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A reprint of the Tim O’Reilly article which defines Web 2.0.
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Using lessons from the Super Bowl to get your IT systems and personnel performing at their very best.
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The convergence of document publishing, processes and application development.
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Plug-and-play appliances are gaining popularity by bringing significant benefits to the most common integration challenges.
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David Kelly says applications have traditionally been designed from the perspective of the IT manager, not the end user.
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ebizQ's Dave Kelly tells us what it takes for an organization to be agile and regulatory-compliant.
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Krissi Danielsson interviews David Rice, author of “Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software.”
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Dave Kelly gives a real world example of how difficult it is to assess the performance of performance management tools.
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Business can feel like a war sometimes, so it's no surprise that the ancient classic treatise "The Art of War," by Sun Tzu, has relevance to the corporate world.
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Peter Rhys Jenkins explores the linkage between SOA Governance and Realpolitik.
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What was traditionally viewed as developer and infrastructure tools has quickly infiltrated the enterprise environment.
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In this ebizQ premium content, Forrester's Ken Vollmer talks about choosing a comprehensive SOA-based framework for BPM and integration.
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Robert Frances Group says that alignment alone, without IT having effective processes and management, leads to increased IT expenditures and slower or negative growth.
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In the on-demand world, the pendulum swings all processes toward the goal of pleasing the customer.
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Many organizations have started to look at the effectiveness of their compliance and auditing strategies, with an eye to streamlining and automating processes and simply making audits less painful and costly.
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David Linthicum warms us to consider business needs first, starting with core requirements, and think about technology needs after that.
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Dominic Sartorio says interoperability is a challenge best addressed collaboratively, with a practical bottom-up approach that encourages participation from developers worldwide.
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Dust off and maximize that business intelligence investment you've made!
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A multi-level solution to make security a mindset that pervades the development group, as an internal best practice.
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Any integration project that involves the whole enterprise is bound to seem overwhelming, but the results can actually be better if you start small.
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Tony Baer muses: Is consolidation killing innovation?
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ebizQ is proud to share with our readers a new book excerpt from the geniuses over at Macehiter-Ward Dutton.
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A combination of processes that are coming to be collectively known as the 'real-time enterprise' will become the basis for our economy in the information age.
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Unisys seeks to lead the way for nonproprietary software and standards in mission-critical computing.
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SWsoft acknowledges majority ownership of hardware virtualization player Parallels.
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The deployment of executive dashboards.
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Regulatory compliance is now a business-critical requirement that extends to the management of corporate networks.
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How application development, process integration and connectivity to partners can drive growth while meeting compliance mandates.
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A case for unified enterprise security management.
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RFG has been asked by its clients what CIOs are seeing as top priorities going into 2007.
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Jim Murphy of AMR Research says the IBM-Yahoo! Deal sets the stage for the battle of enterprise search.
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Leading IT suppliers complete open source software takeover; the channel and enterprises get open choice.
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Among other predictions, AMR's Bruce Richardson says SOA moves from “SOA what?” to small pilots in manufacturing and retail.
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BPM enables organizations to enforce operations consistency, and also helps adhere to the ever-expanding body of compliance regulations and laws.
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Tony Baer discusses the financial efficacy of Open Source.
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ebizQ's Dave Kelly says there are a range of both internal and external risks to the IT organization, all of which can have direct and indirect impacts on a business.
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Unlike 007’s special gadgets and cool tools department, most corporate IT groups have a limited budget for security and risk management.
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Customer service is the last remaining differentiator and the key to long-term business process success.
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Revising security strategies in light of zero-day threats.
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In an age of universal, standards-based Internet connectivity, IM remains a bastion of proprietary technology.
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The final article in Neil Macehiter’s identity management series.
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Ingraining the culture of in-house integration.
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Navigating the identity management standards jungle.
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Robert Frances Group's executive guide to the BPM competitive landscape.
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Neil Macehiter says organizations will have to bring together a well- understood set of identity management capabilities if they are to respond effectively to current business trends.
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AMR Research discusses the reality of manufacturing composite applications.
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Understanding the set of processes and supporting technologies that manage the electronic definition, storage and lifecycles of digital identities.
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The hype around SOA says it will make life easier, streamline business, and provide untold flexibility and responsiveness. But will it?
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While the consequences of the HP case may prove far more severe than a blown budget or project schedule, the scenario should still look rather familiar to any seasoned IT executive.
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OnStrategies' Tony Baer says trying to standardize Ajax tools and technologies is like trying to herd cats.
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RFG believes initiatives related to service-oriented architectures (SOAs), software as a service (SaaS), and other approaches to IT-empowered business enablement are proliferating faster than they are maturing.
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The 451 Group reports that IBM offers a sneak preview of some of the storage projects being developed at its Almaden research labs.
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What happens when everything you do is critical?
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Small, almost unnoticed computer viruses, hackers or even a simple inadvertent configuration change in a database or server setting can trigger an unexpected application or IT system failure.
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How IT can stop worrying and love change.
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Robert Frances Group says 2006 will be a watershed year for
virtualization usage and technologies based on its abilities to leverage underutilized computing power and reduce data center costs and complexities.
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More valuable than just compliance: Better reference data management can help optimize risk and improve capital efficiency.
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Data accessibility and architecture improvements can have a positive impact on all functional groups - the front office, middle office and the back office – although for vastly different reasons.
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Five things you should know to deliver secure SOA and Web services.
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How a growing industry standard can help you get things done faster.
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ebizQ’s Dave Kelly takes a look at some of the trends driving underlying changes in extranet technologies and infrastructure capabilities
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Sensors, tags and embedded devices create the need for us to find new ways manage unprecedented volumes and disparate types of information.
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How to increase the worth that IT can contribute to the company.
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An interview with Oracle's Jay Daugherty.
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This must-have list needs to be on your CIO’s desk.
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An excerpt from the ebizQ Oracle Insider.
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Phil Gilbert argues that BPM’s competitive advantage is realized through a more efficient environment for collaboration and the ability to drive requirements down into the SOA layer.
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Establishing the right set of leadership behaviors is arguably the most critical factor in the sustainable deployment of process management.
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An excerpt from Peter Fingar’s new book on innovation and the great 21st century business reformation.
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With enterprise-wide control of all jobs, job scheduling has become the most useful tool in managing the entire IT environment – that is, if it’s used correctly.
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The Robert Frances Group says the support of effective, enterprise-wide
business process management (BPM) represents a strong opportunity to evolve IT-business alignment and SOA efforts in ways that support BOAs.
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How enterprise architecture enables business transformation.
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While JavaOne 2006 was all about the Web 2.0 client, OnStrategies' Tony Baer says that JavaOne 2007 will be about connectivity.
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How enterprise architecture enables business transformation.
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John Stelzer says CIOs should employ within their stores the same level of inventory management sophistication that they use in their distribution centers.
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The effective management of large initiatives requires a unique set of tools and techniques.
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RFG believes a central IT risk compliance program is imperative to manage new and evolving regulations.
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After an all too public courtship with Oracle, JBoss has finally decided to tie the knot, but with Red Hat.
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For the past few years, it’s been a little lonely for the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) proponents of the world, but suddenly we seem to have lots of company at the party.
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The path to viability for software vendors and the IT profession is hardly obvious.
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Some criteria for judging which open souce tools should be brought into your enterprise.
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RFG says IT executives should view ther risk challenges holistically; engaging those inside and outside of IT.
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Cape Clear’s Annrai O’Toole says themes emerging in SOA development involve simplicity, collaboration, open source and ‘subscription-based everything.’
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The 451 Group's take on BEA's purchase of Fuego.
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What's going on with the mating dance between Oracle and JBoss that's
playing out in the media and blogs?
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Dave Kelly says that now is a great time for companies to re-evaluate their ERP, CRM, HR and other enterprise systems.
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An article excerpted from the ebizQ Oracle Newsletter.
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Wiki and blog use is already widespread in large enterprises, though companies rarely have a thoroughly refined plan for them.
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Yesterday’s monolithic IT infrastructure is being deconstructed into a dynamic matrix of loosely coupled services.
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Enterprise risk departments are being established at record speed, recognizing the business value of managing risk across the enterprise.
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ebizQ’s own Dave Kelly asks if we’re looking at too much of a good thing.
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A united, dedicated effort from key players can fuel the development of open standards and technologies.
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IT executives should pressure and collaborate more closely with the triad of mobile solution vendors to effect the change required to deliver enterprise-level products and capabilities.
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Stanley Young of HP says his company’s new product controls and eases SOA implementation.
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Governance was a key theme at the kick-off session of the Web Services/SOA on Wall Street conference in New York last week.
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The 451 Group says a fire's been lit under the company.
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Perfection may be elusive, but AMR says companies should use compliance
as an opportunity to improve the processes of their business.
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Security has transformed from IT nuisance to business critical.
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Are you tracking the wrong measurements?
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It’s easy to be frozen by fear from security concerns, but these fears must be balanced, and tempered, with a wide range of business considerations.
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Despite the myths, rules-driven BPM is emerging as the leading BPM technology of choice for customers interested in solving real business problems.
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Ejectable disk backup keeps business systems accessible to employees, partners, and customers with the appropriate security controls.
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IT executives should proactively develop and foster the best practices
required to monitor and manage enterprise security effectively.
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Technology is an enabler for more effectively managing the business, but it doesn’t solve problems unless it is tied directly to business and governance objectives.
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Can model-driven architecture be made simpler and more accessible, to become a widely used enabling technology for SOA?
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Technology is an enabler for more effectively managing the business, but it doesn’t solve problems unless it is tied directly to business and governance objectives.
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How to expect the unexpected.
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The game of business success is a journey along a path of ongoing business improvement.
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How to generate Return on Sunk Investment.
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Organizations require business policies and service-level agreements to drive dynamic and automatic optimization of IT infrastructure.
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Embracing the benefits that effective process automation and management can bring to any organization.
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Wikis and blogs may seem hokey and faddish, but AMR Research says they're the next big factor in Knowledge Management for enterprises.
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RFG believes 2006 will be a year of changes in enterprise application
development.
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Practical tips for reducing software costs – ideas you just might want to take to your CFO.
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AMR's Bruce Richardson says 2006 will be a strong year for the enterprise software and services market.
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This year, the 451 Group says IT governance came to prominence as a way
for CIOs to centrally manage their IT resources in much the same way that HR departments have done for years.
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Within five years, RFG says wireless communications will become an
integral part of enterprise network architectures.
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Building preventive controls and rules directly into financial applications.
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Employing the right SOA can help the insurance industry overcome its challenges.
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The next generation of business interaction requires a level of organizational cooperation and information use that has heretofore not been on the radar screen.
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Developing a strategic framework for your enterprise.
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As an IT function, the 451 Group says identity management is gaining in
relevance.
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AMR Research says that defining your measurement strategy will improve
your company's ability to process performance indicator data.
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Ten recommendations for improving business processes effectiveness,
and maximizing IT spending during ERP implementations.
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The most effective CIOs are in constant ‘mentor mode,' molding leaders who will help them make their vision a reality.
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Understanding the business benefit of service-oriented architectures.
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Rashid Khan describes a new approach aimed at capturing the inherent complexities and dynamic nature of business processes.
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RFG says enterprises are turning to BI solutions to facilitate compliance with regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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ebizQ’s own Dave Kelly says the strategic impact of process exceptions can be much greater than people think.
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In supply chains, global sourcing continues to operate outside the main stream business processes in multi-billion dollar businesses.
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Brenda Michelson recommends using service-orientation for non-invasive application package customization.
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Ben Stewart of Corizon says IT integration in customer service situations needs to start with the agent and work down from there.
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Do you have to give up control for agility? Steve Minsky says a balanced scorecard alone is not enough.
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RFG says IT executives need to be better prepared to address dynamic and constantly changing business environments.
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The most effective CIOs are in constant ‘mentor mode,’ molding leaders who will help them make their visions a reality.
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Will SOA ever really fulfill its promise?
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AMR Research's take on the hot Sarbanes-Oxley compliance market.
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ebizQ’s David Kelly says we’ll see increased focus on process optimization and simulation capabilities offered by BPM technologies.
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Chip Wilson says leadership and vision in your enterprise investments will bring significant ROI.
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An open, flexible, enterprise-wide infrastructure platform is key to achieving the benefits of collaboration.
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The 451 Group says partnerships seem the brunt of the Oracle SMB
strategy.
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Why we need an architecture of the business, one that is representative of the enterprise, understood by the business designers and users, that enables business integration.
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Using enterprise risk management tools to stop rewarding crime.
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Collaborating with others in the supply ecosystem.
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How process portals can deliver real bottom-line value.
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Restructuring data so that it makes sense to the receiving application.
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Benefits and recommendations from ebizQ’s Dave Kelly.
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Hint: AMR Research says they're not the same.
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Emerging tech boards are bridging the gap at innovative companies by helping to ease complex technical issues now facing many boards of directors.
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Accomplishing more with less.
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IT executives have a great opportunity to improve the effectiveness,
efficiency and results of their organizations by implementing more formal processes.
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When to consider best practices.
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Making collaboration a reality in your organization.
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The growth of SOA reveals a need for sophisticated discovery mechanisms.
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Securities firms tend to be at the front of the adoption curve for new risk management ideas and technologies.
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CRM, ERP and SCM effectiveness is influenced heavily by the performance of people who do not have those applications on their desktop.
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Compliance is a great business yardstick to employ in uncovering and improving upon your Enterprise Resource Planning.
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RFG says IT executives seeking to use the most innovative technologies have little choice but to turn to smaller technology vendors.
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Making the business case for the movement to service-oriented architectures.
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The benefits of entities behaving like autonomous enterprises within a single company.
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Roger Sippl says the value that CIOs are expected to deliver has shifted.
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Using a risk plan can avert confusion, improve the business as well as help achieve compliance.
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Part II in a series about how integrated, cooperative security technologies can leverage information and enforcement capabilities.
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Integrated, cooperative security technologies that can leverage information and enforcement capabilities are on the forefront of innovation in the enterprise security marketplace.
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Can organizations create an internal environment where consistent data becomes a possibility?
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Interoperability is essential, now more than ever.
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RFG advises IT executives to secure storage systems in order to ensure adequate data protection.
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Smaller companies face a challenge of having to adhere to the same technological demands as large businesses.
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What’s important in small to mid-sized enterprise business technology decisions?
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Learn about significant changes in how technology is being leveraged to create sustainable competitive advantage.
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Large traditional enterprise software companies are encountering stiff competition from companies offering SaaS solutions.
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Driving out the ‘insidious errors’ in business rules.
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Despite being unhappy with ROI in innovation, executives continue to pour money into it. When will they learn that the process needs a leader?
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The Enterprise Service Bus is driving the need to manage connected services in today’s and tomorrow’s enterprise IT environment, says Don Laursen of Captaris.
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Dave Kelly takes on the challenge of today's broad and complex compliance requirements.
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CIOs can now choose from a range of tools that help people to create and share information.
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RFG says that instant messaging, blogs and peer-to-peer communications are increasingly being explored as vehicles for business value.
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Relentless business imperatives are placing new demands on legacy systems. However, the rip and replace approach is rarely the right answer. Why?
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How can we change the mental models of functionally-minded business leaders?
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Firms who get IT architecture and governance right are beneficiaries of IT business value, says Dr. Jeanne Ross of the Sloan School of Management’s Center for Information Systems Research at MIT.
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Unlike traditional approaches that require processes to be defined in excruciating detail before any automation can occur, moving to a more dynamic model lets you choose when you want to deploy, letting experience and real world needs drive the timing and details of process definition, says Rashid Khan of Ultimus.
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By embracing rather than merely complying with Sarbox, organizations of all sizes will reap rewards that extend far beyond meeting the conditions required by the law, says Sean Chou of Fieldglass.
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John Stelzer discusses significant changes in how technology can be leveraged to create sustainable competitive advantage, by utilizing availability, analysis and application of information to generate worth.
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Most of today’s process implementations are not, in fact, contained neatly in their own top tiers of the enterprise architecture, providing a simple translation from business needs to process implementations. Rather, the current Business Process Management stack is scattered across different levels of infrastructure as its designers require. Part two of a two-part ebizQ series.
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As business process software packages have gained acceptance in the marketplace, it’s important for organizations to understand that there are actually three different kinds of BPM, each designed to solve a specific problem. Action Technology’s CEO, Bill Welty, educates us on the differences.
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Existing process languages, for all their power, do not in themselves capture the human issues crucial to such activities. Why is this? And what else do you need?
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Brian Sennett says businesses now have an opportunity to make improvements that go beyond mere compliance to increase the efficiency and predictability of operations.
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IT and business executives are posing questions related to BPM, BSM and SOAs these days. Many of these questions are focused on consistent definitions of the acronyms themselves. Herewith, some attempts to rationalize and simplify the confusion, courtesy of Robert Frances Group's Michael Dortch.
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ebizQ’s editor-in-chief Elizabeth Book recently interviewed Matt Minetola, CIO of HP Financial Services, for ebizQ's special radio program, CIOaudio. Click here for a text of the Q&A, and at the bottom for a link to the Web-streaming radio interview.
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CIOs need better visibility across their entire IT operations, but achieving it is difficult with the existing collection of unrelated point tools for IT. An emerging suite of technology, which AMR Research calls IT Resource Planning (ITRP), seeks to do for IT what Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) did for the enterprise.
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The move to SOA is inevitable. But the shift in technologies and paradigms is putting enterprise business operations and their ability to quickly adapt at risk. That’s why SOA requires governance from day one. Part two of a two-part special ebizQ series with WebLayers’ CEO Motti Vaknin.
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On the surface, it appears that any organization worth its salt should be able to define and document the business requirements for a new technology initiation or the automation of an existing process. Logician Steve Minsky explains why it’s harder than it seems.
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While the move to service-oriented architectures is inevitable, it requires watchful governance from day one. Part one of a two-part special ebizQ series with WebLayers’ CEO Motti Vaknin.
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With a spate of security breaches topping the headlines this month, identity theft is also topping the minds of CIOs as criminals hack into corporate networks to steal and use personal information that invades individuals’ privacy and costs companies and individuals billions of dollars each year. Jeff Currie, the senior strategist directing IBM Tivoli’s identity management solutions group, discusses how to prevent intrusions before they occur.
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Technology infrastructure, process flow and business requirements all need to be discovered and translated into a process map to enable automation to occur. This effort, as well as adjusting the process map to keep pace with change, is the most significant challenge of BPM projects, according to Ultimus CEO Rashid Khan.
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The technology for augmenting human-driven processes with computers is now emerging, in a new generation of software frameworks for process support—such a software framework is termed a Human Interaction Management System (HIMS). In this article, Keith Harrison-Broninski considers the requirements that a HIMS places on Web services, and draw conclusions about the Web service technologies required.
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The Robert Frances Group believes running IT like the business to facilitate IT-business alignment and enterprise elasticity is key to the survival of CIOs.
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John Stelzer's regular monthly column, CIO Edge, is dedicated to addressing the many issues CIOs are facing in today's rapidly changing world. We know that one of the greatest challenges CIOs have is how to find a way to regularly outdo what they just accomplished. After all, it can be argued that continually producing at the same level is stagnation. In this installment, John talks about how to properly analyze and apply information to produce value.
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Information-centric Web services will provide only limited value if they are constrained by the need for separate services for each physical data source, says Rob Cardwell of MetaMatrix. Unless a service can span an organization’s existing data sources, Web services will just put another layer of silos on top of existing data assets.
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Assigning meaningful identifiers is an annoyance for individuals, but for CIOs in major corporations, identity management is a big headache.
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How much does it matter whether a corporation coordinates its customer relationships and customer information enterprise-wide?
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It’s still early in 2005 and service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the hottest buzzword of the year. SOAs slice and dice and they do anything you need them to do faster, cheaper and more efficient than anything else ever. But do our customers really need or want it?
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Changes to software applications always carry business risks -- Risks such as unplanned downtime, poor performance, customer dissatisfaction, lost revenue and more. Therefore, the pressure is on IT organizations as never before to support business process change – this means delivering mission-critical software applications quickly while, at the same time, ensuring its reliability. To deliver software quickly, Software Quality Optimization (SQO) must be the centerpiece of software development and deployment.
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Dave Kelly says customer data should be the central focus of your organization, because, after all, you need customers to make money. In most cases, you also need to track and know about those customers to make more money. But a surprising number of companies simply don’t have customer data management policies or practices in place.
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Executives who wish to create an innovative work culture must not only hire creative individuals, but must also support and embrace an environment that is conducive to innovation, says Michael Paust of PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
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Chris Harding of The Open Group says that today there is no argument that interoperability is a critical element for optimizing business performance and maintaining competitive advantage.
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Adopting transformational rather than traditional transactional leadership styles has become a cost-effective way for CIOs to reconcile the conflicting objectives of driving growth, increase agility and improve customer experiences while cutting back on expenses, says ebizQ’s managing editor Gian Trotta, reporting on the first of ebizQ’s executive Webinars.
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Over the years, a variety of approaches have been used to extrapolate and evaluate information in an effort to understand and replicate what keeps customers satisfied. Promise Phelon, founding partner of the Phelon Group, encourages us to define and implement the customer hierarchy of needs in order to increase our business success.
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Sara Braunstein of the Robert Frances Group says the movement of application development budgets back to the lines of business and the ongoing operational budget cuts have begun to erode and marginalize the role of the CIO. However, she argues, this need not occur and is not inevitable.
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John Stelzer's new regular monthly column, CIO Edge, is dedicated to addressing the many issues CIOs are facing in today's rapidly changing world. We know that one of the greatest challenges CIOs have is how to find a way to regularly outdo what they just accomplished. After all, it can be argued that continually producing at the same level is stagnation.
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CEO Robert Weinger shares how to build an efficient and cost-effective telecommunications strategy.
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When we last discussed ontologies, we covered how they help the SOA architect prepare semantic generalizations that make the problem domain more understandable. This month, let’s take a deeper dive into the enabling standards.
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Product innovation and growth are some of today's top business issues and are major factors in strategic investment, yet research shows that among top companies, there is no common measure of success. IT departments, however, provide unbiased metrics and clues to organizational leadership that provide a critical thread of continuity that is critical to business success. The CIO would do well to harness the skills his IT department is trained to provide.
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The increasing complexity and number of integration projects can no longer be dealth with on a project-by-project basis. IT departments need to set up specialist units to cope with the growing number and complexity of application integration projects. Gartner's Paolo Malinvorno shares a gradual four-stage plan for the disciplined design, deployment day-to-day operations of an integration competency center.
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If it’s so great, why doesn’t everybody implement it?
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A clutch of companies have sprung up in the past few years attempting to derive insight from unstructured data and present it to business users in an actionable format. Nick Patience of the 451 Group explains which companies are gleaning relevant business intelligence from unstrucutured data. He also indicates which kinds of information from the vast gluts will prove viable to us in the future.
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Now that many of our business dealings are conducted through various wireless portals, it is important to turn our attention to mobile security, cognizant that entire enterprises can be placed at risk considering that viruses and worms are now trying to attack our hand-held devices. Matias Impivaara of F-Secure shares some of the threats we face, and provides some countermeasures to deal with them.
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The CIO and the IT manager need to effectively find common ground between tech- and exec-speak, in order to communicates their goals and needs.
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The top ten mistakes the IT department makes in dealing with their top executive.
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They’re either aligned or maligned.
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Integration expert and visionary John L. Stelzer of Sterling Commerce shares how the CIO can better harness technology tools.
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The role of chief information officer has never been more demanding or less defined.
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To IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, an on-demand business boasts business processes that are integrated end-to-end across the company and with key partners, suppliers and customers. Here's how organization, action and infrastructure can be orchestrated toward such an objective. Access to information that aligns strategy to operations -- and enables action to be taken based on insights gained -- can help businesses thrive in a hypercompetitive market. Examples detailed include insurance companies lowering the cost of claims while improving customer service and retailer's attempts to optimize sales with minimal inventory.
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Beth Gold-Bernstein, ebizQ's Vice President of Strategic Services, interviews Kevin McAuliffe, Director of Strategy and CTO for IBM Business Performance Management about IBM’s Business Performance Management Solutions.
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Access to information that aligns strategy to operations -- and enables action to be taken based on insights gained -- can help businesses thrive in a hypercompetitive market. Examples detailed include insurance companies lowering the cost of claims while improving customer service and retailer's attempts to optimize sales with minimal inventory.
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To IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, an on-demand business boasts business processes that are integrated end-to-end across the company and with key partners, suppliers and customers. Here's how organization, action and infrastructure can be orchestrated toward such an objective.
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The increasing complexity and number of integration projects can no longer be dealth with on a project-by-project basis. IT departments need to set up specialist units to cope with the growing number and complexity of application integration projects. Gartner's Paolo Malinvorno shares a gradual four-stage plan for the disciplined design, deployment day-to-day operations of an integration competency center.
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Companies facing considerable -- and inescapable -- outlays for integration projects can ease the pain by choosing the proper style of integration to pursue. Gartner's Roy Schulte takes a look at some of the best choices.
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Just as application servers started out by providing connection, transaction, instantiation and other programming services that freed the programmer from having to write the code for each application, an enterprise service bus provides common communication and integration services. ebizQ’s own Beth Gold-Bernstein discusses why companies building service-oriented architectures and loosely coupled event-driven applications need an ESB.
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Real time means real fast, right? But hold on a second. In the business context of the real-time enterprise, speed isn’t always the correct measure. Author and visionary Peter Fingar explains what real time really means in business and why.
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In recent years, companies have turned to three common technologies to create solutions for customer data integration. Data movement tools such as Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), data query and aggregation tools such as Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and Data Quality (DQ) tools deliver results for CRM to customers in a timely fashion. However, what the tool vendors aren’t telling you is that these tools are inadequate for developing a reliable Customer Data Integration (CDI) platform.
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In this enlightening article from AMR Research, enterprise application expert Bill Swinton discusses how to become the master of your data management universe. He emphasizes the need for data harmonization, highlighting the possibilities and perils of global data integration, and the importance of taking into consideration ERP, CRM, strategic sourcing and product lifecyle management.
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Bringing a company’s processes to the Web is an efficient way to get those processes working in concert, rather than isolation, suggests Red Door Interactive’s Kelly Abbott, especially when you throw in a healthy dose of what Abbott calls “The Internet Presence Management Manifesto”!:
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Having complete, reliable, real-time information from and on all areas of the enterprise and its partners, adding up to the “big picture,” is critical for businesses. But they’re still not there, according to ebizQ columnist Dr. Chris Harding, of The Open Group. He says the obstacles are formidable but being tackled, in the hope of reaching information Nirvana, what The Open Group dubs “Boundaryless Information Flow”:
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As data integration has gone from relatively primitive to a critical need of organizations, the factors influencing the success of such efforts have also evolved in number and complexity. Here, Sterling Commerce�s Terry Noreault highlights key points to ponder as you mull the solution your company needs:
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RFID has come a long way, and is likely to add even more value to enterprises down the road, but organizations shouldn�t just jump in head-first, according to the RFG�s Ken Landoline. He cautions that companies should first evaluate how RFID might meet their specific needs, since its benefits �can vary a great deal in various situations and by industry�:
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And that applies to businesses, IT and in everyday life, observes The Open Group�s Dr. Chris Harding, an ebizQ columnist. He notes that high quality data is essential, but first agreement is needed on exactly what constitutes it and how to measure it. And Dr. Harding has a notion of how to go about achieving such a meeting of the minds:
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Done right, SOAs, Web services and composite applications can greatly enhance enterprise agility and hence, the ability to respond quickly to changing market conditions, says ebizQ�s Beth Gold-Bernstein. But she cautions that the operative words there are done right, and that even then, those hot technologies and concepts aren�t magic bullets:
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"IT blindness" can result in missed business opportunities on a large scale, according to the term's creator, David Luckham, a Stanford professor, IT guru and ebizQ columnist. But Luckham notes that technology leading to "IT Insight" is starting to emerge, solutions that could enable enterprises to seize those opportunities. And he calls BAM the "tip of the iceberg" of that emergence:
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Keeping customers satisfied, and aligning business with IT, are usually key organizational goals. They�re also much more readily obtainable when enterprises use Six Sigma and Service Level Management, according to Proxima Technology�s Tim Young, who explains it all here:
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Integrating legacy systems is a task most enterprises don�t cherish. But it�s one that�s necessary, and that may go more smoothly if companies follow the best practices set forth here by Sanjay Raj of Infosys Technologies:
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As businesses become more process-oriented, and managing those processes becomes more critical, the need is arising for a new C-level executive, the Chief Process Officer. Here, Chris Phillips of Staffware argues that creating such a role makes compelling business sense.
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Being realistic, pragmatic and cautious is the most valuable way to approach your company's high-impact integration projects, says Peter Rhys-Jenkins.
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It’s time for managed care organizations to put themselves and all providers on the same page by giving them a complete and unified view of the medical records of patients, suggests ebizQ’s David A. Kelly. But to do that, Kelly notes, such organizations need to play some integration catch-up:
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Complying with the ever-growing mountain of new laws and regulations is a daunting task for businesses, but IBM executive Brett MacIntyre says compliance and the technology meant to assure it can have positive side effects, such as better-run businesses:
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ebizQ is happy to welcome a new columnist, renowned integration expert David Linthicum, CTO and Executive Vice President of R&D of Mercator Software. In his first column for us, Linthicum looks at XSLT and explains why the standard is appealing, where it falls short and, most importantly, the lessons it can teach us about applying standards in general, and technology in particular:
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Companies continue to turn to integration as they seek a competitive edge by becoming more flexible and efficient. They move toward real-time infrastructures so they can adapt quickly to changing market conditions and serve their customers better. Yet, integration has inherent challenges. All these trends and more are borne out in a recent survey by ebizQ and the analyst firm IDC. In this executive brief, IDC reviews the highlights of that survey, one that chronicles an ever-growing trend:
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This presentation will cover the most popular methods for optimizing business performance, including Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard. It will also show methods for monitoring performance for real-time business optimization and creating an executive dashboard for real-time visibility into business processes.
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Tune into this webinar to find out how better data and content integration can lead to better customer and agent relationships, and increased revenue. Learn how insurance companies can deploy interactive and customized content delivery for proactive benefits management and cross-selling.
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This webinar is dedicated to providing tools and approaches that will dramatically increase the likelihood that your integration initiatives will be met with the understanding, appreciation, and approval that they deserve from senior decision makers.
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Recent legislative requirements laid out by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act mean that CFOs, CEOs, and Boards will come under significant pressure, including the threat of fines and criminal penalties to certify the accuracy of their financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and operational processes. This webinar explains how BPM technologies can help you reduce your exposure to these new regulations.
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Learn how leveraging software and business relationships already in place, companies can save significant time and money when integrating enterprise applications and extending B2B transactions over the Web.
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This webinar will demonstrate how real companies have achieved significant ROI through B2B integration.
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This webinar will demonstrate how companies in the financial services, telecommunications and retail industries are successfully accessing strategic information and integrating their business processes through the use of process management technology, enabling them to dramatically improve lifecycle management and customer satisfaction.
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Tune into this webinar to find out how legislative and market changes are forcing finance reform, and how business process management technology delivers a compelling solution.
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Rising medical costs, industry consolidation, changes in the social culture and government legislation are driving the need for changes in the delivery, administration and management of healthcare. This webinar explains how a BPM solution can drive these changes.
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Business and IT managers are increasingly faced with the mandate to define the ROI of a project, but it can be particularly challenging to determine the direct business value of infrastructure projects. This webinar shows areas where you might expect to achieve ROI.
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