Results for SOA
Pacific Life Uses BMC To Improve Customer Service
Pacific Life Insurance Co., the firm behind the TV ads with the whale jumping out of the water, is making a big splash, thanks to service modeling projects powered by BMC Software’s Business Service Management (BSM) platform. So far, the effort has cut more than $1 million in costs, improved quality of customer service, sped up processing and eased auditor access to data.
Full Story >IBM Chief Architect: 5 Keys To Boosting SOA Efficiencies
Even as a slow economy pressures IT budgets and staffs, a top IBM architect says customers can do “a lot…to accelerate the value of SOA.” Rob High, Chief Architect for IBM’s SOA Foundation, shares SOA success tips at Impact2010, May 2-7 in Las Vegas.
Full Story >MGI Improves Compliance with JBoss Business Rules Repository
London-based Millennium Global Investments is improving compliance system by using Red Hat’s open source JBoss Enterprise BRMS (Business Rules Management System) for its mission-critical business rules repository. MGI will standardize its business rules and bring them into a more manageable environment, officials said.
Full Story >Ivory Modernizes Mainframe at Top HR, Payroll Outsourcer
Securex, one of the largest HR and payroll outsourcers in Belgium, modernized their customer-facing mainframe applications to be more interactive, responsive and cost-effective using GT Software’s Ivory Service Architect. IDN examines how Ivory moved an aging batch CRM application to a new platform, converted it from VSAM to CICS and opened it up to leverage SOA and agile web services.
Full Story >GigaSpaces Previews XAP for Cloud, Data Grid
GigaSpaces Technologies is showing a “preview version” of its soon-to-be released eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) enterprise-grade application server for distributed applications. XAP 7.1 will sport new features tuned for cloud and data grids, and is due to ship Q1 2010.
Full Story >Analysis: CDC Software Acquisitions Favor SaaS, SOA, Cloud
CDC Software Corp. continues to amass a portfolio of SOA-driven technologies ranging from BPM/ECM, on-demand SaaS and even integrated supply chain. IDN looks at recent CDC moves that company execs say will hold the keys to growth and new customer opportunities through cross-selling.
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Unified SOA Governance for Microsoft
Unified SOA Governance for IBM
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Leverage Microsoft .Net & WCF for Your Enterprise SOA
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Play VideoDuring this webinar, learn how Microsoft / SOA Software is empowering your team to more quickly and easily design, build, test and deliver these sought-after SOA management features:
- Dynamic policy management & updates
- Kerberos authentication
- Contract-based authorization
- SLA management
- Microsoft – J2EE end-to-end SOA management (BizTalk, WCF, Azure, AppFabric, Visual Studio)
- Exception and performance monitoring
Bring Automated Agile SOA Governance to IBM WebSphere Registry and Repository
Experts from IBM and SOA Software describe how Automated SOA Governance is helping customers cut SOA budgets and boost SOA’s effectiveness and business output. Learn how F1000s are benefiting from a new agile and full-featured approach for SOA Governance and Federation – that readily fits into their ‘any-to-any’ heterogeneous environments.
- Automating Unified SOA Governance
- The “Agile” Approach To End-to-End Governance, Policy Compliance and Control
- Tips for Enterprise Architect Tips – Speed Launch Time, More Alignment with Business, Easier ‘On-the-Fly’ Updates
- Powerful Customer Solutions
Mainframe Modernization wtih IBM's Scott Searle
As 2010 gets underway, a large number of Chief Information Officers say they see ways to leverage and share valuable mainframe assets will be a top priority.
Our Mainframe Modernization ‘Expert Voice’ for this edition, IBM’s Scott Searle, shares results of a revealing CIO study IBM conducted in 2009, details how the CIO findings are driving a powerful approach to mainframe modernization at Rational, which blends the best of COBOL, Java, .NET, SOA and Governance.
IBM: Scott Searle, Program Director,
Rational Enterprise Modernization Products
