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Oracle Builds Comprehensive SOA Platform

Overview Through the recent evolution of BPM around the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) standard, a comprehensive SOA platform has become a key requirement for implementing standards-based BPM. SOA empowers a business environment with a flexible IT infrastructure and reusable business and systems services for deploying processes. This white paper from IDC covers the requirements for building a comprehensive SOA platform including BPEL, service development, integration, management, and security.

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Publisher	Oracle	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2005	Downloads	30
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Monitoring Systems, Security Standards

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