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Process Adoption Anti-Patterns: How - Not - to Make a Process Work for You

whitepaper Patterns are part of the software professional's toolbox today. Specifically, one learns about design patterns - ways of designing the programs to make them more robust, flexible, and correct. Erich Gamma laid the foundation for software design...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Avoiding Common Pitfalls in SOA Adoption: Tips to Help You Reap the Benefits of an SOA Implementation

whitepaper IT architecture has matured significantly as an approach to successfully address typical IT problem domains. A relatively new subdiscipline in architecture that has gained significant prominence is the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

The MDA Adoption Manual: Is Your Company Ready for the Model Driven Architecture?

whitepaper The business benefits of MDA are obvious. The challenge is in getting one's organization to support the transition. The biggest issue will be convincing people that MDA isn't just about saving time and cost - which for many people would mean layoffs.

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Nortel Secure Network Access and Microsoft Network Access Protection Integration

whitepaper However, confusion around industry standards, the multitude of NAC vendors and the complexity of the solutions has led to a relatively slow industry-wide NAC adoption rate. With the ever-increasing need for enterprises to provide endpoint security...

Tags: security management

[11 May 2008]

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Improves Reliability of Critical Business Processes

whitepaper Because the testing of this product in a production environment is an important part of the validation process, IT selected five internal customers to participate in the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for R2.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

U.K. NHS Trust Saves £46,000 in One Year With Timely Software Updates

whitepaper This decision was based on the familiarity, interoperability, and cost-effectiveness of the Microsoft technology, which requires only minimal training for adoption. To improve efficiency and reduce costs, managers at Blackpool, Fylde, and Wyre...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

3Com Solutions: Interoperating With Cisco Systems

whitepaper It is no longer cost effective to be trapped in wholly proprietary systems where each new advance creates adoption challenges rather than opportunities. In today's fast paced and highly competitive world, IT is a critical enabler of business.

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[11 May 2008]

Create the Ideal SOA Team: Redefining the Roles of Traditional Software Development Teams

whitepaper One has probably read several papers about SOA adoption, maturity models, and implementation. The prevailing evolution in software development is moving from traditional software architecture to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Tags: service-oriented architecture

[11 May 2008]

InfiniBand - Industry Standard Data Center Fabric Is Ready for Prime Time

whitepaper The recent resurgence in IT infrastructure investment has been very timely for the adoption of mature InfiniBand fabrics and today's more realistic positive market perception is based on real world deployments.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Bank Mandiri Uses Portal to Streamline Company-Wide Information Sharing

whitepaper It decided to participate in Microsoft Technical Adoption Program (TAP), and move to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk, the largest Indonesian bank in terms of total assets, loans and deposits, offers a broad...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Embracing SOA for the Legacy World: Architectural Strategies to Give Your Mainframes and Legacy Applications a New Lease on Life

whitepaper But since the advent and subsequent adoption of Web services, SOA has been given a new lease on life. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming widely accepted, but there are gaps in the industry's approach, level of experience, and...

Tags: mainframes

[11 May 2008]

Growing an Architecture-Driven Team: Moving From a Hero-Based Environment to an Engineer-Based Environment

whitepaper In this paper, explore training and mentoring techniques that can facilitate the adoption of architecturally driven processes within development teams. As a developer of software systems, one typically focuses on the finest level of detail.

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Travel and Procurement: The Convergence

whitepaper How best-in-class companies achieve high adoption rates. According to a recent Aberdeen Group survey, companies that don't use an integrated travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management service, like Concur Travel & Expense, are falling behind...

Tags: back-office

[11 May 2008]

Ensuring Compliance With PCI Data Security Standards: Employing CoreGuard to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards

whitepaper PCI, an industry-wide adoption of Visa's CISP (Cardholder Information Security Program), is the credit card industry's standard for securing cardholder data. Compliance with PCI (Payment Card Industry) data security requirements is a key initiative...

Tags: security standards

[08 May 2008]

Meeting the 12 Rules of the PCI Data Security Standards: Employing CoreGuard to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards

whitepaper PCI, an industry-wide adoption of Visa's CISP (Cardholder Information Security Program), is the credit card industry's standard for securing cardholder data. Compliance with PCI (Payment Card Industry) data security requirements is a key initiative...

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Achieving and Maintaining Compliance With the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards

whitepaper Unfortunately, adoption was slow and compliance lagged. During the past several years, credit card associations have begun to make a concerted effort to raise the level of security within the industry.

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

Nemertes Research: The Business Case for Voice over IP

whitepaper Read Nemertes Research's report for information on trends in VoIP adoption and architecture and associated costs based on its extensive research into this topic. VoIP clearly is a critical and common application at the vast majority of organizations.

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[05 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News CIOs are increasingly becoming "green ambassadors" - taking responsibility for driving the adoption of sustainable business practices in their own organisations and encouraging their suppliers to think green too, according to networking giant Cisco.

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

RFID Basics for Retailers

whitepaper Dependable technology, emerging standards plus increasing business pressures are driving the rapid adoption of RFID. Despite the promise that the technology holds, limitations with the initial RFID implementations have made the experiences to-date...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, standards, rfid, date

[01 May 2008]

ABCs of RFID: Understanding and Using Radio Frequency Identification

whitepaper Adoption of this Automatic Data-Collection (ADC) technology has recently been fueled by the establishment of key standards, retailer and government mandates, improved technology performance and falling implementation costs.

Tags: rfid, rfid, standards, adopted

[01 May 2008]

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