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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Support for Business Processes (Theirs and Ours)

  Your Customers' Scenarios Drive; Your Business Processes Support

  by Patricia Seybold

  What’s the relationship between customers’ business processes and your company’s business processes? They’re orthogonal.
  Apr. 17, 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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• 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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• 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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• IBM WebSphere Portal

  A Market, Functionality, and Vision Leader

  by David Marshak

  IBM WebSphere Portal provides a complete, often compelling, and sometimes confusing set of portal functionality and services.
  Feb. 13, 2003

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• SAP Puts Web Services in Mainstream

  Provides Model for Web Services Architecture and Value Proposition

  by Susan Aldrich

  SAP has once again advanced the IT landscape, with far reaching implications for you--even if you don’t use SAP.
  Jan. 23, 2003

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