Getting the Most From Your SOA Investment

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This issue of the Oracle SOA Newsletter is devoted to helping organizations define a way to move forward with strategic portal decisions. To help organizations gain a better understanding of the positive impact that new portal technologies are having on business flexibility, this issue of the Oracle SOA Newsletter explores:

• Best Practices Interview with Jay Daugherty, Senior Director, Oracle Portal: Jay Daugherty joins us to share some secrets on the best practices that organizations can take advantage of when deploying new portal approaches and technologies.


• Open Standards and Portals: Standards are more important today than ever before, and can be a critical component for the success of portal solutions, since portals need to bridge so many different back end and front end technologies and interfaces. In this article we focus on open standards and portals - what you need to know about implementing a successful portal architecture and how standards should play into your development and deployment choices.


• Empowering the Business: Oracle Portal is helping organizations streamline their businesses and increase information effectiveness. Oracle Portal is part of Oracle Fusion Middleware, a highly secure, hot pluggable infrastructure. Oracle Portal provides the face or presentation layer to a service-oriented architecture, enabling organizations to rationalize their IT infrastructure through SOAservices while maintaining their existing IT investments. For any organization moving to Web Services and SOA, Oracle Portal is a natural fit.


• Portals and Your Business - A Case Study of Texas Industries: Many organizations are leveraging new portal technologies like Oracle Portal and Oracle Fusion Middleware to help rationalize their existing IT infrastructure while moving toward a service-oriented architecture. A good example of a company that's seen specific business benefits from implementing a new portal infrastructure based on Oracle Portal is Texas Industries in Dallas, Texas. With operations in six states, Texas Industries is a leading supplier of building materials, including cement, concrete and aggregate.

This issue of the Oracle SOA Newsletter is designed to help organizations understand the changes taking place in area of portals and understand how to make strategic portal decisions. Since portal standards and supporting technologies have advanced so much in the past few years, this is a great time for organizations that have never deployed a portal or organizations or have previously attempted to deploy a portal to reconsider today's portal technologies and understand how they can leverage them to create a more efficient and effective IT infrastructure.

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