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The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment At the end of the day the managing director for Lloyds Abbey Life knew a lot more about his business than I did so the notion that I could somehow tell him what to do was farcical. Enjoying work and having fun doing it is obviously important to...

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

BlackBerry goes Bold with super-3G

News However, arguments about the user experience, battery life, et cetera are inconsequential when carriers and end users are demanding HSPA. RIM has launched the first of its BlackBerry smart phones to include high-speed HSDPA connectivity.

Tags: rim, blackberry, 3g

[13 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]

Create a Personal Work/Life Balance Mission Statement

whitepaper There are three important reasons: It helps to make difficult decisions when faced with the myriad choices that life presents. It helps to realize how very little time one truly has to accomplish the important things in the life.

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

Create a State-of-the-Art Work/Life Program

whitepaper Over the years, the author and his colleagues at Work & Family Connection have learned that it's certainly possible to casually implement a few programs that support employees' work/life balance and effectiveness.

Tags: word processing

[11 May 2008]

Selecting the Best Tools for Your Software System Design: Improve Your Project Life Cycle

whitepaper If one is an IT architect, one is involved in almost all phases of the software development life cycle and must make critical decisions that decide the fate of a software application. Many of these decisions may be based on one's personal...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Manage the Unmanageable: The Importance of Governance in the Project Life Cycle

whitepaper Software development projects are notorious for cost overruns, missed deadlines, and constantly changing scopes. Why is that? Why is it that when one sets out to develop a product - be it an operating system, a device driver, an internal...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Analyze Use Cases by Architectural Relevance: Using Architectural Mechanisms to Improve the Software Development Life Cycle

whitepaper The term architectural relevance refers to a system aspect, either functional or nonfunctional, that is central to determining the fundamental structure of that system. One of the core best practices for software development is to focus on the...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Introducing IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, Part 1: A Day in the Life of WebSphere Service Registry and Repository in the SOA Life Cycle

whitepaper These are realized by separating service descriptions from their implementations, and using this descriptive metadata across the service life cycle. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) offers the promise of business agility and resilience through...

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

Architecting on Demand Solutions, Part 17: Build a Hello World SOA Application

whitepaper This 17th part in the series focuses on new products that lets one implement a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) life cycle. Information gathered during the manage phase helps one gain real-time insight into business processes, enabling better...

Tags: service-oriented architecture

[11 May 2008]

Architecture in Practice, Part 7: Scenario 3: Business Process Management and SOA - Realize Flexible Service Connectivity With Different ESBs

whitepaper View Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) within a software-development life cycle context using the IBM SOA foundation life cycle. This installment in the Architecture in practice series focuses on the Business Process Management (BPM) scenario...

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

Veritas Storage Foundation: Simplifying Heterogeneous Data Migrations and Data Mobility

whitepaper All server and storage hardware has a useful life. And, unfortunately performing data migrations and array migrations are a question of when not if. Additionally with heterogeneous data centers and new technologies being introduced, infrastructure...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[11 May 2008]

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance With IBM Rational Method Composer and IBM Rational Portfolio Manager

whitepaper This paper is a true-to-life account of an exchange among software development team colleagues, showing how Rational Method Composer and Rational Portfolio Manager provide everything organizations need to build compliance delivery processes and...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Discover IBM Rational Visual Tools for Application Development: Taking a Tour of the Rational Software Development Platform

whitepaper The user and his or her IT team need to be as efficient as possible throughout the software development life cycle. The IBM Rational software development platform contains a variety of visual tools to help the user do this.

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

A Functional Comparison of Systems Management Tools From IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell

whitepaper To get the most value out of the technology investment throughout its life cycle, one needs smart, effective systems management that can help ensure high availability while minimizing the ongoing ownership costs.

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

Create a Retirement Care Plan

whitepaper A financial advisor may need to help the clients and their families plan for the last stage of life. When planning for retirement, most people focus on wealth management and insurance. But a well-rounded retirement care plan should address other...

Tags: finance

[11 May 2008]

Protecting EMRs, Data Privacy and Hospital Interconnections

whitepaper Rapidly expanding interconnections are a fact of life as healthcare providers expand access to EMRs and other data by physicians, nurses, transcription services, and radiology interpretation services, and staff members connect via laptops and...

Tags: security management

[11 May 2008]

SOA Governance for Developers and Architects: Find Out How It Affects You and Your Job Today

whitepaper Enterprise IT groups and CIOs are creating new governance policies around SOA, enterprise architecture, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and more. SOA governance is becoming a big issue. Learn about governance from a developer's perspective...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

MDA for the Enterprise: An Architect's Approach to More Productive Development

whitepaper MDA is applicable to the complete development life cycle of designing, deploying, integrating, and managing applications, using open standards such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), Extensible Markup Language (XML), XML Metadata Interchange (XMI...

Tags: xml

[11 May 2008]

New Techniques for Requirements Management Using Rational RequisitePro, Part 1: Using Architectural Methods to Analyze, Manage, and Trace Business Requirements

whitepaper This paper describes new architectural methods and techniques that focus on requirements engineering, the science of capturing, analyzing, and managing requirements throughout a project's life cycle. Although this paper uses the Rational toolset to...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

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