White Paper : Selecting a Cloud Platform : A Platform as a Service ScorecardCloud benefits are compelling, and your peers are starting to demonstrate successful test projects, but you realize slick product demonstrations often do not mirror real world complexity. You find your personal Cloud experience challenged by disconnected platform silos, complicated application architecture, diverse infrastructure technologies, and cloud washed services. How can Cloud and Platform as a Service (PaaS) improve a development team’s ability to rapidly deliver high value business applications and meet user demand? Practical SOA for the Solution ArchitectMost IT practitioners often lose sight of the core principles of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This article and its extended white paper are a retelling of the SOA philosophy in an easily understandable and practically applicable form, independent of the actual tools used to implement it. It is specially targeted to the Solution Architect, because at the end of the day, SOA is nothing but a way to put components together to build flexible, durable and reusable business solutions, and the solution architect is the person responsible for this outcome. WSO2: Driving Business Agility in Financial ServicesAgility in business is mainly about acting immediately with productive responses to the unforeseen scenarios in the traditional business process. Ability to change and adjust to the competitive requirements of industry is an ongoing process. Like for any business, financial services also depends on a high available, scalable and agile IT infrastructure to achieve strategic goals, maintain market sustainability and become more competitive in the industry. WSO2: Driving Business Agility in Financial ServicesThe financial services sector today undergoes rapid change. Therefore, business agility and adaptability to change are crucial for healthy business survival and growth. Read how WSO2 is well-equipped with the right blend of technology and expertise to ensure business agility and adaptability to inevitable change. Enterprise Open Source SOA from WSO2 - The Best of Both WorldsA whitepaper on WSO2's built-for-purpose SOA vision. WSO2 Data Services - An Executive OverviewIn this white paper Sumedha Rubasinghe and Ayanthi Anandagoda, looks at WSO2 Data Services designed for exposing data as Web services WSO2 Identity Solution – Implementation of a CardSpace Authentication FrameworkWSO2 Identity Solution is an implementation of Microsoft CardSpace specification. It can issue InfoCards based OpenID tokens, SAML security tokens and pure OpenIDs. Dimuthu Leelarathne in this white paper describes how CardSpace Specification was implemented by the WSO2security team. |