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In this Q & A and an accompanying podcast, Forrester Research Principal Analyst Mike Gualtieri speaks with ebizQ’s Peter Schooff about the growing convergence of complex event processing (CEP) and business activity monitoring (BAM). Gualtieri also offers real-world examples of the technologies in action and offers best practices for companies interested in adopting either one.
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Learn how AR document process automation can bridge the gap between legacy media and future invoicing mechanisms.
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Smart event processing can help your company run smarter and faster. This comprehensive guide helps you research the basics of complex event processing (CEP) and learn how to get started on the right foot with your CEP project using EDA, RFID, SOA, SCADA and other relevant technologies.
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Smart event processing can help your company run smarter and faster. This comprehensive guide helps you research the basics of complex event processing (CEP) and learn how to get started on the right foot with your CEP project using EDA, RFID, SOA, SCADA and other relevant technologies.
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Smart event processing can help your company run smarter and faster. This comprehensive guide helps you research the basics of complex event processing (CEP) and learn how to get started on the right foot with your CEP project using EDA, RFID, SOA, SCADA and other relevant technologies.
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Smart event processing can help your company run smarter and faster. This comprehensive guide helps you research the basics of complex event processing (CEP) and learn how to get started on the right foot with your CEP project using EDA, RFID, SOA, SCADA and other relevant technologies.
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Smart event processing can help your company run smarter and faster. This comprehensive guide helps you research the basics of complex event processing (CEP) and learn how to get started on the right foot with your CEP project using EDA, RFID, SOA, SCADA and other relevant technologies.
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Read an excerpt from Chapter 2 of Opher Etzion and Peter Niblett's new book "Event Processing in Action."
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Read an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Opher Etzion and Peter Niblett's new book "Event Processing in Action."
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To curb wasteful spending and improve efficiency, companies are adopting business transaction management strategies.
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Read Chapter 3 of the upcoming book "Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies." Don't miss authors Mani Chandy and Roy Schulte at our SOA in Action Virtual Conference coming Oct. 28-29.
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Read Chapter 2 of the upcoming book "Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies." Don't miss authors Mani Chandy and Roy Schulte at our SOA in Action Virtual Conference.
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Here's an excerpt from the book "Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies."
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Tony Baer gives his take on Informatica acquiring Agent Logic.
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Here is the preface from Mani Chandy and Roy Schulte's book "Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies."
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This features outlines the best practices of a solid governance processes that moves decision making from IT to the business forcing business to make strategic decisions.
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Applying the latest CEP platforms in traditional BI environments drives real-time situational awareness, faster decisions and immediate actions.
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451 Group: Success Metrics is a little-known startup moving into the crowded field of SaaS BI, but they do seem well positioned with Birst.
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Integrating BPM and CEP gives you intelligent business processes that can react to rapidly changing business conditions with continuous visibility.
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451 Group: Are CEP vendors and operational BI vendors on a collision course?
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End-user experience and performance management (EPM) solutions capture a complete picture of end-user behavior, allowing organizations to see when employees are working effectively, efficiently and compliantly -- and when they're not.
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There's information, and then there's information, and your SOA could very well depend on knowing the difference between the two.
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There's information, and then there's information, and your SOA could very well depend on knowing the difference between the two.
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GUIs can prove useful in understanding massive amounts of data quickly, because in business, it's not necessarily the data that matters, but what you do with it.
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In the continuous battle to outperform the competition, adding data quality to performance management initiatives is one of the ways organizations are using to beat the competition.
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Conventional wisdom says the OSS culture and development model cannot add much to such a complex computer science concept as EP. But the OSS community says different.
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We’re on the verge of a new era for SOA, with the integration of Complex Event Processing technology, which can enable the gathering of data from and about any services running in the enterprise.
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Event-driven applications that are constructed as compositions of Web applications can offer considerable benefits to your enterprise.
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Complex event processing software is powering a new generation of applications that enables companies to make faster decisions and execute more effective actions.
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As the volume and velocity of financial market data continues to soar, staying ahead of the competition requires the right trading tools and infrastructure. Read the second half of this full update on the various components of real-time algorithmic trading.
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As the volume and velocity of financial market data continues to soar, staying ahead of the competition requires the right trading tools and infrastructure.
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A self-described skeptic advises us to ignore the hype, but to understand that CEP is going to be absolutely huge.
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Using Performance Management companies can align their operational and financial information, internal processes, and strategic goals to build a considerable competitive advantage.
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Events present the same problems, but we're coming up with new answers, says Oracle's Stephanie McReynolds.
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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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In Roy Schulte's final article in our special event processing series, he says BAM tools and CEP engines are quite valuable and cost-effective when used in the right situations.
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ebizQ's David Kelly believes that the use of complex event processing will continue to grow over the next few years, as organizations find ever-greater needs to process the growing volume of real-time data entering the enterprise.
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Mani Chandy and Roy Schulte say the key to enabling near-real-time operational BI is event processing.
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David Linthicum suspects that as we progress with SOA, as we become smarter on implementations, architecture, design, testing, and deployment, that event processing will become better defined and layered within many SOAs.
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Gartner's Roy Schulte and Cal Tech's Mani Chandy share how event processing has emerged as one of the most important issues in IT today.
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It’s time to get serious about the data deluge, to transform data into intelligence.
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AMR Research's John Hagerty talks about SAP's acquisition of OutlookSoft in this ebizQ gold club analysis.
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As the demand for new real-time and high-speed data applications have increased, these brittle solutions have reached their breaking points.
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Mike Lough of Covelight explains the role of events to enable the real-time intelligent enterprise.
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AMR’s premiere analyst on the consolidation that has finally come to the business intelligence/performance management market.
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Using change management to build a reliable business continuity plan.
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AMR Research talked with dozens of companies about how BI/PM implementations have progressed within their organizations.
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How business rules can improve application integration and SOA implementation.
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Should Complex Event Processing be used as a way to address SOA’s shortcomings?
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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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Why Sarbanes-Oxley and SOA may be the best thing that ever happened to you.
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Analysis from OnStrategies’ Tony Baer.
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Are you tracking the wrong measurements?
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The state of the BAM market (at the time).
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Adding real time intelligence to an event-driven SOA.
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Powering event-driven, real-time business analytics.
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Leveraging ERP data to gain insightful information for decision support, process improvement and corporate efficiency.
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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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Do you have to give up control for agility? Steve Minsky says a balanced scorecard alone is not enough.
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Is it really possible to monitor business processes and make corrections in real time?
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The metric of end-user experience must be considered when creating and measuring IT and business alignment.
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The market for BAM tools to aid in enterprise management has exploded into a chaotic marketplace.
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A new class of tools measures wait-time for hundreds of specific delay points inside the database, and quantifies exactly what response time boost you can achieve by resolving the bottleneck. By looking inside the database and watching the wait-time created by specific transactions, you can make major performance gains without adding new hardware capacity.
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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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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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Inventor of Complex Event Processing David Luckham starts with a basic question, is life simple? Most people will truthfully answer no. Events happen in life that are neither simple in how they happen, nor in the effects they have on others. However, Luckham’s latest ebizQ article seeks to simplify Complex Event Processing, so we can remove the fear the word 'complex' might imply, and instead utilize it best to manage events as they come our way.
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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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Buell Duncan says that one thing C-Level IT executives often forget about customer relationship management is the relationship portion of it. He advocates giving more attention to the relationship rather than on the individual sale, so you can therefore develop the in-depth knowledge of your customer and your customer's enterprise to give you the insight to anticipate, and not just respond, to their changing needs.
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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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Business activity monitoring tools are now predicting how your business will be affected by the performance of your IT. Instead of simply alerting you when certain events happen in your enterprise IT layers, they go a step further and predict how those events will impact your high-level business processes. This goes well beyond the basic dashboard model for the current generation of BAM tools. It’s a direction that tries to anticipate what you, the consumer of BAM, will ask for next.
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Business Performance Management is being recognized as a way to align and optimize sales, marketing, customer service, IT, compliance, finance and HR departments across an enterprise. Taking our latest survey will help you to define specific benefits - or refine your current implementation - of this promising new method to meet business challenges.
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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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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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They’re either aligned or maligned.
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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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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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While substantial progress has been made in business process standardization, the industry requires more that a single compacted standard, says Antoine Lonjon of Mega International. This feature presents the current status of business process standardization and the need to embrace the multiple dimensions of business process approaches.
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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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As enterprises shift their focus beyond mere application integration to getting processes to work and play well together, they need specialists who can see the big picture to assure they get things right, says IBM’s Douglas W. Allen. What makes a good business integration architect, and why are they so important? Allen knows:
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The trend toward enterprises that are driven more and more by real-time data spawned by events is unmistakable, according to ebizQ columnist David A. Kelly, who says the impact will reach all the way from the corporate boardroom to the cell phone or PDA in your pocket. As Kelly puts it: �Over time, being able to easily and efficiently generate, receive, and consume real-time data within your company and from business partners or customers is going to be a critical component of almost all IT and business plans�:
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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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Compliance requirements are increasingly driving business agendas, to the point of dominating many information technology budgets. Leveraging IT to enhance business processes with transactional transparency is a necessary response to corporate governance needs. Building the �real-time enterprise� is fast becoming the preferred method for reducing fraud and, in more and more cases, a mandated one. In this report, research and advisory services firm RedMonk delves into the implications for enterprises of the current compliance landscape, as it relates to the hot SOA trend:
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II sometimes gets given short shrift amid all the talk about such alignment. But ebizQ columnist David A. Kelly says it should not be like that. He notes that risk-based testing is perhaps the most efficient way of checking how things will work at the intersections of business and IT.
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EDI is a true survivor, evolving with changing IT times to continue to meet changing enterprise needs, says , EXTOL International�s Stephen Rosen. He explains that the latest trends involve real-time data synching, empowering end-users, and EDI as part of complete enterprise views:
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As businesses strive for better awareness of themselves and changing market conditions, along with the ability to quickly respond to changes, they should look to Business Performance Management, advises the IBM Software Group�s John Medicke. He says it offers the bonus of getting IT and business in better alignment:
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What a difference a little �IT Insight� stemming from advanced BAM could make for online banking -- providing a way to detect illegal online activities even as they happen or soon thereafter, according to IT guru, Stanford professor and ebizQ columnist David Luckham. He says the technology is evolving toward that point � and could get there with a push from bankers � in just one example of what IT awareness by enterprises could mean:
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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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The need for such alignment is no longer in dispute, says David A. Kelly of ebizQ. But some key facets of getting there are tougher to come by than just buying more technology. For instance, he points out, the whole nature of the relationship between business managers and the IT organization has to change.
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They're key considerations as you mull this white-hot technology for your company, and they're spelled out for you in Part Two of this examination of RFID by Sun's Manish Bhuptani and Shahram Moradpour. They also address an emerging issue around this emerging technology: privacy concerns:
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For starters, because your competitors surely are. But what, exactly, is RFID, why is there so much buzz around it now, and what can it do for the visibility your company has of its own supply chain ands those of its partners? Sun�s Manish Bhuptani and Shahram Moradpour address those questions here, in the first of two pieces on the white-hot technology:
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There�s no question that service oriented architectures can be significant enterprise aids by making organizations much more flexible, fostering reuse, etc. But SOAs themselves need some assistance when business processes are being orchestrated and Web services are being composed. And that boost is coming in the form of BPEL, as Oracle�s John Deeb described in a recent ebizQ webinar, outlined here:
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Enterprise Information Integration is unique unto itself, but helps organizations leverage other types of integration technology, according to ebizQ�s own Beth Gold-Bernstein. Here, she explains how, offering insight on EII�s history and growing role in the integration space, particularly as a catalyst for companies seeking maximum agility and reuse from SOAs:
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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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If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, how valuable would a laundry list of potential pitfalls in EAI rollouts be to you? LogicCurve�s Jose Herrera figures, plenty, and here he runs them down, to give you an advance heads-up:
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Fast, agile companies often have fat bottom-lines. And in a recent ebizQ webinar, summarized here, Oracle�s Ashish Mohindroo explained how SOAs can help companies, including yours, get there -- especially when you steer toward BPM, BAM, B2B and more, for good measure:
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Simply put, their momentum is unmistakable and perhaps unstoppable, says AMR Research�s Kevin O�Mara in this Outlook report. Done right, they improve bottom lines and customer satisfaction. So O�Mara takes a look at the technologies and best practices you might consider if you embrace DDSNs:
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It�s already moving out of the pure-play arena and into some packaged ERP solutions. And ebizQ�s David A. Kelly says it�s likely to keep evolving as more and more organizations realize how much BPM empowers business users to create, change and even monitor processes:
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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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Along with focusing on end-user service, according to Candle�s David Caddis in a recent ebizQ webinar, summarized here. He serves up a number of suggestions to help your company do what few seem to be able to. But there�s universal agreement that it�s a goal well-worth pursuing:
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IT visionary and new ebizQ columnist David Luckham observes that problems created by companies being in the dark about the impact on the business of events in their IT infrastructure may only get worse as new technologies such as RFID begin to bombard those infrastructures with levels of data never seen before. But, explains Luckham, if we could relate events to high-level business processes, that would give us "IT insight," with enormous potential impact on all of e-Commerce:
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Even as SOAs finally begin to come into their own, bringing with them much-heralded additional enterprise agility, another type of architecture promises to complement them in that regard, said integration expert Roy Schulte of Gartner during a recent ebizQ webinar, summarized here:
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The most successful companies, notes Online Insight CTO Dr. Bradley S. Fordham, integrate product development, marketing, and sales efforts around one key variable: customer preferences. And, Fordham points out here, because those preferences are precisely that, variable, they need to be tracked in real-time, and enterprises need an integrated view of them:
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Becoming a true real-time enterprise has proven elusive, and may not even be a necessity for many companies, according to Tony Baer of research and consulting firm onStrategies. But Baer says one vendor finally seems to have hit on an approach offering real real-time to enterprises that opt to seek it:
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EII is, in the words of ebizQ�s Beth Gold-Bernstein, �fast becoming the part of the infrastructure that aggregates, integrates and manages information across the enterprise.� In this column, Gold-Bernstein notes that EII does what the old data integration and EAI couldn�t and don�t, leading to EII becoming a true IT growth sector. She also offers some pointed and compelling EII best practices tips, and explains how EII can be immensely helpful to your company:
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A persistent problem for enterprises is knowing whether applications and processes are performing up to expectations, and not just in terms of whether projected ROI is being obtained. But ebizQ columnist David A. Kelly says solutions are surfacing to help organizations make such assessments, and he points to one vendor in particular with a unique solution:
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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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This "machine," sometimes called the "SEx Machine" for short, offers a way to keep your company a step or more ahead of its competitors at all times through time-based competition, as BPM expert and ebizQ columnist Peter Fingar explained in a recent ebizQ webinar, summarized here:
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It's important, because it helps companies to gain visibility into their business processes at the IT level, and gives them a better idea of what's going on inside their business. And ebizQ columnist David A. Kelly says one vendor in particular may be ahead of the curve in this problem domain:
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All too often, asserts IT visionary and new ebizQ columnist David Luckham, managers are in the dark about the impact on the business of events in the IT infrastructure. Using last summer's big Northeast blackout as an example, Luckham dubs this phenomenon "IT Blindness," and points out that managing in real-time is a big problem presented by the emergence of the real-time enterprise. He stresses that it's a problem that must be solved, to head off business and other disasters, and give managers a better handle on their businesses, in general:
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ebizQ columnist David A. Kelly says doing that is critical to staying in business. Here, he explores why BPM is an excellent way to bridge the two levels, but adds that it�s not the only way. In any event, Kelly stresses that companies have to have a sharp, real-time view of their activities to be in position to respond to changes in business conditions:
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Rules-based BPM helps make enterprises more agile, so they can adapt to change more readily. That rule-of-thumb was described in detail in a recent ebizQ webinar, summarized here, in which Pegasytems strutted its newest BPM stuff:
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Companies can't and shouldn't stir BPM into their IT stew willy-nilly, say BPM gurus and ebizQ columnists Howard Smith and Peter Fingar. Here, they offer a methodical way to mix BPM into the enterprise menu, and explain why it will be delicious for bottom-lines:
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Having clear visibility into your business means knowing what�s going on at the 25,000-foot, business level, but that�s made up an unlimited number of transactions and events at the much more granular business and intra-application level. Here, ebizQ columnist David A. Kelly sorts it all out for us:
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Mix in some BPM, Web services orchestration, BAM, and composite apps, and you have yourself the makings of an agile, responsive infrastructure, ebizQ VP Beth Gold-Bernstein and Glen Johnson of Magic Software said in an ebizQ webinar.
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Navigating the maze of integration technologies can be challenging and confusing. To help put you on course to the solution you need, ebizQ has put together a Buyer�s Guide, featuring a �map� to steer you to the right types of solutions and the vendors offering them. Here, ebizQ�s Beth Gold-Bernstein focuses her compass on the Guide and map, and shows how it can keep you from making expensive mistakes:
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For all the buzz around Sarbanes-Oxley, a recent Aberdeen Group survey found business managers more concerned about the bigger compliance picture. And Aberdeen has specific recommendations about making SOX a component of overall enterprise cost compliance initiatives:
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Open source technology may soon make big inroads in the EAI space, says EAI expert Ankur Laroia. He points to ESBs, which conform to open standards and enjoy a price advantage over traditional EAI software. There are now even open source adapters which, he asserts, give open source another leg up:
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Knowing what�s happening in your business processes in real time is important�and ebizQ columnist David A. Kelly notes there are different ways to keep tabs. BPM vendors offer one perspective, and you can get views from the XML and Web services side as well:
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The more things change, the more they seem to stay the same, especially in the IT realm. So says David Linthicum, Grand Central Communications CTO and ebizQ columnist. Take, for instance, the latest incarnation of IT appliance: the so-called integration appliance. Might it be right for your company?
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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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In a recent edition of its WebSphere Insider, Candle. Corp. turned to the European Chair of the EAI Industry Consortium, Steve Craggs, for tips on how companies can keep from falling into the most common �bear traps� associated with integration projects:
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Companies with overall integration strategies, and integration projects guided by best practices, are more likely to succeed at integration than companies without them. So a recent edition of Candle Corp.�s WebSphere Insider took an in-depth look at the best ways to come up with such strategies.
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Still need persuading that B2B is the way to go? Want some handy suggestions on implementing it? Then a recent ebizQ webinar, summarized here, was the place to be. Oracle’s Ashish Mohindroo offered a compelling case for B2B, then outlined practical steps for instituting it:
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Integration efforts that tie infrastructures in "Gordian Knots" of custom code can be a distant memory if companies turn more to BPM, says AptSoft’s David Cameron. He says BPM "provides a low-cost integration layer as well as workflow and monitoring functionality," and helps align business and IT:
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That’s where BPM experts and ebizQ columnists Howard Smith and Peter Fingar show in this piece that profits come from, with lots of help from managing what they call the “invisible ‘P’ of process.” They refer to it as the "Business Process rEvolution":
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What is “smart BPM,” and how is it helping insurance companies weather a tight economic climate? What’s more, what might it do for your company even if it’s not in the insurance sector? A recent ebizQ webinar took a look, and we peek at that webinar here:
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A good business service management tool can help IT departments maximize the provision of critical business services without taxing their staffs. In a recent ebizQ webinar, summarized here, BMC’s Jim Byrd looked at solutions for monitoring the PeopleSoft, WebLogic Server and Tuxedo environments:
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While it’s tempting to do integration tactically, it’s better overall to go the strategic route. Compelling reasons are provided in a book being written about integration best practices by ebizQ’s Beth Gold-Bernstein and integration expert Bill Ruh. Here, Gold-Bernstein offers some initial insight:
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Financial firms can’t rest on their SWIFT implementation-related laurels, says Vitria’s John Parker. He notes changes to the standard are coming swiftly, and says firms will have to be just as swift to stay up to speed. Parker also pans point-to-point implementations and lauds those based on BPM:
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AMR Research’s Eric Austvold would likely answer, “Yes.” In a recent ebizQ webinar, outlined here, Austvold explained why he thinks Chief Process Officers and “black belts” are among the emerging trends companies can get in on to extend their ERP systems and become process-oriented and agile:
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The benefits of becoming a real-time enterprise are many, and are becoming more and more apparent and widely acknowledged. In a recent ebizQ webinar, our own Beth Gold-Bernstein and CommerceQuest President and COO Lee White discussed a bunch of them:
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As companies try to connect business services across functional silos, they have to overcome bottom-up systems and network management frameworks, according to analyst firm the451. And in this Spotlight report, the451 says the need to get there from here is making Performance Management “one of the hottest sectors in enterprise software”:
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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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Studies show Web site visitors will leave -- and not return -- if a page won’t load in 4 seconds, so it’s critical to optimize app servers, middleware, hardware and databases for faster performance. If you're using a WebSphere-based system, the tips offered in the ebizQ webinar summarized here can help:
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The persistence layer offers scores of opportunities for optimizing your WebSpere environment. Candle architect Michael Pallos suggests some key best practices for database interaction in a recent ebizQ webinar, summarized here:
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If you can’t measure it, you most likely can’t improve it. To that end, ebizQ’s Beth Gold-Bernstein and CommerceQuest’s Lee White describe the latest ways to develop valuable and visible metrics to enhance business performance in a recent ebizQ webinar, summarized here:
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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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Business activity monitoring and business process management are widely viewed as the next big steps in integration, making it an even more valuable business tool. Here analyst Dave Kelly takes a look at how real-time business activity monitoring can help companies, their partners, suppliers and even their customers:
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