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• The Future of Enterprise Content Management

  Trends for Linking the Content Management Lifecycle to Your Enterprise Application Infrastructure

  by Geoffrey Bock

  In this report, we offer our observations about our framework-based comparisons of enterprise content management products as well as identify critical trends for content management features and functions.
  Sep. 4, 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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• 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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• 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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• Beware of Business Process Management

  Be Careful about Adopting Internally-Driven Business Processes; Instead, Design a Customer-Adaptive Enterprise Using a Services-Oriented Approach

  by Patricia Seybold

  Business processes are internally-focused, difficult to design, hard to adapt, and have very short shelf-lives. Instead of wasting time designing business processes, we recommend that you identify the services required to support key Customer Scenarios®
  May. 8, 2003

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• What Does Availability Actually Mean?

  Weighing Five 9s, Customer Experience, Business Results, and the IT Report Card

  by Susan Aldrich

  Availability may be Five 9s, but what did we actually measure? Why?
  Apr. 10, 2003

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• HP’s Web Services Management Game Plan

  Be the Keystone for Web Services Management Standards and Technology

  by Susan Aldrich

  HP has a Web Services game plan designed to keep HP in the forefront of Web Services management technology and standards.
  Apr. 3, 2003

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• Taking Portals Offline

  BackWeb ProactivePortal Enables Almost Seamless Offline Portal Usage

  by David Marshak

  BackWeb ProactivePortal provides the ability to synchronize portals for offline use.
  Mar. 27, 2003

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• AmberPoints Web Services Backplane Solutions

  Management Foundation and Service Level Manager Control Quality of Service and Access

  by Susan Aldrich

  AmberPoint’s Web Services management solutions are tops for business visibility and flexibility.
  Mar. 27, 2003

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• SAS Moves Up-Market

  Continuing the Migration from Tools to Solutions

  by Mitchell Kramer

  SAS Institute has articulated a vision to “become the strategic business intelligence and analytic applications supplier.” This report presents our take on SAS’s vision and on whether SAS can achieve it.
  Mar. 20, 2003

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• The Future of Lotus

  Does It Have One? Does It Matter?

  by David Marshak

  IBM is redefining the Lotus brand, products, and organization. Will this matter to customers?
  Mar. 13, 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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• 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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• How to Think about Portals

  Why "Lipstick on a Pig" Isn't Such a Bad Idea!

  by Patricia Seybold

  Portals are more than a thin veneer on top of a set of disparate applications.
  Feb. 27, 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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• The Network Effect

  Weaving the Semantic Web of information

  by Patricia Seybold

  No matter what business you're in, you should be aware of emerging standards in cross-referencing digital assets.
  Feb. 27, 2003

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• Who Is Accessing Your Information?

  The COUNTER Project Proposes to Track Usage while Protecting Privacy

  by Patricia Seybold

  The COUNTER Project is attempting to provide a standardized method of tracking reader access to online published information.
  Feb. 20, 2003

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• Protecting Your Digital Assets

  Technical Journal Publishers Lead the Way Using Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)

  by Patricia Seybold

  The DOI standard for uniquely tagging digitized assets is in widespread use by journal publishers.
  Feb. 13, 2003

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