The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
The Insider's Guide to Business and IT Agility
In the White Paper Section you’ll find white papers and research on issues related to emerging computer technology, business communications management, in-depth TCO analysis of different technologies and strategies, open source systems, datacenter best practices, and virtualization solutions. The specific topics with their own dedicated Resource Centers include SOA solutions, IT offshoring benefits, SaaS, VoIP systems, and Sarbox compliance.
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Complex Event Processing (CEP) is an emerging technology for building and managing information systems. The goal of CEP is to enable the information contained in the events flowing through all of the layers of the enterprise IT infrastructure to be discovered, understood in terms of its impact on high level management goals and business processes, and acted upon in real time. This includes events created by new technologies such as RFID.
A major application of CEP is business event management (BEM). CEP employs techniques such as detection of complex patterns of many events, event correlation and abstraction, event hierachies, and relationships among events such as causality, membership, and timing, and event-driven processes.
This section chronicles the emergence of CEP applications and products, and to discuss their relevance to managing the event-driven real time enterprise.
Data Grids as an Imperative for SOA Implementations
A basic principle of SOA is the decoupling of applications and services. This leads to increased changes to existing applications and services, as well as more frequent creation of new ones. Because more services and applications are now creating, accessing, updating, and deleting (CRUD) operational data, the ability to establish concurrent control, transactional integrity, and response performance is more important and more challenging than ever. Significantly more data is generated with CRUD operations, and the amount is unpredictable. The ability to dynamically scale the enterprise data repository and to ensure reliable availability of data services - even when the database reaches full capacity or becomes unavailable - is critical.
One of the important benefits of an SOA is the opening of legacy applications and their data stores to much wider use. An associated challenge, however, is that the legacy asset may not be architected in a way that supports the transactional demands resulting from that wider use. By providing a buffer against the legacy data store, a data grid can serve as a caching layer that scales linearly to extreme levels. IT does not have to re-architect the legacy asset; the data grid enables IT to offer broader access with high service levels.
P & C Billing Market Survey Results
Read about what P & C carriers have to say about the current state of their billing systems, how well current systems support their needs, and how they see their billing operations evolving in the future.Formalizing Operational Governance: Ensuring the well-managed enterprise
Governance is a straightforward concept and is practiced by all enterprises. It is the creation of policies regarding various aspects of the business and then making certain that the policies are followed. Creating the policies is not the main issue in having good governance; all successful enterprises do a good job creating policies. The hard part of governance, and where most enterprises fail, is in monitoring the policies and in knowing that the policies have been followed; in other words achieving control and compliance.
A new class of governance capability is available that will let you dynamically manage all governance efforts in a formal and efficient way, thereby delivering significant ROI to the business in terms of lower operating expenses and improved efficiency. In this paper, the concept of defining and formalizing Operational Governance is discussed, as well as the inherent benefits of implementing an Operational Governance solution.