Web Services

In this report, Datamonitor provides a comprehensive evaluation of the burgeoning SaaS BPM market.

Increased operating costs, inefficient hardware utilization, and rapidly expanding datacenters have made virtualization one of the most compelling IT technology in years. While virtualization has solved a multitude of problems, some virtualization solutions are characterized by lower performance, complex configurations and tedious administration especially for complex applications made up of multiple tiers and components. This technical white paper explores in detail the technology behind a new virtualized deployment paradigm for Java EE applications, describing not only the technology behind these advances, but also the benefits and usage.

Learn how the IBM WebSphere Portal can help extend the value of your System z platform to the web. Download this free white paper from IBM today!

Increased operating costs, inefficient hardware utilization and rapidly expanding data centers have made virtualization the most compelling IT technology in years. Virtualization for the desktop and the server environment have evolved in the past years to finally deliver on its promise to lower operating costs and achieve better utilization of hardware.

Today, more and more companies rely on information technology (IT) to conduct business. The fast pace of business change, including mergers and acquisitions and rapidly changing IT technologies, makes it ever more challenging for IT organizations to keep business systems available and performing optimally.

This white paper is intended to provide service providers with IBM's point of view on the power of collaboration in a Web 2.0 environment and to introduce a new IBM solution that can help telecoms to use collaboration as a tool for enabling innovation.

A recent IBM CEO study revealed innovation, along with global integration and a disruptive business model, to be among the key traits of the Enterprise of the Future.1 As to how that innovation will take place-CEOs include collaboration and the use of Web 2.0 tools at the top of the list.

Most IT departments don't have experience with how to successfully implement social software technologies like microblogging, social networking, etc. Learn from the mistakes of others, so you can avoid the common pitfalls, and can instead get the tremendous results social software can bring.

How can a company decide what the right decision is when it comes to outsourcing? A growing percentage of companies are reaping the benefits of leveraging technology to streamline business operations and automate their business processes to create greater efficiencies by turning to outsourced web hosting. In today's economy, more and more small to medium sized businesses with no IT staff, or an already over-burdened IT staff, are finding there is no other choice. However, even with companies that have the resources necessary to host their own websites are looking to outsource their hosting needs. For these companies not resources, but the issue of ensuring that the hosting environment is secure, reliable, and scalable is why they look towards outsourcing. Learn the pros and cons of outsourcing and how NeoSpire can help.

Mimecast delivers Software-as-a-Service based enterprise email management including archiving, discovery, continuity, security and policy. By unifying disparate and fragmented email environments into one holistic service that is always available from the cloud, Mimecast minimizes risk and reduces cost and complexity, while providing total end-to-end control of email.

Software-as-a-Service is changing the way companies purchase technology solutions. Rather than securing large capital budgets and tying up IT labor for months, business executives can now address mission critical initiatives with subscription-based software solutions that scale with their business and can be implemented in little to no time.

Is building custom software a necessary evil, a process that’s divorced from the really important parts of a business? Or is the ability to do this well the underpinning of every successful organization? The truth is probably somewhere in between these two extremes. One thing is clear, however: In many organizations, how well a firm executes its business strategies is inextricably tied to how good it is at creating and running new applications.

This white paper details how Web 2.0 technologies support business strategies by improving efficiency and productivity as well as harnessing knowledge through collaboration. They also reduce IT costs by simplifying integration and improving IT administration and maintenance.

Increasing reliance on web-based applications has had significant implications for both IT staff and business managers. IT’s primary responsibility and ongoing challenge is to provide a reliable high-performance web applications services environment, an environment that ensures the end user’s ability to successfully interact with web applications while enabling IT to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Anything less than superior application performance can have immediate consequences.

While companies cope with increasing demands for speed from their customers, shareholders and customers alike demand that they make these changes cheaply, with minimal risk and with as few people resources as possible. Is there any way to meet these challenges? Take another look at modern enterprise job scheduling to see how it enables the real-time environment (RTE).

CA services can help you realize the value of your CA Workload Automation solution more quickly while reducing the overall costs of ownership. We can help you architect, deploy and establish a CA Workload Automation solution that meets your automation needs and business objectives. CA also provides training to improve the productivity of your staff and ongoing support to maximize the value of your software product investment.

CA Workload Automation brings a central point of control and visibility to help assure efficient, reliable and secure business process management. It enables business workload design across platforms and operating systems, offering advanced monitoring and automated responses to changes and exceptions.

A help desk is a very helpful customer service tool for businesses operating a website online. Doing business online creates a distance between the business and the customer. Customers are not dealing with a person face-to-face anymore. This makes being quick to respond to customer issues very important and that is where a help desk comes in.

For more than a decade, Pivotal CRM has been the choice of Microsoft-centric organizations that want the flexibility to model their specific business practices within their customer relationship management system. The Pivotal CRM product line leverages the Microsoft technology stack to provide usability and productivity advantages through integration to Microsoft Office, and more.

This paper walks you through the tools and technologies that enable service orientation. The purpose of this paper is to share with you the value of Real-World SOA and a few success stories from our customers who have taken on Real-World SOA projects to support their business vision.

While Web services offer many advantages over current alternatives, they still present key challenges, especially in terms of security. This document describes CA TransactionMinder in detail and is intended for technical people already familiar with Web services, XML security and CA SiteMinder, the company's market-leading access management software solution.

Ultra High Speed Internet, TV and local/long distance phone services combined into 1 superior service.

The benefits of moving manual processes to the web are well understood. But very few organizations have web-enabled product returns, bill disputes or other complex business processes. This paper discusses requirements for web-enabling complex processes.

See how Iron Speed Designer builds database forms, and reporting applications for .NET without hand-coding. Quickly create feature-complete custom applications that integrate Web pages, controls, data access, validation and security.

This white paper explains how to quickly create feature-complete custom database applications that integrate Web pages, controls, data access, validation and security.