing mainframe systems. Includes specific criteria, how to service-enable systems in place, and how to gradually migrate without disruption.
Mainframes and Web Services — Extending Mission-Critical Systems
Explores architecture options for connecting mainframe systems and the rest of the enterprise to meet line-of-business objectives.
Financial Services
Why Metadata Management Matters in Financial Services
Metadata management is becoming important in financial services, especially in straight through processing (STP) efficiency strategies. Learn why, and how to best manage metadata to simplify system integration.
Using XQuery with Financial Messages
Dr. Michael Kay, the author of XSLT Programmer's Reference and the editor of the W3C's XSLT 2.0 specification, examines why a new query language is needed for XML, how one might use it, and provides examples of queries applied to data in the financial industry.
Parsing a SWIFT Message
Parsing SWIFT messages can be daunting. The paper explains the process with specific examples and provides easy-to-implement alternatives.
Telecommunications
Best Practices for Implementing SOA-based Service Delivery Platforms
A white paper by OSS Observer and IONA Technologies.
Integration Challenges in
Triple-Play Service Delivery
Authored by Yankee Group, this white paper discusses Internet multimedia subsystem (IMS) architecture as well as current trends in Web services and SOA.
OSS/BSS Integration Challenges for Triple Play Service Delivery
This white paper discusses how to implement triple play strategies to meet competitive pressures without incurring unreasonable cost, and reviews real production examples of how standards-based technologies and protocols have played a key role in integration.
Artix
Artix Value Proposition
Artix addresses the primary needs of Global 2000 IT executives: achieving greater ROI on existing and future investments, offering new services, and modernizing existing systems.
Detailed white papers are available on the following Artix components:
Artix ESB (for architects) Artix ESB (for executives) Artix Orchestration Artix Data Services Artix Mainframe The Evolution from EAI to ESB
Understand the differences and how IONA's extensible ESB, Artix, differs from other ESBs and improves upon the capabilities of EAI products.
IONA And IBM
Adding Value to Existing Infrastructure. Artix complements IBM's family of enterprise systems. This paper describes how Artix adds value to WebSphere, z/OS mainframes, and Tivoli enterprise management.
Creating Multi-Protocol Web Services with Artix
For developers this paper gives an overview of creating Web services with Artix. With brief code samples and WSDL this document gives a more concrete set of examples of exactly what Artix is how it works.
Creating a SOA with Artix and JES
Guide to integrating with Sun's Java Enterprise System (JES) and Java Business Integration (JBI), and how to implement a SOA in an environment with legacy systems to cut costs, facilitate system reuse and increase business agility.
Open Source
IONA and Open Source
Describes IONA's open source FUSE product line for SOA, IONA's enterprise support, consulting and training services for its open source solutions, and the role that IONA plays in leading open source communities and standards organizations.
When to Use Open Source
This paper covers the technical differences between IONA's open and closed source SOA product lines FUSE and Artix. Included are the feature differences, how the components work together, as well as a guide for when to use which product.
Orbix
Orbix 6 Technical Overview
Overview of IONA's Orbix for architects and developers. Today, CORBA is connecting mission-critical applications in the banking, insurance, utilities, manufacturing, and government industries.
CORBA And SOA
This planning guide helps developers and architects understand how to extend existing CORBA applications using the Artix Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Includes non-IONA CORBA implementations such as Borland's VisiBroker.
CORBA Business Value
CORBA overview for architects. This white paper details IONA's relationship to CORBA, and highlights the breadth and the depth of CORBA's penetration, and how CORBA remains the solution of choice for mission-critical systems.
Migrating from VisiBroker to Orbix
Technical overview of the changes that are required when an enterprise migrates from VisiBroker, which complies with the CORBA 2.0 specification, to Orbix 6, which complies with the CORBA 2.6 specification.
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