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Optimizing for on demand?
The journey to becoming an On Demand Business requires a dual focus. On the one hand, it requires a focus on business design - aligning business models and processes to eliminate inefficiencies and to focus on the core competencies of the business.
Optimizing business models is an important step in becoming an On Demand Business, but it's not enough. The underlying technology infrastructure must be capable of:
- Executing the newly aligned business processes
- Quickly adapting to any future changes in those processes
Your company can start by addressing its business design, or it can start by addressing its technology infrastructure. Regardless of where you start, both areas must be addressed in order to become an On Demand Business.
In an ideal environment, companies would be able to:
- Model their existing and new business processes
- Examine those processes to determine where bottlenecks exist
- Modify the processes to achieve optimum efficiency
- Deploy the modified processes, and monitor them to insure that they're operating as planned
Breaking down functional silos from a business process perspective requires an IT environment that enables people, processes, and information to be integrated in a flexible manner. Optimizing your application infrastructure requires an open standards-based IT environment that can scale, up or down, to meet changes in demand, with minimal impact on capital expenditures.
The underlying IT infrastructure must allow your company to extend its reach to new customers and partners, through new business models and new ways of interacting. Because existing applications usually can't be ripped out and replaced, any new business processes must also be able to access your existing applications and information.
IBM WebSphere® software for zSeries® provides businesses with an IT infrastructure that maximizes both flexibility and responsiveness. By integrating people, processes and information, WebSphere enables businesses to respond to changing business conditions with improved flexibility and speed. By optimizing the application infrastructure, WebSphere creates a reliable, high-performance environment for deploying and running applications - an environment that fosters operational excellence. And by extending the reach of IT, WebSphere enables companies to maximize the use of their IT infrastructure to reach users in new ways and support new business models.
Jax Shawley, Editor
IBM eServer™ zSeries and S390® software marketing
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IBM WebSphere Application Server for z/OS Version 6: Key building block for a Service-Oriented Architecture
Recently announced, this latest release of IBM's premier application server for zSeries includes functional upgrades specifically designed to address the core issues that IT organizations are facing today. Read the article to find out how WebSphere Application Server V6 increases the return on your existing investments while providing an on-ramp to the entire IBM Software Group portfolio:
- Improve time to value and make the most of your existing resources with ease of use enhancements that save time and money by helping you get you up and running quickly, with improvements that shorten the developer's learning curve and with business solutions that provide out of the box applications for targeted industries.
- Enable an on demand infrastructure quickly and easily with the foundation that integrates autonomic, virtualized, systems management capabilities across the entire suite of IBM Software Group products.
- Integrate application assets with the open standards leading, Web services based Services Oriented Architecture that helps you increase your return on existing investments and lower your total cost of ownership.
- Improve enterprise resource utilization with highest Qualities of Service that enable and deliver lower total cost of ownership as your company is able to scale quickly and securely to do more with less across the broadest set of platforms in the industry.
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Integration comes standard with IMS Version 9
When it comes to exploiting new technologies to meet the increasing demands and sophistication of their customers, users of the IBM IMS® transaction and/or database management solutions have always been on the leading edge. And as those customers demand ever-higher performance and availability, the latest version of IMS, Version 9, is proving to be one of the primary applications for meeting those demands.
A key reason for this can be boiled down to one word: integration. IMS Version 9 is helping today's forward-thinking business to integrate their people and processes, functions and systems, vendors, customers and partners. In so doing, IMS V9 is helping organizations to realize the many benefits of on demand business.
Find out more.
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Can you manage your systems like you manage a business?
IBM Tivoli® infrastructure management solution set offers automated IT service management capabilities to help you efficiently and cost effectively manage the business of IT.
Today you have to manage your IT infrastructure as a business in support of your organization’s goals. You need to continually demonstrate improved productivity and value, comply with an increasing number of stringent business policies and regulations, and leverage best practices across the enterprise to reduce complexity and improve performance.
IT Service Management solutions from IBM Tivoli help you manage your IT infrastructure to deliver IT services that further these business goals by providing: a comprehensive set of automated service management capabilities; the means to efficiently and cost-effectively manage the availability and performance of composite applications; and a centralized way to view and manage your IT infrastructure, so that fewer individuals can manage across multiple systems more efficiently.
Come to any of four upcoming worldwide events and find out how IBM Tivoli IT Service Management solutions can help you meet this challenge. Attend an IBM session at the upcoming Gartner Symposium ITxpo in San Francisco or Barcelona or find out more at the Tivoli Technical Conferences coming up in Dallas and Munich. Get the details and get ready for a new way to manage the business of IT.
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IBM, SOA and Web Services: Our leadership is showing
By Dr. Bob Sutor, VP IBM, Open Standards
"SOA." It's more than the latest acronym to make its way around IT circles. SOA, or Service-Oriented Architecture, is also one of the most critical topics in technology today. With good reason. Service-Oriented Architecture isn't technology for technology's sake. In fact, as the word "architecture" implies, it is a set of patterns and best practices to help you implement a flexible IT infrastructure that integrates your systems with those of your customers, partners, and suppliers. What exactly are the needs in question? Find out what Dr. Bob Sutor has to say about SOA.
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How to securely exchange sensitive data: IBM WebSphere MQ Version 6
An on demand business is an enterprise whose business processes are integrated end-to-end across the company and with key partners, suppliers and customers, so that it can respond with speed to any customer demand, market opportunity or external threat. Naturally, that means having the technological infrastructure to allow disparate platforms, operating systems and applications to talk to each other in the same language. Amid the on demand fervor, a critically important element has arisen: security. As on demand business enables organizations to exchange critical—even confidential—data and applications, the security of that information becomes an issue. And businesses have sought a method to preserve the integrity of their data as it makes its way across cyberspace.They’ve found that method in IBM WebSphere® MQ Version 6. Like all applications in the IBM WebSphere family of software for on demand businesses, WebSphere MQ Version 6 is designed to help you. Read the complete article and get the low-down on securely integrating your applications.
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A single sign-in lets you access The Mainstream's download page  where you can retrieve a selection of resources including these new white papers:
- Analyst Report: Maximizing Business Value With Resurgent zSeries Mainframes
- Red Paper: Scaling for High Availability: WebSphere XD and WebSphere Application Server for z/OS
- Analyst Report: Enterprise Integration Challenge
- Analyst Report: The Dinosaur Myth — 2004 update
- TCO Study: Scorpion Update
- Analyst Report: The Sageza Group: A to zSeries for System Integrators Opportunities for Business Success, Clay Ryder
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 CCR2 provides fresh and high-value content from leading zSeries IT professionals and experts that will help in the day-to-day management of their zSeries applications and environments. Don't miss CCR2's current issue.
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Analyst Report: Enterprise Integration Challenge .
This new white paper from Software Strategies evaluates and assesses Enterprise Integration and what is driving the widespread increased demands for integration. It also identifies how companies are actually performing integration today. The Paper shows there is scope forconsiderable improvement through the wider use of vendor Enterprise Integration middleware platform software.
Red Paper: Scaling for Availability: WebSphere XD and WebSphere Application Server for z/OS
Written by Paul DiMazio and the IBM ITSO organization this IBM Redpaper addresses several existing issues with respect to helping customers and IBM personnel decide when it is advantageous to deploy applications using z/OS-based solutions and when to deploy using distributed solutions, primarily zSeries and pSeries solutions.
Strategy paper: Oriented Architecture: A Introduction to SOA for Business Managers.
From a purely technical perspective SOA is a superior form of application integration or middleware. However the restructuring of systems capabilities into services presents a much broader opportunity for restructuring of business responsibilities and processes around the service concept. In this report we present the business case and argue that SOA is a powerful tool for business reengineering, and that it is essential for senior business managers
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Optimize IT through infrastructure management
As you deploy new workloads and add servers to your environment, transaction volumes can explode, management complexity can increase and unpredictability become the norm. You need to identify, react and ensure the entire infrastructure is adaptive enough to maintain Service Level Agreements. This can only be done with an end to end infrastructure management approach. With the acquisition of Candle and Cyanea, IBM is the only company in the industry to now provide a complete view of your environment and an integrated way of managing end to end within a heterogeneous environment.
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| Analyst Report: Maximizing Business Value With Resurgent zSeries Mainframes
This new Software Strategies white paper evaluates and assesses the business value of the "Platform Readiness" strategies now advocated to mainframe/zSeries customers by the vendor and others in 2005. It was written for C-level executives in medium and large enterprises and for their senior IT executives.
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The Dinosaur Myth - 2004 update
With all the recent announcement activity, and the anticipated push from IBM to extol the virtues of the mainframe once again, we can expect many users to re-visit the platform choice issue. In response, Arcati maintain that, in comparing the TCO of the competitive platforms, what really matters is the number of users that a computer can support, performing whatever functions are necessary to the organization with a reasonable level of service.
The key yardstick of a computer's cost-effectiveness is not TCO (total cost of ownership) but TCU (total cost per user), measured over a reasonable time-span to even out any high up-front costs.
Scorpion Update
An Evolving Method of Analyzing and Optimizing the Corporate IT Server Infrastructure
Rick Schoenmann, IT Infrastructure Consultant and John F. Ryan, Senior IT Consultant.
The Sageza Group: A to zSeries for System Integrators
Opportunities for Business Success, Clay Ryder
In this paper, Sageza examines the role of Systems Integrators in helping organizations benefit from their technology investments, examining the capabilities of IBM's eServer zSeries and reflect on how this platform provides opportunity not only for the end customer, but also for the Systems Integrators who play an invaluable role in delivering IT solutions in the marketplace.
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Events:
Tivoli Technical Conference – Munich – May 23-26
zSeries Application Modernisation Seminars Americas May-June
zSeries Application Modernization and Business Integration Seminars AmericasMay-June
Maximize the value of your IBM zSeries Mainframe Americas June
Take a little time to learn a lot!
Download the 2005 Webcast calendar today. (PDF)
Visit anytime to find out how to attend these sessions live or view the replay from the archives.
ShopzSeries Extends Product and Service Ordering Capability in Canada, Hong Kong, and China.
IBM ShopzSeries recently delivered its version 9.2, extending its product and service ordering support in several countries. Canadian customers can now order and download product orders in ShopzSeries, expanding on its previously available service ordering capabilities. In Hong Kong and China, service ordering is now available.
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