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- Creating Business Value Through Process Integration and Composition
- To move at the speed of business, your company has to leverage existing applications and processes quickly and easily. Laborious, hard-coded integration techniques don't provide the agility and reusability you need to support continuous innovation. Watch this RealTime with SAP Webcast to learn: ...
- Tags: SAP AG, Integration, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts 2008-08-01
- Realising business value from an integrated service-oriented architecture system in a multivendor world. - Avoid common pitfalls when integrating across your enterprise
- Most analyst surveys agree that close to half of the companies around the world today are already investing in functional deployments, piloting, or seriously considering a service-oriented architecture SOA system. Businesses need to reduce time to market, improve business alignment for growth, and do a better job of unlocking...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-06-13
- The tattered history of OOP
- The tattered history of OOPCalling for Mom ..SOAP etc are not themselves messaging based, they're messaging protocols - i.e. message carriers that are not internally implemented using object messaging.OOP!Crieky, I had no idea OOP had been through so much! We're just about to start using Zend Framework PHP, I might...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, Programming languages, Message Passing, object-oriented programming, Java, Smalltalk
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- As SOA hype turns five, IBM turns to Smart SOA Social Network to bind communities of users
- The global WebSphere ecology has trooped to Las Vegas this week for the IBM Impact 2008 conference, with a kick-off rally of sorts in the MGM Grand arena this morning. I saw Fleetwood Mac here at a Comdex, must have been 12 years ago. IBM has sure...
- Tags: SOA, IBM Corp., WebSphere Ecology, PT, Smart SOA Social Network, Lotus Connections, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- War declared against JBOWS architecture... but is it something we can live with?
- In a new post, Nick Malik declares all-out war... against JaBOWS, or Just a Bunch of Web Services, architectures. 'What I hate is the notion that SOA can be reduced to tools'He urges IT executives and professionals to get active as a community in the effort to stamp out...
- Tags: SOA, Tool, JBOWS, JaBOWS, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-03-22
- U.K. teachers: Web plagiarism a serious problem
- U.K. teachers: Web plagiarism a serious problemPlagiarism is good ..."I think the majority of students who engage in plagiarism do it more out of ignorance than the desire to cheat. They really want to succeed on their own merit."Here's the issue: you go through school being told that plagiarism is...
- Tags: Channel management, Strategy, Plagiarism, plagiarism, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-01-19
- Reading Windows tea leaves
- Reading Windows tea leavesWindows is good,Windows is great.Windows is the greatest invention bestowed upon mankind . Even with all the bugs,flaws,exploits,& myriad of other problems, Windows continues to be the market leader. Thats a fact jack.snicker smirk snortCross-Platform DevelopmentToo bad MS hasn't put more R&D into tools which support cross-platform...
- Tags: Programming languages, .NET, Application servers, Operating systems, Java, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Open Architecture for the Enterprise, Part 1: Architectural Principles of Open Architecture - Be Cheap, Flexible, and Interoperable in 7 Easy Steps
- Enterprise Open Architecture OA is a pattern of nonfunctional requirements that can help one create and maintain more open and flexible complex systems, and systems of systems. Organizations with large, complex systems are looking to OA to help manage complexity, increase flexibility, and reduce their costs. Satisfying the OA nonfunctional...
- Tags: Requirement, Enterprise Open Architecture
- White papers 2007-12-12
- An Efficient Object-Oriented Authoring and Presentation System for Virtual Environments
- This paper describes the design and implementation of a multi-purpose object-oriented authoring system for interactive virtual environments and presentations, semi-interactive 3D visualization, and non-interactive photorealistic animations. Its main design criteria are reusability and flexibility, especially in the support of a wide range of input and output formats. Input data may...
- Tags: Environment, Object-oriented, Modeling, Output System, Research & Development, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Virtual Reality, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2007-09-13
- Another view: could 'guerrilla SOA' add to the tangle?
- There's been no shortage of push and pull lately between those wanting to see smaller, grassroots SOA efforts versus those advocating more calculated enterprise designs. My colleague from the SOA Insights podcasts, Tony Baer, said while he agrees with the concept of "Guerrilla SOA" discussed here...
- Tags: SOA, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-09-03
- Wii controllers and the XBOX 360
- As reported a few days ago, XNA, Microsoft's .NET development framework for writing games that run on both a PC and an XBOX 360, will allow you to write games that use a Wii controller (a.k.a. a "wiimote")...at least on a PC. That's not too surprising, as a PC architecture...
- Tags: Game, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Using Web 2.0 Architecture for a More Flexible Enterprise: Dynamic Managed Elements
- Web 2.0 repositories can help one create a flexible software architecture, which can easily be plugged into Web 2.0 communities and extranets. Creating a fluid system that also works in accordance with requirements for modifiability, performance, security, scalability, and reusability can be challenging. In this paper, learn techniques to help...
- Tags: Web, Architecture, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- White papers 2007-07-10
- 10 JSP tag libraries no programmer should be without
- One of JSP's most overlooked features is its ability to work with reusable code blocks, aka "tag libraries", to add new functionality to a JSP application. These tag libraries, declared using XML-type markup, provide ready-to-use widgets that can easily be integrated into a JSP page; they're also a useful way...
- Tags: JSP, Programmer, Scripting Languages, Java, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Programming Languages, Software Development
- Download resources 2007-06-25
- User Manager (exe)
- User Manager is an Enterprise Software Component wrapped in a ActiveX DLL for ease of use and reusability. It offers login validation, user management, authentication, access control, permissions, group management, security management and remote administration features. Incorporated as standard is industry level encryption to ensure the highest level of security...
- Tags: User Manager, Remote Administration, Security
- Software downloads 2007-05-24
- Enterprise SOA: cool, sexy and so-o-o doomed!
- Enterprise SOA: cool, sexy and so-o-o doomed!I think you skipped a buzzword, RobinIn between ILM (thanks for that memory, btw) and SOA there was the brief "web services" phase. You'll still hear "web services" and SOA used interchangeably in some discussions. Sometimes further confused with "software as a...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, OOA/OOD/OOP, SOA, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-04-09
- Reusability 2.0: The Key to Publishing Learning
- What would a person do if he or she had to develop and deliver personalized training to 900,000 employees, located in 34,000 different locations globally with a complex set of variables that changes training on a location-by-location basis? The key is reusability 2.0. While technology-delivered training has become mainstream in...
- Tags: Alliance, Chapman Co., Training, Workforce Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management
- White papers 2007-04-01
- SOA is not above ROI scrutiny, but...
- My latest post on SOA and ROI stirred up some interesting discussion. Should SOA -- which is not a specific technology or project, but an enterprise infrastructure -- be subject to the rigors of ROI? ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner says yes, ROI must be applied to SOA activities, and is...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), ROI/TCO, Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, ROI
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- From FORTRAN To Your Desktop: An Homage to the Man Who Started it All
- When I read this morning the obituary of John Backus, one of the key creators of FORTRAN, I was surprised to learn that this venerable language was born in the middle of the Eisenhower administration, which makes it 50 years old and shows us all how much our industry is...
- Tags: Programming languages, C/C++, desktop, Fortran, John Backus
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Question Writer - Publisher Edition (exe)
- Question Writer is a rapid e-learning development tool designed to create professional tests and assessments. It offers these benefits Easy-to-use interface with powerful compiler No coding required Macromedia Flash Based Customise and import Flash content Real flexibility Real reusability Multi languages support Accessibility. Version 2 may include unspecified updates, enhancements,...
- Tags: Question Writer, E-learning, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-03-15
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At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Todd Glass of Heller Ehrman moderates a discussion, among tech execs, on the various solar technologies making a difference in the green movement.
We need to get back to freethinking and innovation that is core to our roots. Companies like Intel were founded on thoughts like the famous quote from Robert Noyce - "Don't be encumbered by the past, go out and do something wonderful."
