The impact of services-oriented architecture (SOA) is just beginning to be felt in the batch world-and the challenges are clearly present. Batch legacy applications have been around for years, capably running the business. Now, initiatives like SOA are forcing new integration and interoperability requirements on batch processes that had comfortably been categorized as "untouchable." These processes have to interoperate with online and Web batch applications.  read more »

Large enterprises have found that Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can provide agile and flexible infrastructures. Small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) are now considering how to implement this approach. With their direct business-to-business business models, SMBs are challenged with unique integration needs. To achieve benefits like their enterprise counterparts, SMBs will have to implement loosely coupled, SOA-based Web Services in order to progress beyond traditionally inflexible and costly integration.

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There is no business out there that is not looking to quickly create or renovate business processes to meet changing market and business conditions. Size does not matter, nor does industry sector. There is virtually no one who doesn't have a problem with inflexible or dysfunctional systems and processes.  read more »

Imagine trying to find a short circuit in the telephone wiring of your building and in the process of searching for the guilty wire you discover that two to three sets of old wiring have been left behind from the last two wiring jobs. You either have to find and remove the unused wiring or test all of the wires, knowing that much of it is not even being used.
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Although there are a number of forces driving companies to modernize their IT systems these days, the overriding impetus for enterprise IT modernization (EIM) is the need to easily address changing business demands in order to maintain a competitive edge in the market.  read more »

Major technology vendors are all over the map when it comes to corporate strategies for Linux and Open Source.
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Let me start off right away by saying what this article isn’t. It isn’t going to describe a 1950s-like prediction of data centers run by robots, nor is it going to describe the use of nano-technology to create a sentient array of devices.  read more »