Red Hat delivers SOA in a different way.

Challenge:

Development complexity

Developers face too many different and complex development frameworks that require them to write code to bridge the programming models. This complexity slows application development and business process automation, resulting in increased costs and lost opportunities.

Solution:

Red Hat reduces developer complexity with a standards-based programming model to assemble SOA components and Web 2.0 applications with dramatically less coding--increasing productivity, accelerating time to market and reducing development and run-time errors.

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• Red Hat Developer Support and Tools
  Pre-configured development tools that simplify development, as well as developer access to, and developer support for all JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and all other Red Hat products.

Challenge:

Low resource utilization

Most IT environments require purchasing additional hardware for new applications while installed hardware runs at 5% to 10% utilization. Low utilization adds hardware and management cost and complexity to IT operations.

Solution:

Red Hat increases IT asset utilization, efficiency, and responsiveness: Virtualization optimizes hardware utilization, enabling services, and multiple business processes to maximize hardware resources. Red Hat's JBoss SOA components seamlessly leverage the benefits of OS virtualization, helping customers reduce costs and refocus resources on the applications and business processes automation that differentiate their business.

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• Red Hat Virtualization Center
  Removing the traditional limitations of hardware and software to drastically drive out costs.

Challenge:

Business process friction

Business processes often run much less efficiently than they should due to friction caused by manual steps, awkward inter-system communication, and inability to manage rapid change. Business process friction saps a businesses' ability to differentiate and compete.

Solution:

Red Hat relieves business process friction. SOA enables flexible and reusable services that can be rapidly deployed and modified to relieve business process friction, improve business agility, and accelerate time to deliver on business requirements. But SOA can be an expensive and complex proposition. Red Hat removes the complexity and expense with an integrated, modular, open source SOA platform with a lower total cost than the commercial alternatives.

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• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
  The market leading platform for next generation enterprise Java applications and SOA services.
• JBoss jBPM
  Workflow and BPM simplified.
• JBoss Rules
  Business policy agility made easy and affordable.

Challenge:

Inadequate user experience

Users, whether internal or external, deal with arcane presentation of information and response options that are out of context in their everyday work interactions. This lack of context and personalization of information drives lower user productivity and increased error and cost.

Solution:

Red Hat delivers rich, Web 2.0 user experiences. Rich Web 2.0 interfaces coupled with personalization technology improve the productivity for users of SOA-based, automated business processes. Businesses providing the best user experience will have a competitive edge. The Red Hat SOA platform includes tools and frameworks to easily develop rich interfaces that maximize the business process user experience.

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• JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform
  Provides a leading standards-based environment for hosting and serving applications and information in a portal web interface, publishing and managing content, and personalizing users' experiences.