Whitepapers

Collaboration and Social Media: Taking Stock of Today's Experiences and Tomorrow's Opportunities

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:57:47 -0400

From this survey, Gilbane Group concludes that building successful communities requires expert moderators. SAP has been successful in changing its strategy and its image-by using community to reinforce a brand initiative and is now considered a leader in responsiveness and customer focus.

Successful online communities often start with a single task but evolve to serve as models for tackling a broader range of business opportunities and challenges. Read this report today and learn how social media can work in your enterprise.

How Social Computing, Team Collaboration, and Enterprise Content Management Drive Competitive Advantage

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:56:20 -0400

This white paper provides a high-level outline of the challenges facing companies around the creation and management of business content.

Your IT strategy should consider the domains of social computing, team collaboration, and enterprise content management as an integrated web of services rather than as separate sets of product solutions. Find out why utilizing an integrated approach provides flexible, open, and powerful collaboration capabilities while reducing business and IT risks and costs; and why social computing, team collaboration, and enterprise organizations, when considered as part of one integrated high-performance information workplace, can be used to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.

The Definitive IP Address Management (IPAM) Intelligence Whitepaper

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:07:02 -0400

View this whitepaper to see how IP Address Management (IPAM) is much more than just a marriage between DNS and DHCP. The features and functions that distinguish intelligent IPAM solutions from spreadsheets and homegrown solutions are aggregated into 'Five Pillars of IPAM Intelligence' : Management, Visibility, Integration, Continuity and Control.

The Case for an Untethered Enterprise

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:51:45 -0400

Many advancements in enterprise networking have been made over the past few years and now businesses have the ability to use wireless networks to not just complement, but completely replace their wired networks. This whitepaper describes the many benefits of going completely wireless, including superior network performance and reliability as well as a significantly lower cost of ownership.

IM and Presence: Achieving Mission Critical Status in the Enterprise

Reene Grossman — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:47:27 -0400

This J.Gold Associates white paper provides an overview of instant messaging (IM) & presence, as well as trends which will impact mobile enterprise users. Companies that do not treat IM as strategic will find they have not taken advantage of an important tool to improve efficiency.

Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:47:56 -0400

Web Services Addressing provides transport-neutral mechanisms to address Web services and messages. Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata (this document) defines how the abstract properties defined in Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core are described using WSDL, how to include WSDL metadata in endpoint references, and how WS-Policy can be used to indicate the support of WS-Addressing by a Web service.

Service Oriented Architecture

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:43:43 -0400

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is currently a popular subject with no consensus or standardized reference model to define it. While many believe that Web Services1 or ebXML2 are SOA, they are in fact, specialized implementations of SOA.

If SOA is truly an architecture, it must be definable as one. The authors of this paper have started standards work to define an SOA reference model as part of an OASIS3 project.

This paper examines SOA, its history, business drivers and the standards that may beused to implement it. It attempts to define SOA and reviews basic and extended models of SOA in use today. For the purposes of this paper, SOA is defined by abstracting the common concepts and elements from architectures and standards that claim to be service oriented. The localized definition of SOA is therefore subject to change in the future.

HIPAA Security Provisions

Reene Grossman — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:50:11 -0400

If your company is subject to HIPAA, is it prepared to meet the requirements of the Security Rule? This paper explains how Tripwire configuration audit and control solutions can keep your IT systems from coming down with a bad case of HIPAA non-compliance.