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Step by Step photo guide to setting up twitter widget pro for wordpress

Posted March 7, 2013 - 9:00 am

You were warned that it was coming and it has come. Blackouts of the Twitter API v1 have begun and sites are starting to be affected. This transition is comparable to airport security pre and post 9/11. Welcome to the new normal.
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Turning Financial Mainframe Applications into SOA Building Blocks

Posted February 22, 2013 - 4:30 pm

This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of implementing SOA in financial service organizations such as banks or insurance companies.
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Government Agency Webifies Outdated COBOL Applications

Posted February 22, 2013 - 4:30 pm

Let this CTO tell you how his agency converted 1980s-era green screens into an e-filing portal for the 100,000 cases handled each year by a county department.
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The death of the Twitter API or a new beginning?

Posted February 21, 2013 - 9:00 am

If you asked me what Twitter’s greatest strength was, I would say it was its ubiquity. Anyone could integrate Twitter into practically anything with minimal effort. With the upcoming retirement of the Twitter API v1 in March 2013, that ubiquity may be gone.
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How to process and accept credit cards on your website

Posted January 24, 2013 - 9:00 am

There are a lot of misconceptions around how credit cards are processed on the web. The reality is that it is fairly complicated to set up the first time if you have no guidance, and it's probably more costly than you'd like.
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Service-Enabling Your Mainframe

Posted January 7, 2013 - 5:30 pm

There are a wide variety of strategies that can be used to service-enable mainframe assets. This paper looks at pros and cons of each and explains them in greater detail.
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The Role of Governance in Ensuring SOA Success

Posted January 7, 2013 - 5:30 pm

The 6 key steps for SOA governance outlined in this paper address organizational, lifecycle and operational governance and will help ensure that SOA management challenges do not outweigh its benefits or cost savings.
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Your SOA Could Be DOA Without MDM

Posted January 7, 2013 - 5:30 pm

Integrating master data management (MDM) as part of an enterprise SOA strategy can eliminate issues with data inconsistency, align data assets, help disseminate accurate information and ensure that SOA initiatives deliver their full potential.
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Deriving value from SOA with data grids

Posted December 6, 2012 - 10:30 am

This white paper demonstrates that a data grid infrastructure, built with clustered cahing, can help you avoid "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies.
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Avoiding the Accidental SOA Cloud Architecture

Posted December 6, 2012 - 10:30 am

In this new release of SOA Suite (11g), Oracle continues to emphasize on simplification of the development, management and monitoring of SOAs, while delivering the extreme performance & scalability required for mission-critical environments.
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Delivering Secure, Fast Websites is not an Oxymoron

Posted November 19, 2012 - 3:45 pm

Few vendors admit that adding a web application security solution can also be kryptonite for websites by adding latency to users' interaction.
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When to use cloud platforms vs. dedicated servers

Posted November 9, 2012 - 9:00 am

A decent dedicated server can take you well beyond an initial launch for most companies but a small cloud instance may be cheaper in the short term. Here are some Pros and Cons to each to help with the decision.
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ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update: The most useful new features

Posted November 6, 2012 - 9:00 am

A few days ago, Microsoft released a preview of the ASP.NET Fall 2012 update to Visual Studio 2012. This update adds some really useful new features to MVC and Web API projects (along with some minor updates to Web Forms) that should save .NET developers a lot of time.
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Safe and Economical Reuse of Legacy Applications

Posted October 2, 2012 - 3:00 pm

See if web enablement is a good fit for your IT organization.
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Service Enablement & Beyond

Posted October 2, 2012 - 3:00 pm

Learn the four practical steps to rapid service enablement.
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Unlocking and Service-Enabling Legacy Assets

Posted September 18, 2012 - 10:15 am

Whether your strategy calls for full-blown SOA, quick-turnaround mobile applications, or anything in between, Verastream Host Integrator can help. Watch this six-minute product demo and learn the noninvasive way to encapsulate mainframe data and logic as reusable services.
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PPG Company Uses Verastream to Web-Enable Host Functionality

Posted September 18, 2012 - 10:15 am

PPG subsidiary LYNX achieved 3270 and 5250 integration using Verastream. They quickly extended legacy functions to the web for internal and external users, with no impact to existing mainframe applications.
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Modernizing Legacy Applications for Fun and Profit

Posted September 17, 2012 - 6:15 pm

Discover the fastest, simplest way to webify host applications and streamline navigation for internal and external users. Watch this three-minute video podcast on web enablement.
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Freightliner Uses Verastream to Simplify Mainframe Processes

Posted September 17, 2012 - 5:00 pm

This UK-based freight transporter automated EDI messaging and rolled out real-time online tracking, generating 2 million customer messages per year. They used an SOA approach to ensure ongoing flexibility and competitive advantage. See why Freightliner calls Verastream "our most reliable employee."
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Turning Financial Apps into SOA Building Blocks

Posted September 17, 2012 - 5:00 pm

This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of implementing SOA in financial service organizations such as banks or insurance companies. After exploring the characteristics of mainframe-based financial applications, you'll learn various approaches for service-enabling these applications.
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Introducing Oracle SOA Governance 11g

Posted September 12, 2012 - 4:30 pm

Learn more about solutions that can facilitate and streamline SOA governance at your organization.
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10 questions for Layer 7 Technologies CTO Scott Morrison

Posted August 16, 2012 - 12:36 pm

Name: Scott Morrison
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Enabling your service desk to be the front face to IT

Posted July 13, 2012 - 5:15 pm

Your service desk should be the one stop shop for internal and external customers. But, in order for IT to be the orchestrator of knowledge and the service catalog, you need to provide excellent service and quick response times.
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Best Practices in Monitoring VMware

Posted July 13, 2012 - 5:15 pm

The benefits of virtualization are unassailable: increased agility, scale, and cost savings to name a few. However, so too are the monitoring challenges posed by these environments-including complexities, lack of visibility and control, and inefficiency.
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Configure, Don't Customize Your Service Desk

Posted July 13, 2012 - 5:15 pm

Join Pink Elephant Analyst George Spalding and Nimsoft Service Desk expert Tim Rochte to learn the perils of customizing your service desk and losing flexibility to adapt to business changes.
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