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The evolving role of the CIO

whitepaper This brand new paper, authored by David Henderson of IBM's Global Business Services Consulting Practice, shows how technology is proving its ability to achieve competitive advantage, and focuses on how the CIO's role has changed, is changing and...

Tags: cio, consulting, david, business services

[16 May 2008]

Use Inversion of Control in Method Signatures: IoC Isn't Just for Components

whitepaper IBM Global Business Services consultant Andre Fachat uses two examples to show the flexibility of this approach. The Inversion of Control (IoC) pattern is normally used for components. This paper describes how to use the pattern on method...

Tags: programming languages

[16 May 2008]

Advanced Backup Reporting for Business-Level Trending and Analysis

whitepaper Veritas Backup Reporter provides advanced backup reporting to help IT staff enhance the efficiencies of their backup and recovery operations, help verify backup service-level compliance and bring costs associated with backup and recovery in line...

Tags: back-up

[16 May 2008]

Customers and Shareholders Benefit as Global Manufacturer Deploys Management Solution

whitepaper A lack of integration meant that business managers were unable to get an accurate, up-to-date view of the company. Sevcon worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Columbus IT to deploy Microsoft Dynamics AX business management software...

Tags: application servers

[16 May 2008]

SOA Centers of Excellence: Preserving Order Amid Change

whitepaper Indeed, SOA is one of the bright lights of contemporary business strategy and, some would suggest, the inevitable technological outcome of our global, Web-centric world. When first entertaining the notion of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA...

Tags: business strategies

[16 May 2008]

Scaling for Success: How One Manufacturer Developed an Automated Sourcing Solution to Increase Productivity and Improve Metrics

whitepaper Working with Haworth and Dow business users, it was decided that Comergent's C3 Quotes and C3 Proposals software would be a good fit for their requirements. In 2005, Dow Chemical selected Haworth to be the global solutions provider for furniture...

Tags: erp

[16 May 2008]

Mobile Solutions Provide "Anywhere, Anytime" Access to World Financial Markets

whitepaper Cantor and BGC themselves are benefiting from a faster time-to-market, additional potential revenue, and an ability to win and retain more business. Global financial service providers Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners are migrating to Windows...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[16 May 2008]

Global Data Vaulting Delivers Disaster Recovery Services for as Little as 3 USD a Day With IBM Tivoli Software

whitepaper This enabled delivery of enterprise-level business continuity services to small and medium-sized businesses for as little as 3 USD a day; reduced client recovery times from days to under 30 minutes; improved governance.

Tags: disaster recovery

[16 May 2008]

Barclays banks on offshore

News Barclays is increasingly confident in its use of business process outsourcing (BPO) which it says has improved time to market and is now looking to increase the complexity of the services it offshores.

Tags: offshoring, outsourcing, barclays

[15 May 2008]

Go Green With Home Agents: How a Virtual Contact Center Can Be Good for Profitability, Competitiveness, and the Environment

whitepaper It's too small to be visible to the naked eye, but it's causing a shift in global business that's hard to ignore. That shift probably is visible in one's business. The carbon atom. Perhaps one's company's leaders are committed to doing their part...

Tags: call center - contact

[15 May 2008]

Design and Implement a Composite Workflow Solution Using IBM Middleware, Part 3: Using Portal Technology to Build a Flexible, Adaptable UI

whitepaper Explore a business process management (BPM) solution in this series that helps a global IT manufacturer improve pre-sales operations and customer satisfaction. Follow along as the team develops a composite, collaborative workflow solution that uses...

Tags: business management

[15 May 2008]

SK Communications Supports Global Operations With Centralized Management System

whitepaper To support rapidly expanding global operations and ensure it could respond quickly to business and market changes, SK Communications implemented a business management system based on Oracle E-Business Suite.

Tags: erp

[15 May 2008]

2-Layer BPM: Oracle's Unique Strategy Towards Exceptional Agility and Business Process Efficiencies

whitepaper This CNET white paper explores the unique concept of 2-layer Business Process Management (BPM) supported by Oracle's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) offering, and its successful implementation at ABN AMRO, a global financial services company.

Tags: infrastructure management

[15 May 2008]

Benchmark Kit Validation Test for IBM System i5 With JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.11 SP1

whitepaper Business software must deliver rich functionality with robust performance. For this evaluation seventeen JD Edwards EnterpriseOne business processes were tested using IBM System i5 for the complete system.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Data Centers Are Adopting Green Initiatives But Are Wary of Vendors' Marketing Messages

whitepaper The IT industry and business in general are slowly waking up to the impact they are having on the environment. While the newspaper headlines target the growth of cheap flights as a leading cause of global warming, some commentators have suggested...

Tags: data center

[15 May 2008]

Success Deploying, Integrating and Operating Symantec Endpoint Protection

whitepaper The attendee will learn how to augment and maintain key IT functions with the residency and managed services offerings; allow the staff to focus on core business strategies; maximize the investments in Symantec Endpoint Protection and Symantec...

Tags: network security

[15 May 2008]

Design and Implement a Composite Workflow Solution Using IBM Middleware, Part 1: Using Business Process Management and a Services-Based Approach to Create a Highly Responsive IT Architecture

whitepaper The approach to designing IT architecture and implementation is changing from a technology-centered paradigm to a solution that is based on business process orchestration. When IT solutions are centered around business processes, an enterprise can...

Tags: business management

[15 May 2008]

MCI Reduces Costs by Integrating Sales Software

whitepaper MCI saw an opportunity to integrate and increase the efficiency of its systems with newer technology, thereby reducing the costs to maintain them and improving the firm's financial and business management.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Korea's Leading Shipbuilding Firm Enhances "Engineered-to-Order" Model With SAP NetWeaver

whitepaper Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has to grapple with problems of an aging facility and the lack of process integration was inhibiting the company's ability to conduct performance analysis and business planning effectively.

Tags: erp

[15 May 2008]

Oracle Case Study: American International Relocation Solutions

whitepaper A client-server-based application named ISIS (International Shipment Information System) to provide internal users with a system, integrated with another business component application named IRIS (International Relocation Information System).

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

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