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• DB2 Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition

  A Comprehensive Bundle for Top-End Data Warehouses

  by Mitchell Kramer

  This report evaluates IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition against our framework for data warehouse databases.
  Sep. 11, 2003

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• Using Service-Oriented Architecture to Deal with Data and Application Problems

  Nine Common Issues in Dealing with Data and Applications

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report identifies nine common data and applications problems and the four underlying architectural causes that all share in common. We outline how SOA and, specifically, Web Services, can address each root cause and each of the nine common IT integr
  Sep. 4, 2003

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• Gaining Adoption & ROI for Your Software Projects

  Dealing with the Secret Shame of Today's Stalled Software Deployment Efforts

  by Patricia Seybold

  Software suppliers need to focus on their customers’ speed of adoption and roll-out.
  Aug. 14, 2003

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• Service-Oriented Architecture: Defining Services

  Defining Services and Their Requirements

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report provides guidelines and a template for specifying a service, using examples of services that are commonly encountered by any organization implementing Service-Oriented Architecture.
  Aug. 7, 2003

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• Securing Trading Partner Interactions: Two Approaches Supported by New Standards

  Considering Federation or Automated Provisioning Standards? You'll Need Both

  by Susan Aldrich

  How do you prepare for automated interactions with your partners? You’ll need to consider an extended approach to provisioning, an updated security infrastructure, and the implications of federation.
  Jul. 30, 2003

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• Service-Oriented Architecture: Applying Granularity

  Applying the Right Granularity for Services

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  Finding the “right” granularity for Web Services can be a challenge. This report applies our best-practices framework to a real-world example, showing how a candidate list of services is refined into a set of well-defined services for design or acquisiti
  Jul. 24, 2003

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• Granularity Rocks!

  Framing Concerns into the Right-Size Chunks Solves a Host of Business and Technology Problems

  by Patricia Seybold

  How do you address thorny business and technical issues? Break them into the right-size chunks.
  Jul. 17, 2003

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• Service-Oriented Architecture: Defining Granularity

  Finding the "Right" Granularity for Services

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  Finding the “right” granularity for web services can be a challenge. This report provides practical tools and guidelines that will help you design well-defined services.
  Jul. 17, 2003

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• What about the Customers?

  Differences in Architecture Will Make Conversion from PeopleSoft to Oracle High Cost and High Risk

  by Mitchell Kramer

  Oracle’s announced acquisition of PeopleSoft will force PeopleSoft customers to convert from PeopleSoft 8 to Oracle EBS 11i, a conversion that, due to differences in Architecture, will result in major costs and high risk.
  Jun. 19, 2003

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• Going! Going! Gone?

  Will Customer Service and Software Problems Topple Internet Auction Leader eBay?

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  Although eBay is a phenomenal success in the online auction business, the company seems to be ignoring its primary customers, forcing buggy and time-consuming technology on them.
  May. 22, 2003

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• Service-Oriented Architecture FAQs

  The What, Why, and How of SOA

  by Susan Aldrich

  Here is a set of definitions, a description of benefits, and critical success factors for achieving a service-oriented Architecture.
  May. 8, 2003

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• Sony Broadband Services Builds Web Services Infrastructure

  Services-Based Architecture Enables Interoperability and Cost Savings

  by Susan Aldrich

  Sony Broadband Services has implemented a framework for interoperability, based on Web Services, which also supports evolution to a services-based Architecture.
  Mar. 6, 2003

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• Data Warehouse Databases

  Our Framework for Evaluating and Comparing Products that Implement Data Warehouses

  by Mitchell Kramer

  This reports documents a framework for evaluating data warehouse databases. The framework has been designed to simplify the effort and reduce the risk to select the data warehouse database that is best for you.
  Mar. 6, 2003

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• Web Services Security Issues and Antidotes

  Two Characteristics of Web Services Drive Critical Security Requirements

  by Susan Aldrich

  There are two security issues that are exacerbated by Web Services, which push some familiar security requirements into higher priority.
  Feb. 27, 2003

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• Multi-Channel CRM Architecture

  An Architecture for Ideal Customer Experience

  by Mitchell Kramer

  This report defines an Architecture for Multi-Channel CRM. This Architecture can help define your CRM requirements and evaluate CRM products.
  Feb. 6, 2003

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• Services on Our Mind

  Software Vendors Need to Start Thinking Services, Not Solutions

  by Patricia Seybold

  Today’s IT-buyers want to buy collections of re-usable application and infrastructure services. Today’s IT sellers are offering packaged software solutions. There’s a mismatch in the market.
  Jan. 16, 2003

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• What Are The Issues Around Single Sign-On?

  Portal Q & A

  by David Marshak

  Addressing the question of single sign-on for portals is more difficult as the complexity of the portal increases.
  Nov. 14, 2002

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• Customer Issues: Single Sign-On

  Pursuing the Holy Grail of Single Sign-On in a World of Complex Business Partnerships

  by Patricia Seybold

  Delivering Single Sign-On is a high priority for CIOs in 2003. It won’t be easy!
  Nov. 14, 2002

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• The Next Big Thing: Adaptive Business Process Management

  Making Processes Reflect the Dynamic Nature of Business Today

  by Patricia Seybold

  Static business processes cannot address continually-changing customer requirements.
  Oct. 10, 2002

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• The State of Portlet Standards:

  Clearing Up the Confusion

  by David Marshak

  Major steps are being taken to bring standards into building Portlets, including a common Java API and a remote Portlet extension to Web Services.
  Sep. 12, 2002

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