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Safe and Economical Reuse of Legacy Applications

Posted October 2, 2012 - 3:00 pm

See if web enablement is a good fit for your IT organization.
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Service Enablement & Beyond

Posted October 2, 2012 - 3:00 pm

Learn the four practical steps to rapid service enablement.
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Unlocking and Service-Enabling Legacy Assets

Posted September 18, 2012 - 10:15 am

Whether your strategy calls for full-blown SOA, quick-turnaround mobile applications, or anything in between, Verastream Host Integrator can help. Watch this six-minute product demo and learn the noninvasive way to encapsulate mainframe data and logic as reusable services.
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PPG Company Uses Verastream to Web-Enable Host Functionality

Posted September 18, 2012 - 10:15 am

PPG subsidiary LYNX achieved 3270 and 5250 integration using Verastream. They quickly extended legacy functions to the web for internal and external users, with no impact to existing mainframe applications.
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Modernizing Legacy Applications for Fun and Profit

Posted September 17, 2012 - 6:15 pm

Discover the fastest, simplest way to webify host applications and streamline navigation for internal and external users. Watch this three-minute video podcast on web enablement.
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Freightliner Uses Verastream to Simplify Mainframe Processes

Posted September 17, 2012 - 5:00 pm

This UK-based freight transporter automated EDI messaging and rolled out real-time online tracking, generating 2 million customer messages per year. They used an SOA approach to ensure ongoing flexibility and competitive advantage. See why Freightliner calls Verastream "our most reliable employee."
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Turning Financial Apps into SOA Building Blocks

Posted September 17, 2012 - 5:00 pm

This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of implementing SOA in financial service organizations such as banks or insurance companies. After exploring the characteristics of mainframe-based financial applications, you'll learn various approaches for service-enabling these applications.
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Introducing Oracle SOA Governance 11g

Posted September 12, 2012 - 4:30 pm

Learn more about solutions that can facilitate and streamline SOA governance at your organization.
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10 questions for Layer 7 Technologies CTO Scott Morrison

Posted August 16, 2012 - 12:36 pm

Name: Scott Morrison
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Enabling your service desk to be the front face to IT

Posted July 13, 2012 - 5:15 pm

Your service desk should be the one stop shop for internal and external customers. But, in order for IT to be the orchestrator of knowledge and the service catalog, you need to provide excellent service and quick response times.
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Best Practices in Monitoring VMware

Posted July 13, 2012 - 5:15 pm

The benefits of virtualization are unassailable: increased agility, scale, and cost savings to name a few. However, so too are the monitoring challenges posed by these environments-including complexities, lack of visibility and control, and inefficiency.
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Configure, Don't Customize Your Service Desk

Posted July 13, 2012 - 5:15 pm

Join Pink Elephant Analyst George Spalding and Nimsoft Service Desk expert Tim Rochte to learn the perils of customizing your service desk and losing flexibility to adapt to business changes.
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Configuration, Not Coding How Nimsoft Service Desk Speeds Deployment and Time to Value

Posted July 13, 2012 - 4:00 pm

For years, many support teams have been hamstrung by their traditional service desk platforms, which require complex, time-consuming coding for virtually every aspect of customization. This complexity makes it costly and difficult for support organizations to adapt-and places an increasingly substantial burden on the agility and efficiency of the business as a whole.
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Long live SOA in the cloud era

Posted June 25, 2012 - 7:12 am

You might not hear much about SOA anymore, but its imperative to make 'everything a service' is more relevant than ever
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Aetna dumps its siloed enterprise architure for SOA

Posted June 11, 2012 - 1:32 pm

Aetna overcomes business hurdles to revamp its enterprise architecture
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Securing SOA and Web Services with Oracle Enterprise Gateway

Posted June 6, 2012 - 4:30 pm

Download this whitepaper, Securing SOA and Web Services with Oracle Enterprise Gateway, for a clear and concise understanding of how this one-stop solution can integrate, manage, and protect your businesses service-oriented architecture. .
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Turning Financial Mainframe Applications into SOA Building Blocks

Posted May 7, 2012 - 4:50 pm

This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of implementing SOA in financial service organizations such as banks or insurance companies. After exploring the characteristics of mainframe-based financial applications, you'll learn various approaches for service-enabling these applications.
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Cloud services, recycled hard drives leak critical data; IT doesn't notice

Posted April 26, 2012 - 3:34 pm

Studies show a third to half of storage drives hold residual data from other users, much of it confidential, some of it enough to allow identity theft. Cloud services widen the hole by making it possible to leave lots of critical data behind with no chance to check whether you did or not.
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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Process Platforms 2011 Vendor Analysis

Posted March 6, 2012 - 5:39 am

This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess the capabilities of vendors to support midrange to complex process improvement scenarios using business process management software.
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Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA - Customer Perspectives on Evaluating Complexity and Business Value

Posted March 6, 2012 - 5:39 am

With this white paper, Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA, you'll get a healthy perspective on SOA and figure out which one is best for your organization.
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Top Reasons to Implement an SOA Governance Strategy: A List for IT Executives

Posted March 6, 2012 - 5:38 am

Download this white paper, Top Reasons to Implement an SOA Governance Strategy: A List for IT Executives, for a guide to governance that will set you on the right path.
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Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives

Posted March 6, 2012 - 5:38 am

Download this whitepaper, Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives to see why many organizations are reaping the rewards of successful SOA transformations and what you need to do to make yours one of them.
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Calling BS on cloud hype: Prediction that cloud will create 14 million new jobs is misleading

Posted March 5, 2012 - 1:46 pm

The news byte from an IDC report paid for and touted by Microsoft as predicting cloud computing would create 14 million new jobs doesn't tell the same story as the data in the report, which shows IT will get less relevant and the U.S. will get few new cloud-fueled jobs.
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Why is IT so bad at cloud computing?

Posted February 17, 2012 - 1:00 am

It's no secret IT is ambivalent about cloud computing's potential to steal jobs and user loyalty. That's no excuse for sloppy security negligence of apps in the cloud. That attitude doesn't come from hostility; it comes from overwork and the desperate wish that something new could happen without incremental additions to every headache IT ever had and never cured.
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Zynga loses much of its 'Facebook bounce'

Posted February 15, 2012 - 1:28 pm

Shares of social games maker Zynga fell nearly 16% after the company reported a Q4 loss, erasing much of the gains made by the stock since Facebook's IPO plans became public in late January.
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SOAWhite Papers & Webcasts

White Paper

Safe and Economical Reuse of Legacy Applications

See if web enablement is a good fit for your IT organization.

White Paper

Service Enablement & Beyond

Learn the four practical steps to rapid service enablement.

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PPG Company Uses Verastream to Web-Enable Host Functionality

PPG subsidiary LYNX achieved 3270 and 5250 integration using Verastream. They quickly extended legacy functions to the web for internal and external users, with no impact to existing mainframe applications.

Webcast On Demand

Unlocking and Service-Enabling Legacy Assets

Whether your strategy calls for full-blown SOA, quick-turnaround mobile applications, or anything in between, Verastream Host Integrator can help. Watch this six-minute product demo and learn the noninvasive way to encapsulate mainframe data and logic as reusable services.

White Paper

Turning Financial Apps into SOA Building Blocks

This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of implementing SOA in financial service organizations such as banks or insurance companies. After exploring the characteristics of mainframe-based financial applications, you'll learn various approaches for service-enabling these applications.

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