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- SOA innovation amid spending crunch
- Companies are holding the line on IT spending -- even as they seek smarter ways to invest in IT innovation, according to Information Week's annual survey of top IT users. "Average IT spending among the InformationWeek 500, at $293 million, is at its lowest level in five years," it states....
- Blog posts 2005-09-30
- Starwood moves to SOA
- Starwood moves to SOAExcellent!SOA will not come to you - you HAVE to do it yourself! I see that no big-market computer company is helping out here . . .
- Discussion threads 2005-07-26
- Starwood moves to SOA
- Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc. is investing heavily in the promise of SOA. The company, which controls 750 properties around the world (including Sheraton, Westin and the "W"), is migrating its reservation and Preferred Guest applications away from a Cobol-based, IBM mainframe system. Starwood's biggest act is...
- Blog posts 2005-07-25
- Starwood shines
- Starwood Hotels-- which operates the Westin, Sheraton and W hotel brands -- is intent on leveraging the power and potential of service-oriented architecture. It is now in the midst of an architecturaltransition that will make datanow stored in its legacy mainframe reservationsystem accessible in dynamic, Web services applications. Working...
- Blog posts 2004-12-08
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- Top hotel sites in Q1 2008
- Web Sites Q1 2007 Q1 2008 Growth Supplier Sites 69.2% 72.4% 3.2 Best Western 2.5% 3.8% 1.2 Choice Hotels 6.2% 6.7% 0.6 Hilton 19.3% 18.8% -0.5 Hyatt 2.6% 2.4% -0.2 Intercontinenta 12.0% 12.4% 0.4 Marriott 16.8%...
- Blog posts 2008-06-28
- Getting pumped with your iPhone (or iPod)
- PumpOne has announced a partnership with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide's new lifestyle brand, aloft hotels â€" portable personal trainers for road warriors. The service is designed for tech-savvy aloft hotel guests aloft hotels is Starwood's eighth hotel lifestyle brand and opens its doors to guests this...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Coca-Cola launches new virtual island for its sugar water lovers
- Coca-Cola is going virtual with an Internet island shaped like a Coke bottle were I presume Coke fans from the analog world can express their passion for the brand. In a New York Times story on the virtual island, called CC Metro, Carol Kruse, vice president for...
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- IT Excellence for Luxury Service, Deep in the Heart of Dallas
- W Dallas-Victory has acknowledged the importance of offering guests uninterrupted communications access and true broadband. An advanced IT network also provides guests with easy access to all the wonderful amenities the hotel has to offer. The guests are increasingly demanding access to more bandwidth - for video conferencing, streaming video,...
- Case studies 2007-11-20
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Milan
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...
- Blog posts 2007-08-23
- For business uses, Second Life is a fad and a crock
- The Los Angeles Times reports that some companies that have opened virtual presences on Second Life have closed their virtual doors or are letting them rot through lack of attention.We're talking Dell, Best Buy Geek Squad Sun Microsystems, American Apparel, Starwood Hotels (Westin, Sheraton, etc.) In fact, that's the Los...
- Blog posts 2007-07-15
- Microsoft provides first public demo of the Surface tabletop
- On Saturday, June 9, at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, Microsoft let the public see, touch and test-drive the Surface interactive tabletop system that the company unveiled at the end of May.Surface -- the product formerly codenamed "PlayTable," and later "Milan" -- is a hardware-software bundle that Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2007-06-09
- Do you want a Surface Computer?
- Microsoft went public at 12:01 a.m. on May 30 with the name of its "Milan"/PlayTable technology. The combined hardware/software device is now known as the Surface Computer and is due to debut in November.In one of many press releases on Milan and surface computing on Microsoft's PressPass site this morning,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Hilton Hotels CIO: Tim Harvey - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Tim, thanks for joining me.Tim Harvey: Thank you Dan for having me.Dan Farber: Now Hilton is a very large-scale operation, 3000 hotels, 500,000 rooms, across 80 countries. How do you manage deploying technology across such a diverse set of properties?Tim Harvey: Well Dan, it’s about trying to...
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Hilton Hotels CIO: Tim Harvey - Transcript
- Dan Farber: Tim, thanks for joining me. Tim Harvey: Thank you Dan for having me. Dan Farber: Now Hilton is a very large-scale operation, 3000 hotels, 500,000 rooms, across 80 countries. How do you manage deploying technology across such a diverse set of...
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- D-Link Wireless Networking Turns Four Points by Sheraton Into Hot Spot Haven for Business Travelers
- Since Starwood's aggressive marketing campaign was launched while some of Sheraton's hotels did not yet have high-speed Internet access, three popular Sheraton resort hotels located in San Rafael, Monrovia, and Culver City, California were in urgent need of finding reliable, cost-effective networking solutions. When it came time to decide which...
- Case studies 2007-04-25
- JetBlue fiasco: A database could have made a difference
- It has been a tough week for JetBlue. Storms wreaked havoc on the companys systems and continuity plans to the point where it had to cancel 23 percent of its flights again on Monday to reset its operations. Could this...
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Consumers as producers: Disintermediation without a net
- Most of you know that I've been tracking closely the inversion of control seemingly being ushered in en masse by the Web. That the interesting parts of the Web are increasingly contributed by its users directly, or indirectly, apparently establishing that the sheer mass of innovation is in...
- Blog posts 2006-07-18
- Two more stories of SOA in action, right now
- In a response to my post on Phil Wainewright's post I think I caught all the hops there, Ian Bruce points to a new article that talks about the success Starwood Hotels is seeing with its SOA strategy. The hotel chain expects to be fully SOA enabled by...
- Blog posts 2006-05-05
- Ten examples of SOA at work, right now
- 1 To manage a world of data: An SOA-focused deployment is helping the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to streamline access to its mounds of data, as well as link users of the data to the services they need to process the data.2 To manage workflows: A BPEL-based workflow system...
- Blog posts 2006-01-03
- Head in the clouds
- There are indeed days where I feel likemy headis in the clouds, but yesterdayit was quite literally so, and what a view.Of course, I can't say what customerI was visiting in London's Canary Wharf, but this was the view out theconference room window. It's...
- Blog posts 2005-12-09
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