Organisations will not have to rewrite their mainframe CICS code as the Critical Path mainframe re-hosting middleware enables existing transaction processes and batch applications to operate as usual.
Like the Origin 300 introduced two years ago, the 350 comes in rack-mountable four-processor modules, each 3.5 inches tall, that can be stacked together to form a single large system. SGI has unveiled its Origin 350 Unix server, a descendant of the...
For the retail supply chain, this means, for example, that a box of goods could be added to a shop's inventory system without opening the box and scanning each item individually, since the RFID scanner could identify all the items through the box.
Companies often deploy KPIs in CPM products right out of the box," says Charlesworth. Typically, companies measure factors that they can't control, which is not a good starting point for a performance improvement exercise.
The platform will be built on SAP's NetWeaver, the company's back-end middleware that connects SAP data with other applications, and SAP's business suite. A1S will feature 2,500 interfaces that serve as modules that users can choose to plug into...
A software agent might help IT departments monitor the capacity of a RAID array, for example, or assess how many empty CPU cycles an underused server was burning through. It goes all the way down to the bread and butter about how a CPU is running.