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- The science of biopharmaceuticals meets business flexibility.
- Good science and sound strategies aren't enough anymore. This white paper explores how a Service-Oriented Architecture SOA can help improve the development and delivery of treatment to patients. SOA provides an agile business model and an open, integrated infrastructure that can rapidly respond to changing market dynamics.
- Tags: Business Flexibility, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-02-20
- White paper: IBM Software for SOA and Business Flexibility
- The future of business: it's a dynamic, global, frictionless and innovative place. It's also extremely competitive, Darwinian and sneaking up on you faster than you might think. The future of business is not the stuff of science fiction; it's the extrapolation of shifts that are beginning to take place right...
- Tags: Business Flexibility, Business, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Strategy, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Foster growth, business flexibility, and innovation within your company with these guiding principles
- In some ways, today's business environment parallels that of the Internet era, where in the rush to embrace the Internet and to get a competitive edge, companies have became preoccupied with e-commerce, sometimes to the detriment of larger concerns. Similarly, many businesses today are rushing to adopt emerging...
- Tags: Innovation, Business Flexibility, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
- Book chapters 2007-02-27
- Agile Business Process Automation
- There is a lot of excitement and competition in the Business Process Automation space, however, despite the plethora of BPA platforms available, many such projects end up over budget, provide very little business flexibility when changes are necessary and fail to reach performance, transparency, and reliability goals. The purpose of...
- Tags: Business Flexibility, Business Process Automation, It Operations
- White papers 2007-02-19
- Business Flexibility
- Many of today's businesses have already moved from rigid siloed application approaches to more flexible business process focused solutions. This is driving the need for transparency in the underlying technologies, and for better levels of standardisation and virtualisation of the infrastructure, along with consideration of the value chain that..... ...
- Tags: Business Flexibility, Virtualization, Channel Management, Operational Planning, Hardware, Marketing, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-01-17
- Media Hub as a Service-Oriented Approach to Building Business Flexibility in the Media and Entertainment Industries
- New technologies and delivery channels are causing a shift in advertising placement, and are enabling new business models that bring partners and competitors closer together. Organizations must support new business models in an efficient and flexible way in order to remain competitive in nowadays markets and to take advantage of...
- Tags: Media, Business Flexibility, Business Model, Entertainment, IBM Corp., IBM Media Hub, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-09-01
- WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1: Advancing SOA for Greater Business Flexibility
- Market dynamics, combined with the continued introduction of new, enabling technologies, are driving the need for business flexibility. Most business leaders are seeing increased competition and new players with innovative business models entering their industries. Business success and even survival depends on access to real-time information and the ability to...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere, Application Server, Business Flexibility, Server, SOA, IBM WebSphere Application Server
- White papers 2006-04-10
- WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1: Advancing SOA for Greater Business Flexibility
- Business flexibility refers to the ability to manage market volatility and unpredictability more effectively through the creation of flexible business models, processes, and infrastructures. By enabling businesses to cope with constant change, these flexible structures afford competitive advantage and drive business value. Increased business flexibility enables organizations to become "On...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere, Application Server, Business Flexibility, Server, SOA, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Web Services, Software
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Modernize Policy Administration Systems to Increase Business Flexibility
- Policy administration systems represent a critical part of an insurer's core systems because they handle policy applications, policy anniversary processing, changes and new business. Policy administration systems impact nearly all aspects of the business and serve, in many ways, as the engine for all operations. They are fundamental to an...
- Tags: Business Flexibility, IBM Corp., Administration System, Insurance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Business Flexibility: Removing Dependencies Between Business Process and Technical Infrastructure With SOA
- Organisations wanting to create a more flexible, responsive environment to support their business processes must look towards the evolution of an environment that removes the process dependencies from the underlying hardware and software infrastructure. This can only be done through the provision of suitable intermediary technologies such as a Service...
- Tags: Quocirca, Business Process, Business Flexibility, SOA, Operational Planning, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Operations, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-12-01
- When IT Becomes a Service, Business Flexibility Increases
- Today's businesses are rethinking the way they purchase and allocate IT resources. A new model is emerging-and rapidly gaining broad acceptance. This model is based on the concept of providing it as a set of services, which can be purchased whenever and wherever needed. Similar to the model used by...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Business Flexibility, Strategy, Utility Computing, Management
- White papers 2005-10-01
- SOA path: Core business flexibility
- The most interesting path in Forrester's six path SOA framework see previous post is the one that leads to "core business flexibility." As analyst Randy Heffner explains, this path "identifies places where business change is slowed by application delivery schedules and restructures processes, message flows, data structures and application integration...
- Tags: SOA, business flexibility
- Blog posts 2005-05-30
Additional Resources
- Mom, EFF fight back over take-down notices
- This is what I imagine: some technoslaves or computer software constantly peruses YouTube looking for infringements. It finds them and the music companies send YT an almost daily list of take-down notices per the DMCA. YouTube takes down. Problem being everything gets taken down...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Takedown, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Spam coming from free email providers increasing
- Spam coming from free email providers increasingSpamit is a problem, when recieve spam the TO: has additional accounts on my free email. there should be a way for the free email t block those sending to the same free email. it's CRAZYFree E-mail services should be held responsible...for keeping their...
- Tags: Spam, free email company, spammer, e-mail company, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from IT pros that love their work. "I...
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, Hobby, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018
- Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018Infogreat info...to bad most want to stay on the bandwagon...politically correct view...passing the LIE around...then understanding Global Warming is a political tools to keep those we dont want in power to stay there.RE: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate...
- Tags: global warming, foreign oil, attention-getting challenge, latest attention-getting challenge, oil, Gore, dependence, fossil fuel
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018
- Since my blogging buddy Harry Fuller is on vacation this week, I need to pick up the gauntlet and ensure that we've got some good political fodder for those of you who want to debate the existence of global warming and the necessity of reducing our dependence on foreign oil....
- Tags: San Jose, Mr., Al Gore, Fossil Fuel, Gore, Blogging, Investment, Internet, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Software debugging costs rise; SOA blamed
- Software debugging costs rise; SOA blamedWho is really to blame?SOA makes things easier for the end user, but harder for IT. But is it really SOA that should take the blame or are IT shops just really bad at "real" software engineering? I vote for the later. ...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, software, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- The green tech edition of ‘what I did on my summer vacation'
- How would you like to spend your summer break doing some groundbreaking green technology research? IBM has hired a couple of hundred college students worldwide to lend their brains to projects across the company's 13 research labs, including several focused on solving problems related to making data...
- Tags: Green Technology, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its VietnamMicrosoft's search ambitions are its VietnamThe simple answer is no. Microsoft has Google envy? Since when? Google has been in constant decline for a couple of years now. Microsoft on the other hand has been growing. Their interest in search is...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Live Mesh, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
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