Web Services is a set of tools that can be used in a number of ways. The three most common styles of use are RPC, SOA and REST. RPC Web services present a distributed function (or method) call interface that is familiar to many developers. Typically, the basic unit of RPC Web services is the WSDL operation.
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10 Reasons to Choose Mimecast
published by Mimecast on Feb 05, 2010
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.
The 5 Biggest Blunders with Enterprise Social Software
published by Socialtext on Jan 19, 2010
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.
Web 2.0 @ work: how CIOs can help drive business returns by improving organizational effectiveness
published by IBM on Feb 03, 2010
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.
Collaboration to innovation: Leveraging Web 2.0 to Accelerate New Service Ideas
published by IBM on Feb 03, 2010
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.
Increasing IT Flexibility with IBM WebSphere ESB Software
published by IBM EBF ITWP on Sep 28, 2009
Many companies are being challenged to increase flexibility and reuse their existing IT assets with SOA. This white paper explains how an IBM® SOA approach, featuring WebSphere® Enterprise Service Bus software, can help you add new services faster and change services more easily.
Which is Best? Inhouse Versus Outsourcing Web Hosting
published by NeoSpire on Sep 01, 2009
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.
The Saas Advantage for Producing Product Catalogs
published by Catapult on Aug 21, 2009
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.
Application Performance Management: Managing High-Performing, Business-Critical Web Applications
published by CA APM on Aug 21, 2009
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.
Application Lifecycle Management and Business Strategy
published by Microsoft Visual Studio Team System on Feb 25, 2009
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.
Bringing Web 2.0 to the Enterprise: Leveraging Social Computing Technologies for ERP Applications
published by QuinStreet on Feb 05, 2009
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.
Extreme Performance, Predictable, & Econ Scale & Continuous Avail for J2EE Apps
published by Oracle Corp. on Dec 10, 2008
This free white paper details key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy-a 'must have' capability for applications to operate with extreme, predictable performance and scalability. You'll learn: · Why data management is a vital component of all mission-critical applications · How many of the world's largest companies to achieve extreme, scalable performance with continuous availability for business-critical applications . How a successful data management strategy can increase business velocity while making your business more efficient.
Deterministic Garbage Collection: Unleash the Power of Java with Oracle JRockit Real Time
published by Oracle Corp. on Aug 25, 2008
This free white paper details key steps for achieving a superior data management strategy-a 'must have' capability for applications to operate with extreme, predictable performance and scalability. You'll learn: · Why data management is a vital component of all mission-critical applications · How many of the world's largest companies to achieve extreme, scalable performance with continuous availability for business-critical applications . How a successful data management strategy can increase business velocity while making your business more efficient.
Event-Driven Automation: Get Real, Right Now
published by CA WA on May 12, 2008
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).
Maximize CA Workload Automation Performance & Improve Delivery of Business Services with CA Services
published by CA WA on May 12, 2008
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.
How Can Workload Automation Help Me Align Enterprise IT Resources to Improve Service & Manage Risks?
published by CA WA on May 12, 2008
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.
What to Look for in Help Desks
published by Elementool Inc. on Jan 28, 2008
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.
Pivotal CRM and Microsoft: Evolving in Lock Step
published by Pivotal CRM on Dec 21, 2007
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.
Microsoft Dynamics: Enabling Real-World SOA to Connect Your Business Vision with Software
published by Microsoft Dynamics on Jul 23, 2007
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.
Securing Web Services
published by CA on Feb 07, 2007
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.
A Manufacturing Imperative: Enterprise SOA
published by SAP 2 on Aug 21, 2009
Read how Enterprise SOA goes beyond the fundamentals of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is a distributed software model that uses independent Web services to support business processes as defined by SAP and its partners and customers.
AT Kearney: Building a Platform for Better Gov't Services at Lower Cost
published by SAP 2 on Aug 21, 2009
An AT Kearney 2007 study on shared services in government. The image of the public sector as slow to innovate is rapidly becoming a thing of the past as governments are using advanced technology to consolidate back-office functions, concludes this new report. This study, conducted independently by A.T. Kearney with sponsorship from Cisco®, has uncovered major service improvements and cost reductions as a result of "shared services".
Web Enabled Customer Support - Self-Service Business Processes
published by BroadVision on Aug 21, 2009
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.
Build .NET Applications Without Hand-Coding
published by Iron Speed on Aug 21, 2009
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.
How Modern Code Generation Works
published by Iron Speed on Aug 21, 2009
This white paper explains how to quickly create feature-complete custom database applications that integrate Web pages, controls, data access, validation and security.
Accelerating Your Object-Oriented Development
published by Objectivity on Aug 21, 2009
This paper is an overview of the issues that arise from implementing object persistence with a relational database. The basis for this paper is our recent experience with Object-Oriented projects that used relational database technology.
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