The Internet Protocol (IP) - used for transmitting data across networks everywhere - has moved beyond its origins. Once one of many, it has become a near standard for all types of computer communication. It is used pervasively, transmitting data to and from a multitude of devices ranging from those in our pockets to spacecraft circling distant planets. Arguably IP is the most successful open standard ever, but as network communications converge under a single standard used for an increasing number of applications, we need to understand how effectively these critical assets are being managed. ...
23/01/2007 | Managing_21st_Century_Networks_-_Quocirca_Jan_2007.pdf | VIEW
Avoiding user aggravations is key to mobile productivity. Low cost hardware and a plethora of options for connectivity should make it easier for employees to be more productive and take IT access to their point of need. However, outside the perimeter of the business location, additional controls need to be applied to ensure the security and integrity of data on the mobile device and network access. Balancing the need for control with the flexibility given to the user requires care and attention to both mobile strategy and implementation. Mobile users have many challenges facing them as they try to work outside of a managed and familiar working environment. Too many constraints and challenges can distract and divert users from the task in hand, meaning that productivity gains hoped for by deployment of the technology will be lost. ...
19/01/2007 | mobile_pitfalls.pdf | VIEW
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides a foundation to achieve software reuse. A key part of the SOA value proposition is the benefits realised from software reuse. ...
18/01/2007 | IBM_SOA_Entry_point_reuse_final.pdf | VIEW
The personal mobile channel in every consumer's pocket. In a shrinking world where individuals have more choices in almost any aspect of their lives than ever before, and more ways to communicate with each other and the world at large, the bonds and inertia that held consumers and employees loyal to their suppliers and employers have disappeared. Markets are fragmenting, industries are converging, and relationships are more dynamic and fragile. So how do organisations build a connection and maintain an ongoing dialogue with their current and future customers? ...
11/12/2006 | mobile_market_paper.pdf | VIEW
As business move away from buying applications to buying the means of facilitating business processes, a different approach to existing technology assets is required. ...
12/10/2006 | IBM_SOA_Entry_point_BPM.pdf | VIEW
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) will provide greater flexibility for those utilising them, but will also bring greater issues for data and functional connectivity. This paper contrasts and compares the capabilities of a point-to-point and an enterprise service bus approach. ...
12/10/2006 | IBM_SOA_Entry_point_Connectivity.pdf | VIEW
Managing the challenges of mobile communications. In the competitive global marketplace, businesses are placed under increasing pressure to have a flexible and efficient workforce that is as productive as possible and reacts to customer demands and changing conditions. The mobile phone, laptop and other small smart devices for mobile connection to corporate data all support these needs, allowing access wherever required to fit business processes. This brings its own risks, but businesses depend upon the flexibility delivered by their increasingly mobile and dispersed workforce, so must adopt a positive approach to securing their intellectual and physical assets as well as their employees. There are many aspects which are explored in this paper in greater detail, but the following list provides a mobile security action plan for an organisation of any size that is aware of existing use of, or has plans to deploy and take advantage of, mobile technologies ...
29/09/2006 | Security_White_Paper.pdf | VIEW
Just how aware are businesses of Service Oriented Architectures, and how much benefit do people see from being able to have such an environment? Quocirca's research points to high levels of ignorance in many areas - a great deal of education is needed to drive forwards SOA's capabilities for general adoption. However, the research also shows that those companies that have gone down the SOA route are gaining real, tangible benefits. ...
07/09/2006 | SOA_2006.pdf | VIEW
Utility companies are under increasing pressure to deliver value to both customers and shareholders whilst satisfying the demands of regulators. A key component in improving business performance is better asset management. This paper looks at the challenges posed by asset management in utility companies and what can be done to optimise business performance through better asset management. ...
06/09/2006 | Final_Report_Utilities_and_Asset_Management.pdf | VIEW
Mobile or remote working is not new, nor specific to the use of mobile technology, but the increasing dependence on instant access to IT has led to an increasing demand for mobile data services. Operators recognising the long term decline of voice revenues are keen to offer potentially lucrative mobile data services, but will mobile data rapidly follow the path of voice services to become a cost conscious commodity, or are there additional services mobile operators can offer to add value and build loyalty? Certainly mobile data services can be complex, and in a rapidly maturing technology sector, it is valuable to be insulated from the effects of rapid change and unnecessary complexity. But ultimately mobile or remote access should be regarded as just one aspect of IT usage within a regular business environment, and not a separate entity in its own right. ...
02/08/2006 | transition_report_-_final.pdf | VIEW
