IBM defines a number of data management issues: identifying the data in the first place, locating that data in source systems, understanding the structure of the data, extracting (either directly or within a federated environment) and transforming...
SAP announced an expansion of a partnership with IBM focused on the retail segment, teaming with Big Blue to offer a package of technology and services meant to help retailers streamline operations, specifically around inventory management...
Proponents of RFID will say the technology makes it simple to tag and identify individual objects with a unique identity, rather than just identifying the group to which an object belongs, and that RFID readers can detect multiple tags at a...
Now the lean-forward three-foot interaction of the computer is joined by the lean-back three-yard interaction of the TV - and the three-inch interaction with handheld devices. The windscreens are the companies thinking more widely than this, those...
SOA is an evolutionary approach that does not require a rip-and-replace of infrastructure and applications but does generally require buy-in from the business to gain the major benefits, such as functional component reuse, efficient use of assets...
The model needs to be able to negotiate a contract, based on identifying functions that can be scaled to meet its needs, or to see if multiple instances of a function can be provisioned to meet the need through load-balancing.