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Manage Your Data Well, Reap the Rewards

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By Joe McKendrick on September 2, 2010 8:43 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Does well-managed data equal corporate profitability? A big Yes, says a new study, underwritten by Sybase and conducted by researchers from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas and Indian School of Business, which connects the... Read More..
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GAO Urges Use (and Reuse) of Shared Services to Transform Government

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By Joe McKendrick on August 31, 2010 10:20 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued its guidelines intended to help government agencies achieve enterprise transformation through enterprise architecture. The guidelines and conclusions offer a strong business case for commercial businesses also seeking to achieve greater agility and... Read More..
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Bank Service-Orients for Its Customers

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By Joe McKendrick on August 31, 2010 9:14 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
One possibility I frequently discuss on these pages is that companies will expand their service oriented architecture-based services from internal enterprise services to external services provided to customers and partners.Essentially, every company can and will become, to some degree, cloud... Read More..
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A-ha!

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By Joe McKendrick on August 23, 2010 10:22 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
In case you didn't catch Brenda Michelsen's announcement here at ebizQ, she will be leaving the fold -- though we certainly hope she continues to contribute and participate in on our interactive discussions. It's been an honor to be part... Read More..
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Study: Local Governments Turn to Shared IT Services to Overcome Crunch

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By Joe McKendrick on August 22, 2010 12:37 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
As part of the fallout from the recent economic crisis, tax revenues for local and state governments have been severely battered -- cutting into essential services, while creating huge budget shortfalls. And states just can't print money to make up... Read More..
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REST for the Weary

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By Joe McKendrick on August 22, 2010 12:03 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
William Martinez Pomares explains how REST-based services can be employed to manage transactions.He cites the hypothetical example of a travel booking service, deployed using REST-based services. The configuration involves multiple resources, including flight booking, room booking, and a transaction resource... Read More..
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Integrate, Then Virtualize -- In That Order

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By Joe McKendrick on August 21, 2010 11:26 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Lori MacVittie just posted her cautionary note that hybrid cloud computing is going to require plenty of integration to make things work.Loraine Lawson also looks at the lay of the land, and questions whether virtualization paves the way to better... Read More..
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SOA Roundup: Apps for Everything, and SOA's Enemies List

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By Joe McKendrick on August 20, 2010 12:31 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
A lot of people are on vacation, but here at ebizQ, we take no vacation from the constant give-and-take of SOA. (Or maybe, for some of us, it is a vacation)Matt Morgan, for one, gives us some compelling guidelines for... Read More..
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Hybrid Clouds May Take the 'Neat and Tidy' Out of Cloud Computing

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By Joe McKendrick on August 20, 2010 11:55 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
There's no shortage of debate about the meanings we attach to "public" versus "private" clouds, and the one that falls in between, the "hybrid cloud."Just a couple of months back, in fact, we had a rollicking debate here on the... Read More..
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Broadcasters Strenghten Their SOA Signals

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By Joe McKendrick on August 17, 2010 9:40 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
John Footen of National TeleConsultants reports on his progress introducing SOA to the broadcast industry. Industry working groups, including the Media Services Architecture Group (MSAG) in the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) as well as the EBU CP (Common Processes)... Read More..
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