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Insight and Outlook, Part 1: Why and When Should You Choose SOA? - IBM Technical Leaders Answer Pressing Questions About IT Architecture

whitepaper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a de facto standard for developing component-based applications that can be accessed over the network (whether the Internet or some other network) using standard interfaces.

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

Create a Channel Partner Scorecard

whitepaper Effective management requires answers to some basic questions: How profitable are my channel partner relationships? The channel partner scorecard helps one collect and interprets the information that one needs to answer those questions.

Tags: word processing

[11 May 2008]

Business Intelligence Solutions Architecture

whitepaper These architectures are defined to support the functional, technical, and data needs of the system that will address business questions posed by users. Additional focus was paid to analytics, and OLAP functions were provided as a key strategy to...

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

IBM & Oracle Support Process for IBMers or Customers

whitepaper Frequently questions come up about the way that both companies work together in order to fix in an expedited manner the resolution of problems. IBM and Oracle have thousands of common customers. At the time of this writing, the estimate is over 17...

Tags: customer support services

[11 May 2008]

How to Choose a Mobile Platform: Six Mobile Development Technologies Compared

whitepaper This month's column lends a helping hand by teaching one to ask all the right questions before one gets started. With so many great options, choosing the right technology for one's mobile development projects can leave one spoiled for choice.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[11 May 2008]

Building an Enterprise Service Bus Using WebSphere ESB - Part 1

whitepaper The authors received questions asking what is the relationship (and, respectively, what is the difference) between SIBus and WebSphere ESB, and which technology to use when. Ever since the IBM WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WebSphere ESB...

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

Avoiding the Compliance Trap for Travel and Expenses

whitepaper Read this IDC paper to get answers to the following questions posed by travel and expense management services provider Concur to Kathleen Wilhide, research director for IDC's Compliance and Business Performance Management (BPM) Solutions research...

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

Understand Flexible Work Arrangements

whitepaper But, before one begin answering these questions, one first need to understand the type of work arrangement options that are available - and which one will best suit the needs, as well as that of the employer.

Tags: groupware - workflow

[11 May 2008]

3 Steps to a Great Elevator Pitch

whitepaper It answers five basic questions, and it encourages the listener to request, "Tell me more. Elevator pitches are developed to relay just enough information to cause the interlocutor to ask, "Tell me more.

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

Linux on System z, an End-to-End View: From Sizing to Performance Analysis to Capacity Planning

whitepaper When presentations about Linux on System z sizing were made, questions were raised about the accuracy of the projections. Critical enterprise Linux applications are being deployed in ever increasing numbers on IBM System z and zSeries servers.

Tags: mainframes

[11 May 2008]

Premise IP-PBX Checklist

whitepaper Questions addressed in this white paper include: Everything you'll need to know before talking with a premise-based PBX provider. This checklist organizes all of the basic information about your current situation that you'll need to effectively...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, provider, locations, pbx

[10 May 2008]

Cloud computing: Silver lining…

Comment The fundamental questions relate to functionality, benefit, cost and trust. An SLA is all very well but hard questions still need to be asked of your provider, including the potentially awkward one of: "What APIs do you provide to enable my...

Tags: saas, data centres, cloud computing

[09 May 2008]

On-demand Webinar: Five Steps to Increasing Productivity and Profitability with Email Hosting

whitepaper You will learn answers to these questions and more: Many organizations are realizing significant gains in productivity and profitability with hosted email and mobile messaging services. What are some of the main benefits of hosted messaging and...

Tags: network design, provider, messaging, email

[08 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News Q is for Questions Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm, the malware which contributes to the Storm botnet, is continuing to evolve and now has two further possible avenues of attack.

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?

Comment If you implement an open source environment be sure to ask yourself some very important questions: But at least as a niche technology, businesses can take it seriously, says the Naked CIO. Is the debate about open source finally over?

Tags: applications, open source

[06 May 2008]

What Every Retail CIO Needs to Know About PCI Compliance and Secure Seamless Mobility

whitepaper How to protect the wireless infrastructure and comply with PCI DSS and what are the questions one should be asking? This paper provides eight questions that reflect what every retail CIO should consider before investing in a wireless solution.

Tags: network security

[06 May 2008]

Want an IT solution to fit your exact needs? Just help yourself!

whitepaper Simply answer a few questions about your specific issues, and get recommended offerings from both IBM and IBM Business Partners. Turn a long list of possible IT options into a short list of your best options, with the online IBM Advisor tool for...

Tags: infrastructure management

[03 May 2008]

BitLocker: Is It Really Secure?

whitepaper Find out the answers to these questions and more in this white paper. What exactly is BitLocker? How does it work? Is it a truly safe way to protect your data and applications, hard drives, and operating system?

Tags: network security

[02 May 2008]

The 5 Must-Have Features of a CRM Solution

whitepaper These questions and how you answer them will vary depending on your business needs, but that doesn't mean they can be overlooked. You're ready to pull the trigger on a CRM solution, but you're not sure you are making the right decision?

Tags: crm software

[02 May 2008]

Public trust eroded: Data breaches to blame

News Q is for Questions On Tuesday the BCS published the results of a survey of members of the public. Of the 1,025 respondents, 66 per cent said their trust in government departments had decreased due to information breaches such as the loss of 25...

Tags: data breach, government, hmrc

[30 Apr 2008]

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