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DEFINITION: According to John Del Vecchio writing for Fool.com, a value chain is "a string of companies working together to satisfy market demands." The value chain typically consists of one or a few primary value (product or service) suppliers and many other suppliers that add on to the value that is ultimately presented to the buying public. Microsoft and its Windows operating systems, the nucleus of the personal
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Value Chains White Papers
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Red Hat Continues To Redefine SOA: Simple. Open. Affordable
sponsored by JBoss, a Division of Red Hat
WHITE PAPER:
Despite the significant progress made with open standards in the industry, most SOA platforms are delivered with many proprietary, closed extensions that focus on customer lock-in more than automation of the value chain. Red Hat believes there is a better way. We redefine SOA to be simple, open, and affordable.
Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 20 Jul 2009
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SAP NETWEAVER BPM - Industry Trend Reports
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER:
Business process management provides a new management discipline, a new suite of software technologies and tools, and a new IT implementation style based on concrete links between strategy and execution. This white paper explains SAP's place in the BPM landscape and describes its new offering in that arena, NetWeaver BPM.
Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 08 Jun 2009
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VALUE CHAINS DEFINITION (continued):
computer desktop for which much business software is developed, is often cited as a prime example of a company and product that drives a value chain. The businesses who buy personal computer software may spend far more on the add-on software than on the essential operating system that is the de facto standard for running the software. To the extent that companies standardize on Windows, Microsoft is said to control a value chain. This particular value chain was reported in a McKinsey study to be worth $383 billion in 1998. Although Microsoft's share of the value chain was reported to be only
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