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- LEMONADE Standards Make Mobile E-mail More Efficient and Affordable
- This Isode white paper discusses LEMONADE Profile 1, a collection of open standards that enhance the IMAP and SMTP protocols, enabling more efficient and lower-cost access to mobile e-mail services. The paper highlights the two key advantages of moving to an open standards-based model for mobile e-mail: ...
- Tags: Open Standard, Mobile, Isode, Standards, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing
- White papers
- IBM Express Products Give Boost to Pear's Gourmet Brand
- Pear's Gourmet, wholesaler of gourmet coffees and nuts, wanted to expand its customer reach with an online presence and needed to automate operations in order to handle the expected growth. An e-commerce solution based on open standards would allow Pear's Gourmet to acquire new customers and scale business in a...
- Tags: Open Standard, E-business, IBM Corp., Pear, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
- Case studies
- Swiss Canton of Thurgau Chooses Open Standards, Migrating 2,000 Users to Novell GroupWise Running on Linux
- The Swiss county of Thurgau, situated on the southern shore of Lake Constance, is home to almost a quarter of a million people. The County of Thurgau had been running three proprietary e-mail systems - the e-mail environment used by the 70 municipalities, a Microsoft Exchange server for the central...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, Open Standard, Novell GroupWise, E-mail, E-mail Servers, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Open Standards: The Best Approach for Mobile Messaging
- With the demand for mobile access to messages of all types on the rise and the richness and complexity of messages on the increase there is clearly a need for service provider solutions that recognise the reality of limited storage and low bandwidth. Whilst bandwidth on and especially storage for...
- Tags: Open Standard, Bandwidth, Mobile, Messaging, Isode, LEMONADE, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers
- IBM Case Study: Royal Dutch/Shell
- Royal Dutch/Shell is a global leader in the oil exploration and production business. It wanted to build a re-usable software toolkit that works as a wrapper around existing applications creating a Grid-enabled infrastructure for their seismic interpretation applications. Shell implemented Grid Computing platform for summarization and scientific modeling applications, based...
- Tags: Software, Open Standard, Grid Computing, Modeling, IBM Corp., Royal Dutch/Shell, Research & Development, Utility Computing, Tools & Techniques, It Management, Network Technology, Servers, Business Operations, Management, It service Management, Networking, Hardware
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- The Open Standard Contact Center: Lowering Costs and Increasing Efficiency in the Large Enterprise
- By centralizing management and delivering interactions to agents located anywhere on the IP network, at any time, large enterprises are breaking free from traditional site-based contact center restraints and benefiting from new efficiencies, lower costs, and distinctive customer offerings. This webcast highlights the advantages of the open standard, hosted contact...
- Tags: Open Standard, Siemens AG, Contact Center, Enterprise, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Networking, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- Open Standards for the SOA Development Lifecycle & Runtime Infrastructure: SCA & JBI
- Web services standards have enabled companies to develop services in Java, Java EE, .NET or BPEL that interoperate with one another. However, web services standards don't help one develop services, assemble services into composite applications, or deploy, run and manage services. This webcast discusses the standards and specifications that do:...
- Tags: TIBCO Software Inc., Web, Open Standard, Java, SOA, Service Component Architecture, Standards, Quality, Business Operations
- Webcasts
- Open Standards Technologies Provide the Ingredients for Delivering Security Across the Papa Gino's Enterprise
- Papa Gino's Holdings Corporation founded by the entrepreneur operates one of New England's leading Italian quick-service restaurant chains, including 170 Papa Gino's establishments and 200 D'Angelo Sandwich Shop locations. The company was searching a cost-effective, scalable way to eliminate ad hoc security methods and protect mission-critical data and daily business...
- Tags: Open Standard, Dell Computer Corp., Wave Systems Corp., Papa Gino, Security
- Case studies
- AFLAC Migrates Data to Scalable, Open Standards-Based DB2
- Based in Columbus, Georgia, AFLAC which stands for American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus has more than 60,000 agents and nearly 4,200 employees. They needed to increase integration to support, underwriting workflow processes, Web front ends for customers and employees, and a host of other enterprise systems. The solution...
- Tags: Open Standard, Billing, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., AFLAC, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Making Sense of "Syndicated Collaboration"
- This paper discusses the phenomenon of "syndicated collaboration", which is the collaborative use of weblogs, wikis and news aggregator tools, enabled by open standard protocols like Rich Site Summary RSS. Existing development trends and the collaborative potential of RSS-based technologies are analysed. The widespread use of these technologies indicates a...
- Tags: Open Standard, Collaboration, Association For Computing Machinery, RSS, Groupware, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software
- White papers
- Open Standards for Integrity-based Network Access Control
- Learn how to integrate the trusted hardware of the TPM into a network access control framework with the unprecedented security of the Trusted Network Connect architecture. The TPM enables detection of any unauthorized software including kernel rootkits, platform authentication, protected storage, and other substantial benefits. In addition to this...
- Tags: Open Standard, Network, Trusted Computing Group, Access Control, TPM, Rootkits, Networking, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware
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- Infomercati Modernizes and Automates Business Processes to Increase Operational Efficiency
- Infomercati is an obligatory association established in Italy under a 1996 law requiring creation and management of an information system for wholesale food and agriculture markets. Infomercati wanted to deploy a single tool for recording the prices of food and agricultural products, such as produce, fish, flowers, and meat and...
- Tags: Business Process, Food, Open Standard, Oracle Corp., Italy, Infomercati, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Defence Company Looks to Open Standards to Secure Future Information
- Scientists and engineers at defence research company QinetiQ support their innovative scientific developments with intellectual capital captured from internal and external sources. The organisation is no stranger to the use of technology to support these vast information resources. It has recently implemented a central repository for search and collaboration in...
- Tags: QinetiQ Ltd., Open Standard, Microsoft Corp.
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Billion Softswitch Standard Edition (exe)
- Billion-Softswitch works as a switchboard in a VoIP networks allowing to proxy both signaling and media streams. Using own advanced routing capabilities Billion-Softswitch improves network management. Being a part of Billion-operator product family, Billion Softswitch at the same time could be integrated with third-part software using open standard interfaces. Main...
- Tags: Open Standard, Gateway, Softswitch, Profinfotech, Networking
- Software downloads 2006-04-25
- Open source and open standards can equal profit
- Open standards and open source are good concepts, particularly when they lay the groundwork for individual companies and programmers to base their work on. These "open" concepts get a bad reputation when people use them as a personal bully pulpit against a business rival. I believe that truly open standards...
- Tags: Project Management, Open Standard, Open Source, Programmer, Agile, Justin James
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Taridium: Comms 1.1 - VoIP Provider Platform
- Taridium's comms provider VoIP platform combines all the advantages of an open standards solution with the reliability of non-stop hardware and 7x24 monitoring. By combining open source tools and open standards with best of breed hardware and software, taridium can offer one of the best price to performance ratios in...
- Tags: Open Standard, Performance, Platform, High Availability, Taridium, Comm, Performance Management, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking
- White papers 2007-10-17
- IBM and Linden Lab to collaborate on open standards for virtual worlds
- IBM and Linden Lab creator of Second Life have teamed together to develop open standards that will enable virtual avatars to travel between virtual worlds. A quote from Technology News Daily: IBM and Linden Lab plan to work together on issues concerning the integration of virtual...
- Tags: Open Standard, Interoperability, Avatar, IBM Corp., Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- IBM and Linden Labs to collaborate on open standards for the virtual worlds
- Virtual worlds have potential for enterprises?Virtual worlds have potential for enterprises?
- Tags: pr.arun@..., Virtual Worlds, open standard, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- Developing Web Applications With COLLADA and X3D
- COLLADA and X3D are two royalty-free open standards that use XML schema technology to represent 3D content. With the growing pressure for tool vendors and content providers to use open standards rather than closed proprietary formats, many are wondering which standard they should implement. This whitepaper is intended to assist...
- Tags: Open Standard, Web Application, Tool, Productivity, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2007-03-25
- Intel Embedded Compact Extended Form Factor Single Board Computer Interface
- The Single Board Computer SBC small form factor solution has become increasingly important for meeting the challenges of the embedded environment. This paper serves both as an open standard form factor specification reference, and a white paper discussion of a proof-of-concept board. The Intel Embedded Compact Extended Form Factor (Intel...
- Tags: Open Standard, Board, Intel Corp., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- White papers 2005-10-01
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