Patterns for E-Business
The IBM Patterns for e-business help facilitate this reuse of assets. Their purpose is to capture and publish e-business artifacts that have been used, tested, and proven to be successful. The information captured by them is assumed to fit the majority, or 80/20, situation. The IBM Patterns for e-business are further augmented with guidelines and related links for their better use in this paper.

IBM Case Study: The Bekins Company
Bekins has been providing high-quality transportation and distribution services across North America for more than a century. Bekins also provides logistics and fulfillment for E-tailers as well as brick-and-mortar retailers who offer direct-to-home delivery for their customers. The challenge was to have a better B2B application. The solution was the launching of its first ever Web services application, the Tonnage Broadcast Exchange (TBE). TBE will enable Bekins to, dramatically grow its brokerage business (whereby it hands off shipping orders to agents or independent third party transportation companies).

Brain Systems - A specialist for E-Business Solutions
Minolta Group. Minolta, headquartered in Brno, produces diverse optical products including cameras, photocopiers, planetaria and specialized medical equipment. Noting the increasing momentum of e-business in its territory, Minolta identified a need to be the first in its business sector to enable dealers to submit orders and check their accounts online. They wanted to be the first office supply business pioneering in the e-business initiative and gain a strategic advantage over competitors. Brain Systems created ECS - an electronic dealer ordering system for Minolta. It enables the dealers to use an Internet connection to browse through catalogues, view prices in their appropriate dealer category, configure products, place orders, view order status, view list of debts and credits, etc.

Macromedia Case Study: WebAssist.com
WebAssist.com specializes in creating custom extensions for leading platforms including Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, and Dreamweaver UltraDev. With extensive scripting and database experience, WebAssist.com has provided e-commerce and internal management applications for companies such as Macromedia, Cisco, and Motorola. Recently, WebAssist.com rebuilt its self-promotional and community-oriented site with Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev. With the new site, WebAssist.com had two major goals: advertise and sell products and services online and provide a dynamic self-service knowledgebase for the developer community.

A Flexible Approach for Sarbanes-Oxley and Other Business Drivers
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed into law on July 30, 2002. Sarbanes-Oxley joins the European Union Data Protection Directive, Government Information Security Reform Act and Gramm-Leach-Bliley as one of the many regulations currently confronting business organizations. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has three main sections with ten titles and 66 subsections. This paper focuses on several key sections that have the greatest impact on information technology (IT) and presents a strategic approach that will meet today's needs while positioning the enterprise to meet evolving regulatory and business requirements.

Integrated Justice: Architectural Approaches for Sharing Information Across the Justice Enterprise
Justice information systems integration is not a new idea - justice agencies worldwide recognize the importance of integrating systems to share critical data, documents, images and key transactions. Local, state and national jurisdictions are actively developing integrated justice information sharing (IJIS) plans and programs. The goal of IJIS is to break down the barriers that exist in stovepipe justice agencies, creating an environment for sharing critical information at key decision points throughout the justice process. This white paper compares four different architectural approaches to IJIS and addresses some key factors that decision-makers should consider when choosing an approach. It also offers guidance on standards that provide an open, vendor-neutral approach to the challenge of interoperability.

Learn More About the Verisign Secure Site Seal
Many E-commerce sites and most Fortune 500 companies safeguard their online businesses. Most turn to Verisign to provide both their business and their customers the protection they need. This demo shows how to secure your Web site and let your customers know it, giving them peace of mind.

Search and the Strategic Value to the Enterprise
Its impossible to tell how often your employees cant find the information they need from your corporate Intranet. However, a recent study found that on average, 25% of an employees work day is spent looking for information. This white paper looks at some trends employees use to get the information they need, and explains what you can do to help them.

Schiphol Airport: Service-Oriented Application Infrastructure Enhances Flexibility, Efficiency, and Satisfaction at One of Europe's Most Important Airport Hubs
Information is the lifeblood of an airport. At Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, up to 20,000 airport staff and 38 external companies-ranging from aircraft catering to customs-rely on the airport information system to keep abreast of details associated with every flight. When the time came to replace its 17-year old system, Schiphol Airport standardized on BEA WebLogic Server. The new system processes more than two million transactions every day, and feeds flight information to 2,500 screens located around the airport. It offers greater flexibility, increase efficiency, and enhanced satisfaction-for users and passengers.

Lotus Domino and .NET Coexistence
Lotus Domino and Microsoft .NET technologies can be integrated using Web Services. Web Services are self-contained, self-describing, modular applications that can be published to and invoked from the Web. Unlike traditional Web-based applications, Web Services contain no user interface, which means that these applications could be remotely invoked by other applications known as clients. Web Services use technology standards such as XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. In addition to this, Web Services applications communicate with each other by using the HTTP protocol and SOAP messages. This paper shows how Web Services, developed on different languages and different tools, can interact with each other.

Independent ASP Performance Study on the IBM eServer iSeries Server
Independent ASPs were announced and made available in V5R1. The initial introduction of IASPs was limited to IFS objects. As such, iSeries customers started using this concept for Domino, Web serving applications, and Integrated xSeries Adapters servers. The aim of this paper is to provide one with an understanding of the performance implications when one decides to move the applications to Independent ASP.

Mixed-Mode Site Consolidation in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1
This webcast session introduces the new mixed-mode cross-site move mailbox functionality that is introduced in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Site consolidation includes cross-site mailbox moves and some other cleanup steps. The session provides a walk-through of the process, and includes an introduction to the updated Exchange Deployment tools. The webcast also reviews a number of caveats to know about after the moves are completed.

Doculabs MarketFocus White Paper: The EMC Centera/Documentum Solution
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a concept that is rapidly being adopted in large organizations. ILM is about effectively treating information as a resource (just like human resources and capital equipment); that is, organizations should manage and leverage information as an asset, reduce its risks as a liability, and reduce the costs of keeping it. This paper provides Doculabs' perspective on the key business drivers for ILM, and how EMC and Documentum address these drivers.

The rise of CSS spam: insight into the latest spamming technique
This white paper takes a brief look at how spammers are taking advantage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to develop new methods of concealing text in spam. This new web language is also being used to recycle old HTML-based tricks to fool spam filters that do not understand CSS.

MIB Group: A Soft-Spoken Data Hub Delivers World-Class Performance
MIB is a centralized clearinghouse of underwriting related information geared toward the detection and deterrence of fraud during the risk assessment process for medically underwritten insurance products and services. One of MIB's key challenges was to develop an architecture that can simultaneously support both early adopters of KnowledgeNow and users of the legacy, dial-up system. MIB addressed this issue by employing IBM MQSeries as the "glue" that tied together its older legacy systems with its new e-infrastructure.

The rise of CSS spam: insight into the latest spamming technique
This white paper takes a brief look at how spammers are taking advantage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to develop new methods of concealing text in spam. This new web language is also being used to recycle old HTML-based tricks to fool spam filters that do not understand CSS.

Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing
IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (Sametime) 3.1, with more than 9 million users, is the market-leading instant messaging and Web conferencing solution for business. Sametime provides presence awareness, instant messaging, and Web conferencing. This paper describes how to leverage the Sun Solaris 9 environment as a stable and scalable platform for Sametime 3.1.

IBM Reduces Corporate Travel Costs With Realtime Online Reservation System
With more than 300,000 employees around the world, IBM continually strives to improve productivity and reduce costs throughout the organization. IBM wanted to find an even more efficient way to manage its corporate travel program, to lower employee travel costs and to improve productivity. To solve the problem, IBM deployed an easy-to-use, self-service online booking system that encourages travel policy compliance and enables better control of the travel management process across the entire company. The new employee reservation application connects several different, previously siloed systems, creating an integrated, highly resilient solution capable of providing realtime reservations.

Reilly Responds to Business Growth With Flexible, Cost-Effective Network
Reilly Mortgage Group, a small, privately held company in McLean, Virginia, that provides acquisition, refinancing and new construction loans for multi-family dwellings. Management at the Reilly Mortgage Group required a new networking solution to increase the uptime of its financial services network, to gain better visibility into network performance and security for applications, and to reduce the operational burden on the company's IT team. Reilly selected Corente to provide an outsourced, secure IP network that it can quickly adapt to new application needs as its business grows.

Take a Big-Picture View of Operations Support: New-Breed Operational Support Systems Meet the Needs of Next-Generation Service Providers
Few telecommunications and Internet service providers are immune to the unrelenting pressure to improve their earnings performance, leverage their existing network infrastructure, improve customer satisfaction and bring new services to market more quickly. This white paper examines the application of Internet infrastructure technology to OSS deployment and addresses two of the most expensive and painful problems with next-generation OSS implementation: multi-vendor interoperability and flexibility.

Migrating Applications From CCF to J2C
This paper discusses how to change an example Java application that uses the IBM Common Connector Framework (CCF) to using Java2 Connector Architecture (J2C). The change from CCF to J2C is part of the continuing evolution of Java programming standards. There has been a need to connect Java applications to enterprise systems since the early days of Java programming, well before IBM WebSphere and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE).

Avnet Adds Responsiveness to the Demand Chain Through Automated Information Delivery
Based in Tempe, Arizona, Avnet Partner Solutions is North America's leading value-added distributor of enterprise computing solutions, storage, software and services. Avnet needed to deliver services and information to help its suppliers and resellers become more responsive, yet remain flexible enough to adapt to their existing processes. Avnet teamed up with IBM Business Consulting Services to create Channel Connection, a flexible, highly automated portal solution that provides suppliers and resellers with personalized, realtime information to optimize their decision-making.

An Information Grid Solution Using Avaki Data Grid Software
This paper describes a proof-of-concept (POC) project that was hosted in the Poughkeepsie, New York, IBM Design Center for e-business on demand. While this paper focuses on XYZCO's problem and solution, it can be applied to other industries that are looking to virtualize their data resources using information grid middleware. This paper provides a real-life scenario of how to use Avaki Data Grid software to provide a single, unified view of data across multiple data sources, hardware platforms, operating systems, and disk types.

On-Line Knowledge Management Search Engine
Knowledge management (KM), as one of the means to obtain better knowledge acquisition, is not new to educational organization. The existing KM applications play a role in student learning, however they are not consistently targeting the mission of efficient and effective learning needs. The purpose of this paper is to present an integrated view of "smooth and pleasant" combination of the KM and Search Engine in terms of on line usability both in technical and functional aspects.

Broadband Creates a Completely New Lifestyle Image
Products like Playstation and VAIO have made Sony a worldwide household name. They have also positioned it as a company well placed for the development of home networks. Now under the "bit-drive" brand they are entering the communication business. The support of streaming broadcasting by Fujitsu's PRIMEPOWER servers is enabling some of the main features of Sony's "bit-drive" business. So far, image media has been used in a "passive" way. Looking at "bit-drive's" aims, it is not just about using TCP/IP protocol and providing applications and network communication. It's about offering "Active Content" that is part of the user's lifestyle. With Broadband as the basis, Sony anticipates that "bit-drive" will deliver "great expectations" in lifestyle products.

Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Part 5: Enhanced Browsing Security
This paper provides detailed information about the technologies included in Windows XP Service Pack 2 that help to make Web browsing safer. These technologies are designed to help to provide improved security when compared to previous versions of Internet Explorer. In Windows XP Service Pack 2, the prompts that are used for file downloads, mail attachments, shell process execution, and program installation have been modified to be both more consistent and clearer than they were in Service Pack 1 for Windows XP. In addition, Windows XP displays the publisher of an executable file to the user when executable files are selected in either Internet Explorer or Outlook Express.

Portal Application Design and Development Guidelines
This paper focuses on the design approaches for portal solutions. It tries to cover some of the differences between traditional Web applications and portal solutions from a design standpoint. It provides guidelines on how to design portlet applications in WebSphere Portal V5 using different types of frameworks, and discuss best practices for portlet development. It also includes information concerning performance, both in regard to portlet design and development, and also in regard to response time tracing within a portal solution.

Protect Your Entire Web Environment!
Join Industry Experts - Joseph Dell, Chief Technology Officer of Vigilar and Andrew Kalat, Sales Engineering Manager, of Check Point for a discussion on how Check Point uses web intelligence to protect the entire web infrastructure. Web Intelligence is Web application firewall technology for Check Point products enabling fully-integrated application-level protection to web servers and back end systems.

Systems Management APIs for z/VM
This paper describes the z/VM Systems Management Application Programming Interface (API), a programming interface to manage many aspects of a z/VM system. The interface is based on the Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call (ONC/RPC) protocol, a platform-independent and language-neutral protocol for remote procedure execution. The Systems Management API is TCP/IP-based and provides a rich set of functions to handle many aspects of z/VM management.

Chunghwa Telecom Utilizes BEA and HP for Its Customer Service Solution
Chunghwa Telecom is an industrial leader of the telecommunication service market in Taiwan. Facing the increasing loading pressure from Telecom Service Trouble Reporting Information System, Chunghwa Telecom decided to look for a better IT technology with acceptable price performance to not only upgrade the current system but also can meet their service innovation roadmap requirement. By applying the advanced Intel Itanium 2-based HP Integrity Server running BEA WebLogic Application for upgrading the "112 Trouble Reporting Information System", Chunghwa, implemented at all major MIS center which covers the north-TWN, the central-TWN, and the south-TWN center, HP Integrity technology has shown both the outstanding performance and cost effectiveness impressively to Chunghwa Telecom users.

Volkswagen's World-Class Procurement Strategy Produces Breakthrough Productivity Gains
Based in Wolfsburg, Germany, Volkswagen AG (www.volkswagen.de) is Europe's largest auto manufacturer with worldwide revenues approaching $110 billion and manufacturing facilities on every continent. Volkswagen needed to integrate its information and processes to speed decision-making and become more responsive to a rapidly changing supplier environment. Working with IBM, Volkswagen began putting in place a new system designed to simplify and automate the process by which employees and suppliers capture, access, analyze and use information. They created an on Demand Workplace that includes an enterprisewide portal for employees and suppliers whose sensing, analytic and workflow capabilities have radically streamlined the way employees access and act on information.

Asera Helps Businesses Get the Most Out of Their Web Services Implementations
Asera Helps Businesses get the most out of their Web services implementations. Asera is focused on leveraging the Web Services model as a medium for delivering dynamic, complex inter and intra-enterprise collaboration. Asera provides an architectural solution for real time connectivity across multiple business constituents. Asera's eBusiness operating systems enables users to construct business processes independently from any particular set of applications, by abstracting the business process logic from underlying application logic. Asera's eBusiness Operating System is uniquely positioned to deliver the promise of Web services because of its holistic approach to building composite applications.

Securing XML Web Services: SSL, XML Firewalling, and Beyond
Discusses XML and Web services-specific security challenges and presents the limitations of an SSL or sole XML Firewall solution. Outlines the attributes of an ideal Web services security solution.