Whitepapers

  • WSO2 Carbon Product Performance and Deployment Topology Sizing

    This white paper aims to provide some insight into WSO2’s Middleware product performance, a capacity planning matrix, capacity planning processes, and how to identify an optimal deployment architecture.
  • Managing Big Data for the Intelligence Community

    This white paper explores the nature of the intelligence Big Data problem, posits an architectural solution that leverages well-vetted and established tools and demonstrates how this solution can be implemented in cost-effective and timely manner through the use of open source software.
  • The Path to Responsive IT
    The path to Responsive IT requires moving away from traditional application platforms, traditional team structure, and traditional information flows. Responsive IT teams are adapting their infrastructure, processes and tooling to reinvent the application platform and re-think application delivery. The New IT architecture underlying Responsive IT intelligently incorporates Cloud Platforms, BigData Analytics, Enterprise DevOps, and API first development.
  • WSO2 Carbon: The Composable Platform Advantage
    WSO2 found many enterprise architects and developers devoting a significant amount of time to the problem of internal platform integration, increasing not only their cost of IT and their risk of causing disruption to the business, but often stifling their ability to adopt new innovations and use IT agility as a competitive business differentiator. This white paper introduces WSO2’s advanced composable server architecture developed to address this problem.
  • Integration Platforms and App Factories: The Transformation of Legacy Defense Systems
    For the better part of two decades, sustainment burdens associated with legacy defense and intelligence software systems have been rising. Many of the cost drivers are inherent to fundamental decisions taken at the time the systems were designed.
  • Engagements: The Role of the Middleware Vendor in the Defense Industry
    Middleware, that vast software space between data and end-user applications has become an inescapable fact of life in industries ranging from commerce and finance, to healthcare, travel and beyond. Middleware platforms provide critical infrastructure capabilities that include data transport, transformation and mediation, data access, identity and access management, system reliability assurance, and workflow management.
  • The Revolution in Military Affairs 2.0: Information Dominance and the Democratization of Information Technology
    The goal of transforming legacy, industrial age military organizations to agile, responsive information age forces has eluded much of the world’s defense organizations. This white paper describes benefits gained by Transforming industrial age forces to information age forces - Pushing power to the edge, Promoting self-synchronization, Adopting open-source software in general, Adopting open source middleware in particular.
  • WSO2 and API Management A Technical Evaluation Guide
    This white paper provides a technical introduction to the WSO2 API Manager product and additional components that assist API access management. It is aimed at developers, architects, and systems administrators who wish to learn more about managed APIs.
  • Promoting service reuse within your enterprise and maximizing SOA success
    API management is a strategic component within your Service Oriented Architecture initiative. Many development teams publish services, yet struggle to create a service architecture that is widely shared, re-used, and adopted across internal development teams. SOA governance programs often fall far short of encouraging consumer adoption, tracking service consumption, and illustrating business value.
  • WSO2 API Manager Comparison
    WSO2 API Manager is the only open source API management product available today. The product builds upon WSO2’s deep investment in integration, governance, analytics, and security to solve traditional SOA adoption challenges, deliver managed and secure RESTful APIs, manage identities, and enable new business-to-developer distribution channels.
  • Cloud Native Advantage: Multi-Tenant, Shared Container PaaS
    The ‘Multi-tenant, shared container PaaS TCO’ white paper describes architecture components required to deliver multi-tenant, shared application platform services, and proposes a cost evaluation tool.
  • Moving eGovernment to the Cloud
    This paper examines the demands that governments face today and how the cloud-native WSO2 eGovernment solution provides a powerful, highly flexible and extensible platform for addressing these requirements.
  • Selecting a Cloud Platform : A Platform as a Service Scorecard
    This whitepaper will help enterprise architects and solution architects evaluate and select PaaS offerings. Use the proposed evaluation framework and quick start roadmap as guides assisting your choice of goals, requirements, key metrics, use cases, and PaaS providers.
  • Practical SOA for the Solution Architect
    This white paper is a retelling of the SOA philosophy in an easily understandable and practically applicable form, independent of the actual tools used to implement it.
  • WSO2: Driving Business Agility in Financial Services
    Read how WSO2 is well-equipped with the right blend of technology and expertise to ensure business agility and adaptability to inevitable change.
  • WSO2 Security & Identity Gateway Solution
    This white paper introduces the WSO2 SOA Security Gateway solution, its architecture, the technologies as well as the the benefits of proper security governance.
  • WSO2 Mobile Services Gateway Solution
    This whitepaper enumerates requirements and presents a core architecture for a scalable, secure, integrated, multi-platform, Mobile Services Gateway based on WSO2 products.
  • WSO2 FIX Gateway Solution
    This white paper enumerates requirements and presents a core architecture for a scalable, secure, integrated, multi-platform FIX Gateway based on WSO2 products.
  • WSO2 SAP Message Gateway Solution
    This white paper enumerates requirements and presents a core architecture for a scalable, secure, integrated, multi-platform SAP Gateway based on WSO2 products.
  • Effective Cloud Enablement With WSO2 Stratos
    This paper explains the benefits of cloud computing, the private and public cloud concepts, defines PaaS and explains WSO2 Stratos as a complete Enterprise Cloud Platform.
  • Cloud Native: Essential Characteristics of Platform-as-a-Service Offerings
    This white paper introduces the concept of “cloud native” as a model for assessing the capabilities of a cloud platform.
  • Cloud Implementation Checklist: Avoiding Cloud Lock-in
    This paper presents a checklist enumerating some of the important aspects of lock-in that IT professionals would be well advised to consider when making technology selections….
  • WSO2 Data Services – An Executive Overview
    This paper presents valuable information about data services and the numerous unique benefits that can be achieved by using WSO2 Data Services.