Component Object Model

EBOOK: The SEC XBRL Mandate for Dummies is a guide to assist external reporting professionals tasked with quickly and accurately assembling, tagging and filing their companies’ external reports.

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

WEBCAST: This interactive data center, brought to you by our editors, explores 5 aspects of data center efficiency and provides tips and best practices to help companies make effective investment and configuration decisions.

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 21 Dec 2011

IT BRIEFING: This paper from the Open Group, documents an approach to enhance the TOGAF enterprise architecture methodology with the SABSA security architecture approach to create one holistic architecture methodology.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses operational risk management (ORM) in the context of "Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk," a paper from the Basel Committee.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This expert presentation transcript explores key management factors you should consider as you navigate your virtualization initiative, including licensing, memory capabilities, and more. Hear about one company's virtualization roadmap and determine whether it aligns with your own virtualization plans.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Download the Open Group Service-Oriented Architecture reference architecture.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: The DDN Web Object Scaler (WOS) is a revolutionary object-based, cloud storage system that addresses the needs of content scale-out and global distribution. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Programming is a journey between the real world and a computer. This article explains why object orientation is currently the best way we have of making the journey.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes a new programming model for Tuxedo based on Service Component Architecture (SCA). Learn more about SCA specifications and discover the various models available.

Posted: 07 Oct 2011 | Published: 07 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Too often, business intelligence (BI) initiatives end up being detrimental to a business. They can be costly and highly complex, and often are integrated loosely— or not at all— causing data quality to plummet. Read this paper to discover a BI alternative that provides fast, cost-effective integration across SAP and non-SAP systems.

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Although it has been proven that creating a proactive data management strategy improves the effectiveness and value of almost any data intensive project, convincing those in charge can be a challenge. This white paper discusses the benefits of data governance as well as providing objection-busting strategies useful to any data champion.

Posted: 10 Feb 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: A new approach to Business Process Management (BPM) is the use of BPM and SOA together in a layering strategy. This white paper explores the BPM layered concept and offers a case study of how ABN AMRO, one of the world's largest financial institutions, has benefited from its deployment.

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to get a comparison of data modeling tools.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

ANALYST REPORT: Read this white paper to learn why Actuate BIRT outperformed Pentaho and Jaspersoft to secure the leading open source overall ranking and surpassed other open source business intelligence (BI) vendors by a wide margin in this independent market study.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the obstacles of enterprise data modeling.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

EBOOK: In order to boost performance, operations, and business innovation, today’s IT pros must take command of their IT sprawl. This resource describes how a converged infrastructure, based on a set of common, already integrated and optimised components can simplify IT problems and help you deal with the challenges of instant-on technology.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: While the value of desktop virtualization is understood, many IT managers are wondering where and how to start.  This paper details how to navigate the “how” questions, map the right desktop virtualization technology to different types of users and scale the deployment with confidence.

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 | Published: 23 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: The O-ISM3 is The Open Group framework for managing information security and information in the Open Information Security Management Maturity Model (O-ISM3) wider context. It aims to ensure that security processes in any organization are implemented so as to operate at a level consistent with that organization's business requirements.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an introduction into this new SCA-based programming model for Tuxedo that allows customers to quickly develop and compose SOA-based applications.

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 | Published: 11 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how the new Windows Azure programming model helps developers create applications that are easier to administer, more available, and more scalable than those built in the traditional Windows Server environment.

Posted: 01 Jan 2012 | Published: 01 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 25 Apr 2011

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Download the Open Group Service Integration Maturity Model (OSIMM).

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: When moving to the cloud, utilizing the latest solution can help ease the transition, enabling an agile set of service delivery capabilities across all IT domains. Read this white paper to learn more about how this technology utilizes a hybrid service delivery model to optimize the business value of your cloud.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

ANALYST REPORT: Need to compare open source business intelligence (BI) technologies and understand which vendor leads the pack? Download Forrester’s evaluation of open source BI vendors and learn why Actuate BIRT is named the leader due to its richness of reporting functionality.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper discover what it takes to lead your organization into the C21 market. Learn different strategies from principals in a consulting group and discover how sustainability could the be key to your success.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

EZINE: Object-based storage dispenses with the hierarchical file system, so there are no nested subfolders. Instead, it uses an indexed flatfile structure in which each object is given a unique ID. This issue of IT in Europe includes case studies of how object-based storage products are being implemented in Europe.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource describes the transformation from the traditional data center to the services data center, with special emphasis on the business impact of the transformation. Also, learn how communications service providers (CSPs) are positioning themselves for the data center of the future.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to leverage the power of an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to overcome the pitfalls of business expansion.

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This White Paper discusses methodology and language support for requirements management in TOGAF.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This guide offers valuable tips and recommendations for those interested in adopting and defining a successful new cloud business model.

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 | Published: 28 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, you will find out why the experts think data modeling is an important part of enterprise data management and why business users often need to be convinced that data modeling is something they should care about.

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012