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Free White Paper: The New Best Practices for Managing SOA Applications

If you're building a new application, chances are you're building it as composite applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA). And when you do, your previous approaches for managing applications and infrastructure won't work. Fortunately, there are new best practices that will help you use Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 to get the most out of your SOA applications.

"With a composite application, you take components from your current infrastructure and applications and bring them together as building blocks of a new, more-capable, and more-flexible application," says Moe Fardoost, Oracle director of product marketing. "But with all the benefits of applications on SOA come a whole new crop of challenges for managing all the components."

Because application components in an SOA environment can run in multiple places, the mapping between these components and the underlying infrastructure can be complicated. "What your end user is experiencing could be the result of any kind of problem in any of those components," says Fardoost. "Not everything is running on the same box. You no longer have the luxury of just looking at the CPU utilization or the memory on that machine to determine the problem," he says. "You need to be able to see and manage all the components to diagnose and fix the problem."

The top-down approach of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 gives you the ability to map all your components together so you can look at them as a single, combined service. "It allows you to map that relationship with the infrastructure: the databases, the application servers, and the network equipment," says Fardoost. "Oracle Enterprise Manager gives you the two things you need most: a complete, end-to-end view of your SOA components and the ability to manage them."

Learn More About the New Best Practices

White Paper: Managing Applications with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g (PDF, 2.9MB)
IDC White Paper: Optimizing Business Performance with Enterprisewide Application Management (PDF)
Video: Stephen Elliot, IDC Research Manager, Talks About Application Management
News Story: Twenty-Four New Connectors and Plug-ins Drive Heterogeneous SOA

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