We have supported many enterprises in optimizing their business models, processes and underlying IT infrastructures over the past two decades. Only recently we have seen…
The first part of the Enterprise SOA Security series deals with the challenges of contemporary IT landscapes. For example, BYOD, cross-departmental solutions, company-wide workflows and…
Solution patterns, which help to design modern SOA security, are introduced in the second part of the series. Here, the focus lies on security tokens,…
Countless Web Services standards such as SAML, WS Security, XACML or WS Trust help with the implementation of interoperable security solutions in a service-oriented architecture.…
SOA Security is hardly a technology subject only. Cross-departmental processes and role concepts also require cross-departmental governance and a change of thinking in the risk…
The given article sketches out a best practice to implement a company-wide security strategy for cross-departmental and cross-company Web Services communication. One of the key…
Extending the ideas of enterprise IT to cross-company communication and in particular to the use of shared services, which are no longer found in a…
This article compares centralized and decentralized security implementations in large application landscapes – particularly focusing on costs and organizational challenges. With a closer inspection it…
APIs and SOA enable enterprises to rapidly exchange data in real-time. The increase of the resulting data traffic and the interconnectivity across company boundaries as…
The elegance of many mobile applications in the mobile and game field encourages people to playfully approach the development of mobile business processes. However, practice…
Providing legacy applications with SAML can be time consuming and costly. For this reason, API gateways are often used to solve these problems out of…
Many companies are faced with the decision of vertical integration in which they want to implement single sign-on (SSO). Central solutions are often too expensive…
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By no means IT landscapes of insurance companies can be changed easily. It requires long-term efforts and planning to foster a strategic evolution process. Typically,…
SOAPARK’s comprehensive data and process reference model – the Asskura Model – provides a solid foundation for the management and evolution of IT assets plus…
An intelligible service repository is a critical success factor of any enterprise-wide API or SOA initiative. It is inevitably true that managing the portfolio of…
For every service, one or possibly more operations must be described. This can be done with the “Service Operation Sheet”. It replaces a fully fletched…
In der ersten Folge unserer Serie zum Thema “IT-Industrialisierung” zeigen Dirk Krafzig und Jürgen Hemmer auf, was genau darunter zu verstehen ist und vor allem wie die…
In der zweiten Folge unserer Serie “IT-Industrialisierung” sprechen Dirk Krafzig und Jürgen Hemmer im Detail darüber, was eine “IT-Factory” ist und wieso Sie durch die Einführung einer…
In der dritten Folge unserer Serie “IT-Industrialisierung” veranschaulichen Dirk Krafzig und Jürgen Hemmer die Wichtigkeit eines abgestimmten Geschäftsmodells und technischer sowie fachlicher Standards als Fundament einer effizienten IT-Factory.