How to align Business Process Management, SOA, and Lean Six Sigma. [ Source: IBM ]
February 2010 - This IBM® Redguide™ is a roadmap for business leaders who need a new edge. It describes key BPM, SOA, and Lean Six Sigma components, the linkages between them, and ways to successfully avoid barriers that have held back others.
Business Rule Management Systems Buyer's eKit [ Source: IBM ]
February 2010 - Selecting the right software is the first step in obtaining fast ROI from a business rule management system (BRMS). These tools will help you make the right decision.
Five Ways to Fast ROI With Business Rule Management Systems [ Source: IBM ]
February 2010 - Find out how your organization can begin to see ROI from WebSphere ILOG Business Rule Managment Systems (BRMS)in just 6 to 9 months.
2010 Intel Science Talent Search Finalists [ Source: TechWeb ]
February 2010 - Forty finalists will gather in Washington, D.C. from March 11-16 to compete for $630,000 in awards.
Smarter Supply Chains, Services, and Traffic. Play the game. [ Source: IBM ]
February 2010 - Both IT and business professionals know how critical process is—they just look at them differently. Play INNOV8, the IBM® Business Process Management (BPM) simulation game. It gives both IT and business players a better understanding of how effective BPM impacts an entire business ecosystem.
IBM WebSphere Business Modeler [ Source: IBM ]
February 2010 - Download WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced V6.2, which helps business users transform the business through business modeling, simulation, and analysis.
Agile Decision Services: How IBM ILOG’s Business Rule Management System Helps Organizations Deliver Fast Time to Value for Business and IT [ Source: IBM ]
February 2010 -
This paper explores the challenges that organizations face in trying to deliver quick time-to -value for IT projects and achieve the status of ‘agile enterprise’.
It illustrates how IBM® WebSphere® ILOG Business Rule Management System (BRMS) can facilitate the alignment of IT with business and support the implementation of an agile decision service (ADS) to provide business value within months of project adoption.
Why Business Rules? A Case for Business Users of Information Technology [ Source: IBM ]
February 2010 - Applications constructed with a BRMS, such as the IBM® WebSphere® ILOG BRMS offerings—the JRules and Rules for .NET BRMS product lines can deliver flexibility to business systems and agility to the organization by enhancing the ability to automate decisions with a high degree of precision and personalization. And they provide a set of integrated environments specifically designed to meet the needs of various business and technical users who participate together in the creation, deployment and ....
Best Practice at Mark's Work Warehouse [ Source: IBM ]
February 2010 -
Marks Work Wearhouse implemented an integrated, Web-based sales reporting system that enables better marketing decisions by quickly sensing changes in customer preferences and responding in realtime.
The solution, a flexible, resilient infrastructure to respond more quickly to market trends and customer needs, so that it could drive sales and increase profitability.
Automating Data Flows to Your Business Intelligence System [ Source: Cisco ]
January 2010 - Businesses can gain greater value from their BI investment by improving the way in which data flows to the BI system are managed. Many problems result when the ETL process is handled by a patchwork of scripting, custom coding, and various built-in schedulers that are part of existing ETL solutions, because these systems do not provide end-to-end execution, monitoring, and control of the ETL process. This white paper outlines the issues faced by BI operational ....
Simplify Batch Scheduling through Consolidation and Automation [ Source: Cisco ]
January 2010 -
With 50+ percent of all business processes leveraging batch operations, it is essential to keep your batch production running smoothly in order to keep your business running smoothly.
Whether you are consolidating datacenter operations, moving apps to more cost-effective platforms, or transitioning from customized to packaged applications, learn how you can
• Simplify and lower the cost of batch management with a single interface to all batch processes across platforms and applications
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Enterprise Job Scheduling Evaluation Guide [ Source: Cisco ]
January 2010 -
How to evaluate and choose a job scheduling solution that is right for your infrastructure.
IT groups must support many applications and servers across multiple platforms that frequently operate independently of each other. Coordinating all these applications and networks to streamline job scheduling can increase productivity and reduce costs.
However, applying more staff, toolkits, and rudimentary scheduling software to cobble together automated batch processing solutions is cost-prohibitive, inefficient, and error-prone. Enterprise job scheduling ....
Tidal's Enterprise Scheduler Enables Staples to Achieve a 45% ROI and 61% IRR in just 3 years with Cost-effective Automation and Centralization [ Source: Cisco ]
January 2010 - Staples' information systems play a critical role in delivering on their brand promise 'that was easy.' As part of a recent strategic imperative, Staples recently embarked on a major modernization of its systems architecture and supporting processes. The goal was to ensure IT's systems could scale with the company's continued global expansion without sacrificing the quality of the brand experience. One critical target for modernization was Staples' enterprise job scheduling processes and systems. After researching ....
Enterprise Scheduler Provides Advanced Automation and Standardization at Leading Online Bank While Delivering a 114% ROI [ Source: Cisco ]
January 2010 - A leading global financial institution recently embarked on a new strategy to leverage Internet technology and deploy a direct-to-consumer online banking model. The success and resulting growth of the bank's online business translated into increased batch job run times and increased job management complexity. This led to two major challenges for the IT team: a need to automate their traditional batch job management processes that were highly manual, and a need to eliminate inefficiencies and ....
Automating Job Scheduling for Windows [ Source: Cisco ]
January 2010 -
Automate to Optimize: The Foundation for Data Center Efficiency
Datacenters experience constant change under pressure from technology and business drivers. IT systems are becoming more, not less complex as new technologies are introduced, and IT staffs are not growing to keep pace with the growth in size and complexity of the typical datacenter.
Windows administrators need to radically simplify both complex and routine tasks if they are going to effectively respond to the ....
Perspective Network Management Solution [ Source: ScriptLogic ]
January 2010 -
Perspective is a comprehensive and affordable network management and application monitoring solution. Perspective’s ease of install and ease of use combine with broad and deep monitoring capabilties to provide administrators with unprecedented visibility into the performance of the network itselt, as well as the devices and applications running on the network.
With the ability to “see” the network from different points of view, Perspective gets to the root of problems where ....
Android OS Development [ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2010 - Dr. Dobb's talks with Commonsware's Mark Murphy about what's involved in developing software for the Android operating system
Clustering Database Applications to Lower IT Cost [ Source: Oracle ]
January 2010 -
Clustering is a mandate within a responsible IT data center. For more than eight years enterprises around the globe have used Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC) to apply the principles of grid computing at the database tier, adding their stories to a towering spire of evidence that clustered architectures can save organizations millions of dollars.
Customers across all industries are clustering their transaction processing and data warehousing applications to deliver a higher quality of ....
Mayo Clinic and IBM Detect Brain Aneurysms [ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2010 - The new method uses analytics technology developed by the Mayo and IBM collaboration, Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center, and has proven a 95 percent accuracy rate in detecting aneurysm.
T-Mobile Waives Call Charges to Haiti [ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2010 - T-Mobile USA is enabling phone calls to Haiti without charges for international long distance through January 31 and retroactive to the earthquake on January 12
Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling [ Source: BMC ]
January 2010 - Gartner has positioned BMC CONTROL-M in the Leaders Quadrant of their “2009 Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling.” The report assesses the ability to execute and completeness of vision of key vendors in the marketplace. Read a full copy today, courtesy of BMC Software.
Troubleshooting .NET Applications [ Source: AVIcode, Inc. ]
January 2010 -
The growing complexity of distributed enterprise application environments creates challenges for effectively managing and monitoring applications. Organizations may lack the solutions necessary for “keyboard-to-eyeball” production level monitoring and troubleshooting. Without these solutions, it is time-consuming and difficult to identify sources of application failures and bottlenecks.
This white paper addresses how to troubleshoot common application problems that occur on production servers. Learn how to effectively pinpoint the sources of application crashes and functionality failures. ....
Best Practices for Monitoring Line of Business Applications: Ensuring Availability and Reliability [ Source: AVIcode, Inc. ]
January 2010 -
It’s a truth we all know – the vast majority of applications will experience a failure or performance bottleneck at some time, whether due to expected or unexpected errors. An effective application monitoring and management solution enables organizations to proactively identify application issues and to generate real-time alerts when those issues occur, helping to ensure optimal application availability and reliability.
This white paper explores approaches for effectively monitoring business applications to ensure they achieve ....
A Guide to Diagnosing .NET Application Errors [ Source: AVIcode, Inc. ]
January 2010 -
Businesses often struggle to meet the demands of a complex .NET infrastructure that requires ever-increasing flexibility and agility. They typically lack a comprehensive view of .NET application behavior and the issues associated with distributed transactions. This limits their ability to achieve real-time diagnosis of code failures or identify and eliminate critical performance bottlenecks.
This white paper details methods for effectively diagnosing .NET application errors using Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager 2007 and both ....
Chevy Volt Mobile App [ Source: TechWeb ]
January 2010 - At the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show, the auto industry's first working smartphone application was unveiled