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Business Modelling and Design Survey 2021

Jan 11, 20211 min read
Business Modelling and Design Survey 2021

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…

Enterprise SOA Security – Part 1: Challenges

Jan 10, 20201 min read
Enterprise SOA Security – Part 1: Challenges

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…

Enterprise SOA Security – Part 2: Solution Patterns

May 13, 20201 min read
Enterprise SOA Security – Part 2: Solution Patterns

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,…

Enterprise SOA Security – Part 3: Web Services Standards

Jan 10, 20201 min read
Enterprise SOA Security – Part 3: Web Services Standards

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.…

Enterprise SOA Security – Part 4: Organizational Measures

Jan 10, 20201 min read
Enterprise SOA Security – Part 4: Organizational Measures

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…

XML Gateways Facilitate Centralized API Security

Jan 10, 20201 min read
XML Gateways Facilitate Centralized API Security

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…

Safe In The Cloud: Cross-Company Security Best Practices

Jan 10, 20201 min read
Safe In The Cloud: Cross-Company Security Best Practices

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…

Centralized Security Outperforms Decentralized Approaches in Practice

Jan 10, 20201 min read
Centralized Security Outperforms Decentralized Approaches in Practice

This article compares centralized and decentralized security implementations in large application landscapes – particularly focusing on costs and organizational challenges. With a closer inspection it…

SOA Testing

Jan 23, 20201 min read
SOA Testing

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…

Mobile App Development

Jan 23, 20201 min read
Mobile App Development

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…

SSO with SAML – Part 1: Security

Jan 23, 20201 min read
SSO with SAML – Part 1: Security

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…

SSO with SAML – Part 2: Implementation

Jan 23, 20201 min read
SSO with SAML – Part 2: Implementation

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…

SOAPARK’s Asskura Model Supports Strategic Evolution of Insurance IT Landscapes

Jan 10, 20201 min read
SOAPARK’s Asskura Model Supports Strategic Evolution of Insurance IT Landscapes

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 Publishes Comprehensive Data and Process Reference Model For The Insurance Industry

Jan 10, 20201 min read
SOAPARK Publishes Comprehensive Data and Process Reference Model For The Insurance Industry

SOAPARK’s comprehensive data and process reference model – the Asskura Model – provides a solid foundation for the management and evolution of IT assets plus…

Start SOA Without the Burden of an Expensive Service Repository

Jan 10, 20201 min read
Start SOA Without the Burden of an Expensive Service Repository

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…

Standardized Service Specification Facilitated by Free Service Operation Sheet

Jan 10, 20201 min read
Standardized Service Specification Facilitated by Free Service Operation Sheet

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…

Was ist die IT-Industrialisierung?

Feb 18, 20201 min read
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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…

Was ist eine IT-Factory?

Feb 18, 20201 min read
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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…

Geschäftsmodell und Standardisierung einer erfolgreichen IT-Factory

Apr 10, 20201 min read
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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.