28 articles in this selection
| 2009/07/21 How to Build a Successful BI Strategy
If you are starting to build BI capabilities in your enterprise and are not sure how to proceed, you aren't alone. It is a challenge to select the right combination of people, processes and technology to design a successful BI enterprise. To overcome this challenge you need to build an effective BI strategy, which is driven by business objectives, enables stakeholders with better decision-making capabilities and helps the enterprise achieve desired goals. It is common for an enterprise to develop a BI strategy only to find it on the shelf later because it is not acceptable across the enterprise. An effective BI strategy should ensure that enterprise objectives, business strategy, investments and BI are aligned. Enterprises that are able to connect BI to overall enterprise objectives become intelligent enterprises....
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| 2008/10/14 Making SOA Leaner and Cleaner to Maximize Profits (Part I of II)
Walking through the IKEA store a few weeks back I noticed a poster highlighting IKEA's green credentials and the trio: "Reduce, Reuse and Recycle." I started thinking, as any SOA practitioner should, about the implications of the green movement and its parallels in how we build SOA solutions....
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| 2008/10/06 8 characteristics of successful SOA implementations - Network World
The SOA Consortium and CIO magazine recently announced the winners of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Case Study Competition. All of the winners successfully delivered business or mission value using an SOA approach. As I listened to the presentation, I observed common characteristics across each successful SOA implementation....
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| 2008/10/02 SOA Watch: Calculating the cost of SOA - Software Development Times On The Web
Truth be told, you can't cost out a SOA like a construction project; there are many dynamic elements to SOA that make an exact estimation, without much supporting data, difficult. Let’s face it, we’ve not done many of these at this point, thus the data is simply not there to support the metrics. However, here are some very “general" guidelines to follow:...
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| 2008/10/01 Gartner Says Most Organizations Lack All the Skills Needed to Implement and Optimize Their Business Processes
As organizations try to cope with today’s compressed business process life cycles, many are using business process management (BPM) to help with business agility; however, most of organizations lack all the skills needed to implement and optimize their business processes, according to Gartner Inc. Gartner has identified 11 steps that will help determine whether organizations should source BPM skills internally or externally....
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| 2008/09/23 How to Remain Competitive: Build, Buy or BPM
To remain competitive in today’s rapidly changing business climate, the agile enterprise must be able to introduce new applications to automate manual processes quickly and effectively. But making a build or buy decision is often as time-consuming as the process of getting the new application up and running. Business Process Management is an alternative that can be leveraged to develop applications faster and cheaper than traditional methods....
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| 2008/09/17 SOA deployments: What actually works | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-09-16 | By Dave Linthicum
SOA may have seemed the savior of bad software architecture and poor development project planning, but the reality is that it's a complex and difficult venture. Thus, the number of failed SOA projects is about equal to the successful ones. In other words, you have a 50 percent chance of failing, and the odds of failure are even greater if you work within a larger Global 2000 organization or within the government....
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| 2008/09/17 Computing SA - MIP overcomes SOA challenges
MIP recently implemented services-oriented architecture (SOA) in its development environment, aiming to give it an edge in the highly competitive financial services software market.
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| 2008/09/15 Pennsylvania builds SOA for federated warrant search system
Using service-oriented architecture and associated business process management tools, officials with the Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET) successfully deployed a Federated Warrant Search engine that compiles warrant information from multiple systems.
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| 2008/09/03 Integration Developers News
Vantage Deluxe World Travel has deployed a business-savvy SOA project that makes it easier and less expensive for customers to book vacations. The SOA solution from IBM also cuts costs and saves many man-hours for Vantage IT.
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| 2008/09/02 InfoQ: SOA Testing eKit
This resource kit for application architects, developers and testers provides informational materials to help you build, test, deploy and manage high quality Web services, SOAs and composite applications so that business agility, trust and reuse are easily achievable....
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| 2008/08/26 InfoQ: Only 1 in 5 SOA Projects Actually Succeed
Despite its growing popularity and constant improvements in SOA technology, according to SOA survey done by Barton’s group Anne Thomas Manes, only one out of five SOA projects actually succeed.
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| 2008/08/25 Selling SOA to the Business
In talking to many senior IT executives, whenever the topic of SOA is mentioned they invariable complain of not getting business buy-in to SOA from business. The problem is that without business buy-in, SOA cannot deliver its fabled benefits to the organisation – Agility, Growth, Innovation....
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| 2008/08/06 SOA: A Governance Nightmare
How do you protect and connect applications as services across departmental and organizational boundaries in a flexible and scalable way?
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| 2008/08/06 The BPM and SOA marriage
What’s the best entry point to launch a service-oriented architecture implementation? Is it through business process management, an enterprise service bus or SOA governance?
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| 2008/08/05 Its SOA easy, say government agencies
The need for application and data integration between government departments has made the public sector the leaders in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption, according to IT market analyst firm Springboard Research.
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| 2008/07/14 SOA adoption marked by broad failure and wild success
Burton Group analysts spent the first few months of the year looking into SOA implementations and what they found was a landscape devastated by petty territorialism, lack of governance and the failure to involve the business.
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