Enterprise Applications and Mobile Devices

October 20, 2012

I recently read a blog post that examined the battle among the mobile device vendors. In the blog post, “The iPad Should Be Free”, the author, Mitch Joel, pointed out that the battle is really about the application ecosystem. It is a good read and makes several points about how app stores and the like [...]

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BPM and its Role with Legacy Modernization

September 28, 2012

I just ran across an interesting blog post, “BPM fills some application modernization needs, not all“. The author, James A. Denman, brings up a couple of interesting aspects about using business process management (BPM) against legacy application assets for modernization efforts. Bottom line, he makes the point that applying standard BPM practices to legacy applications, [...]

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Going Mobile: Introducing Your Mainframe to Modern Tools

August 10, 2012

In previous posts such as Boom in Mobile Workforce Predicted and Enterprise Mobile Applications we’ve discussed the major IT trend surrounding mobility that many organizations are facing. The topic deserves attention because it is one of the biggest and most challenging trends mass-requirement computing has faced since Windows replaced DOS. Mobile computing is completely changing the [...]

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Mainframe Integration through Application Wrappers

July 27, 2012

Leveraging existing legacy applications with an organization’s middle-tier initiatives is a hot topic in the enterprise. We have seen this trend repeatedly come up and thought it might be helpful to share experiences from other organizations. Last month I was working with a large enterprise that was taking the concept of virtualization seriously. Essentially, they [...]

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Boom in Mobile Workforce Predicted

July 16, 2012

New mobile technology continues to crop up. From laptops to smartphones to tablets, it seems like every few months there is a new version that increases the user’s capabilities. These capabilities are not only being realized on the consumer side; the business side is also realizing them. These emerging technologies are shifting the way people [...]

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Enterprise Mobile Applications

May 30, 2012

There is an unexpected trend in mobile devices that might take you by surprise. While many of the discussions regarding the use of mobile devices within a company’s network revolve around security, another crucial topic, and one you will find more difficult to solve intuitively, has to do with basic access to enterprise applications. Specifically [...]

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Process Controls

May 2, 2012

This is the last post on the four part series of how to define an application integration tool. In the previous posts, we looked at Web Enablement, SOA Enablement and Application Integration. In this post, we will look at process controls and their relationship to the tools that facilitate the many needs of application integration. [...]

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Verastream and Application Integration

March 19, 2012

Technorarti Verification code: 6TNDPNZFX3Z4 Continuing with our look at the most common Verastream uses, let’s examine application integration. In this use, Verastream plays its most pure middle-ware role. Application integration is generally thought of as using software to control the process of linking separate applications together. According to the Wiki Page Enterprise Application Integration, “Enterprise Application [...]

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Service Enabling your Legacy Applications with Verastream

February 21, 2012

A couple of week ago, we introduced several of the more helpful things that Verastream is used for.  One of them was service-oriented architecture (SOA) Enablement. This means that Verastream can break old or ‘legacy’ applications into sets of reusable services, allowing these applications to operate as good citizens in your enterprise SOA.  Most likely your customer information [...]

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Who Knew – Web Enabling Terminal Screens is Popular Again

January 26, 2012

A popular method in the ’90s to enhance terminal applications – the practice of creating an appended front-end for older, typically character-based applications – has been around for years. That’s actually a longer time than the web has been around.  But since the mid to late ’90s, this practice has largely revolved around putting a [...]

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