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- Best-of-Breed Service Platform and Service Bus Helps Deploy Overseas Exploration and Development Integrated Information Systems
- SIPC is responsible for operating all Sinopec's overseas projects related to crude oil and natural gas exploration, production and investment. The company needed to set up "Loosely coupled" service architecture to cope with the increasing number of business systems and data that enable business functions and data to be shared...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., BEA AquaLogic, Integrated Information Systems Inc., SIPC, Telecom & Utilities
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- IT Governance: The Safe Way to Effective and Efficient Governance
- Putting an IT governance program in place is no small task and may seem like overkill when IT makes up only a small portion of the company's overall budget. However, with today's budget constraints and tight margins, coupled with IT's increasing role in running and growing an enterprise, the work...
- Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Integrated Information Systems Inc., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-10-15
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- New Coverity products verify use of open source software
- Coverity, Inc. announced two new tools for software development today: Coverity Build Analysis and the Coverity Integrity Center. These products are helpful for any type of development, but include features specially designed for companies using open source software in their commercial offerings. Coverity Build Analysis Coverity...
- Tags: Software, Open-source Software, Coverity, Analysis, Coverity Build Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Security, Management, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- IBM Case Study: Maines Paper and Food Service, Inc.
- Maines Paper and Food Service, Inc. is the nation's second largest independent systems foodservice distributor. Maines wanted a flexible solution that offered information sharing with its franchise restaurant customers. They also wanted a solution, integrated with their data warehouse that could be leveraged internally with the company's sales representatives, for...
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Food Service Inc., IBM Corp., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Business Intelligence, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-02-27
- Welcome to Project Management 2.0
-  This is a TechRepublic guest blog from Andrew Filev. Project managers should be leading projects not being project secretaries. Project Management 2.0 may be the way to reduce unnecessary, routine work. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- Let’s have a look at a typical...
- Tags: Team, Project Manager, Project Management 2.0, Andrew Filev, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, E-mail, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Online Communications, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Green Mountain Coffee Achieves 50% Reduction in Total Cost of Ownership
- Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. GMCR wanted to expand information systems to keep up with global growth of innovative coffee company that is focused on ensuring quality from the tree to the consumer's coffee cup and support a complex, multichannel distribution model that includes sales through wholesale channels and direct...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., TCO, Enterprise Application, Sales Strategy, Roi/Tco, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Software
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Xsigo Systems Streamlines Operations and Supports Rapid Growth With Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
- Xsigo Systems, Inc. wanted to create a cost-effective foundation for scalable business processes to support domestic and international expansion and ensure that enterprise applications are easy to use, deploy, and maintain. The challenge was to expand visibility of key business information to enable more agile decision making. Xsigo Systems, Inc....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software
- Case studies 2008-08-01
- Tough love: Linux needs more haters
- [The opinions expressed here are mine alone, and not those of Google, Inc. my current employer.] I've been spending far too much time reading a blog recently. Normally I dislike reading blogs, or as my friend from the IT News site "the Register" Andrew Orlowski calls them;...
- Tags: Blog, LinuxHaters, LinuxHater, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Internet, Jeremy Allison
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Yahoo board of director resigns; Shareholder meeting delayed
- Yahoo said Thursday that Edward Kozel resigned from its board of directors. The company will reduce the size of its board from 10 directors to nine and delayed its shareholder meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July 2008." Investor Carl Icahn has proposed an...
- Tags: Board, Business Operations, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Director, Larry Dignan, Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Hermes Consolidates Information in a Robust Database
- Hermes, an associate company of Brinks Inc., began operating in October 1985. Hermes wanted to unify information systems in a robust, reliable, and high-availability database for secure handling of the transport of valuables and integrated document management and centralize up-to-date information to achieve operational efficiency. The challenge was to automate...
- Tags: Information System, Oracle Corp., Information, Hermes, Strategy, Storage, Databases, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- A break from the Classmate to talk SIS
- A break from the Classmate to talk SISOpen source platforms with AjaxWe're familiar with open source LMS like moodle, dokeos and angel and most of these use Ajax heavily. Unfortunately, there are very few products that are a perfect combination of SIS and LMS. Moving ahead, if low costs notebooks...
- Tags: Channel management, Databases, software, SiS, Classmate, AJAX, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- BEA, Adobe flex their muscles in pushing toward RIAs on the enterprise desktop
- BEA Systems Inc. and Adobe Systems Inc. are teaming up to give enterprise customers a design environment for rich Internet application RIA development. The two companies announced Tuesday that BEA will bundle Adobe's Flex Builder 2 software with BEA Workshop Studio. This move will let developers build cross-platform RIAs that...
- Tags: Desktop, Adobe Systems Inc., BEA Systems Inc., Rich Internet Application, Genesis, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Middleware, Web Services, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- When crops talk to farmers
- A technology developed for NASA to conserve water for plant growth during long-term space flights has been adapted by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder UCB to serve another purpose. Now, crops can tell farmers they need water. The farmers just need to clip a tiny sensor to...
- Tags: Computers &, Internet, Energy &, Environment, Engineering &, Innovation, Science &, Nature, Wireless &, Telecom
- Blog posts 2007-06-17
- 3-D virtual maps for the blind
- According to Scientific American in "Virtual Maps for the Blind," Greek researchers have developed a system to convert videos into touchable maps for the blind. These 3-D haptic maps "use force fields to represent walls and roads so the visually impaired can better understand the layout of buildings and cities."...
- Tags: Health &, Medicine, Engineering &, Innovation, Computers &, Internet
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- More results on use of Web 2.0 in business emerge
- The last few weeks have seen a series of interesting new reports, studies, and papers on the past, present, and future of Web 2.0 concepts and applications as applied to businesses. Most notable for many industry watchers have been fairly rigorous new works by McKinsey & Company as well...
- Tags: Crowdsourcing, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Business Process Management, Architecture of Participation, Blogs, Business Models, Wikis, Web services, Web as Platform, Web 2.0 Platforms, Web 2.0, User Generated Content, Two-Way Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, SOA, RSS, Open APIs, Mashups, Lightweight Service Models, Hype, Governance, Global SOA, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Two very different VoIP platforms. One company (Microsoft). Will the two ever meet?
- Under the headline Microsoft unveils VoIP-enabled phone platform, WindowsForDevices.com has a story about the hardware coming to market thats uses Microsofts Windows XP Embedded-based "Response Point." According to the post:Microsoft last week unveiled a VoIP-enabled phone system software platform based on Windows XP Embedded. "Response Point," currently in beta,...
- Tags: Telephony, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Aircraft Services Provider Improves Supply Chain Efficiency and Reduces Costs
- Jet Support Services Inc. JSSI wanted to expand its aircraft maintenance services business, but was hampered by labor-intensive and disjointed processes that were inefficient and prone to error. To revamp its technology infrastructure and processes, JSSI first consolidated its customer information into a single repository. This eliminated its legacy systems'...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Supply Chain, Aircraft, Microsoft Corp., Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2007-04-01
- Cisco: The giant network squid
- Over the last 27 months Cisco has made 25 acquisitions, spending billions to increase its footprint and share of wallet among customers. Since 1993, the company has scooped up over 115 companies. Today, Cisco announced a definitive agreement to acquire on demand collaboration provider WebEx for $3.2 billion. WebEx did...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Cisco Systems Inc., network, WebEx Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- Cisco v Apple Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition Complaint
- Following is the complaint filed by Cisco over Apples use of the iPhone name:COMPLAINT FOR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT, UNFAIR COMPETITION, FALSE DESCRIPTION, AND INJURY TO BUSINESS REPUTATION; CASE NO.FOLGER LEVIN & KAHN LLPMichael A. Kahn (SB# 057432, mkahn@flk.com)Gregory D. Call (SB# 120483, gcall@flk.com)Michael F. Kelleher (SB# 165493, mkelleher@flk.com)Beatrice B. Nguyen (SB#...
- Tags: General, Legal, Apple, Cisco, iPhone, Cisco Systems Inc., U.S.C.
- Blog posts 2007-01-10
- ActiveGrid recipe: Soak in XML. Integrate. Scale.
- For companies looking to speed up integration between new and legacy systems (or, just new and new systems), Ive seen a lot of products out that there that use Web services standards namely XML to (1) give everything that needs to be integrated a common XML interface and (2) provide...
- Tags: XML, ActiveGrid, Peter Yared
- Blog posts 2006-10-06
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