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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. tech news

With the enactment of Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (Check 21) effective October 28, 2004, banks will no longer be required to physically exchange original checks. The purpose of this white paper is to give the reader a broad overview of the Check 21 legislation and the impact of the legislation on item processing operations Check 21 improves the business case for decentralized image capture by potentially eliminating all transportation. Financial institutions should carefully consider the economies of decentralized image capture, and weight the advantages and disadvantages of back counter versus teller image capture discussed in this paper. tech news

This paper covers the major enhancements and extensions to Oracle9iAS Portal Release 2 (9.0.2) that have been implemented in OracleAS Portal 10g (9.0.4). The Portal Development Tools and Framework, which includes OmniPortlet, Web Clipping and PDK, as well as the Content Management and Publishing Features, is now tremendously feature rich and powerful. The underlying architecture of the OracleAS Portal Infrastructure has been enhanced to guarantee best performance and scalability to best serve the needs of an enterprise. tech news

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Of major concern when writing workflows is the agent determination of all dialog work items that they generate. As with all other components of a workflow, the agent determination demands extra caution and time devotion. It is extremely important that the correct agents for a dialog work item are known at runtime. Failure to do so may lead to erroneous results, and may require debugging - thus causing a major wastage of developers' time. tech news