Wednesday - May 7, 2008
SAP will offer new business process and rules management capabilities for its NetWeaver service-oriented architecture platform. NetWeaver Business Process Management and NetWeaver Business Rules Management will allow companies to build or change business processes and rules without coding. "Industry boundaries are blurring," SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said during his keynote speech Tuesday at the company's Sapphire conference for its customers. "Business model innovation is important -- it's more important than product innovation."
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Monday - May 5, 2008
"Too much information is a dangerous thing" -- how often have we all heard that expression? Maybe it should be "too much inaccurate information is a catastrophic thing." Never has so much data been collected and stored within organizations. Smart organizations want to make use of this data, not only to keep the organization going, but also to gain competitive advantage.
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Thursday - May 1, 2008
It's a phrase that we hear all too frequently: "We're moving off our mainframe." Yet virtually anyone who has ever had a mainframe continues to utilize it in some fashion. These robust and highly functional legacy systems contain years and years of data, and when you're talking about abandoning them altogether, you're also talking about a huge chunk of change. The truth is the mainframe is not disappearing.
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Wednesday - April 16, 2008
On-demand applications and cloud computing often mean different things to different people. For developers, Software as a Service is quickly evolving not only as a means to deliver applications -- but as the means to develop them, too. Taking the notion of "development as a service" to its full potential is the logic behind Platform as a Service.
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Tuesday - April 15, 2008
Infosys Technologies' better-than-expected short-term business outlook glossed otherwise lackluster fourth-quarter results, which fell just short of market forecasts. "The market was expecting the worst, but the Nasdaq-listed company has performed well and results are almost in line with market expectations," R. Ravi, an analyst at Karvy Stock Broking, said.
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Thursday - April 10, 2008
"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction," said Sir Isaac Newton. While he made that observation centuries before the dot-com boom and bust, his words remain quite relevant today. After large corporation executives took advantage of their positions and wreaked financial havoc, the federal government was called to step in and prevent a recurrence.
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Monday - April 7, 2008
IBM is unveiling upgrades to its WebSphere Premises Server at Impact, its SOA event taking place in Las Vegas this week. The buffed-up SOA software -- Version 6.1 -- and IBM's RFID Information Center will be the two main product spotlights at the event. The cumulative effect of the improvements is that users will find it far easier to gather, analyze and act upon data.
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Monday - March 31, 2008
North American manufacturers have faced years of intense, globalized competition. This onslaught compelled them to modernize their manufacturing processes to compete effectively. The result has been that many plants have become models of efficiency and agility. This modernization allowed manufacturers to more quickly adjust production to address shifts in demand and business goals.
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Sunday - March 30, 2008
Some workers are doing it at Dunkin' Donuts, at Hilton hotels, even at Marine Corps bases. Employees at a growing number of businesses are starting and ending their days by pressing a hand or finger to a scanner that logs the precise time of their arrival and departure -- information that is automatically reflected in payroll records.
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Thursday - March 27, 2008
Most organizations are under the misimpression that by simply maintaining a generic legal hold policy, they will avoid any adverse consequences in litigation. Those organizations are wrong. In fact, one could have a brilliant legal hold plan and still face sanctions if it fails to address the downstream process. Legal hold is actually only the first step.
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Monday - March 3, 2008
Perhaps nowhere as in government services is the need for truly collaborative software and information systems so great. The organizational and information management challenges are as immense and far-reaching as government itself, and if anything have intensified in the face of budget cuts and constraints, population growth, demographic shifts and a more complex, technologically dependent and affluent society.
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