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Processing XML on the Network White Paper: The Importance of the Data Layer»rank: 5142707by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer, Jason Bloomberg
: :The dramatic increase of Web Services and other XML traffic on today’s enterprise networks presents serious security, management, and performance considerations for the IT manager. At the root of the problem: existing network devices such as routers, firewalls, and load balancers operate at the packet level, rather than at the data or content level. As a result, existing network infrastructures are entirely unable to provide the data-level security that enterprises need. To meet this need, vendors are offering a variety of solutions with a confusing array of features. These products fall into two broad, overlapping categories: network appliances and XML gateways. |
The Pros and Cons of Web Services Report»rank: 5142707by: ZapThink, Jason Bloomberg, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: : List of Arguments Pro: Web Services are standards-based. Pro: Web Services' loose coupling leads to increased modularity and flexibility in complex, distributed IT environments. Pro: Since Web Services are dynamically described, they will lead to systems that can be upgraded automatically. Pro: Web Services reduces integration costs. Pro: Web Services simplify Business to Business Integration (B2Bi). Pro: Web Services enable new business models. Pro: Web Services leverage existing technology and skill sets. Pro: Web Services enable less technical business people to 'assemble' software solutions without the need for coding. Pro: The Business Climate is Favorable to Web Services. Con: Web Services are immature. Con: Some vendor solutions are single-vendor approaches which ... |
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The Pros and Cons of XML Report»rank: 5142707by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Table of Contents: Introduction Basis for Comparison Brief History of XML Pro Arguments with Counterpoints Con Arguments with Counterpoints Conclusion Appendix A: What is XML? Key Findings: There are 18 key arguments favoring XML There are 9 key arguments challenging XML Does XML represent a revolutionary technology change or is it basically the same old thing in new packaging? There are compelling reasons for XML's longevity, but are matched by equally compelling challenges to its adoption and usage. There is an element of 'religiousness' to various arguments on the pro and con side of XML. Ignore the hype and let your business needs determine your usage of XML Ignore the naysayers and ... |
Putting The Control Of The Business Process Into The Business Users Hands White Paper»rank: 6669781by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :In business, the only constant is change. Businesses, like people, are continuously evolving and as such face rapid and continual change. As markets and customer needs evolve, enterprises must respond with new ways to attract and retain customers and partners, increase operational efficiency, and achieve greater visibility into their business processes. In most businesses, however, business people control the processes, while IT people control the systems. IT staff see business processes through the lens of the low-level parts of the flow, rather than at the business level. As a result, they aren’t capable of implementing the processes so that they will meet continuously changing business requirements, thus impeding business agility. Business users ... |
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Reactivity: Consistent Policy Governance & Enforcement ZapNote»rank: 5092963by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :As companies look to realize the benefits of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures, namely business agility through loose coupling of heterogeneous systems, they realize that security and reliability are key challenges that they must address in order to achieve success. While there exist a wide array of solutions that provide basic security capabilities at the performance levels required for real-time operations, very few solutions provide the broad support that companies need for managing their Services in the context of the rest of their IT ecosystem. In reality companies require not just runtime security and authentication, but also policy management, operations support, auditing, and governance of their infrastructure. Reactivity provides hardware-based products that ... |
Reading & Study Skills»rank: 6669396by: William L. Christen, Ronald V. Schmelzer
: :As companies look to realize the benefits of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures, namely business agility through loose coupling of heterogeneous systems, they realize that security and reliability are key challenges that they must address in order to achieve success. While there exist a wide array of solutions that provide basic security capabilities at the performance levels required for real-time operations, very few solutions provide the broad support that companies need for managing their Services in the context of the rest of their IT ecosystem. In reality companies require not just runtime security and authentication, but also policy management, operations support, auditing, and governance of their infrastructure. Reactivity provides hardware-based products that ... |
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Reading and Study Skills: Book 1 (Reading & Study Skills)»rank: 5347943by: William L. Christen, William G. Browning, Ronald V. Schmelzer
: :As companies look to realize the benefits of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures, namely business agility through loose coupling of heterogeneous systems, they realize that security and reliability are key challenges that they must address in order to achieve success. While there exist a wide array of solutions that provide basic security capabilities at the performance levels required for real-time operations, very few solutions provide the broad support that companies need for managing their Services in the context of the rest of their IT ecosystem. In reality companies require not just runtime security and authentication, but also policy management, operations support, auditing, and governance of their infrastructure. Reactivity provides hardware-based products that ... |
Recruiting WS-I Members from Vertical Industries White Paper: Establishing and Communicating the Value Proposition for Industry Membership»rank: 5347943by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer, Jason Bloomberg
: :You joined the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization to accelerate and encourage the adoption of Web services. WS-I plans to meet these goals by providing deliverables that assist in the interoperability of Web services implementations. For the WS-I to be successful in its mission, however, it is essential that it has broad industry representation within its membership. WS-I needs your help.At this time, a vast majority of WS-I members are IT vendors. Whether you work for a vendor or not, it’s in your company’s best interest to expand the WS-I membership, expecially among industry members outside the IT community. This white paper is an important tool to help you in this important ... |
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Rich and Smart Clients for Service-Oriented Architectures Report: User Interactivity Technology and Trends»rank: 5347943by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Key Points: Rich clients will supplant portals as the primary interface to Web Services and Service-oriented functionality in the enterprise by the end of 2007. The total opportunity for rich clients for SOAs is over $923 million by 2010 realized by new entrant and incumbent vendors. The window of opportunity for new rich client entrants will start to wane when Microsoft makes the Longhorn wave of OS improvements generally available in 2006, at the earliest The increasing adoption of devices, mobile computing, and sometimes-connected systems, movement to asynchronous computing, and adoption of e-Forms will mandate widespread and rapid adoption of rich clients. Table of Contents: I. Report Scope 4 II. The Evolution ... |
The Rich Client: The New Interface for the Next Generation of Distributed Computing White Paper»rank: 6290141by: ZapThink, Ronald D. Schmelzer
: :Companies originally moved to adopt standards-based technologies like those underlying the Web and the Internet as a way to achieve distributed computing functionality at a very low total cost of ownership. However, these companies had to forego many of the user interface and productivity advantages that other distributed computing methods, such as traditional client/server applications, used to give them. As a result, companies continue to struggle to address the issue of how to realize the benefits of rich clients in conjunction with the benefits of distributed, low-cost applications. While companies have long delivered application functionality to Webbrowsers, users are now coming to expect increasingly greater interactivity from this presentation tier. They are ... |