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• The Evolution of Service-Oriented Architecture

  From Integration to Business Scenario Development

  by Brenda Michelson

  In this report, we share our view of the service-oriented architecture evolution, starting with services for simple integration and working our way to services for business scenario development.
  Jan. 6, 2005

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• Designing a Fluid Enterprise Using an Adaptive, Customer-Centric IT Architecture

  Creating a Blended IT Architectural Portfolio to Support Your Customer-Centric Business

  by Brenda Michelson

  This report demonstrates our architecture blending process on four of the new architecture strategies in order to achieve enterprise fluidity for our fictional customer-adaptive business, Digits Undercover.
  Dec. 9, 2004

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• Building Infrastructure with Integrated Stacks

  Tradeoffs are Key

  by Michael Goulde

  Designing and building the software infrastructure necessary to support customer-facing applications is complex and expensive. An emerging trend for software suppliers to provide complete, well-integrated stacks may help reduce complexity and cost.
  Nov. 18, 2004

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• Creating a Blended Architectural Portfolio

  Candidate Strategies for Your Blended Architecture

  by Brenda Michelson

  The new Architecture strategies—services oriented, process based, event driven, Grid enhanced, or real time/right time—are each compelling on their own, but have you thought about bringing them together? Have you though how powerful a blend could be?
  Oct. 14, 2004

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• Sr. IT Architect for Cross-Channel Customer Experience

  Patty's Dream Team: Roles and Responsibilities You'll Need for Your Customer-Centric Organization

  by Patricia Seybold

  In order to deliver a great cross-channel experience to customers and partners, you’ll need to have a seasoned IT architect who is responsible for designing and evolving your application Architecture, services, and middleware to be customer adaptive.
  Oct. 7, 2004

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• L.L. Bean's Architecture Evolution

  Employing a Services-Oriented Architecture for Cross-Channel Synergy

  by Brenda Michelson

  L.L. Bean, a notoriously private company, shares with the Patricia Seybold Group its Services Based Architecture story, from the early days in the lab to providing the foundation for its most critical applications: multichannel customer sales and service
  Sep. 9, 2004

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• Framework for Evaluating Cross-Channel, Cross-Lifecycle Customer Service Products

  How to Evaluate Solutions That Support a Great End-to-End Customer Experience

  by Mitchell Kramer

  This report presents our framework for evaluating cross-channel, cross-lifecycle customer service products.
  Sep. 9, 2004

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• Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003

  Microsoft's Configuration Management Solution for Windows and Beyond

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report evaluates Microsoft Systems Management Server configuration management solution against the PSGroup product evaluation framework for configuration management products.
  May. 20, 2004

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• IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager v4.2

  IBM’s Heterogeneous Configuration Management Solution

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report evaluates IBM’s Tivoli configuration management solution against the PSGroup product evaluation framework for configuration management products.
  Apr. 29, 2004

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• Evaluating Configuration Management Products

  Why You Need Configuration Management Software and How to Select it

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report outlines the Patricia Seybold Group’s framework for evaluating configuration management products and helps you structure a business case to determine the ROI on such products in your organization.
  Apr. 22, 2004

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• Portlet Standards Are Here

  Who Is Supporting Them and What Do They Mean to You?

  by David Marshak

  The new Portlet standards have been published. What does this mean to you?
  Nov. 26, 2003

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• PSGroup Bull's-Eye: Data Warehouse Databases: Best Analytics Capabilities

  Which Providers Offer the Best Analytics Capabilities?

  by Mitchell Kramer

  Our “Bull’s-Eye” graphical report presents the highest-level summary of our analysis, evaluation, and comparison of the analytics capabilities in the four leading data warehouse databases.
  Nov. 26, 2003

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• PSGroup Bull's-Eye: Data Warehouse Databases: Best Data Type Support

  Which Providers Offer the Best Data Type Support?

  by Mitchell Kramer

  Our “Bull’s-Eye” graphical report presents the highest-level summary of our analysis, evaluation, and comparison of the data type support in the four leading data warehouse databases.
  Nov. 20, 2003

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• Data Warehouse Database Feature Comparison Matrix

  Comparing IBM DB2 Data Warehouse Enterprise Edition Version 8.1, Oracle9i Enterprise Edition, Sybase IQ 12.5, and Teradata Warehouse 7.0 against Our Evaluation Framework

  by Mitchell Kramer

  In this report, we summarize our framework-based evaluations of four data warehouse database products in the form of a matrix.
  Nov. 13, 2003

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• Building New Applications Using Service-Oriented Architectures

  Implementation Strategies and Example

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report describes how to compose new applications from services and works through a case study based on a Customer Scenario and candidate services list developed in our Service Granularity reports.
  Nov. 6, 2003

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• Teradata Warehouse 7.0

  An Excellent Database for the Largest Data Warehouses

  by Mitchell Kramer

  This report evaluates Teradata Warehouse 7.0 against our framework for data warehouse databases.
  Oct. 30, 2003

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• Time to Take Another Look at Your Application Adapters

  New Integration Technologies Deserve Consideration

  by Paul Korzeniowski

  The key to solving your ongoing application integration challenges may lie in the next generation of application adapters; in this article, you will learn what benefits these devices may offer your company.
  Oct. 23, 2003

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• Retrofitting Applications Using Service-Oriented Architectures

  Implementation Case Study

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report works through a case study of retrofitting applications using Web Services that are integrated into or run in parallel with the applications themselves.
  Oct. 16, 2003

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• Retrofitting Applications with Service-Oriented Architectures

  Implementation Strategies and Alternatives

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report explains how to retrofit applications that suffer from four data and application problems that don’t yield to entirely external, non-invasive solutions: obsolete data structures or missing data, redundant data, redundant processing, and busin
  Oct. 2, 2003

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• Solving the Root Causes of Nine Common Data and Application Problems

  SOA Solutions that Minimize Changes to Applications

  by Robert Eugene Shelton

  This report explains how to solve common data and application integration problems using IT services.
  Sep. 11, 2003

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