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Griffiths Waite Resources

• Case Study: Interaction Between Human and Automated Tasks: Presentation Slides
• Your Initial SOA Project – early returns and a foundation for extended use: Presentation Slides
• Assessing Readiness and Maturity for SOA: Presentation Slides Successful SOA adopters recommend a roadmap tied to an SOA maturity adoption model to assist with the planning and execution of the SOA strategy. See what capabilities are measured and why?
• SOA Maturity Assessment Joint initiative between Griffiths Waite and Butler Group, that identifies the current readiness and capability of organisations to progress effectively with SOA projects. Complete the assessment and Griffiths Waite will provide a free SOA Assessment Report.
• Article: Six Sigma, Lean and BPM Tim Jennings of the Butler Group observes that trialling a business process improvement initiative using Lean Six Sigma is likely to have greater business impact than piloting a SOA project from a technical perspective, and will make it considerably easier to promote the value of the approach to senior management.
• Oracle's SOA Maturity Model - Quick Reference Guide Oracle’s SOA Maturity Model and Maturity Assessment are the driving force behind creating an SOA roadmap enabling organisations to formulate an SOA strategy and build capabilities to deliver on that strategy.
• SOA Maturity Domains - Quick Reference Guide Assessment of an SOA Program is based on SOA Maturity Domains and is benchmarked against the Oracle SOA Maturity Model.
• SOA Masterclass for SMB Executives: Presentation Slides SOA is not exclusively for larger enterprises! It provides the opportunity for smaller organisations to compete with and overtake larger competitors that are slow to embrace it.
• SOA Masterclass for Banking & Financial Services: Presentation Slide Moving your SOA and Business Process Agenda from initial theory through to real business implementation.
• Using BAM to Close the Loop Joint article between Griffiths Waite and Markus Zirn, Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle Fusion Middleware. The article details how Oracle BAM can add continuous improvement capabilities to BPM.

Analyst Resources

• Butler Group Technology Audit: Oracle BPM November 2007In combination, Oracle BPA Suite and Oracle SOA Suite, bring together all the expected components of an end-to-end enterprise BPM offering – discovery, modelling, measurement, and management. The Technology Audit found Oracle’s BPM solution has a comprehensive toolset that provides a high-performance highly scalable BPM and SOA solution.
• The Forrester Wave™: Application Server Platforms,"Q3 2007"Forrester evaluated the major application server platform suites and vendors across 175 criteria and found that Oracle received the highest scores across all of the scenarios we evaluated, due to its wide range of features and strong strategy. The full report can be purchased from www.forrester.com
• Butler Group SOA Platforms Report Butler Group identifies Oracle as a leader now and in the future. This report provides a detailed management summary, full report can be purchased from www.butlergroup.com
• Gartner Magic Quandrant Report Oracle is a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Service-Oriented Business Application Projects, 2Q07
• InfoWorld Article : Infoworld Ranks Oracle SOA Suite as "Excellent" InfoWorld Test Center states "Oracle SOA Suite meets or exceeds most needs for governance, security, insight and optimization at a price that's hard to beat."
• Butler Group Report: Planning & Implementing SOA Detailed management summary, full report can be purchased from www.butlergroup.com- also includes best and worst practices suggested by delegates at Butler Group’s BPM&I Symposium.
• Butler Group Article: X Marks the Spot Oracle's hard work on its Fusion Middleware over the last two to three years is paying off

Oracle Resources

• Oracle SOA Platform: Presentation Slides
• Whitepaper: The Business Value of SOA
• Whitepaper: Oracle SOA Suite
• Business Process Management Whitepaper BPM is experiencing a phenomenal comeback. Packaged applications which were dominant in the past decade, are now complemented by middleware technologies for agility, and within middleware BPM and SOA lead the charge.