SOA, Enterprise Integration and web services

We are operating in a relentlessly changing business environment, with uncertainty fast becoming one of the only constants on which senior management can rely. Globalisation, market consolidation, ongoing technological advancements and heightened customer expectations, as well as increased regulation exacerbated by the fall out of the financial crisis, are all ... read more..

why it pays to rationalise your BI infrastructure Your IT budget is razor thin, your staff is maxed out, and management has ordered another round of cuts. Meanwhile, three departments are clamouring for specialised applications to compete effectively against the market leader thats eating your lunch. Somehow youre expected to ... read more..

Maggie Berry, Director of womenintechnology.co.uk, questions whether the infrastructure is in place to support women seeking a career within the IT industry.Lets start with a few facts and figures. Currently, just 19% of the IT and Telecoms workforce is female, a figure which has fallen by 4% since 2005. Just ... read more..

Bikram Sankar Das discusses the current market response to the availability of technologies for embedding business intelligence (BI) into operations, and describes how the adoption of SOA can help to maximise the benefits of BI platforms.As business intelligence and performance management (BI-PM) technologies increase in maturity, companies are finding new ... read more..

Martin Percival provides us with his top tips for implementing SOA successfully within your organsiation. 1 Map SOA to your business To be successful, organisations must approach SOA from outside the traditional technology boundaries. Rather than trying to map business goals and requirements onto an SOA vision, companies should ... read more..

All chief executives are looking at new business drivers: Getting closer to customers with customer relationship management (CRM); Rethinking how to use electronic infrastructure for e-business; Collaborating with partners, including business process outsourcers; ... read more..