White Papers

GLiNTECH's White Papers explain the technology and methodology behind the implementation and success of completed projects.

Collaborative Authorship with Atlassian Confluence
This white paper discusses an advanced enterprise strength wiki system - Atlassian Confluence. It explores the collaboration possibilities that are built into Atlassian Confluence. It also highlights the process of applying wiki technology in order to support team-based, knowledge intensive collaborative projects and it introduces some basic features of Atlassian Confluence. Finally, an overview of a simple methodology for wiki development and evolution, showing how various advanced features in Atlassian Confluence can be used to support the process of collaborative authorship in organisations is highlighted.
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Business Process Management (BPM) with Open Source
This whitepaper provides an overview of Business Process Management (BPM) technologies, illustrated using open source frameworks. It suits a technical audience and covers the concepts and methodologies of BPM, the link with existing technologies (Web Services, SOA) and the implications of introducing a BPM system. In addition, a description of the standards is explored, followed by a practical illustration of the concepts using the creation of a timesheet approval process using an open source BPMS, thereby highlighting the BPM’s value proposition.
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What is Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture?
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has received wide coverage in recent years with the proliferation of web services. The purpose of this paper is to define both the meaning and the benefits of SOA, specifically in its enterprise usage (Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture or ESOA) and to expand on what it means to implement an SOA in a given organisation.
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Managers Guide to SOA
Web services and a service-oriented architecture represent the design blueprint for the IT infrastructure of the near future. Together, they offer a standards-based approach to making IT dynamically interoperable, dramatically improving responsiveness and business agility. The debate has become not whether to implement SOA, but how to implement SOA for the maximum advantage and business value.
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Architects Guide to SOA
This detailed white paper provides a technical, architectural and organisational overview of SOA.
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The Business Case for SOA - Rationalizing the Benefits of Service-Oriented Architecture
One of the most significant IT initiatives underway is the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA), where IT assets are aligned to business services in a standard, flexible and architected fashion. The concept is often discussed in conjunction with Web services, though the two are not synonymous. In fact, SOA predates Web services by many years, but it is only now that SOA has hit the headlines. This is due in part to the fact that Web services have been a useful development that makes it much easier to deploy a SOA.
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A Methodology for Service Architectures
This white paper provides architects and managers with some well-grounded practices in identifying potential services within an organisation and then the factors involved in realising them. Topics include service type classification, mapping the architecture to actual project work and a notation for capturing the specifics of the initiative.
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Service-Orientation: A Brief Introduction
This white paper is a brief introduction to Service Orientation and highlights with brief analysis the four principles associated with Service-Oriented Architecture.
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