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SOA enabled business process transformation: achieving sustainable agility for the globally integrated enterprise

This paper explores the nature of the globally integrated enterprise and how service oriented architecture SOA takes on a whole new meaning in a world where market dynamics are constantly changing and business transactions are crisscrossing company firewalls and geographic boundaries. SOA is helping companies achieve the business ...

Tags: Business Process, SOA, Business Process Transformation, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-06-13

Toward an On Demand Service-Oriented Architecture

The success of an on demand e-business requires that business process, application, and information technology IT infrastructure integration merge into a comprehensive and cohesive architecture, where business process transformation drives service-oriented development and on demand enterprise computing. This enabling architecture is often described as a service-oriented architecture SOA and is...

Tags: Business Process, Information Technology, SOA, Business Process Transformation, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Planning, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations

White papers 2005-01-07

Additional Resources

Altova MissionKit for Enterprise Software Architects 2010 (Windows)

The Altova MissionKit 2010 for Enterprise Software Architects is an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools from the developers of XMLSpy. It delivers eight tools for less than the price of two! The Altova MissionKit for Enterprise Software Architects includes Enterprise Editions of Altova XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, UModel,...

Tags: Altova, Database, Enterprise Software, Microsoft Windows, Tool, Altova XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, UModel, DiffDog, DatabaseSpy, SemanticWorks, XML, UML, Productivity, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development

Software downloads 2009-11-17

A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted

First thoughts"the incumbents fought it tooth and nail"Same thing happened in the last 4 industrial revolutions!I'm broadly in favour of your improvements ... with a few caveats ... and will look at the 2 papers you plugged, sorry referenced ;-)"Users should be concerned that the Internet services they pay for...

Tags: Fiber optics, Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality Solution

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Enterprise 2.0: answering some of the tough questions

Euan Semple on the New Web from Dennis Howlett on Vimeo. Following on from my Enterprise 2.0: what a crock post, I thought it might be useful to show Euan Semple's perspective on what this 'stuff' is all about. Euan...

Tags: Social Computing, Enterprise 2.0, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Enterprise 2.0: what a crock

I've been following the so-called Enterprise 2.0 meme for some time and you know what? It's a crock. Forget Dion Hinchcliffe's pretty failure pictures or Mike Krigsman's guest post of failure. Examine the basics and look back at history. Some years back I was a hack attending...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-26

Lean IT: The Time for Transformation Is Now

In today's economic environment, reducing costs and increasing efficiency should be priority one for financial institutions. To assist in this process, many institutions are investigating opportunities to create more value for customers by eliminating or reducing non-value-adding activities. Lean processing, long a staple in manufacturing, provides this opportunity for increasing...

Tags: Information Technology, International Data Group, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Finance

White papers 2009-08-01

CRM failures on tap

CRM failures on tapDifferentiated failuresGlad to see you'll be addressing CRM in your blog, Michael. Between you and Paul G, it looks like the industry is going to get a fair shake.It will be interesting to see how you approach the topic of failures. On the one hand, many sources...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, CRM, CRM failure

Discussion threads 2009-07-23

To the Moon: The Integrators

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM

The debate and discussion about what defines Social CRM a.k.a. CRM 2.0 vs. its traditional parent has been going on for about 2 years pretty regularly and started, according to thought leader Graham Hill almost a decade before that. Personally, I'm done defining it and am moving...

Tags: Customer, Business, Tool, CRM, Social CRM, SCRM Business Strategy, Co-creation, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Cisco Releasing Sophisticated Collaboration Framework to Accelerate Your Business Value

Cisco are releasing a 58 page report which details their 900 percent return on investment in collaboration and social networking and which details how they have successfully increased productivity, innovation and growth. The Report, 'Creating a Collaborative Enterprise: a Guide to Accelerating Business...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Collaboration Framework, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Apple Faithful: Arrogance Is Not a Virtue, and Why I Will Never Buy a Mac

I've often been asked why I don't own a Mac. The answer is simple, and yet complex, and requires a trip down memory lane artwork by Spidermonkey David Morgenstern’s column last week about Psystar’s imminent demise and his accompanying “Good Riddance”...

Tags: Software, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, PC, Apple Inc., Next Computer, Canon Inc., Fanboy Template Let, Andrew, NeXTStep, Desktops, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Business Intelligence - HP DL785 G5 server reference configurations for Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Trying to determine the correct hardware configuration to support a Business Intelligence BI workload may be challenging. Therefore, HP has made available several documents to simplify the hardware selection process by documenting various configurations to support pre-defined workloads, which access various sized databases and/or OLAP cubes. This paper provides with...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Hewlett-Packard Co., OLAP, Microsoft SQL Server, Server, Microsoft Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management

White papers 2009-06-01

Understanding SAP's Business byDesign SaaS strategy

Understanding SAP's Business byDesign SaaS strategyyes, butyou heard some of the same comments I did at Sapphire. The CFO has the product on a tight leash in terms of qualifying new customers. They have old filters for a new computing paradigm. Not sure if they will ever find this model...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing, Enterprise software, strategy, SAP AG, software-as-a-service, SAP Business byDesign SaaS strategy, SAP Business ByDesign

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

'SOA is Dead' debate lives on and on

I didn't see the brilliant analyst Anne Thomas Manes at either of this week's IBM IMPACT or Software AG's SOA Summit events, but boy, was she there in spirit. The topic still on everybody's minds and lips at both events was Anne's pronouncement at the beginning of the year that...

Tags: SOA, Kevin, Cramm, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Sun CEO's full e-mail to staff; 'not the end of the road'

Not a day too late after the Oracle-Sun deal was announced, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's chief executive, wrote employees a reassuring internal email. Here's the full text: This is one of the toughest emails I’ve ever had to write. It’s also one of the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Mergers & Acquisitions, E-mail, Corporate Law, Strategy, Corporate Governance, Leadership, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Investment, Finance, Online Communications, Business Operations, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-22

SLA's and the Real World

There's a solid post by Jevon McDonald (who has long questioned whether there is a viable 'Enterprise 2.0' market) this weekend, titled 'Understanding the role of Enterprise 2.0 and moving towards a Social Business' on the 'Fast Forward' blog, which is focused around the FAST search...

Tags: SLA, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Jevon, Global Technology Services Division, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-20

Moving SOA beyond 'service oriented integration'

"All this money is going into ESBs and Web services, and they get a dozen or two integration projects going, but are they getting any business value out of that? I don't see it." -Anne Thomas Manes, quoted in SearchCIO There's been a simmering debate going...

Tags: SOA, Integration, Torode, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Enterprise 2.0 promise is years off...if it materializes

Enterprise 2.0 promise is years off...if it materializesLooking at the chartHey, aren't those types of value accruded the same as what they said about SOA? I mean what they said about Net 2.0? Oh I meant to say Web 2.0? I mean cloud computing? Now it's enterprise 2.0? Gee,...

Tags: NOW IT, Enterprise 2.0, E2.0

Discussion threads 2009-04-13