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White Papers
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Today, with the economy in tough shape and competition becoming stiff, businesses are under more pressure than ever. Strategy overall, and modernization in particular, has become even more urgent for IT as sources of both cost savings and competitive Read More...
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A product of NASCIO's Legacy Systems and Modernization Working Group, this report is based on the findings of its 2008 national survey of state CIOs. The report provides an assessment of states' primary points of concern as they relate to legacy Read More...
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This third-party view offers recommendations for current and prospective customers looking for information on the adoption and success rate of SCOM 2007. (Gartner, October 2008) Read More...
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Microsoft Windows-based platforms have become ubiquitous at banks globally. Introduced in the 1980s for office processing functions, Windows is increasingly used by large banks to support critical banking services including Internet banking, ATM, branch, Read More...
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For the majority of mission-critical applications today, SQL Server 2008 already has the strongest combination of price, performance, manageability, security, and DBA productivity. The latest version of SQL Server 2008 from Microsoft offers hundreds of Read More...
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This paper looks at the latest trends in the market with respect to core system replacement and outlines Microsoft’s strategy for larger banks that are considering a service-oriented architecture (SOA)–based approach to migrating their legacy Read More...
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Many organizations are now seeking ways to escape from their legacy technology and platform. This paper presents three options for addressing this challenge: preserve, translate, or rewrite. The paper analyzes each choice and provides resources for further Read More...
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The duties performed by CIOs are analogous to those of big-city mayors—neither executive has the chance to build a community from scratch, and most inherit a series of problems from predecessors: dated infrastructures, more demand than they can Read More...
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A successful mainframe modernization project requires adequate preparation. Lack of preparation leads to lack of information and can result in an incorrect strategy, inaccurate estimates, or an inappropriate architecture. Worse yet, some enterprises incorrectly Read More...
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This white paper examines the state of mission critical applications for large organizations. The survey focuses on the mission-critical application types for the companies, server operating systems used for these applications and the primary operating Read More...
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This IDC white paper discusses the seven-step process for understanding, measuring, and articulating the business value that an IT project can deliver. (IDC, April 2007) Read More...
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This white paper compares mainframe-based and distributed-based job scheduling products and provides the basis for analyzing job-scheduling capabilities on each platform. (221 KB Word doc; January 2007)http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/7/2/272DB1B6-209A-4AEC-A231-105B35DC0271/Job_Sch_Final.do Read More...
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Whether an enterprise considers or actively pursues mainframe migration, or whether it makes ongoing decisions about workload hosting options, Robert Frances Group (RFG) believes that enterprise systems management represents a significant decision criterion. Read More...
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Following the downturn of 2001, many IT organizations waited to renew their investment in legacy systems. Legacy renewal is now back on the IT agenda, but many renewal projects have failed to deliver the expected gains. (Ovum, December 2006) Read More...
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Microsoft, like many large organizations, relies on SAP AG enterprise resource planning (ERP) products to manage the day-to-day operations of its business. From the mid-1990s when Microsoft first deployed SAP products in its business environment, Microsoft Read More...
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