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- News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Assessing the maturity of cloud computing services
- Clouds today, bet on SunActually the better comment from Larry Ellison is his comparison of Cloud Computing to fashion. Seriously, even the contention that the author makes that cloud is "new" because of multi-tenancy is not completely correct. Applications from ERP down to MS Word have been able...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- DOJ gives blessing to Oracle-Sun, awaiting EC approval
- Yeah but...Sure wish they'd fire McNealy & Schwartz, then it would make it all worthwhile.Michael Murdock, CEOWell I never liked Oracle anyway......good way for Oracle to shoot itself in the foot. :)Did you know that large snakes can misjudge prey and try to eat something too big? Then they literally...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Achieve "Proactive Compliance" Through Automation
- The presenter of this webcast examines how the organization can achieve "Proactive compliance" by standardizing on IT controls and automating the compliance process. Leveraging a Capability Maturity Model as a framework, the presenter will discuss solutions which can be deployed to help to reach this goal. The presenter will also...
- Webcasts 2009-08-06
- Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize
- I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways. This one was resolved quickly because my flight...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Shin Kong Life Insurance Improves Application Quality and Accelerates CMMI Certification
- The Shin Kong Financial Group provides value-added banking and real estate services to clients. It recently established a Coverage Service Department, which is solely responsible for the development of coverage rights, handling complaints and managing service projects. The company uses a Computer Telephony Integration CTI system to provide quality service...
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Application Performance Management Tips: Simple Ways to Enhance Your CA Wily Deployment
- The Application Performance Management Maturity Model provides guidance to many CA Wily customers on how to improve the value and capability of their CA Wily deployments. While many enhancements may require additional monetary and time investments, some are relatively straight-forward as described in this paper. There are many more tips...
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Sourcing on Right Tracks
- The railroad industry, being one of the oldest industries, has not been very progressive in terms of its IT usage. The client wanted to move from this approach to a more process-oriented model. It was looking at leveraging outsourcing to manage costs and IT deployment in a more effective and...
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Momentum Webcast: Can Process Improvement and Application Lifecycle Management Really Improve Your Business? (Level 100)
- The term Application Lifecycle Management ALM is attracting significant attention from tool vendors, research groups, and industry thought leaders. Although proactively managing the application throughout the life cycle seems to be a simple concept, in fact there are seemingly innumerable ways to accomplish the goals of ALM. Coordinated toolsets, the...
- Webcasts 2008-06-25
- Business systems for a faster, flatter world
- One of the biggest problems facing enterprises today is that the world is communicating faster than their IT systems can keep up with. This is particularly obvious in businesses that operate multinationally. Their managers collaborate and communicate daily across timezones and geographies by phone, email and Web conference, but their...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Developing a Business-Driven Strategy for Natural Language Processing Technologies
- Through On Demand Innovation Services - a partnership between IBM Research and Global Business Services - IBM was able to give the insurance and banking executives an integrated view of the technology itself and potential business applications. As a leader in the fields of speech and language processing, IBM Research...
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- The top Enterprise Web 2.0 stories of 2007
- Over the last year, we have witnessed the continuation of the steady movement of the mostly consumer-driven Web 2.0 phenomenon into the workplace that began as a trickle in 2006. Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, social networking, end-user mashups, and even prediction markets saw their largest entry yet into businesses...
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- A Common Core - ITIL Version 3.0 and CMMi-SVC
- The objective of this paper is to establish an analogy between the Information Technology Infrastructure Library ITIL version 3.0 and the Capability Maturity Model for Services (CMMi-SVC). ITIL V3 focuses on Service Life Cycle which was missing in ITIL V2. Underlying support for life cycle as described in ITIL version...
- White papers 2007-09-21
- MSF for CMMI Process Improvement 1 (Windows)
- MSF for CMMI Process Improvement includes the MSF for CMMI Process Improvement process guidance, which is a highly iterative, adaptive planning, agile software development process which meets the requirements for the Software Engineering Institutes SEI Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI level 3. Version 4.1 provides new guidance for the Database...
- Software downloads 2007-09-04
- A bumper crop of new mashup platforms
- While application developers tend to roll their eyes at the concept of end-user mashups, they remain one of the more promising new trends in software development this year. And while it's certainly true it's early days yet for mashups, the tools that enable them remaining rather limited, seems to...
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Personal Services Company Improves Software Life Cycle, Attains Coveted Rating
- Service Corporation International SCI is North America's leading provider of funeral and cemetery services. To support regulatory compliance, company leaders wanted to increase the degree of rigor in SCI's software development methodologies. The team lacked tools to support its processes, so SCI deployed Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. Process guidance...
- Case studies 2007-07-01
- BriefingsDirect SOA Insights analysts review 2006, make predictions for 2007
- Read a full transcript of the podcast.Our cast of independent IT analysts assembled for the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 6, take on the Year in Review task with gusto. Join Steve Garone, Joe McKendrick, Jon Collins and Tony Baer for our discussion, hosted and moderated by myself, Dana...
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- The Battle of the Ecosystems: SAP vs. IBM vs. Microsoft. And Then There's Oracle
- The Battle of the Ecosystems: SAP vs. IBM vs. Microsoft. And Then There's OracleAvoiding ecosystemsSoftware that is an ecosystem is advancing by Darwinian evolution. Keep throwing different things and those that don't work die.Human progress has normally progressed by scientific means - so we learn and understand the current state...
- Discussion threads 2006-10-18
- IT Service Management: A Business Based Assessment Approach to ITIL Maturity
- A primary focus of IT Service Management ITSM is the application of the ITIL best practices framework to enable IT to be a more effective service provider across the enterprise. At present, the majority of ITIL and ITSM Maturity Assessment methods focuses on people, process, technology/tools, organizations and information factors...
- White papers 2005-10-29
- From ESB to ESP: action-oriented SOA
- In about a week, three SOA vendors will be announcing the launch of something they call the "SOA Maturity Model," which embodies the five key phases of the SOA lifecycle, from initial projects to evolution into a full-fledged "enterprise nervous system." The model is based on Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute's...
- Blog posts 2005-10-20
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