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CashCall Breaks New Ground With IBM System p5 2006-10-20 01:00:16 IBM

To help launch its online lending business, CashCall needed to build a flexible and robust IT platform that would allow them to aggressively respond to emerging market dynamics and position the company for rapid growth. By implementing a flexible infrastructure, CashCall can quickly adjust its business processes to meet the needs of an emerging marketplace. Built on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), a highly flexible IT platform was implemented through which CashCall could launch its business and rapidly adapt to real-world market conditions.

IBM Saves $8.15 Million Annually With Single Trusted Source of Customer Information 2006-10-20 01:00:16 IBM

The challenge for IBM was to develop a trusted source of customer information to provide customers and employees with the experience of one IBM instead of separate entities. IBM implemented a single, clean and deduplicated customer information database enriched with organizational hierarchy data from Dun & Bradstreet. As a result, this saved $8.15 million annually in lost productivity of employees searching for customer information; avoided costs of processing redundant information; improved customer service; and enhanced the ability of IBM sales organizations to identify repeat buyers and solid leads.

HUK-Coburg Secures System Uptime With IBM Tivoli Netcool Software 2006-10-20 01:00:16 IBM

The HUK-Coburg Insurance (HUK-Coburg) Company is one of the largest insurance companies in Germany. As the company grew, the HUK-Coburg IT team faced new challenges in ensuring that services for internal and external customers ran smoothly and securely. HUK-Coburg had to ensure that every customer's experience using their Web-based services was positive at all times. To achieve this level of availability, HUK-Coburg staff needed the ability to monitor the company's entire IT infrastructure in real time. After a detailed evaluation of available management tools, the company selected IBM Tivoli Netcool software.

IBM Maximizes the Value of Service Oriented Architecture Initiatives With Effective SOA Governance 2006-10-20 01:00:16 IBM

After adopting Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to enable better flexibility, increase reuse, and respond quickly to changing business needs. IBM needed effective policies, processes and tools to capitalize on the potential of SOA across the enterprise. IBM adopted SOA governance as a framework for assigning decision rights, implementing measurements and control, and integrating the people, processes, information and assets central to SOA initiatives. With effective SOA governance, IBM is ensuring that it can align IT initiatives with business needs, enable business transformation, simplify end-to-end enterprise integration, and maximize the value of its investment in SOA.

GROHE Enjoys Integrated Solutions on Tap With IBM Service-Enabling Software 2006-10-20 01:00:16 IBM

Making plumbing fixtures functional as well as attractive is the overriding goal of GROHE AG (GROHE), the largest water technology solutions provider in Europe, and the largest exporter of faucets, bath mountings and other household and commercial fixtures worldwide. In gathering requirements for a new SAP enterprise resource planning system, the company was chartered with figuring out how to exchange data between the new SAP modules and several legacy applications that were crucial to the company's business. GROHE chose SerCon to design and implement a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with an enterprise service bus because it was the fastest and most reliable way to meet their deadline.

IBM Case Study: Neumont University 2006-10-20 01:00:16 IBM

Neumont University was founded to attack the problem of dwindling computer science enrollments. A comprehensive Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science was designed to help students acquire industry relevant skills and competencies. More recently, an MBA program was added to the curriculum. Neumont distinguishes itself with an integrated, project-based curriculum and graduates complement their resume with a digital portfolio of projects. The first class graduated in May 2006 with a 91% job placement.

Marsans Transtours Relies on Oracle to Create a Service Oriented Architecture and Increase Business Agility 2006-10-18 01:00:18 Oracle

A tour operator in France for more than 30 years, Marsans Transtours organizes accommodation, travel, and cruises throughout southern and eastern Europe, Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean. The operator wanted to reduce maintenance costs and increase flexibility and responsiveness to customers through the use of its professional extranet Web site and its internet site. They wanted to introduce new technologies such as XML and BPEL. The operator implemented a new infrastructure based on Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition to support two new Web sites, one geared toward tourism professionals and the other for the general public. They used Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle BPEL Process Manager to structure and organize Web services and to integrate its partners' various Web services.

Ant 1.6 for Task Writers 2006-10-17 01:00:14 Oracle

Starting with version 1.6, Ant supports a new way to specify nested elements in tasks. Much like the older TaskContainer interface that told Ant the task would support any Ant task as nested element one can now make the task support arbitrary subclasses of a common base class or implementations of an interface. Many existing Ant tasks have been retrofitted to support the new way so one can now easily add conditions to Ant. This paper shows that Ant 1.6 has also changed internally and how a person can take advantage of those changes when writing a task or even a library of tasks.

Merging Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL): Explore the Fusion of Two Emerging Concepts 2006-10-17 IBM

SOA is an architectural framework consisting of a set of tools and technologies that enable the rapid implementation of services; a set of design patterns and standards for the development of services; and a methodology for finding, reusing/consuming, and exploiting services. SOA is the most promising framework today for changing the way Information Technology (IT) works - to make IT more agile and responsive to the business, more cost-effective, and more adaptive to the fast-changing business environment.

Tags: ITIL, Service-Oriented Architecture

Managing State in Service-Oriented Architecture 2006-10-13 01:00:15 Oracle

One of the most common misconceptions about Web services is that they are appropriate only for supporting synchronous request/response SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)-based interactions. One of the main reasons for this misperception is that many Web services are implemented using unreliable, stateless transport protocols such as HTTP. As a result, many organizations are avoiding implementing Web services for handling complex business interactions, in which a service consumer may have multiple interactions with the same service or multiple interactions with several services, at a time. This paper explains how to use explicit state identifiers to support conversational Web services. It offers an overview of how to implement such an approach using the Oracle JDeveloper 10g 10.1.3 J2EE Developer Preview with built-in support for J2EE 1.4 JAX-RPC.

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Title	Date Added	Company
CashCall Breaks New Ground With IBM System p5	2006-10-20 01:00:16	IBM
To help launch its online lending business, CashCall needed to build a flexible and robust IT platform that would allow them to aggressively respond to emerging market dynamics and position the company for rapid growth. By implementing a flexible infrastructure, CashCall can quickly adjust its business processes to meet the needs of an emerging marketplace. Built on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), a highly flexible IT platform was implemented through which CashCall could launch its business and rapidly adapt to real-world market conditions.
IBM Saves $8.15 Million Annually With Single Trusted Source of Customer Information	2006-10-20 01:00:16	IBM
The challenge for IBM was to develop a trusted source of customer information to provide customers and employees with the experience of one IBM instead of separate entities. IBM implemented a single, clean and deduplicated customer information database enriched with organizational hierarchy data from Dun & Bradstreet. As a result, this saved $8.15 million annually in lost productivity of employees searching for customer information; avoided costs of processing redundant information; improved customer service; and enhanced the ability of IBM sales organizations to identify repeat buyers and solid leads.
HUK-Coburg Secures System Uptime With IBM Tivoli Netcool Software	2006-10-20 01:00:16	IBM
The HUK-Coburg Insurance (HUK-Coburg) Company is one of the largest insurance companies in Germany. As the company grew, the HUK-Coburg IT team faced new challenges in ensuring that services for internal and external customers ran smoothly and securely. HUK-Coburg had to ensure that every customer's experience using their Web-based services was positive at all times. To achieve this level of availability, HUK-Coburg staff needed the ability to monitor the company's entire IT infrastructure in real time. After a detailed evaluation of available management tools, the company selected IBM Tivoli Netcool software.
IBM Maximizes the Value of Service Oriented Architecture Initiatives With Effective SOA Governance	2006-10-20 01:00:16	IBM
After adopting Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to enable better flexibility, increase reuse, and respond quickly to changing business needs. IBM needed effective policies, processes and tools to capitalize on the potential of SOA across the enterprise. IBM adopted SOA governance as a framework for assigning decision rights, implementing measurements and control, and integrating the people, processes, information and assets central to SOA initiatives. With effective SOA governance, IBM is ensuring that it can align IT initiatives with business needs, enable business transformation, simplify end-to-end enterprise integration, and maximize the value of its investment in SOA.
GROHE Enjoys Integrated Solutions on Tap With IBM Service-Enabling Software	2006-10-20 01:00:16	IBM
Making plumbing fixtures functional as well as attractive is the overriding goal of GROHE AG (GROHE), the largest water technology solutions provider in Europe, and the largest exporter of faucets, bath mountings and other household and commercial fixtures worldwide. In gathering requirements for a new SAP enterprise resource planning system, the company was chartered with figuring out how to exchange data between the new SAP modules and several legacy applications that were crucial to the company's business. GROHE chose SerCon to design and implement a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with an enterprise service bus because it was the fastest and most reliable way to meet their deadline.
IBM Case Study: Neumont University	2006-10-20 01:00:16	IBM
Neumont University was founded to attack the problem of dwindling computer science enrollments. A comprehensive Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science was designed to help students acquire industry relevant skills and competencies. More recently, an MBA program was added to the curriculum. Neumont distinguishes itself with an integrated, project-based curriculum and graduates complement their resume with a digital portfolio of projects. The first class graduated in May 2006 with a 91% job placement.
Marsans Transtours Relies on Oracle to Create a Service Oriented Architecture and Increase Business Agility	2006-10-18 01:00:18	Oracle
A tour operator in France for more than 30 years, Marsans Transtours organizes accommodation, travel, and cruises throughout southern and eastern Europe, Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean. The operator wanted to reduce maintenance costs and increase flexibility and responsiveness to customers through the use of its professional extranet Web site and its internet site. They wanted to introduce new technologies such as XML and BPEL. The operator implemented a new infrastructure based on Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition to support two new Web sites, one geared toward tourism professionals and the other for the general public. They used Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle BPEL Process Manager to structure and organize Web services and to integrate its partners' various Web services.
Ant 1.6 for Task Writers	2006-10-17 01:00:14	Oracle
Starting with version 1.6, Ant supports a new way to specify nested elements in tasks. Much like the older TaskContainer interface that told Ant the task would support any Ant task as nested element one can now make the task support arbitrary subclasses of a common base class or implementations of an interface. Many existing Ant tasks have been retrofitted to support the new way so one can now easily add conditions to Ant. This paper shows that Ant 1.6 has also changed internally and how a person can take advantage of those changes when writing a task or even a library of tasks.
Merging Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL): Explore the Fusion of Two Emerging Concepts	2006-10-17	IBM
SOA is an architectural framework consisting of a set of tools and technologies that enable the rapid implementation of services; a set of design patterns and standards for the development of services; and a methodology for finding, reusing/consuming, and exploiting services. SOA is the most promising framework today for changing the way Information Technology (IT) works - to make IT more agile and responsive to the business, more cost-effective, and more adaptive to the fast-changing business environment. Tags: ITIL, Service-Oriented Architecture
Managing State in Service-Oriented Architecture	2006-10-13 01:00:15	Oracle
One of the most common misconceptions about Web services is that they are appropriate only for supporting synchronous request/response SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)-based interactions. One of the main reasons for this misperception is that many Web services are implemented using unreliable, stateless transport protocols such as HTTP. As a result, many organizations are avoiding implementing Web services for handling complex business interactions, in which a service consumer may have multiple interactions with the same service or multiple interactions with several services, at a time. This paper explains how to use explicit state identifiers to support conversational Web services. It offers an overview of how to implement such an approach using the Oracle JDeveloper 10g 10.1.3 J2EE Developer Preview with built-in support for J2EE 1.4 JAX-RPC.