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- Extend mainframe life by adopting a service-oriented architecture
- By Dale VecchioMany CIOs and other executives are looking into how to achieve improved cost-effectiveness for their operations. Enterprises that implement service-oriented architectures on their mainframes can extend the lifecycles of their systems. However, many have been reluctant to incur the costs required to attain high levels of granularity.Legacy systems...
- Tags: business function, Gartner , Gartner Inc., legacy system, mainframe, SOA
- Technical articles 2003-05-22
- Tips for getting the most from outsourcing
- Want to outsource some of your business functions but not sure where to start? Here's how to determine the functions to oursource and the steps to take to make sure your relationship is productive.Growing consulting firms often reach a predictable crossroads: As a consultancy grows, they often find that some...
- Tags: Benefits, outsourcing arrangement, Ellen Birkett Morris, outsourcing, Getronics, business function, Fidelity Investments
- Technical articles 2001-07-09
- Position IT support as a business function
- Never was so much owed by so many to so few: Winston Churchill could very well have been talking about the role of IT support workers.It’s a fact that the growing preponderance of IT-centric business processes across a wide spectrum of industries has created a growing demand for quality IT...
- Tags: IT Support
- Technical articles 2003-03-26
Additional Resources
- Download our sample WORKDAY function spreadsheet
- Excel's DATE function is essential for performing calculations using dates, but it doesn't account for weekends or holidays. Download this sample spreadsheet that uses Excel's WORKDAY function to consider only business hours.
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Workday, Spreadsheet, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Tools & templates 2001-12-05
- Business Driven Prioritization of Service Incidents
- As a result of its increasing role in the enterprise, the IT function is changing, morphing from a technology provider into a strategic partner. Key to this change is its ability to deliver business value by aligning and supporting the business objectives of the enterprise. IT Management frameworks such as...
- Tags: Information Technology, Springer Science+Business Media, ITIL, Process Improvement, Change Management, It Services, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2004-11-15
- Business Intelligence: How Accountants Bring Value to the Marketing Function
- Technology has ushered in a new marketing era. Thanks to tools like affordable data storage, real-time capture devices, satellite communications, and multidimensional databases, traditional mass marketing is giving way to newer strategies that market products or services to specific groups of customers. Using the information from these IT tools to...
- Tags: Technology, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers
- Subclassing ActiveX (zip)
- The control element accomplishes a subclassing for a window stated by its handle. The window function is the function of a window, which completely determines the behavior of the window (and thus the reaction of the window to user inputs). This window function is replaced by another function by the...
- Tags: Window, ActiveX, Control Element, Window Function, Construction
- Software downloads 2008-02-13
- Credit Risk Assessment Using XBRL
- Credit risk assessment plays an important role in the day to day operation of a business. Credit risk assessment is performed when a Buyer asks a Seller to ship merchandise without prior payment. (It is also used in other areas of a business including marketing. For example, a business may...
- Tags: Risk Assessment, XBRL, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Security, Management
- White papers 2003-11-21
- PlotFunCad
- Drawer and plotter of math function in Autocad. It wants only the math expression and two clicks, and your function is already drawed on your screen. 2D and 3D function, parametric, Polar and Cartesian.
- Tags: Function, Plotters, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2005-06-09
- Windows API Hooking SDK (zip)
- Windows API Hooking SDK helps you hooking Windows APIs or functions in other DLLs, and replace the API function or DLLs' function to your own function, that is to say, intercepts Win32 functions and re-writing target function to easily custom and extend existing system or application's function, whether in an...
- Tags: Function, API, SDK, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2005-05-18
- Outsourcing information system function
- What are the risks, advanatgaes and disadvantages involved in outsourcing information system function of an organisation.This is an huge subjectI'm working in outsourcing projects, from the service provider side, since several years. What comes immediately to my mind is the following:Advantages- Allow you to focus on your core business- CAPEX...
- Tags: Strategy, abidraza70@..., outsourcing, information system
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
- Expand Your Reach in the Small and Medium Business Market With DB2 Universal Database Express Edition
- This webcast explains about the new IBM full function database for the midmarket and associated programs you can take advantage of to win in the Small and Medium Business (SMB) marketplace. This webcast features the new IBM DB2 UDB Express database developed for the SMB market with an entry price...
- Tags: IBM DB2 Universal Database, IBM DB2, Small And Medium Business, IBM Corp., Smb/Sme, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts
- Excel Function Dictionary (zip)
- The Excel Function Dictionary is a file of over 150 very helpful examples of Excel function usage. The Excel Function Dictionary is created by Peter Noneley. The file is free and has been going since 1998.
- Tags: Excel Function Dictionary, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2006-12-14
- Function Grapher (zip)
- Function Grapher is an easy-to-use software for 2D, 2.5D and 3D function graphing, animation and table data visualization. 2D and 2.5D function graphs can be plotted in Cartesian and polar coordinate systems,and 3D function graphs can be plotted in Cartesian,cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems.Version 3.3 adds axis scaling.
- Tags: 2D, GraphNow Software, Function Grapher
- Software downloads 2007-11-23
- Drive Enterprise Innovation with IT Simplication
- Today's globally competitive business climate demands that organisations reduce complexity to ensure the reliable delivery of products and services to customers, and to better adapt to fast-changing business needs.This white paper looks into how CIOs can simplify their IT infrastructures to enable the business to function optimally in this...
- Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-04-16
- User Defined Function (UDF) on a network
- I have created a UDF and an Excel Add-in which contains this function. I want to call this function on a spreadsheet that can be viewed by anyone in my group on our network. The problem is that even if others have the add-in installed, Excel changes the...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, PRODUCTIVITY, network, arizenn, Microsoft Excel, add-in
- Discussion threads 2007-06-08
- BMC Software Common Event Format Version 2.1.0
- Nowadays each IT infrastructure component has its own language or dialect when communicating with the outside world. This makes it extremely difficult to derive and understand the impact certain events or combinations of events have on the business. The function of BMC Software Common Event Format is to translate these...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2005-03-17
- Developing Adaptive Composite Business Services Using WebSphere Business Services Fabric, Part 1 - Introducing IBM's New Platform for Business Service Modeling, Assembly, and Deployment
- With Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a business can be visualized as a collection of loosely coupled reusable building blocks, called business services. A business service, which can be derived from freestanding components, derived from disparate legacy IT assets (such as legacy systems, packaged applications, custom applications, and so on), or provided...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere, Modeling, IBM Corp., Business Service, Composite Business Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Hardware Upgrade, Web Services, Research & Development, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-04-04
- Key combination
- Hello. I have a Dell Latitude C800. Can anyone tell me if there is a key combination to turn off the screen?Thank youScreen disable key combinationEvery laptop/notebook should have this function. I,m not familiar with the key pattern on a Latitude but it will probably include one of the function...
- Tags: Notebooks, gbnine@..., function key
- Discussion threads 2007-06-22
- Part 3: Orchestrating Into End-to-End Processes
- This paper focuses on how to build agile and standard business processes that orchestrate those services into end-to-end business flows. A business process is a series of steps required to implement a business function. The business process may include system interactions and/or human interactions, within an enterprise or extending across...
- Tags: Business Process, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-02-01
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