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Preparing for Software-Driven Business Transformation
Gartner's 2004 Symposium highlights the evolution of the software industry. The cost of change is the central constraint on business success. New software promises the agility needed to keep pace with change.
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Business Component Architecture Unites Services and Events
The business component architecture forms the foundation of its specialized versions: service-oriented and event-driven architectures. Software architects looking for success with SOA or EDA must understand BCA first.
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SOA Will Demand Re-engineering of Business Applications
Service-oriented architectures and service-oriented business applications are beginning to affect companies' IT strategies. The potential benefits are real, but they will demand that changes be made to installed applications.
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CPM SOBAs Strengthen and Align Business Processes
The combination of corporate performance management, service-oriented business applications and packaged composite applications enables organizations to create agile processes without losing alignment.
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Process Modeling Improves Business Application Architecture
Process models enable business analysts and system architects to work together to establish event-driven and service-oriented architectural styles in composite business applications.
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Five Reasons Why Your Next CRM Project Needs Web Services
Web services' maturity, applicability and acceptance by business application vendors boost their value to customer relationship management initiatives. Companies must recognize the shift to service-oriented CRM projects.
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Business Process Fusion: Realizing the Value in Applications
Business process fusion and associated technologies will ease the implementation of complex business processing; moreover, fusion approaches will help us realize the full potential of application systems.
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Effective Web Services and SOBAs Require Management
Regardless of the number of Web services in a service-oriented business application environment, service management is essential. The Web services management platform is critical for your service-oriented architecture.
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What Microsoft's Delay of Project Green Means to Customers
Microsoft's first version of deliverables for its SOBA-based Project Green is now earmarked for 2008. Prospective buyers should evaluate Microsoft's business applications on present merits and near-term deliverables.
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Packaged Composite Applications: Applications That Integrate
Packaged composite applications are licensed software for new business functionality that integrates with legacy and packaged applications. Using PCAs can accelerate IT projects and reduce risks.
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Determine Where to Adopt SOBAs to Unlock Their Value
Adoption rates for service-oriented business applications will generally be dictated by the technical "ecosystem." Critically assess your organization's ecosystem, including its ability to support SOBAs.
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Investment Firms Must Exercise Discipline for SOBA Benefits
Complex, "siloed" investment firms need service-oriented business applications. However, their complex and siloed nature makes SOBA adoption difficult.
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SODA Is a Required Building Block for SOBAs
Service-oriented business applications should be developed using SODA techniques to assemble loosely integrated processes. Otherwise, IT organizations will fail to effectively customize or maintain SOBA functionality.
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Myths Hinder Use of SODA and Service-Oriented Architecture
IT organizations must identify the myths about service-oriented development of applications and SOA to gain a competitive advantage.
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Portal Deployments Must Mature for SOBAs to Grow
Service-oriented business applications and portals have taken separate paths, but they're now converging at the user interface level. Companies need to move from content-centric to platform-centric portal deployments.
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