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- Requirements Process for SOA Projects, Part 2: Business Requirements for Your First SOA Services - Business Requirements for Your First SOA Services
- In the first paper in this series one learned about determining technical requirements for one's Service-Oriented Architecture SOA project. It started with a debate about the reasons for examining technical requirements before business requirements. Although there is no "Correct" answer, but in the authors experience most, if not all, SOA...
- Tags: Business Requirement, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-12-12
- Dynamic Data Center: The Direct Link Between Business Needs and IT Requirements
- Service-oriented architectures with the corresponding dynamic infrastructures have to some extent already become reality today. The number of available solution scenarios for different business requirements is steadily growing, as is the percentage of dynamic infrastructure components now being used by companies. It will be some time before Dynamic Data Center...
- Tags: Business Requirement, Fujitsu Siemens, Data Center, Information Technology, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Strategy, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Webcast: Service-Oriented Development of Applications using the IBM Rationale Software Development Platform
- This Webcast shows how the IBM Rational Software Development Platform RSDP is used to model, design, and develop flexible, service-oriented solutions that enable organizations to be responsive and agile. You will see how the RSDP ensures business requirements drive downstream development by enabling: Business analysts to document...
- Tags: Business Requirement, Webcast, IBM Corp., Software Development, Digital Media, Operational Planning, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations
- Webcasts 2005-07-21
- When Serious Project Management Is a Critical Business Requirement...
- When "serious" project management is a critical business requirement, project managers need to integrate cost, schedule and technical scope of work across the project, and apply earned value management EVM. When "serious" project management is a critical business requirement, managers need to integrate cost, schedule and technical scope of work...
- Tags: Business Requirement, California Institute Of Technology, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management
- White papers 2005-05-13
- Perl Provides Document Management and Control for CCRA
- The Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA - the Federal tax collection agency) has a collection of approximate 10,000 forms, guides and other publications that require management and control. Earlier, these forms were managed using a proprietary database software that was costly to maintain and difficult to extend. As well,...
- Tags: Business Requirement, Perl, O'Reilly Media Inc., Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Book chapters
- Improving an IT Self-Help Portal User Experience
- One of the first places where Microsoft employees look for information - for example, to purchase equipment or find help with a technical problem - is the ITWeb site. ITWeb is Microsoft IT's face to the company. It is a rich content portal to provide employees worldwide with the tools...
- Tags: Business Requirement, Information Technology, Rich Content, Microsoft Corp., ITWeb, Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- MSDN Webcast: Tracking the Life of a Business Requirement (Level 200)
- This webcast demonstrates the new integration capabilities between Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Project, and Microsoft Visual Studio. It tracks a business requirement from its definition in Excel to its completion in Visual Studio, so one can see how the new integration capabilities work on a practical level. The intended...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Visual Studio, Business Requirement, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Digital Media, Microsoft Office, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software
- Webcasts
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- Twelve best practices for online customer communities
- One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it...
- Tags: Community, Best Practice, Customer Community, Deloitte, Community Management, Marketing Research, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- What paper trail?
- I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)
- Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Offshore outsourcers likely to beef up security following Bangalore blasts
- A series of bombs have exploded in Bangalore and companies that have technology operations in India are likely to need increased security precautions following what appears to be a terrorist attack. According to various reports from Reuters and Rediff.com, nine bomb blasts have rattled Bangalore, which hosts...
- Tags: India, Bangalore, Rediff.com India Ltd., Sacchin Uppal, Outsourcing, Business Security, Security, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gateway stops selling PCs direct
- Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 'Branded community' leads to trademark morass
- After publishing a guest blog on enterprise communities, I received what appeared to be a cross between a sales pitch and cease-and-desist email from a branding business. How is this approach good branding? by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Community, Branding, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Netflix ups outlook; Customer acquisition costs fall
- Netflix said Friday it ended the second quarter with more than 8.4 million subscribers, up 25 percent from a year ago, and spent less money acquiring those customers. Those two factors added up to better than expected quarterly results and an improved outlook. The company has been...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Acquisition, Earnings, Financial Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?
- Xen and KVM, like other virtualization tools, can be used as part of a comprehensive datacenter architecture. One of the most important value propositions offered by both of these tools is low initial cost (read "free"). Depending upon the implementation (Citrix, Red Hat, SUSE, Virtual Iron, Oracle, Sun, Qumranet, etc.)...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Xen, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tool, Comprehension, Productivity, Data Centers, Open Source, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blog
- Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blogBusiness vs making a living.I'm 100% behind the guy who just wants to do what he does, sells it for enough to make a living for his family and employees, and treats his customers as if they were more important than some...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, guest blog
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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