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Tackle complex reengineering projects -- one bite at a time: Developers are rarely charged with creating entirely new "Greenfield" systems. IT projects are typically mired in the accumulated complexities of pre-existing systems. This sample chapter from Eating the IT Elephant: Moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield looks at the problems that evolving legacy environments pose and offers an approach for...; Tags: information technology, re-engineering, ibm corp., it project, organizational structure, strategy, human resources, management; Book chapters 2008-06-03
Forms2Net - Migrating Oracle Forms to Microsoft .NET: Forms2Net is an ATX Software commercial reengineering tool that automatically converts Oracle Forms applications to the equivalent .NET (C#) ones, with approximately 75% rate of automatic conversion. From the reengineering and transformation theoretical viewpoint, Forms2Net falls in the general category of language-platform conversion tools. This paper presents the important practical...; Tags: oracle corp., oracle forms, microsoft corp., re-engineering, springer science+business media, forms2net, organizational structure, .net, application servers, middleware, human resources, software development, software/web development, enterprise software, software; White papers 2006-11-01
Trends in Enterprise Communication requirements: The role of CIOs and IT/telecom managers is to map technology to their organization's objectives and priorities. They expect communications systems to help them meet the broader business challenges, and ultimately to deliver a competitive advantage to their organization. This article examines key business challenges including globalization, low-cost competition, and...; Tags: mobility, ivr, re-engineering, alcatel, interactive voice response (ivr), organizational structure, globalization, human resources, strategy, management; White papers 2006-02-14
Service Identification and Packaging in Service Oriented Reengineering: With the adoption to Web service technologies, more and more existing non-service-oriented software systems turn to be legacy systems. They require a service-oriented reengineering process in order to survive in service-oriented computing environment. This paper present an architecture-based service-oriented approach to support service-oriented reengineering. It integrates and reuses software components...; Tags: software, re-engineering, service identification, organizational structure, hardware upgrade, human resources, hardware; White papers 2006-01-20
Feature Analysis for Service-Oriented Reengineering: Web Services together with Service-Oriented Architectures SOA are playing an important role in the future of distributed computing, significantly impacting software development and evolution. With the adoption to Web Services technology, more and more existing non-service-oriented software systems turn to be legacy systems. If the reengineering goal is to expose...; Tags: re-engineering, analysis, organizational structure, service-oriented architecture (soa), tools & techniques, web services, human resources, enterprise software, software, management; White papers 2006-01-20

MacTranslator OSX 1.0: Generate Models From Programming Source Code in Minutes: Excel Software began shipping MacTranslator OSX 1.0, a reengineering tool for generating graphic models of programming source code on Mac OS X computers. MacTranslator scans source code to extract design information that it outputs to a text file. That text is imported into the MacA&D modeling tool to automatically generate...; Tags: re-engineering, model, programming, mactranslator osx 1.0, microsoft excel, research & development, organizational structure, development tools, microsoft office, office suites, software, business operations, human resources, software development, software/web development; White papers 2005-09-14
Hurd's first move--reengineering sales: Hurd's first move--reengineering salesHow is he measuring HP's performance?The two measures I believe should not be used are:- stock price- profitsIn both cases, layoffs and other cost reductions that eventually prove damaging have short term benefits. The stock market likes layoffs and reduced expenses can increase profits briefly.Remember when...; Tags: sales strategy, sales force management, workforce management, re-engineering, sales, hewlett-packard co., layoff; Discussion threads 2005-07-19
Hurd's first move--reengineering sales: During the conference call announcing the layoffs and restructuring HP CEO Mark Hurd explained his reasons for dissolving the company's Customer Solutions Group CSG, which was tasked with sales to corporations, small and medium-size businesses and public-sector customers. The bulk of the sales organization will be integrated into the Technology...; Tags: mark hurd, sales; Blog posts 2005-07-19
OSS/BSS Re-Engineering: The Telecom New Zealand Case: The old distinctions between OSS and BSS are no longer useful. Successful re-engineering of support systems requires a recognition that "Profile" is the key architectural interface between the systems that support business processes and the systems that support service delivery in a user-centric broadband network. The Telecom New Zealand experience...; Tags: process management, re-engineering, alcatel, telecom new zealand experience, telephony, telecom & utilities, operational planning, organizational structure, telecommunications, enterprise software, networking, business operations, human resources, software; White papers 2005-03-01
Quality of Service Composition and Factoring in Composite Web Services Based Business Process: This paper discusses the challenge and the experiences of re-engineering legacy police IT systems and transforming them into well orchestrated and coordinated Web Services. The author uses the Web Services Flow Graph WSFG to analyses the issues associated with Web Services composition, orchestration, as well as Quality of Service QoS....; Tags: business process, web, qos, factoring, author, web service, re-engineering, composition, channel management, organizational structure, web services, marketing, human resources, enterprise software, software; White papers 2005-01-11
Reengineering of Database Applications to EJB Based Architecture: The advent and widespread use of Enterprise JavaBean EJB technology not only demands more reengineering support for legacy database applications, but also changes the reengineering practice. Initiated from the experience of reengineering database applications to EJB based architecture, this paper addresses two challenges in the mapping between database queries and...; Tags: database, re-engineering, ejb, j2ee, application servers, middleware, organizational structure, enterprise software, software development, software/web development, software, human resources; White papers 2004-09-28
Worms nibble away at ISP profits: Worms nibble away at ISP profitsCurrently the worms and viruses areinocuous. That is they are disrupting at a massive scal and thus still very costly to ISPs, organizations and plain users.We haven't seen a truly desctructive one yet -- although the MS SQL hammer came close.I cannot unerstand how big...; Tags: cyberthreats, internet service providers (isps), viruses and worms, security, e-mail, worm, virus, internet service provider, re-engineering; Discussion threads 2004-03-03
Virginia Enhances Performance, Service Through Reengineering of Tax Administration: In the mid-1990s, officials at the Virginia Department of Taxation VATAX recognized the need to improve customer service and bolster operational efficiency, but lacked the funding and experience needed to leverage enabling technologies. VATAX joined forces with AMS to embark on a cutting-edge, public-private relationship called the Virginia Partnership Project....; Tags: customer service, performance, administration, cgi group inc., re-engineering, systems integration, virginia, taxes, it services, product marketing, free trade, customer relationship management (crm), enterprise software, financial planning, finance, marketing, software; Case studies
Product Re-Engineering - Bizeworld's Pure Soft: The customer is based in British Columbia, Canada and sells the product and solution to the various retail stores in the areas of inventory management: retailing as well as for retail back office operations. As with any other legacy product, the customer was facing maintainability and quality issues in the...; Tags: product, customer, re-engineering, back-office, object-oriented, ooa/ood/oop, operational accounting, software development, software/web development, finance; Case studies
Yamaha Motor India Enhances Financial Management: Yamaha Motor India manufactures and sells motorcycles for the local and international markets. The company wanted to gain better control of finance and accounting processes and reduce time taken to compile month-end reports. Yamaha Motor wanted to improve accuracy and currency of business information, minimize the number of manual tasks,...; Tags: yamaha corp., oracle corp., financial, re-engineering, financial management, organizational structure, financial accounting, investment, financial planning, finance, human resources; Case studies
Re-Engineering the Cisco Data Center to Support a Rapidly Changing Business: The presenter of this webcast discusses how they are evolving the Cisco data center infrastructure to a dynamic services model. The presenter of this webcast also shares a lesson learned over the past 3 years while planning and implementing a strategy to virtualize server, storage and network resources - to...; Tags: data center, webcast, re-engineering, cisco systems inc., data centers, digital media, storage, hardware, data management, consumer electronics, personal technology; Webcasts
Comprehensive Re-Engineering With SAP R/3: Pharmaceuticals company Pfizer Germany combined migration to SAP R/3 with comprehensive business process re-engineering efforts. Greater efficiency through optimized processes and improved customer service were the objectives for the project which had been initiated by the Top Management. The implementation was completed successfully in 1998, giving Pfizer stable foundations for...; Tags: business process, pfizer inc., sap r/3, sap ag, bpr, re-engineering, business process reengineering (bpr), operational planning, enterprise resource planning (erp), it operations, business operations, enterprise software, software; Case studies

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Fake CNN news items malware campaign spreading rapidly: A currently active malware campaign taking advantage of a known social engineering tactic, namely, to entice the spammed user into clicking on a site with a fake news item in order to trick them into installing a fake Flash player (flashupdate.exe; get_flash_update.exe and watchmovie.mpg.exe), was massively spammed last night, with...; Tags: malware, social engineering, cnn, spyware, adware & malware, cyberthreats, e-mail, viruses and worms, security, online communications, dancho danchev; Blog posts 2008-08-06
IBM should spend another $1B to drive consumer adoption of its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktop: IBM should spend another $1B to drive consumer adoption of its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktopIbm should spend 1% of its revenueeach years to help , expend and monitor/sponsored open sourceUp to a certain point IBM OS/3 "pay back" linux or bsd flavor since we are into the "if/why not"...; Tags: unix, operating systems, open source, servers, desktop, ibm corp., linux, microsoft corp., symphony, server; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
A new data center? Expect to sing the blues along the way.: A new data center? Expect to sing the blues along the way.Virtualizing a Data CenterThe two key impact points I currently see are:1) For an existing Data Center, being that the engineering teams are hyper focused on P-to-V'ing the existing environment, without having a parallel team running trap lines to...; Tags: data centers, storage, data center; Discussion threads 2008-08-06