As the world becomes more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent and the population continues to embrace social computing, today’s enterprises face the dawn of a new era – the era of the Social Business. Just as the Internet changed the marketplace forever, the integration of social computing into enterprise design represents another enormous shift in the
Organizations face many challenges in today’s business climate. Organizations whose success or failure is determined by the decisions they make are handicapped by systems that are centered on processes or functions. As a result, these organizations struggle to improve business productivity while managing costs and find it hard to make changes in their systems quickly,
Visa Europe addressed the unique nature of the European market by building a new payment platform which houses tens of thousands of business rules governing payment clearing and settlement. An open business rules management system speeds time-to-market and gains cost efficiencies. The result is greater business agility and competitiveness for both Visa Europe and its
To the business user of information systems, the relationship with the IT personnel who build and maintain those systems can be a contradictory experience: on the one hand, IT delivers significant productivity benefitsby automating routine tasks and improving access to information; on the other, the process of building automated systems often requires embedding business policies
The cloud model isn’t about transforming IT. It’s about rein-venting the way organizations do business. Organizations inevery industry, regardless of size or geography, are embracingcloud computing as a way to reduce the complexity and costsassociated with traditional IT approaches.
In the fast-paced world of High Frequency Trading (HFT),lucrative opportunities such as liquidity imbalances and short-term pricing inefficiencies might exist for only a few microseconds. Success depends on identifying and acting on those opportunities faster than competitors and that responsibility rests with the trading network. IBM System Networking products support the goal of faster trading.
Data centers are undergoing monumental paradigm shifts. Servers and more importantly the services they provide are expected to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by design. Enterprise data centers previously adapted to this change by following the rule that more is better and redundant configurations never hurt. However, as demand for
Today’s CIOs and business leaders from industry and govern-ments around the globe are challenged to stay competitive and meet business objectives. Aligning the enterprise IT model withthe business, controlling costs and keeping pace with the rapidrate of innovation are critical.
You can’t read the news on technology without engaging in speculation on what’s about to be announced, the significance of what it will mean, who will be affected, and how the marketplace will change. Since the technology is not just institutional but very personal for those of us in IT, we must try to sort
The Challenge To introduce new applications for major clients in the insurance and rail transport industries, Atos Origin needed be able to support large numbers of users and high transaction volumes. The company required a high-performance infrastructure that could offer 24×7 availability. The Solution Atos Origin decided to implement the new applications in Linux environments