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23 Dec 09

My Library tagged Solaris vs Linux

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30 Oct 09

Project Report

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12 Aug 09

Top 10 Reasons Why People are Making SOA Fail

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Recommendation: Figure out what you need before you talk to the vendors.
Perform a very thorough vendor evaluation process. When you narrow it down to a
few vendors, have them come on site to perform a proof of concept for which you
provide the requirements
Recommendation: Treat governance as a fully funded initiative that runs
alongside of your SOA implementation. There should be a dedicated team (which
usually lives within Enterprise Architecture) with its own road map and long
term vision.
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- They fail to implement and
  adhere to SOA governance.
  
  Governance is a dirty word to
  many people. Anything that sounds remotely close to government can't be good,
  right? Wrong! Call it SOA management and maybe people won't shiver as much.
- They let the vendors drive the architecture.

Top 10 Reasons Why People are Making SOA Fail

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Don't skimp on the lifecycle management tools or troubleshooting will be like
trying to find a needle in a haystack
Recommendation: The standard IT team structure is not effective for SOA.
Think outside the box. I prefer a matrix organization and a collaborative war
room environment. Tear down the cubes and set up an open space to allow for
these specialists to work closely together
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- Recommendation: Develop an extensive training and resource plan and
  include it as part of the initial request for funds when delivering the business
  case for SOA.
- They lack the required skills to deliver SOA.
- You need SOA architects, business process modelers, administrators of the tools
  within the stack, data architects and many other skills.
- They have poor project management.
- They think of SOA as a
  project instead of an architecture.
  
  Many companies are naive and
  think that implementing SOA is just another project. SOA is a software
  architecture and only achieves desired benefits when a company adheres to the
  core principals of service-orientation and ensures that deliverables are
  consistent with the architectural vision and road map.
- They underestimate the
  complexity of SOA.
  
  You don't know what you don't
  know. Conceptually, SOA is simply the next evolution of what IT has been
  building over the years. It is not a hard concept to understand, but it is hard
  to implement correctly. The beauty of SOA and BPM is the simplicity it brings to
  the end users by integrating various back end systems so they look like one
  composite application to the user. The downside to SOA is that this greatly
  increases the complexity of building and managing software. Building SOA is a
  software engineering exercise.
- SOA requires adherence to standards and best practices (governance) and needs
  talented individuals who understand complex concepts to be able to deliver.

Business Case - Module 4 - Project benefits

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Personnel costs: includes personnel associated with the project; only
assign costs for the duration that the personnel cost are assigned. For example, the
training developers may only be assigned to the project for a short time period, or may
split their time between two teams. Personnel cost will include company resources involved
in any aspect of the project, ranging from the design team, system development, system
test and implementation resources.
Overhead for project: includes overhead expenses that are incurred by
the project personnel listed above during the duration of the project such as facilities,
supplies and travel.
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- Equipment costs: includes equipment and applications (systems, tools,
  software, etc.) that are part of the solution to be implemented.
- Consultant support: costs for consultants used by the project.
- Operational transition costs: costs for items such as productivity
  loss during transition and training expense.
- Installation costs: costs for installation expense such as wiring,
  facilities, etc.
- Outsourcing costs: costs associated with moving work to other
  organizations or outside the company
- Subtotal the costs for each area for each year. Total all costs for
  each year. This total will be used in the financial calculations to determine the Net
  Present Value (NPV) of your project and the Rate of Return (IRR).
- Map your costs on a project timeline and use these estimates to prepare a formal budget
  for the project. You likely will not need all the money in one big chunk, but rather use
  it incrementally throughout the project.
- Remember - the costs discussed in this section are the costs for designing and
  implementing the solution - they do not include operational costs for running the
  business. These costs are identified during the benefits section.
- Operational savings: Operational savings include all
  changes from the business solution that contribute to cost savings to the business. This
  area will be a primary focus of your project.
- Improved customer satisfaction: Improved customer
  satisfaction includes all changes from the business solution that improve your customers'
  experience with your services and products.
- Increased revenue and market share: Many business
  changes including reengineered processes contribute to increased revenue and market share
  or increased customer retention. If a direct link can be made between changes in the
  process and increases in revenue or market share, then these benefits can be included in
  the financial return calculation. If a clear link cannot be established, then mention
  these improvements as qualitative benefits only (e.g., the connection of customer
  satisfaction with customer retention may be listed as a qualitative benefit since an exact
  calculation may not be defensible for your specific change).
- Improved employee satisfaction: Improved employee
  (associate) satisfaction is often the result of new processes and tools. Overall
  improvements for employees should be cited in the business case under qualitative
  benefits. Sometimes, however, employee satisfaction will directly affect productivity. If
  a direct link can be established between employee satisfaction and improved productivity,
  then they may be included in the operational benefits.

Business Case - Module 2 - Key elements

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19 Jul 09

Bosch Evolution 800 Series Side-by-Side Refrigerator Review, Page 2 of 2 - Associated Content

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controlled by the multi-flow shower cooling system, which keeps the air inside of this unit fresh

15 Jul 09

Key Issues for Application Integration, 2009

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Companies need a more systematic approach to integration as experience and
the scale of application integration projects grow. A fully functional ICC can
offer significant payback, such as a 30% reduction in interface development time
and development costs, a 20% reduction in maintenance costs and a 20% reuse of
interface components.

03 Jul 09

http://now.eloqua.com/e/er.aspx?s=332&lid=31807&elq=BA563B67B9FA49C4A7852DFF71EC4EE4

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EA Must Guide Master Data Management Initiatives Through Information Architecture by Gene Leganza - Forrester Research

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Case Study: Deutsche Bank Turns To Business Architecture To Transform Business-IT Alignment by Gene Leganza - Forrester Research

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27 May 09

The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine

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The most promising solution to our attention problem, in Gallagher’s mind, is also the most ancient: meditation.
Gallagher stresses that because attention is a limited resource—one psychologist has calculated that we can attend to only 110 bits of information per second,

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Meyer and a host of other researchers have proved again and again that multitasking, at least as our culture has come to know and love and institutionalize it, is a myth
When you think you’re doing two things at once, you’re almost always just switching rapidly between them, leaking a little mental efficiency with every switch.
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- The only time multitasking does work efficiently, Meyer says, is when multiple simple tasks operate on entirely separate channels—for example, folding laundry (a visual-manual task) while listening to a stock report (a verbal task)
- tech theorist Linda Stone famously coined the phrase “continuous partial attention” to describe our newly frazzled state of mind.
- People who frequently check their e-mail have tested as less intelligent than people who are actually high on marijuana

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when forced to multitask, the overloaded brain shifts its processing from the hippocampus (responsible for memory) to the striatum (responsible for rote tasks), making it hard to learn a task or even recall what you’ve been doing once you’re done.
He sees our distraction as a full-blown epidemic—a cognitive plague that has the potential to wipe out an entire generation of focused and productive thought. He compares it, in fact, to smoking. “People aren’t aware what’s happening to their mental processes,” he says, “in the same way that people years ago couldn’t look into their lungs and see the residual deposits.”

19 May 09

Microsoft tells companies to kill Vista plans > Operating Systems > Enterprise Infrastructure

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"But the bigger question is
what do those in the middle of planning do? Should they continue with Vista?"

The answer, Silver said,
depends on where in the Vista planning and deployment process a company is. "If
they started deployment, and are deploying Vista only on new machines as they
buy them, then I'd continue. But if they aren't quite there yet, then we
recommend switching to Windows 7."

16 May 09

Understanding Digital Camera Sensors

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Virtually all current digital
cameras can only capture one of the three
primary colors in each cavity, and so they discard roughly 2/3 of
the incoming light.
Redundancy with green pixels produces an image
which appears less noisy and has finer detail than could be
accomplished if each color were treated equally. This also
explains why noise in the green channel is much less than for the other two
primary colors
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- Bayer "demosaicing" is the process of translating this Bayer array of primary colors into a final image which contains full color information at
  each pixel
- eal-world camera sensors do not actually have photosites which
  cover the entire surface of the sensor. In fact, they often
  cover just half the total area in order to accommodate other
  electronics.

05 May 09

Wireless Report March 09

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29 Apr 09

globeandmail.com: For National Bank, it's a good time for a spending spree

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and open a total of 150 branches
improve a computer system that's been cobbled together from numerous
acquisitions
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- his rivals at banks such as Bank of Montreal are doing the same thing

20 Apr 09

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE53F14820090416

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CNBC said IBM decided against the move after
looking at Sun's structured

contracts, as well as change of control
clauses that would make an acquisition

of the
company costly
It also reported that IBM's contacts within the U.S. Justice Department, U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission and the European Union have all advised the
company that such a merger could be subject to an antitrust review lasting six
to nine months.

15 Apr 09

RBC mulls bill aggregation with Facebook > Systems Management > Enterprise Infrastructure

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Canada’s largest bank is thinking about following up the changes it has made to
electronic bill and statement presentation by exploring integration with leading
social networking sites
When the electronic bill payment and presentment (EBPP) market emerged near the
beginning of the decade, the choice for consumers came down to registering with
a site like Canada Post’s Epost, or making a specific visit to the bank’s own
portal. McKay said Facebook, MySpace and Twitter have changed all that.
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- Bill aggregation with social media would create interesting opportunities around
  customization, Fox added. Users could pick and choose from widgets with specific
  alerts and add them to their site profiles.