Optimizing Performance of Business Critical Web Applications
[ Source: CA ]
September 2009-
Reliance on web-based applications has significant implications for both IT and business managers. IT’s challenge is to provide a reliable, high-performance web environment. Anything less than a superior end-user experience and high service quality can impact revenue and customer satisfaction.
SOA and Web Services: The Performance Paradox
[ Source: CA ]
August 2007-
Loosely-coupled service environments provide unique benefits to the organizations that utilize them, while at the same time, they introduce new challenges. See how IT teams — operations, application support, architects and developers — gain control over complex, composite applications upon which so much business depends. Read this white paper on SOA and Web Services for more in-depth information.
The Total Economic Impact™ of Daptiv PPM
[ Source: Daptiv ]
March 2009-
In August 2008, Daptiv commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying Daptiv PPM. Daptiv PPM is on-demand collaborative business software that allows organizations to select, staff, and manage projects across teams, departments, and divisions. This study illustrates the financial impact of deploying Daptiv PPM in a medium-sized, multi-location retail organization. In conducting in-depth interviews with four existing customers, Forrester found that ....
Cloud Computing for National Security Applications
[ Source: Dataline LLC ]
June 2008-
Through collaboration with leading industry partners, Dataline is integrating an end-to-end solution for secure cloud computing. Called Service Oriented Architecture – Real Time (SOA-R), this solution integrates:
• Real-time services oriented architecture;
• Multi-tiered, high-performance storage;
• Event driven automated workflows;
• Mission specific applications and web services;
• Highly reliable, virtualized, hardware infrastructure;
• Efficient wide area networking with accelerate geosynchronous satellite IP throughput;
• Information ....
Cloud Computing Implementation Frameworks and SOA
[ Source: Fiorano Software ]
November 2009-
Today's enterprise environment is rapidly changing. The disparate mix of operating systems, applications and databases for businesses and organizations increasingly characterizes the IT system landscape, exacerbated by consolidation across nearly all industry sectors. Service-agnostic cloud computing and frameworks to efficiently harness, provision, launch, debug, and manage distributed services virtualized across the enterprise poses both, a great challenge and an opportunity to streamline business operations.
As enterprise applications and technologies grow in complexity and ....
Agile Architecture
[ Source: Impetus Technologies, Inc. ]
November 2008-
Traditionally, an attempt is made to make the right architectural decisions early, due to the significant anticipated cost associated with making incorrect decisions. But this contradicts with Agile practices, which encourages welcoming change. Conceptually, the goal of Agile architecture should be to minimize the architectural change by crafting software so that it can easily adapt to change. In practice, developing Agile architecture is far more difficult. The architectural goals change dramatically during the development ....
Cosmic FFP Model Eases Enterprise Application Integration
[ Source: Infosys Technologies ]
January 2008-
While Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) software sizing poses challenges, the common industry estimation techniques provide no guideline for EAI estimation. This paper discusses the suitability of Cosmic FFP, a new international estimation model for EAI. Infosys' expert provides a productivity correction approach for more correlated size-effort trends.
A Governance Framework: Part I - Embedding Architecture into the Organization
[ Source: Infosys Technologies ]
October 2008-
Enterprise Architecture, the holistic view of an enterprise’s processes, information and information technology assets as a vehicle for aligning business and IT in a structured and therefore more efficient and sustainable way, has attracted significant attention over the last two to three years. Our experience and research shows that enterprise architecture hardly ever fails because of inadequate content. The challenges usually arise around how to link the enterprise architecture ....
A Governance Framework: Part II - Making Enterprise Architecture Work within the Organization
[ Source: Infosys Technologies ]
October 2008-
Enterprise Architecture, the holistic view of an enterprise’s processes,
information and information technology assets as a vehicle for aligning
business and IT in a structured and therefore more efficient and sustainable
way, has attracted significant attention over the last years.
This paper focuses on how to operate Enterprise Architecture
(EA), using the dimensions of policies and principles, processes,
measurement and tool enablement.
Tunneling Process Data Securely Through Firewalls
[ Source: Integration Objects ]
February 2009-
To not securely transmit process data exposes process control networks to potential cyber attacks which can disrupt production, compromise safety and cause significant financial losses for companies. This paper expands on the issues and challenges of using DCOM when deploying OPC technology and presents an alternative solution that addresses the industrial end-user requirements.