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Exploring the Fundamentals of Architecture and Services in an SOA, Part 2: The Importance of Business Architecture, Model-Driven Development, and Reusing Existing Assets

In this paper, one learns about business architecture, model-driven development, and reusable assets. The user understands now how business architecture provides a road map, improves IT responsiveness and flexibility, and helps make IT systems business-aligned. One also learns about the IBM Component Business Modeling CBM technique as well as model-driven...

Tags: Asset, SOA, Business Architecture, Model-Driven Development, Asset Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-10-23

From Capabilities to Services: Moving From a Business Architecture to an IT Implementation

While there are many methodologies for determining business architecture in terms of business processes, there are not currently as many options for decomposing the business requirements into interconnected capabilities. This paper uses the Motion methodology as an example technique to get this interconnected architecture and transform the resulting artifacts into...

Tags: Information Technology, Artifact, Business Architecture, Strategy, Operational Planning, Productivity, Management, Business Operations

White papers 2006-04-01

Additional Resources

SAP Users start to flex their muscles

Ray WangStill wondering if Ray Wang has ever said anything positive about SAP. I am sure he has at one point in his career. Based on his comments, SAP should probably close up shop. Dennis, thanks for providing some balance. RE: SAP Users start to flex...

Tags: Web services, Enterprise software, Middleware, Strategy, BS7, SAP AG, Ray

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Chatting (Not Chattering) About Salesforce - Part I

(NOTE BEFORE I START: This is one really long post. So rather than post it in all its glory in a single file or post it here over two days, I'm trying something new. I'm posting the first half here. And the second half on PGreenblog.  Let's see how that...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Twitter Inc., Sales Force, Customer, CRM, Integration, Force.com, Service Cloud 2, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Chrome OS: Some Early Preview Videos

google should move away from linuxI suppose they could easily take away all those messes of the current os by doing that. Haha! Crummy-um "Chromium OS and Open Source" video-- the guy is calling it Crummy-um! Sounds about right.RE: Chrome OS: Some Early Preview VideosAnd ZDNet falls hook, line,...

Tags: Corporate communications, Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, ChromeOS, Chrome, Chrome OS, early Preview Video, operating system, Preview Video, video

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download

Microsoft still firmly planted in the LAST century.NTLinux Kernel speaks?Hmmm, I'd fear for the future of Linux if this is what comes out of it. You'd think the "many eyes" would have caught such silly logic in the kernel years ago...and looking ready to dominate this oneas well.Google is...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, public beta, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Office suites, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Pacific Timesheet 6.69 (Mac)

Pacific Timesheet Enterprise PTE is a time and work tracking platform that powers the management and secure deployment of specialized end-user tools for: Enterprise time, attendance, work, project and schedule tracking, Enterprise timesheet and custom object workflow and management, Standard Reporting, Custom Reporting and distribution,Proven, scalable, open J2EE-compliant services-oriented architecture,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Platform, Pacific Timesheet, Pacific Timesheet Enterprise, Asset Management, Data Management, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Productivity, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Web Services, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-17

Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion as companies end litigation war; Is it a new chip era?

Inhell got off cheaplyProbably AMD needed the cash now because it would have gotten a lot more in a trial.This is good news for computer usersGood news all around. The cross licensing will allow advancements with a minimum of lawyer intervention.Won't matter, AMD is toastThey haven't produced a CPU worth...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, litigation, phenom, amd, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., chip

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

Building Reliable IP Telephony Systems

Reliability is the most critical aspect of a business phone system. IP telephony systems will deliver differing service levels because their architecture is fundamentally different. Ironically, optimal architecture and design does not only deliver high reliability, but also produces a system that is easy to use and manage. ...

Tags: Telephony, IP Telephony, IP, ShoreTel, Reliability, VOIP, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2009-11-10

Where should Mozilla go from here?

Consolidation and security, Now!Firefox has emerged as the most buggy browser robustness and security. It has more vulnerabilities discovered than any other browser, month after month. Each new release sees new stability and robustness problems.And Firefox still does not have support for sandboxing.Repeatedly they have to patch patches because their...

Tags: Web browsers, IE8, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Web browser, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Is Your Enterprise Architected for Tomorrow's Growth?

Today's business climate makes it imperative that organizations make the necessary plans for tomorrow's growth. Implementing an Enterprise Architecture can be a necessary, but challenging undertaking to prepare for that growth. "EA for Dummies" can help you cut through the chaos and get the business results that EA can...

Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Booklet, Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Book chapters 2009-11-01

SAP Q3: sales down, profit up

SAP's Q3 results demonstrate continuing softening in the enterprise software sales market. Revenues were down year on year by 31% to €525 million ($787 mill) from €763 million ($1.144 bn) in the same period 2008. Software and software related service revenues declined 3% or €57 million...

Tags: SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Sales, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-28

What's on your watch list? Forrester identifies 15 key technologies for enterprise architects

Enterprise 2.0 is here todayThanks for sharing Forrester's 15 Key Technologies. Though they represent discrete capabilities, collectively they nicely sum up Enterprise 2.0.Global adoption will take awhile, not for a lack of interest, but rather due to the slow up take of the underlying architecture, database, and coding methodologies.Forward...

Tags: Development tools, Key Technologies, Forrester Research Inc., Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

News to know: Apple tablet; Android; Social Search; Netflix on PS3; Verizon

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Jason D. O'Grady: Times exec hints at Apple tablet Larry Dignan: Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Phone, Social Search, Sony PlayStation 3, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Web Services, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-27

The Creative Business Analyst Part 3 - Making Better Decisions

This final paper of the series it looks at decision making techniques - how to select the best idea from the many come up with - and how to justify recommendation to client, manager and peers. Unfortunately the word solution means different things to different people - to a designer...

Tags: Business Analyst, IRM Training, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

White papers 2009-10-27

Linthicum's latest book: How SOA and cloud intersect for enterprise productivity benefits

SOA is the way to do cloud. It's really about breaking down your architecture into a primitive state of several components. Then, it's figuring out how to assemble those in such a way that you can use those components to resolve problems as your business changes over time. Cloud computing...

Tags: Benefit, SOA, Linthicum, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!

This Halloween, let's all celebrate what we're really feeling: The Wicked Vista is DEAD! In the United States, we've got a bunch of frivolous holidays. I've always regarded Halloween as a particularly frivolous holiday, one in which we encourage our...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Halloween, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-24

What Windows7 could mean for Linux

Success becomes a problemIf Win7 is as trouble-free as advertised, then there will be a mass-migration to it. This will make M$ great money in the short term. But once customers are there, they are less likely to EVER upgrade again! They are "happy" with XP now - save for...

Tags: SOAP, Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Azure, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft SharePoint, Windows Communication Foundation, Microsofts, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-24