Deadline: 7 May 2009
Publication date: Articles will run through the
month of June 2009
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Mobile integration
How are end user businesses integrating mobile devices with
their enterprise IT. This article will look at how products like
Salesforc.com, Blackberry Enterprise Server and ActiveSync among
others can be used to connect mobile devices to corporate IT
systems.
The Abbey story
Banco Santander has grown through acquisition. An IT platform,
called Partenon, has powered this business strategy. This has
allowed the company to integrate its acquisitions like Abbey,
Alliance & Leicester very easily. The article will cover the
pros and cons of Santander's approach with Partenon and alternative
IT integration strategies.
Case study
This case study will illustrate best practices in supply chain
integration
Business Process Management
IT integration allows businesses to connect business processes
together. Once linked it becomes possible to have a enterprise view
of how the business is running, allowing companies to manage
processes to improve efficiency and cut back on loss or over
production. This article will explain how business process
management works, giving examples of businesses using BPM. It will
also discuss the pros and cons.
Where is SOA going?
SOA was the knight in shining armour for IT integration. Finally
the industry agreed a standard way for applications to share
services and data. But the SOA frenzy in the industry seems to have
died down as suppliers talk up the merits of cloud computing. So
what has happened to SOA and where is it heading?
System Integrators
This is a market overview of the tier 1 system integrator's
market.