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The SOA Management Landscape: Creating a Dialogue Between Enterprise Architecture & IT Operations

Overview This ZapThink white paper is a must read if you're looking to migrate to an enterprise-wide service-oriented architecture (SOA). Analyst Jason Bloomberg examines the challenges associated with SOA management and explains:

The differences between IT services, business services, and loosely coupled services
Why the flexibility afforded by SOA necessitates new metrics for measuring the effectiveness of IT operations
How managing Web services differs from managing an overall SOA implementation

Download the paper to read more about the special issues related to SOA management and to find out how the IBM Tivoli product line can help you manage your SOA to maximum benefit.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2006	Downloads	6
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Middleware, ROI - TCO, Service-Oriented Architecture

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