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iServer offers organisations a powerful, collaborative Enterprise Architecture (EA) and business process modelling suite that leverages existing investment in Microsoft technologies. It delivers a highly-scalable repository-based environment for combining Microsoft Visio (Visio) and Office documents used in the domain areas of enterprise architecture (EA).
Technology Audits - published 25/04/2007 - Martin Gandar
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Casewise is a supplier of Business Process Analysis, Enterprise Architecture, and compliance software solutions. The Corporate Modeler Suite provides frameworks and a toolset that offers organisations the ability to model all areas of the business, delivering not only process visibility that supports the needs of users at all levels from senior management to process users, but also assists organisations in meeting compliancy requirements. Before companies can improve operational efficiency there is a nee
Technology Audits - published 04/04/2007 - Mark Blowers
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There is a growing range of security- and protection-focused business-continuity products that are springing up from a number of sources to support enterprise network infrastructures. These include products that are intended to help organisations to understand the full extent of all devices that operate across their networks; products that can be used to provision, control, and manage the usage of such devices, and those that have the ability to authenticate user and/or device status as they attempt to logo?E? There is a growing range of se
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/04/2007 - Andy Kellett
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The concept of reference architectures might seem a bit esoteric to most IT professionals, but thats certainly not the case if you find yourself sitting plumb in the middle of an enterprise architects conference.
TECHwatch Articles - published 01/03/2007 - Datamonitor Analysts
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SOA adoption is heading towards mainstream for a certain sector of IT user organisations, but it is barely recognised by others. While there is a noticeable vertical industry differentiator (with finance, telco, and government being the lead industries), size of organisation is much more telling. Adoption is greatest in the large enterprise sector, dwindling away rapidly to a comparative vacuum in the Small and Medium Business (SMB) sector. Many mid-sized organisations could benefit greatly from the agil
OpinionWire Articles - published 01/03/2007 - Rob Hailstone
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ProCentra is suitable for document and labour-intensive business processes. It can be considered a Business Process Management (BPM) solution, but is very much a solution rather than a technology toolkit. BPM technology has proved a challenge for organisations to understand and deploy, and this has not improved with the consolidation that has gone on recently in the market. Optios ProCentra offers a way of automating document-centric processes by focusing on the document flow and information needed to r
Technology Audits - published 06/02/2007 - Teresa Jones
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SmartPoint is a dashboard or toolbar that is presented to a user of enterprise applications, which presents information in context to the user to help them carry out their job more efficiently. All too often, even integrated enterprise applications do not present information that expert users know to seek out, which means they need to access multiple applications, switching between them. Mistakes and omissions often occur. SmartPoint takes a one-click approach to integration, working with a wide variet
Technology Audits - published 05/02/2007 - Teresa Jones
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During the Butler Group Business Process Management and Integration Symposium, held in London on 22-23 November, 2006, an informal survey was conducted into the areas of encouraging business awareness of SOA and potential causes of SOA failure. Two questions were posed:
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/02/2007 - Rob Hailstone
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Why are businesses adopting Service Oriented Architectures? Well, the short answer is that they promise three things that businesses desire from their IT infrastructure, namely:
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/02/2007 - Terry Riches
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Ever since the days of COBOL Copy Books, IT organisations have tried solving the riddle of software reuse. Driven by goals of improving ITs notoriously poor levels of productivity, reuse projects typically crashed and burned for a number of reasons.
TECHwatch Articles - published 01/02/2007 - Datamonitor Analysts
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is exciting the imagination more than any other previous architectural strategy. However, this emerging model contains many aspects that need to be fully understood.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/02/2007 - Mark Blowers
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Salesforce.com Inc. has made its new development language, Apex, publicly available, along with some Eclipse-based tooling, as part of its bid to entrench its on-demand software service as a formal applications platform.
TECHwatch Articles - published 01/02/2007 - Datamonitor Analysts
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Microgen Aptitude is both a Business Process Management (BPM) solution and an instantiation of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Although Microgen Aptitude has full support for Web services, allowing Microgen Aptitude applications to be orchestrated by third-party tools, or being an orchestration tool itself, it goes far beyond the Web services paradigm, to bring SOA and orchestration to legacy systems, without the need to create Web services. This is important in the markets targeted by Microgen, w
Technology Audits - published 25/01/2007 - Mike Thompson
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At the time of writing, much of the current investment in IT is being directed towards delivering greater responsiveness and agility to IT systems by accommodating change to the structured work environment. Much attention is being paid to the automation and optimisation of the repeatable processes that represent the character, business model, and values of the organisation. However, every organisation has a part of its corporate life outside of these repeatable processes. This is the world of strategic p
Technology Audits - published 04/01/2007 - Rob Hailstone
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is destined to be one of the defining IT paradigms of the next decade. It promises the delivery of IT services in a loosely-coupled way that is more flexible and better aligned with business needs than previous architectures. SOA is an architectural style, not a technology, which allows the creation and maintenance of an IT architecture that supports business services and business processes, and also rapidly adapts to the changes within them.
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 20/12/2006 - Mark Blowers, Mike Thompson, Rob Hailstone, Teresa Jones, Tim Jennings
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The recent emphasis for IT departments on systems consolidation and compliance with information legislation, has led to a backlog of application development work which must be accomplished in an effective and timely manner. Addressing this need, significant benefits in both speed and development costs can be realised by deploying service-oriented composite applications, which draw together business logic and data sources from multiple underlying systems.
White Papers - published 19/12/2006 - Rob Hailstone, Tim Jennings
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IGEL has developed a range of thin-client devices that can support in a single device the current range of protocols used to deliver digital services to the desktop. Currently these digital services are provided using proprietary protocols, and when used on PCs they require complex implementation and configuration that slows down their deployment. Butler Group considers that the use of a smart card reader in the devices extends the range of possibilities that these devices can be used for, from support
Technology Audits - published 19/12/2006 - Roy Illsley
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is set to become an inescapable part of our IT landscape in a very short timeframe. A quick review of the strategies and development budgets of the worlds IT vendors from the very largest and most mature to the niche boutique software vendors reveals that SOA will not be allowed to go away. Despite ITs dreadful habit of disguising simple strategies within meaningless acronyms, it is worth a few minutes of any business executives time to understand what SOA is
White Papers - published 08/12/2006 - Rob Hailstone
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The idea of service can be seen as a natural progression in the evolution of application development. Thus, from the earliest procedural code, to structured code, then the concept of objects in parallel with the trend away from mainframes to distributed client-server systems, 3-tier and then n-tier application architectures, and so into the modern era of distributed objects and components. Each advance subsumes what came before, thus, object-oriented programming uses the procedural and structured coding
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/12/2006 - Michael Azoff
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Ask a CIO for an indication of his or her total IT costs, and you have a reasonable expectation of getting a response, albeit with some qualifications. Ask the same CIO about IT value in his or her organisation, and you will typically get either an embarrassed smile or some euphemism about the difficulties of developing suitable measures. This is certainly an uncomfortable topic for IT management, but I feel strongly that it is one where the IT leadership should not feel solely responsible for any shortc
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/12/2006 - Tim Jennings
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A mashup is a Web site, or more usually a Web-based application, comprised of two or more components from different sources, but presented to the user as a single, seamless experience or application. Today, most developers experimenting with mashups are using consumer-centric content from the likes of eBay, Amazon, Google, and others. However, in the future, corporate developers may well combine Web service elements from a range of vendor solutions with bespoke, in-house line-of-business applications
OpinionWire Articles - published 23/11/2006 - Richard Edwards
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A problem with many of the relational-based data sources that exist within organisations is that they represent only a part model of the real world; thus, a customer may exist within one database and a supplier exists within another, even though they represent the same physical entity. The creation of entities within the relational model is more concerned with logical structures than physical. Thus, a customer is created to represent those attributes that logically fit the idea or ideal of a customer
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/11/2006 - Mike Thompson
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Terming it the completion of its Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance strategy, webMethods has announced a definitive agreement to buy service registry provider Infravio for approximately US$38 million in cash.
TECHwatch Articles - published 01/10/2006 - Datamonitor Analysts
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In many areas of IT, there is a continuing trend towards increasing the level of abstraction between the underlying technology and the way that it is applied to business challenges. The clearest example of this shift has been in programming languages, where we have moved from low-level assembly languages, through several generations of development tools, to todays sophisticated Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). If one looks closely at the assembler tools, the code quite clearly relates to the
Butler Group Review Articles - published 01/10/2006 - Tim Jennings
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E2E Technologies product, the E2E Bridge, is an innovative solution for integration, based on the Object Management Groups (OMG) Model Driven Architecture (MDA) principles. Integration is a problem that is faced by most organisations today, which have numerous databases and applications that need to interact with one another, either to fulfil a business process or to provide a better understanding of disparate systems. The challenge historically has been that most tools that are aimed at the integratio
Technology Audits - published 27/09/2006 - Teresa Jones
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