Guest post by Claus T. Jensen, IBM STSM and SOA Foundation Chief Architect. These days people invariably mention mobile, social, cloud or big data as "the next cool thing." But when talking about "the next cool thing," we should really ask ourselves, why is that important? New business initiatives do not come out of thin air; they are important to the business for a reason. Mobile, social, cloud and big data are all related to the challenge of becoming an engaging enterprise, a concern that has... [More]

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Guest post by Claus T. Jensen, Senior Technical Staff Member and Chief Architect for IBM SOA-BPM-EA Technical Strategy A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is characterized by being based on a set of interacting (business) services and processes. Obviously those services and processes need to be managed, but is that all there is to managing a Service Oriented Architecture? Many would routinely say "Yes" and let it stay at that, but three other important aspects need to be taken into account to... [More]

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Private clouds bring turnkey IT closer to reality. Back in my IT days, it often seemed to me that the executives running the show were trying to apply business concepts to IT in a way that didn't work particularly well. For instance, they loved the turnkey concept as abstracted from so-called �turnkey businesses.� The IT variation of this idea was simple enough: turn a metaphorical key in the IT ignition to make it run perfectly, forever, with no oversight or maintenance. That seemingly included... [More]

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The annual Impact follow-up issue of the IBM Software Newsletter is always popular, and this year's was no exception. What WAS exceptional was how evenly reader interest was divided among the Impact related articles in the issue � based on click-through, it was basically a 9-way tie for first among the top stories. So in case you missed the issue � or, for some unimaginable reason, aren�t an IBM Software Newsletter subscriber � here are quick links to ALL the Impact items in the newsletter:... [More]

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� � Originally posted by Jacqi Levy on the IBM Software Business Partner Blog . � This morning, IBM officially kicked off Impact 2011 , with an opening general session hosted by comedian Larry Miller, and appearances by IBM executives John Iwata, Nancy Pearson, David Farrell, Marie Wieck, among other guests.� The session focused both on IBM's history of innovation, and on how this history positions IBM to help business become more agile in today's marketplace.� If you missed the keynote, you can... [More]

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� You can watch live portions of the IBM Impact Conference in Las Vegas remotely from the IBM ImpactTV Livestream channel . The keynote general opening session begins at 8:15 am Pacific Time on Monday, April 10. General sessions will also take place at 8:30 am Pacific Time Tuesday and Wednesday next week. � -->See the full ImpactTV schedule for more details. � � � � Watch live streaming video from ibmimpact at livestream.com � � � � � Likes before 03/04/2016 - 0 Views before 03/04/2016 -... [More]

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� � Over 6000 business and IT leaders will be attending the the IBM Impact Conference in Las Vegas next week to discuss building smarter systems and more agile, efficient business processes. The conference begins this weekend and runs from April 10-15. An Unconference will also take place as a further breakout venue for developers and technical professionals. � � � � � You can follow some of the activity remotely on the IBM ImpactTV Livestream channel . --See the ImpactTV schedule for more... [More]

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The October issue was published just a couple of days ago, but our response data is already showing some clear reader favorites: � Intellectual star power at Information On Demand 2010 . Freakonomics authors Steven Leavitt and Stephen Dubner will speak at the Information on Demand 2010 General Session on Wednesday, October 27. On Tuesday October 26, the General Session guest speaker will be Dr. Atul Gawande � a surgeon, staff member at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women�s... [More]

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