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- 6 strategies for building dynamic business applications with SOA and rules technology
- What happens when your business changes and your applications don’t change to support it? Existing applications must be updated or completely rewritten, and cobbled together to try to keep up with the new and always changing demands of the business....
- Tags: Application, Small And Medium Enterprise, Information Technology, Business Application, Web Service, Business, SOA, Rule, Service, Logic, Decision Logic, Dynamic Business Applications, Decision Service, Term Decision Service, Business Rule Engine, Figure B, WSDL Service, Bottom Line Application Development, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Smb/Sme, Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Rik Chomko
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Identity management is key to keeping users and customers safe
- “Prevent identity theft—protect your Social Security number” is the headline on my Social Security statement that I receive each year around tax time. We hear about identity theft a lot these days, but as CIOs, we need to think about the issue from the point of view of the enterprise...
- Tags: business application, identity, identity management, network identity, Stephen Primost
- Technical articles 2003-06-18
- Strategy is critical for melding technology during acquisitions
- Managing a technology meld in a merger/acquisition requires a set strategy before making any decisions. The strategy determines which technologies you'll keep, which you'll dump, and how to make sure the decision benefits the organization.I recently mapped out the three rules CIOs should follow when managing the personnel aspect of...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, HEALTHCARE, Michael Sisco, diligence, acquisition, strategy, business application
- Technical articles 2002-12-18
- Create SAP IDocs from BAPI
- In SAP, the Business Application Programming Interface BAPI makes it possible to update points on a supply chain when used with Application Link Enabling and IDocs. Here's how one consultant makes it work.The whole point of SAP—or any ERP system, for that matter—is to automate processes and facilitate data transport....
- Tags: Enterprise software, Scott Robinson, SAP AG, Business Application Programming Interface, Application link enabling, business application, SAP IDocs
- Technical articles 2002-12-05
- Building bridges into SAP with BAPI
- BAPIs allow enterprises to get data in and out of SAP. If you're working with SAP, you must understand how to create BAPIs to get the most from the ERP software.SAP R/3’s Business Application Programming Interface BAPI is the powerful I/O engine that gets data in and out of the...
- Tags: Enterprise software, Scott Robinson, SAP R/3, BAPI, SAP AG, Business Object Repository, Business Application Programming Interface, business application
- Technical articles 2002-11-13
- How to 'rightsize' your IT organization
- With all the variables involved, determining head count in an IT organization is not an exact science. But this spreadsheet can help you determine appropriate numbers.How many IT personnel do you need in your shop? Because so many variables are involved, there’s no quick and easy formula that yields a...
- Tags: Strategy, Michael Sisco, business application, information technology, billing
- Technical articles 2002-08-08
- How a team can survive a staff cutback
- Keeping your team focused after a staffing reduction announcement raises many challenges. Find out how to best transfer workloads and decide which applications will lose support.Suppose your internal development and support team is being dramatically downsized. The staff’s size is not out of line given the company’s revenue a few...
- Tags: Team management, Tom Mochal, team, business application, job
- Technical articles 2002-07-03
- How to calculate and convey the true cost of downtime
- The next time you want to drive home the importance of maintaining a stable technical environment, give your staff solid evidence of the true cost of system downtime.IT managers who want to emphasize the importance of maintaining a stable technical environment need to look no further than the company bottom...
- Tags: Technology Infrastructure, Michael Sisco, downtime, system downtime, true cost, business application
- Technical articles 2002-04-15
- Gauge IT managers with our technology leadership skills/experience matrix
- If you're assessing IT personnel for your client, making sure an IT manager is qualified for the job might be one of your tasks. This matrix can help you determine whether your client's technology director is a good fit.As a consultant, trying to determine a manager’s skills and capabilities can...
- Tags: Development tools, Strategy, NETWORKING, Michael Sisco, matrix, business application
- Technical articles 2002-03-06
- Business applications for digital video editing on the PC
- Digital video editing used to cost a fortune, but new affordable business video editing products are turning IT departments into Hollywood studios.Ever lived through a presentation where minutes seemed like hours, and staying attentive took superhuman effort? One way to ensure that your presentations don’t numb your audience is by...
- Tags: Corporate communications, FireWire, PC, business application, Kyle Harmon, video, digital video
- Technical articles 2000-02-09
- MSDN Webcast: Developing Office Business Applications: From Client to SharePoint and Beyond (Level 300)
- Office Business Applications OBAs are a new breed of composite solution that leverages the Microsoft Office platform to integrate line of business systems, such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Microsoft Dynamics, with the Microsoft Office system. This webcast address the why, what, and how in regards to developing and deploying OBAs,...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft SharePoint, Business Application, Microsoft Corp., Office Business Applications, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Webcasts 2008-01-29
- MSDN Webcast: Overview of Office Business Applications and Visual Studio Tools for Office (Level 200)
- This webcast is designed to help developers learn how Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office system enables them to leverage Microsoft Visual Studio and the Office platform to build scalable, Line-Of-Business LOB solutions based on Microsoft Office.
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft Visual Studio, Webcast, Business Application, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Development Tools, Microsoft Office, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Office Suites, Software
- Webcasts 2008-02-28
- Developed and Maintained a Suite of Business Applications for IATA
- MindTree Consulting leveraged its expertise in the airlines domain to develop and maintain a large set of business applications and initiatives for IATA. These applications gave IATA the flexibility to enhance their internal processes and implement new initiatives faster and with reduced overheads. By partnering with MindTree, IATA was able...
- Tags: MindTree Consulting, Business Application, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software/Web Development, Software
- Case studies 2008-01-24
- Increasing ARPU and Customer Retention With Hosted Business Application Services
- WebCentral employs 200 people and has offices in Brisbane, Queensland and Sydney, New South Wales. A brand within the Melbourne IT Group, WebCentral offers a broad range of services and hosts more than 80,000 Web sites and domains. In the face of mounting competition, WebCentral wanted to find ways to...
- Tags: Average Revenue Per User, Business Application, Customer Retention, WebCentral, Smb/Sme
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- Office Business Application Extends Reach and Value of Enterprise Solutions
- Epicor provides integrated Enterprise Resource Planning ERP, Customer Relationship Management CRM, Supply Chain Management SCM, and professional service automation PSA software solutions to more than 20,000 customers in more than 140 countries. Epicor realized the value of making its applications accessible to end users through familiar desktop tools. To be...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Business Application, Epicor Software Corp., Office Business Application, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- Office Business Applications Improves Sales Force Productivity, Helps Increase Sales
- Microsoft is the world's largest software company, with 71,000 employees and more than U.S.$44 billion in annual revenues. Microsoft needed to make customer data stored in Seibel customer relationship management and other line-of-business systems easier for salespeople to access and update so that they could spend less time managing information...
- Tags: Sales Force, Business Application, Microsoft Corp., Office Business Applications, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Office, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies 2007-06-01
- International Consultants Create Office Business Application to Help Assist With Disaster Response Management
- Based in Perth, in Canada's Ontario province, Catalyst is a consulting firm that specializes in the design, development, and deployment of emergency planning and response systems. A key goal of Catalyst has been to find ways of using technology to help speed communications during disasters. To assist in this effort,...
- Tags: Cisco Catalyst, Microsoft Office, Business Application, Microsoft Corp.
- Case studies 2007-08-01
- MSDN Webcast: Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts: Building a Multi-Tier Business Application (Level 200)
- In this Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts webcast series, the presenter covers the basics of building applications with Visual Basic. This webcast shows how a person can build a multi-tier business application with Visual Basic. The attendee of this webcast will learn how building business applications with a...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Business Application, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Webcasts
- Comprehensive Protection for Email and Web: The World's Most Critical Business Applications
- Email and the web have revolutionized business communications, providing an unmatched blend of reach, scalability, timeliness, efficiency and overall effectiveness. Together they are the most prominent and arguably the most critical business applications in the world. It is imperative, therefore, that they be protected in a comprehensive manner. However, establishing...
- Tags: Web, Fortinet Inc., Business Application, E-mail, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Marketing, Software, Security
- White papers 2006-12-01
- Office Business Application for Ideation Speeds Profitable Ideas to Market
- Ampacet is a specialty chemical manufacturer with 17 manufacturing sites on four continents and four Research and Development (R&D) facilities across the globe. To increase its development of new, profitable products, while reducing R&D costs, Ampacet needed a streamlined, standardized idea generation process. Ampacet deployed an Office Business Application OBA,...
- Tags: R&D, Business Application, Microsoft Corp., Ampacet, Research & Development, Microsoft Office, Business Operations, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies
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