Editor-at-Large Jack Vaughan recently spoke with Emmet B. Keeffe III, CEO and co-founder of iRise. Based in El Segundo, Calif., the enterprise software and services company is dedicated to B2IT communication -- bridging the communication gap that exists between business and IT. Its iRise Application Simulator allows business users to simulate and validate Web-based apps prior to development.
Hard-driving managers like Pfizer’s Danny Siegel hit the streets to bring harmonized data to the decision-making process.
With fast-moving acquisitions and newfound internal collaboration, IBM is aiming to stay on top of the software market.
Some pundits view IT security today as immature, insecure and out of control. Every organization should develop internal expertise in this area.
A brief update on what some vendors in the BI space are up to today
The convergence of directory management and provisioning, and how organizations can leverage their directory management investments to meet their provisioning needs.
Keith Brophy, CTO at Robertson Research Institute, Saginaw, Mich., has been working on a Web services application whose objective has special relevance -- saving lives.
We are at the stage now where Web services war stories should be available. A close look shows this new technology catching on.
Steve Garone, managing partner at The AlignIT Group LLC, said there are six requirements to keep in mind when evaluating WSM products.
IT must move beyond mere maintenance and upgrades. Rather than being viewed by the suits as a money pit, IT needs to assume leadership and propose new business processes models.
Are you looking for something new to gain advantage over competitors? Application integration could be your vehicle for driving new and innovative information and business processes.
Changes in the computer room are afoot, and it is not just about clusters. The emerging ‘virtualization’ of software platforms will spread apps in new ways.
Firm’s CTO said he considered the more typical SOA Web-based front end but determined that HTML and the current state of Web services technology was not up to tracking jet flights in real-time.
The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) journey is entering a new phase in corporate IT shops. Experts still expect SOA to finally give IT an adequate integration solution.
With offices in 35 countries, Future Electronics, the third largest electronic distributor in the world, has developed its own enterprise apps to run its operations. But the firm needed a way to integrate all of its global systems.
“A couple of years ago, we began breaking down application suites into XML-based service methods,” said Steve Flammini, CTO at Partners Healthcare, headquartered in Boston. This began to move the IT infrastructure for the multibillion dollar integrated health care delivery system into the Web services world.
Lydian Trust is a mid-sized financial services company based in Palm Beach, Fla. Although it was only founded in 1999, its services, including private banking and wealth management, had expanded by mid-2002 to the point where it had outgrown its original IT systems built on Microsoft Windows .COM. John Studdard’s job was to move to the .NET platform with a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that would allow development teams to build Web services applications without having to worry about the basic XML-based standards or architecture.
At NxTrend Technology Inc., Web services allowed the company to continue to use its established transaction engine while putting on a most “modern” face for other systems, indicated Ross Elliott, vice president and chief strategy officer at the Colorado Springs, Colo.-based supply distribution software house.
From confidentiality, integrity, and availability to authentication, authorization, and audit, find out how you can employ best practices to make Web services secure.
Pervasive? Maybe not yet. But wireless applications are here. Now development teams must sort through a variety of tools and languages to meet the corporation’s need to be mobile.