Web Services

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. tech news

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. tech news

Tyler Cooper & Alcorn, LLP is one of Connecticut's largest law firms. Tyler Cooper & Alcorn managers wanted to continue to expand, while allowing its partners to do what they do best - practice law. They switched from a Microsoft platform to a tightly integrated legal software suite (LMS V) from Rippe & Kingston that runs on all IBM middleware (IBM WebSphere, Lotus Domino, and IBM DB2 Universal Database) using the IBM eServer iSeries. This allows them to team in ways that were not possible before, not to mention cost and resource reductions and virus and failsafe protection. tech news

Despite increasingly complex animation requirements, Threshold needed to shorten the time required to produce a film, while keeping its costs low. Threshold also needed access to a scarce pool of talent from around the world while maintaining control of its processes. Threshold required flexible access to powerful computing resources to handle huge yet unpredictable peaks in processing load. Threshold engaged IBM to create an on demand e-studio system that provides an unlimited growth path with limited, variable costs. The system automates the flow of animation in progress across the world to create a unified corps of designers working around the world. tech news

Based in Abingdon, Virginia, the Washington County government encompasses 566 square miles in the southwest corner of the state. The county needed to become more responsive to its constituents by providing better access to its services, while paving the way for broad process transformation in the future. For help with this transformation, the county turned to IBM Business Partner Burk Consulting, Inc., a Tennessee-based provider of IT services. Working with Burk Consulting-charged with creating an on demand operating environment-the county implemented an e-government portal solution based on IBM WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) and IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for Multiplatforms running on a Linux-based server. The solution also uses IBM Websphere Application Server and DB2 Universal Database. tech news