Using Asset Depot for Inventory Management
Inventory collection and inventory management are a few of the basic disciplines for lowering PC lifecycle costs. Asset Depot is a cost-effective and resource-effective inventory solution that complements and leverages the customer's investment in IBM PC technologies. This paper describes the purpose of Asset Depot and explains the details of Asset Depot server installation. It discusses how to use Asset Depot to the best advantage, and provide usage scenarios and best practices. It also covers customization and advanced usage, and concludes with troubleshooting suggestions.

Offshore Services: Maximizing the Benefits for Financial Institutions
This paper identifies offshore services trends, drivers, risks and challenges, as well as offshoring's overall impact on financial services institutions. It also sets out a new value proposition - one that maximizes benefits of offshore services for FIs - based on lessons learned and research into the offshoring capabilities of service providers.

Bolzano Adopts IBM and SAP Solution for Greater Accounting Efficiencies
A legally mandated reform of public accounting in Italy is causing an examination of financial management practices and systems in order to comply with new regulatory standards. Viewing the reform as an opportunity to increase operational efficiency, the province of Bolzano has initiated a four-year project to integrate local and specialized accounting programs. The solution to the challenge was to establish a partnership between IBM and SAP to provide the data management and analytical capabilities that Bolzano required. The solution helped Bolzano to have a consolidated approach to financial management that increases governmental operating efficiencies.

The Corizon Platform: An introduction to User Process Management
This white paper gives an overview of the concepts behind UPM technology and user interface composition as well as an overview of the Corizon Platform and its key features and benefits.

Simon Jersey Takes the Scissors to Its Costs With a Workflow Solution on iSeries
Simon Jersey, a subsidiary of German retail group Quelle, is one of the UK's leading corporate workwear suppliers. They wanted to reduce workflow costs and provide exceptional customer service in a high-volume business. After extensive evaluation, total cost of ownership and reliability emerged as the key factors, and based on these criteria the company selected TALENT CRM from Computer Software Group, and upgraded to IBM eServer iSeries Model 820.

Electronic Registration Is Replacing Dusty File Cards - Stuttgart's Government Offices Are Backing a Barcode Printing and Scanning System From Intermec
In the Stuttgart government offices the administration of written records is divided between 5 records offices with a total of 51 records officers. As part of working procedure the records officer enters the electronic document itself, together with its corresponding meta-information, into the document management system. The document is then printed out and the file reference is noted on the document. This is where the barcoding system comes in - and very efficiently too. The file reference is issued via the Intermec EasyCoder C4 barcode printer and then attached to the document.

Printek Case Study: Rayovac
Rayovac is the third largest U.S. manufacturer of batteries. Rayovac markets the number one selling domestic rechargeable brand battery, and is the world leader in hearing aid batteries. Their partnership with Printek came about when Rayovac was in the process of implementing an ERP system, SAP/R3. Rayovac's legacy mainframe based printers were not compatible with the new system. The Printek FormsMaster 8000 met or exceeded all of Rayovac Corporation's selection criteria for their mission critical printing needs. Rayovac chose the FormsMaster 8000 with a built-in Ethernet interface that eliminated the need for an external server.

Organization Chart Design for IBM Tivoli Identity Manager
The need for this paper rose out of design workshops and customer presentations. The aim of the paper is to provide information to assist in the effective design of the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Org Chart. It covers the design considerations, details some approaches, and then makes some recommendations based on typical deployment strategies.

Novell Ngage Training Services Certification
How do you keep up with all the changes in technology? You keep your competitive advantage by being well informed and well trained - and that means lifelong learning. Maintaining an attitude of lifelong learning is critical, not only in the high-tech industry, but throughout most professions. Doctors, lawyers and teachers all have continuing education requirements to maintain their licenses because research and technology developments make new things possible every day. The high-tech industry changes even more rapidly than most fields. What was cutting edge yesterday is commonplace today and outdated tomorrow.

Customer Care for the Agile Global Enterprise: Becoming Customer-Centric Through Optimized Global Management and Sourcing
Large companies competing in today's global environment are being challenged to deliver consistent high-quality customer care anytime, anywhere in the world. Agile organizations that can ramp up quickly to consolidate operations and standardize processes will find competitive advantages in lower operating costs and improved customer satisfaction. Global management and sourcing of these consolidations enable large global companies to not only move faster, but to do so at the best price possible.

Blue Rhino Links Propane Distributors With Retailers Through Durable, Portable System
Blue Rhino hooked up with another Winston-Salem company, Integrated Solutions International, LLC, to get the complete solution it needed. Integrated Solutions has specialized in providing workforce automation solutions since 1992. Its platform-independent Application Framework and MobileConX Communications Infrastructure products were used as a base to create a tailored route accounting solution for Blue Rhino. The field hardware solution features O'Neil Product Development's microFlash 3t 3-inch-wide thermal printers.

Aerospace Leader Airbus Relies on Printronix to Deliver Reliable, High-Performance Printers
Airbus, a leading aerospace manufacturer company's facility in Hamburg, Germany is responsible for the majority of the development and production of the European Airbus aircraft family. Enormous demands are placed on logistics, inventory and warehouse management, due to the accuracy and precision required by commercial aircraft assembly. To meet these demands, Airbus relies on Printronix, the leading manufacturer of integrated enterprise printing solutions for the supply chain, to deliver reliable, high-performance printing solutions for logistics management.

IBM Rational Tools and IBM Rational Unified Process Provide a Foundation for Unisys 3D Visible Enterprise
To propel its transformation from a predominantly hardware-oriented company to a services-led technology company, Unisys needed to differentiate itself and respond to client needs with innovative service offerings. After adopting IBM Rational tools to improve and enhance the way Unisys development teams built solutions internally, Unisys leveraged tools from IBM Rational Suite Enterprise and best practices from IBM Rational Unified Process to enable its new 3D Visible Enterprise strategy.

Secure Online Data Transfer with SSL: Free Guide
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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.

Enhancing Healthcare, Cutting Costs
American Healthways is leading a revolution in healthcare. Believing that improving the quality of healthcare is not only cost-effective, but also life saving, the largest care enhancement company in the United States helps health plans and hospitals throughout the United States provide better patient care and reduce expenses. To augment the company's ability to prospectively identify high-risk patients, American Healthways uses predictive modeling technology from SAS. Enterprise Miner from SAS provides a robust data mining and model-building solution for identifying patients at risk for disease or poor outcomes.

Developer of Web Enlists FrontPage to Increase Its Web-Publishing Possibilities
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), maintains a large network of scientists dedicated to high-energy physics research. Although this network reaches across Europe and much of the globe, collaboration is essential and constant. CERN developed the World Wide Web to allow its scientists to, easily exchange information via the Internet. Now, CERN uses Microsoft FrontPage as its software of choice for creating Web sites within its massive network. CERN values FrontPage's ease of use, advanced Web publishing tools, and compatibility with other software.

N1 in Action: Service Provisioning Takes Center Stage
Sun's recent acquisition of CenterRun extends the N1 architecture to include automated application and service provisioning across servers. The substantial benefits - accelerated deployment, reduced costs and increased availability - are field proven, measurable and available today, not tomorrow. Join host Yael Zheng, Senior Director, N1 Marketing, as she leads Ed Turner, Architecture Manager, and Charlie Boyle, N1 Business Development Manager, in a discussion of the next phase in the evolution of N1, Sun's revolutionary architecture for managing entire network computing systems.

NVIDIA and Right Hemisphere: Unlocking 3D CAD Data for the Enterprise
Right Hemisphere offers software solutions that repurpose existing 3D CAD data for visual communication. The challenge was that visual quality of the leveraged content must be uncompromised, and users required real-time interactivity when manipulating the content and publishing it into Web pages, training courseware, technical documents, sales and marketing, parts catalogs, or any other online or printed collateral. Right Hemisphere engineering teams take advantage of NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions to develop their software visual communication solutions.

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.

Make the Microsoft .NET Framework Real - Enterprise Solutions for Today
Most enterprises feature a complex environment of multiple platforms, middleware, and datastores. Adding .NET to the mix increases the cost and complexity of these systems. See an integrated set of open solutions for the implementation and deployment of .NET applications into real enterprise environments dominated by J2EE applications and CORBA services.

Tivoli Data Warehouse 1.2 and BusinessObjects
This paper guides one, on using various reporting tools that are available in the market to work with the data one collects with Tivoli Data Warehouse. Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW) provides data warehousing capability for IBM Tivoli products to store its data, provide historical information, and generate reports. These features are based on IBM DB2 Universal Database business intelligence capability. BusinessObjects is an integrated query, reporting and analysis solution that allows one to access data in their corporate databases directly from the desktop. It helps one present and analyze this information in a BusinessObjects document.

Introduction to WebSphere InterChange Server V4.2.2 Performance Tuning
This paper provides key tuning recommendations for enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions based on WebSphere InterChange Server. For those who are either considering or are in the very early stages of implementing an WebSphere InterChange Server solution, this paper provides a useful performance information reference that serves as a supplemental starting point for setup, tuning, and configuration information. It provides a useful introduction to many of the issues that affect InterChange Server performance and can act as a guide for making rational first choices in terms of configuration and performance settings.

120 Days to Better Business Intelligence: How Baxter Healthcare Deployed and Successfully Uses Siebel Analytics
Hear the facts on how Baxter Healthcare put the power of Siebel Analytics in the hands of 300 executives, sales managers, sales representatives, and finance and operations users in just 120 days. During this Customer Success Web seminar replay, you will also learn how Baxter Healthcare is using Siebel Analytics to optimize existing infrastructure and data by integrating a historical data warehouse (DW) strategy with its new business intelligence (BI) strategy.

Printronix Creates Macintosh-Based Solution for Innovative Organics
Innovative Organics is a chemical manufacturer in Anaheim, Calif. Core products of the company are special coolants, cleaners, and solutions that complement the computer manufacturing industry. It distributes these products in plastic chemical drums that must withstand outdoor weather conditions. Self-adhesive labels are used to identify the chemical drums. However, an existing laser printer was not equipped to handle large volume label printing sessions. The P5205 line matrix printer could easily do all the label printing without any problems. And it could emulate the Epson FX1050 as well.

NVIDIA and the Celestia Program: A Window Into the Universe
The Celestia program was written to be platform-independent. SGI OpenGL functionality provided basic capabilities for building the visualization solution, but Chris wanted to maximize visual clarity and give users the best possible views of the existing data. Reliability also became a challenge, as Chris discovered that many OpenGL software drivers were unstable and buggy. When combined with NVIDIA graphics platforms, the Celestia program delivers the best image quality to scientists, students, and anyone visually exploring space.

Adding Voice to Your Portlet Applications
This paper is intended for solution architects and application developers who want to develop and test voice portlet applications and who have previously developed graphical-user-interface (GUI) portlet applications or VoiceXML applications. It shows how to develop a voice portlet using VoiceXML and the Portlet API. Furthermore, it introduces concepts of speech applications and the Portlet API.

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).

IBM eServer xSeries Server Consolidation: An Introduction
This paper is an introduction to server consolidation (SCON) in the xSeries Intel processor-based marketplace and describes the author's experience in that area. The topics covered in this paper are Technical background, What is the problem, then, Different level of consolidation: Overview, Hardware consolidation, Operating system consolidation, Middleware consolidation, Application consolidation and Typical concerns and doubts.

Streamlining Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Operations and Migration With Netapp Storage Appliances: Oracle E-Business Suite 11i
This paper examines the benefits of NetApp storage appliances for E-Business Suite 11i. It also describes in detail how unique NetApp features can streamline the upgrade process for existing e-business customers. Network Appliance is the ideal storage platform for use with E-Business Suite 11i. The unified NetApp storage and multiple platform architecture ensures investment protection - a storage system can be easily scaled in capacity or reconfigured and repurposed as business needs evolve. NetApp appliances can be directly attached, accessed across enterprise network connections, or accessed via storage area networks (SANs), guaranteeing the utmost flexibility.

Functional Review of EMC Centera/FileNet ISCC Integration
FileNet Image Services is an enterprise-class imaging system tailored for high-volume applications such as claims processing, forms processing, and mortgage origination applications. FileNet Image Services provides a secure archive for images and their index data and metadata, from which users can search for, retrieve, view, annotate, and manage documents online. The system uses a relational database for the index data, and typically archives images to an optical storage library - which provides a write-once-read-many (WORM) approach to storing images in unalterable format.

A Practical Guide to the Ace Application Specification Languages
Ace technology is the obvious next step in the evolution of high level programming languages for the network computer. Ace is a research project in Sun Microsystems Laboratories, a small R&D division at Sun Microsystems, Inc. The project has produced a network programming model, along with an application programming language (with several specialized sublanguages) and a compiler for it that can generate and deploy a working application in a variety of architectures.

User Provisioning With SPML
This white paper will discuss where the technology has gone and how standards, like Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML), are being developed to help ensure that the longevity of the technologies in which a company has invested would sustain its investments. Because of high investments, companies are determined to ensure the technologies facilitate efficiency with their organizations. Provisioning is a difficult tool to implement from both a business process and deployment point of view.

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.

Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Design of Persistent Data Using UML
The database needs a structure definition to be able to store data and to recognize the content and be able to retrieve information. The structure has to be developed for the need of applications, which help us perform a business process to achieve an added value for the customer. Database implementation is the final step in developing a business supporting application. It has to comply with the requirements of the business process, which is the first abstraction of the view of the database.

Executable/Translatable UML in Computing Education
The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is a diagrammatic notation widely used in the computing industry and often taught in universities as a way to represent software requirements specifications and design descriptions. This paper identifies a number o problems associated with teaching UML and shows how to minimise their impact by making use of the Executable/Translatable UML (XTUML).

VoiceXML Solution From VoiceGenie and Intel Delivers Open, Standards-Based Voice Services Platform
Speech is playing an increasingly important role in both the enterprise and service provider market segments, making it one of today?s fastest-growing technology areas. Improvements in advanced speech recognition technologies have brought new applications into mainstream use - particularly in the area of open, standards-based approaches using Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML). The major goal of VoiceXML is to bring the advantages of Web-based development and content delivery to voice-enabled business applications. VoiceGenie, Intel, and ScanSoft have teamed up to produce a VoiceXML solution that provides telecommunications service providers and enterprises with a flexible framework for improving customer service and contact center operations while reducing the associated expenses.

VitalApps Software for Wireless Performance Management
This paper outlines the requirements for the advanced tools required for provider troubleshooting organizations that support wireless data end-users. The paper illustrates how such advanced tools substantially improve the economic performance of wireless data service and enhance the capabilities of CSR processes. Additionally, these tools will improve the overall visibility of customers' service quality experience and provide for faster trouble resolution to enhance customer satisfaction.