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- Integration and Customization of Oracle ERP With Disparate legacy systems to Achieve Process Efficiencies
- MindTree Consulting seamlessly integrated multiple home-grown legacy applications with Oracle ERP and executed several Oracle forms customizations for a global IT services provider. The acquisition of the client's organization by a Fortune 100 company, made it imperative for the client to integrate its systems with the global Oracle ERP. Leveraging...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Oracle Corp., Legacy System, ERP, Customization, Integration, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Modernize legacy systems Using an SOA Approach
- To remain competitive, the organization has to modernize its IT systems. Modernized IT solutions must create new value from existing systems and provide flexibility and easy interoperability among a broad set of technologies - usually a challenge with legacy applications. Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, widely adopted by organizations in recent years,...
- Tags: Information Technology, Legacy System, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Hardware Upgrade, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Hardware, Management
- White papers 2008-01-17
- Beowulf: Prima Official eGuide (exe)
- Walkthrough: Comprehensive walkthrough of the entire game. Moves: Info on performing advanced combos, parries, and skills, as well as finishing moves. Maps: Detailed layouts of every level and dungeon. Bonus Content: Huge pullout poster of exclusive art, exclusive art section, developer interviews, and more! Legacy System: Learn the Legacy System...
- Tags: Legacy System, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-11-14
- Goodrich Corporation Replaces Hundreds of legacy systems, Integrates ERP/PDM and Leverages Hosting for Collaborative Enterprise-Wide Knowledge Sharing
- Goodrich Corporation wanted 217 legacy systems in place, 40 representing product development data and 4,200 users worldwide unable to collaborate on critical product development issues or utilize intellectual capital. The challenge faced was the burdened IT department which is powerless to anchor dynamics resident in hundreds of applications and competitors...
- Tags: Goodrich Corp., Siemens AG, Legacy System, Product Development, Hardware Upgrade, Product Marketing, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Hardware, Marketing, Management
- Case studies 2007-09-01
- Closing the Legacy Gap: Protecting legacy systems With FDE
- Protecting data is not only financially wise; it is often legally necessary. More companies are now implementing Full Disk Encryption FDE as part of a comprehensive data security program. Up until now, FDE was software-based with all the encryption algorithms processed by the computer's CPU. But with the introduction of...
- Tags: Legacy System, Hardware Upgrade, Productivity, Security, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-10
- Survey: mainframes now being service-enabled, not replaced
- A new survey confirms what many of us already suspected: that mainframe and other legacy systems are no longer being ripped up and replaced. Instead, the operative term is now "modernization." And SOA has helped fuel this sea change.A new survey finds modernizing is preferable to replacing Big Iron. Times...
- Tags: Web Services, Vendor Watch, SOA Surveys and Research, General, Business ROI
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- Adapting legacy systems for SOA: Finding New Business Value in Older Applications
- Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, along with other service-oriented approaches for developing and managing IT infrastructures, is causing many organizations to reconsider traditional approaches for leveraging legacy IT investments. In this paper, discover the business and IT advantages to using SOA to transform an existing legacy investment, as well as key architectural...
- Tags: Information Technology, Legacy System, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-06-08
- SOA on legacy: lipstick on a pig, or extended value?
- Jeremy Miller, not an avid fan of SOA, says theres a better way to adapt software to evolving business needs than attempting code reuse. And that is to simply write good code in the first place. Its cheaper and less risky to write brand new code than fiddling around with...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Hardware upgrade, SOA, Jeremy Miller, legacy system
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center Adopts Teamcenter, Uniting Disparate legacy systems and 10 Million Records in One Open Environment
- The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center (OC/ALC) manages an inventory of more than 2,000 aircraft, including the newest weapon system, the B-2, along with the B-1, B-52 and the KC-135, as well as nearly 23,000 jet engines ranging from state-of-the art F118s to the Korean Conflict-vintage J33s. Oklahoma City Air...
- Tags: Siemens AG, Environment, Data, Legacy System, Logistics, Data Management, Supply Chain, Hardware Upgrade, Aerospace & Defense, Storage, Databases, Business Operations, Hardware, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- 2.0 fundamentals vs. legacy budgets a theme at Gartner Symposium
- Its early on Monday morning here at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo where thousands of IT personnel have gathered to tap in to the expertise of Gartners analysts in hopes of reality checking the alignment of their IT strategies with overall trends in IT. At 8:00 a.m., Gartner Managing VP and Fellow...
- Tags: information technology
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- AlwaysOn: U.S. lags China and Europe in new technology adoption
- Bob Suh, chief technology strategist at Accenture, doesn't believe the U.S. has an innovation problem. "We have an adoption problem in the U.S.," Suh said. Speaking at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, Suh shared Accenture's recent survey of CIOs, which showed that the U.S. is falling behind China and Europe...
- Tags: Bob Suh
- Blog posts 2006-07-27
- H&R Johnson Chooses SAP for Scalability
- H&R Johnson an India-based organization focuses on manufacturing vitrified tiles, wall and floor tiles, and bathroom fittings. Johnson's legacy system could not keep up with tracking all its customers and employees' activities, as well as the transactions generated. They needed a scalable solution that can grow with the company's needs....
- Tags: SAP AG, legacy system
- Case studies 2006-05-04
- Targeted Business Strategy Beefs Up Customer Relationships
- Kiwi Dairies is a $3.2 billion company with 4,500 employees across Australasia. It has the largest dairy factory in the world at Hawera, mid-way down the North Island of New Zealand. The challenge was to improve customer relationships, moving forward with a targeted e-business strategy. Unisys helped Kiwi establish its...
- Tags: Web technology, E-business/E-commerce, Unisys Corp., e-business, legacy system, business process, Internet
- Case studies 2006-05-04
- Telecom New Zealand Boosts Productivity, Raises Revenue, Cuts Marketing Costs With Oracle Data Warehouse
- Maintaining perspective is always a challenge in an organization as large and complex as a vertically integrated telecommunications company. In 2003, Telecom became one of the first organizations in the world to implement an Oracle Customer Data Hub. Publicly announced in January 2004, Oracle Customer Data Hub provides a means...
- Tags: Telephony, Oracle Corp., telecommunications, legacy system, data warehouse, business application
- Case studies 2006-05-04
- Unlocking the Mainframe: Modernizing legacy systems to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Before delving into this analysis, it is important to ensure a common understanding of the key terms used here. Wikipedia defines a legacy system as an existing computer system or application program that continues to be used because the user typically an organization does not want to replace or redesign...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Legacy System, SOA, Wikipedia, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Hardware Upgrade, Mainframes, Productivity, Web Services, Middleware, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2006-05-03
- TechNet Webcast: Threat Mitigation for legacy systems (Level 200)
- Legacy computer systems are often the focus of unwanted attention from attackers because their existence implies an elevated level of trust or interaction with internal applications that are critical to the organization. Given that legacy systems are already perceived as vulnerable, this makes them a natural choice for further scrutiny...
- Tags: Attacker, Webcast, Legacy System, Microsoft TechNet, Legacy Computer System, Hardware Upgrade, Hardware
- Webcasts 2006-04-21
- HHS departments getting interoperable
- Health and Human Services departments across the states and the federal government are making a seachange from legacy silo systems to interoperability, William D. O'Leary writes in Public CIO. O'Leary, the former secretary of HHS for Massachusetts, is Microsoft's director of health and human services, US Public Sector. ...
- Tags: Hardware upgrade, Web services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, legacy system, agency
- Blog posts 2006-03-15
- White Paper: Modernize Your legacy systems and Cut Costs?
- Today's businesses are challenged to stay ahead of the competition - and innovations must be better, faster and more cost effective. The job of the CIO has become a balancing act, meeting the needs and expectations of the business while staying within the operating budget and avoiding the risk of...
- Tags: Legacy System, Fujitsu Ltd., Hardware Upgrade, Hardware
- White papers 2006-02-09
- I love legacy
- My father is fond of saying, "If I had known I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself." Likewise, many of the IT people who designed our large inventories of legacy systems could have never imagined that these systems would still be chugging...
- Tags: legacy system, SOA
- Blog posts 2005-07-06
- Overcoming decades-old legacy systems with XSLT and Muenchian grouping
- The implementation of B2B Web services is sometimes complicated by their need to interact with entrenched legacy systems. While the flexibility of XML can often be enough to compensate for the limitations of these systems, it is not always the only technology required. One method developers can use in these...
- Tags: Developer, TechRepublic Inc., XSLT, Legacy System, Hardware Upgrade, XML, Hardware, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Download resources 2005-02-17
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