On-Demand IT Asset Management: What It Is, Why You Need It, and How You Can Benefit
[ Source: SAManage ]
March 2008-
This paper explains what IT Asset Management is and how it could benefit every organization. The paper highlights IT asset management (ITAM) solutions that can help organizations gain greater control over the various components within their IT architectures. ITAM systems have been so effective at helping companies derive greater value from their IT investments that the demand for such solutions continues to accelerate at a rapid pace.
Social Project Management or Project Management 2.0?
[ Source: Wrike Inc ]
May 2008-
Project management topic is a hot topic nowadays. Why? Probably one of the reasons is that this part of the management science is undergoing significant changes due to the introduction of the new technologies for managing project teams. People are using blogs, wikis and collaboration planning tools to work on projects together. How do these tools influence contemporary project management? Do traditional project management practices need to be improved? To answer these questions let's take ....
Microsoft and Tensoft Supply-Chain Solution Cuts Costs 15 Percent, Boosts Customer Service for ASIC Maker
[ Source: Tensoft ]
May 2008-
ASIC manufacturer Open-Silicon needed a better way to track yields. So, it turned to an integrated financial and supply-chain management solution from Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner Tensoft. The solution, including Microsoft Dynamics® GP and Tensoft Fabless Semiconductor Management, reduces costs by up to 15 percent or more, gives customers visibility into order status, and provides better customer service more cost-effectively. This case study documents the business needs, technology solution and associated benefits derived by implementing ....
Future of Travel Distribution
[ Source: Thunderbolt Technologies, LLC ]
December 2007-
Travel industry is global in nature. It has fairly standardized although not effective processes for the distribution of travel services like airline, hotels, car rentals, etc. driven traditionally by the major airlines of the world. Although, it is highly regionalized in the processes of how these services are marketed and booked and how the payment and fulfillment occurs. Traditional brick and mortar travel and tour operators still facilitate the sales, booking, and fulfillment of this ....
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 ....
Aflac Japan Trims IT Management Costs, Slashes Development Cycle, and Boosts Application Performance with Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Solution
[ Source: Nexaweb ]
May 2007-
Aflac Japan is the leading life insurance company in the Japanese market, insuring one in four Japanese households, and is represented by 8,000 agents, making it the country's largest foreign insurer in terms of premium income. Using Nexaweb's Enterprise Web Suite, Aflac Japan has deployed a comprehensive Web-based Insurance Premium Calculation System (IPCS) that combines legacy inquiry, Internet-mediated and stand-alone applications. The IPCS runs in any client environment, including desktops in the office, mobile and ....
Nexaweb Advance: End-to-End Application Modernization
[ Source: Nexaweb ]
March 2008-
Legacy applications built with technologies like PowerBuilder, ColdFusion (v5 and older) Oracle Forms, COBOL and Visual Basic are costing enterprises millions to maintain, and more to upgrade. Modernizing these systems to fully functional Web applications, however, is not as simple as adding flashy UIs and deploying them in a browser. It requires well-designed procedures to transform the legacy code to a common language, and utilize that data and business logic to deploy highly-functional, interactive applications ....
Integrating SaaS Applications
[ Source: SnapLogic ]
August 2008-
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications are hot. Companies of all sizes are turning to SaaS for key business operations such as sales force automation (SFA), customer relationship management (CRM), accounting, and human resources (HR) management. By 2011, according to McKinsey and Company, SaaS applications will consume 35% of enterprise software budgets.
SaaS applications offer important benefits such as rapid deployment, instant scalability, and low cost. But they also create new challenges—particularly in the area of application ....
PaaS-onomics: A CIO's Guide To Lowering Costs Of Application Initiatives
[ Source: LongJump ]
October 2008-
This whitepaper discusses how Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) can help CIOs address the long tail of IT projects, and provide significant ROI to the business. PaaS offers a very demonstrable ROI while also strengthening operations. Both these factors should have CIOs taking a closer look at PaaS not only for its economic benefits, but as an opportunity to improve information management and processes across the enterprise.
Performance Review Bolsters COTS-based System Architecture
[ Source: Infosys Technologies ]
June 2008-
Commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) software has gained popularity as an approach that economically and quickly creates software systems that address business needs. The saved development time and money will be wasted if the performance evaluation of the system is deferred, potentially leading to performance issues in the system. A few areas that can be addressed as a part of the review activity are covered in this paper.