Projects: Integration

8 Ways To Save Your Next Project

With IT projects consistently running late and over budget, it's time to look at what technology leaders and project managers could do to step up their performances.

PHP Programming Pioneer's Embrace of JavaScript

Yahoo's Rasmus Lerdorf talks about why he has stopped "hating" front-end browser applications.

Valero Pumped On SOA

The energy giant turned to service-oriented architecture to integrate its disparate applications and, ultimately, let business users build their own software.

SOA: Improving Ties to Business Partners

Aeroplan's evolution from Air Canada's frequent-flier plan to a standalone loyalty marketing program hinged on integrating its systems with new business partners.

Getting Work in Order

Pegasystems: Handling Complexity

Portal Software: Cleaning Up a Dirty Job

Companies retaining UNICCO to clean offices, maintain heavy machinery and landscape grounds can schedule and track jobs and monitor work quality—all without picking up the phone.

Network Integration: Keeping Traffic in the Fast Lane

An overloaded network infrastructure was making employees at Inergy Automotive Systems cranky. Upgrading the operating system and prioritizing data transmissions increased bandwidth by 300%—-and quelled complaints.

Katrina Update: Tracking The Dead

Most storm victims have been identified but the software FEMA used to track and identify the dead is still lacking.

How Helvetia Insurance Uses SOA To Boost Profits

The Swiss insurer adopted service-oriented architecture to help integrate its acquisitions in five other countries.

IBM Boosts SOA Offerings

Big Blue touts service-oriented architecture tools developed on its experience with 3,000 customer SOA engagements, as the company tries to narrow the technology gap with competitors.

Information Sharing: LAPD Starts to Connect the Dots

Can federal, state, county and local authorities effectively collect and share information? An initiative launched in the wake of 9/11 aims to break old habits and better protect the homeland.

App Integration: Easy as Plugging in a Box?

Well, not exactly. The simple appliances from startup Cast Iron Systems don't come close to the sophisticated capabilities of traditional enterprise application integration software. But customers say the boxes do just enough to be useful.

Top 10 Project Pitfalls You Can Avoid

Learn from the past. We've compiled a list of the errors companies have made in their major information-technology projects, culled from more than 220 case studies Baseline has presented in the last five years.

Chopping Software Maintenance Fees

Companies are turning to third-party maintenance providers to support applications from PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards and Siebel—the three enterprise software players recently acquired by Oracle. Here's why.

 

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