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Managing a Successful Architecture Deployment for Your Enterprise
Different enterprises embark on the journey toward a service oriented architecture with different aims. The general goals include creating agility, enabling faster time to market, and encouraging reuse within the enterprise. None of these are easy to achieve and each requires a set of guidelines. Download this Internet.com eBook for guidance on how to deploy and maintain an enterprise SOA.

Open Up the Knowledge in Your Organisation
Whilst the possibilities for intranet applications have grown innumerably with the advances in technology, it's still most often used as the backbone for knowledge sharing. Download this Internet.com eBook to learn how your organisation can free the information that exists in its ranks and create a more adaptive business.

Find Out What Your Peers Think About Smart Work
Working smarter brings together people, processes, information, and technology with solutions that are interconnected, instrumented, and intelligent. Depending on where you are now and what you want to achieve, there are a number of ways you can build Smart Work capabilities. This IBM survey of 176 business and IT leaders identified the characteristics of companies that are working smarter.

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Establishing a Foundation for IT-Business Integration
SEA is a new way to think about your business model and IT's role in it, wrirtes CIOUpdate columnist Faisal Hoque of BTM Corp.

IT Strategy is in the CFO's Hands
Increasingly, the CFO is the top IT strategy decision maker at most companies and the trend is likely to continue.

100 IT-Business Alignment Questions You Need to Ask
When it comes to IT-business alignment, know the right questions to ask is half the batter, writes CIOUpdate columnist Patty Azzarello of the Azzarello Group.

Understanding the Governance Side of IT-Business Alignment
For your IT strategy to be successful, IT-business alignment has to be the goal, writes CIOUpdate columnist Faisal Hoque of the BTM Corp. Carlson Companies chairwoman Marilyn Nelson Carlson shows the way.

Service Oriented Architecture and the Cloud
Having a service oriented architecture strategy in place doesn't mean you can't take advnatage of the Cloud, writes CIOUpdate columnist Chris Harding of The Open Group.

How SOA and the Cloud Relate
Where SOA is primarily a business-driven iniative, Cloud is all about IT, writes CIOUpdate guest columnist Regunath Balasubramanian of MindTree Consulting.

Making Sense of SOA Standards
There are a lot of them but most share common themes and elements that will keep your SOA initiatives on track, writes CIOUpdate guest columnist Heather Kreger of IBM.

The Open Group Releases SOA and Cloud Standards
OSIMM and SOA Governance Framework are designed to help organization get the most out of their SOA and Cloud initiatives.

SOA, Cloud and the Rise of the IT services-based Economy
It will probably be messy, require lawyers and lawsuits, but IT will become just another business service, writes CIOUpdate guest columnist JP Morgenthal.

Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Management
Already reducing workloads and cost, AI will continue the evolution towards autonomic computing, writes CIOUpdate columnist Julie Craig of Enterprise Management Associates.

Doing More with Less: Predictive Analysis
Just in time for ’09, a slew of vendors are introducing products drive up ROI and drive down costs, writes CIOUpdate columnist Julie Craig of Enterprise Management Associates.

SOA, CMDB and Automation
These three technology iniatives will allow some companies to play technology catch-up, writes CIOUpdate columnist Julie Craig of Enterprise Management Associates.

Innovation Still Happens in the Middle
Sure, SOA and BPM are innovative but real innovation happens all the way down the stack, writes CIOUpdate guest columnist Mike Piech of Oracle.

Agile Management: What CIOs can Learn from Developers
Agile software development methodologies can transform your business, writes CIOUpdate columnist Julie Craig of Enterprise Management Associates.

How to Avoid Common SOA Pitfalls
While there are definitely some technology SNAFUs, much of it is just common sense, writes CIOUpdate guest columnist Mukund Balasubramanian of Photon Infotech.

ACS’ CIO - Leading the Way
Affiliated Computer Services CIO, Tasos Tsolakis is revamping IT with centralization, SOA and share services.

Microsoft S+S, Windows 7 and the Cloud
MS is betting heavily that cloud computing’s day is about to dawn.

SOA, ITIL and the Strategic CIO
While not for the faint of heart, SOA is often worth the risk and effort, writes CIOUpdate columnist Julie Craig of Enterprise Management Associates.

Conferences Highlight the Emerging SaaS Cloud
As the SaaS industry matures so does its players and its business model, writes CIOUpdate columnist Julie Craig of Enterprise Management Associates.

Integration Issues May Hinder SaaS Adoption
Just like the whole “best-of-breed” approach in the ‘80s and ‘90s, SaaS integration is becoming an issue.

SaaS: Financial, Legal & Negotiation Issues
A software as a service contract is more an outsourcing deal than a software purchase, so negotiate accordingly, writes CIO Update columnist Marcia Gulesian.

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ARTICLE RESOURCES
	Online Insurance and Web 2.0 Many customers increasingly take online access to insurance products as a given. They want to check ... [more]

	Find Out What Your Peers Think About Smart Work Working smarter brings together people, processes, information, and technology with solutions that are ... [more]
VIDEO RESOURCES
	Smart Work: The Video What can you do when you work smarter? Watch this video to find out. ... [more]
WHITEPAPER RESOURCES
	Making Our Organisation As Smart As Our People The best work in many companies often happens despite our processes and structures, rather than because ... [more]

	Case Study: SBI Sumishin Net Bank In Japan, competition in the Internet banking business has been intensifying. In this environment, SBI ... [more]

	Case Study: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM To better enable synergies between its 14 gifting brands, create greater business agility, and reach ... [more]

	Smarter Collaboration for Smarter Work IBM Client for Smart Work software is an open, security-rich, and cost-effective Microsoft® desktop ... [more]

	BPM: Lessons From The Real World Formalising the way BPM is carried out simply works better than acting in an uncoordinated fashion. ... [more]

	Business Productivity: An Alternative Perspective See the questions that IT professionals have about BPM and SOA, as well as the answers in this Q&A. ... [more]

	Case Study: Austin Energy Seeking to improve service and reliability, Texas utility Austin Energy saw the need—and opportunity& ... [more]

	Smart Work In The Smart Enterprise This white paper describes the principles for the convergence of BPM and SOA from an information system ... [more]

	Smart Work for a Smarter Planet Today we can connect people with the information they need in real time. We can measure, monitor, and ... [more]

	Smart Work In Action See how IBM customers from across industries and across the globe are using smarter work to make their ... [more]
EBOOK RESOURCES
	Managing a Successful Architecture Deployment for Your Enterprise Different enterprises embark on the journey toward a service oriented architecture with different aims. ... [more]

	Open Up the Knowledge in Your Organisation Whilst the possibilities for intranet applications have grown innumerably with the advances in technology, ... [more]
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