However, SAP won't develop software services that compete directly, as independent SaaS applications, with companies such as Salesforce.com, Concur, and Ariba, Wookey said. Rather, all of SAP's on-demand apps will be designed as extensions of Business Suite.
PLM管理的是新产品的开发及产品整个生命周期，从产品设计、量产、上市再到退市。其管理主要分两部分：一是前端的产品资讯；二是非成本的流程管理。而研发设计、模拟测试等这些前端环节的管理，ERP是无法管控到的，只有靠PLM。ERP更注重物料管理、生产制造管理、财务管理、成本管理，即从成本的角度去管理企业的物流和资讯流。传统ERP厂商进入PLM领域有它的道理和可行性，甲骨文致力将HCM、ERP、PLM、SCM等软件整合起来，通过OracleAIA(应用集成架构)提供给客户。
据CIMData、Daratech等研究机构分析，制造业企业在IT应用系统上增长最快的是PLM，预计未来五年的复合增长率为9.8%，高于ERP增长率。而AMR与Forrester最新发布的业务增幅数据显示，在未来5年内，全球PLM市场将达到320亿美金的容量，其增长速度更是远远领先于其他门类的制造业信息化解决方案。
The announcement of SAP Business Suite 7 highlights the difference between Oracle and SAP's strategies and sets the stage for a new episode in the two software giants' lengthy struggle for dominance.
Summary In this presentation recorded during QCon SF 2008, Neal Ford, an architect at ThoughtWorks, shows 10 ways to write better code. This is practical advice for developers, but application architects can benefit from it too.
Visualization is serious tool, but I have a serious gripe on how it gets positioned in BI projects. As a result, a lot of executives get an impression that it is not useful, and that it is nothing more than a pretty marketing picture. In future, I also expect BI tools to be able to suggest intelligent visual representations of the data with an ability to switch to different visuals, and the ability to drill down as needed.
A while ago, I compared the Eclipse Development Process (EDP) to that of the Rational Unified Processs. The EDP specifically addresses the steps that a eclipse project goes through to be released. It addresses a little bit on management, and touches only briefly on technical practices of actual development. I've been told that the Eclipse Foundation feels that how the code is developed is best left up to the individual projects. In general, I'm okay with that, as not every team works best the same way. However, for those teams that want to be more agile in their development, and incorporate some more technical practices what can be done?
It would be really interesting to see a measurement of these two giants (SAP BW BIA and HP/Oracle Exadata) .. do you have experience with it?
But I think another factor is at work here. That is, SOA is moving closer to both enterprise data management and cloud computing. Storage — the ability to store, archive, and manage large volumes of data — is a pain point for many enterprises these days, to which the cloud model offers a compelling source of relief. Such capabilities are being offered as services, both from external providers and potentially internally, from other parts of the enterprise. The whole concept of SANs (storage area networks) advances the concept that any and all devices are pooled as a gigantic disk. In addition, data management is increasingly being seen in a service-oriented context, as “data services” are delivered to end-user business units.
Adobe is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe is providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich web content producers won't need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable—they can now be confident that it can be found by users around the globe.
While Adobe Flash has remained popular with Web developers who want to deliver fluid user interfaces, database-driven content, and nonstandard typography on the Web, it has suffered from one glaring shortcoming: search engines have been unable to effectively index the content held within the Flash file. With Ichabod, Adobe is hoping to fix that problem for Flash. Update: According to a comment from Adobe's John Dowdell, Ichabod only works on Flash, not AJAX as previously reported. Nonetheless, it's still a very important step forward.
Jim Corbett, Flash Player Engineer at Adobe, did a talk at MAX San Francisco with some good information on how the Flash Search Player works and what Google (and hopefully more search engines in the near future) can get out of your SWF files for indexing. Nice to see more information available, we’ve had a need for this ever since searchable SWF was announced on July 1st. This presentation cleared up most - if not all - of my questions about the current state of Flash SEO, definitely worth watching!
Just when you thought you were getting it, I’m going to throw one more at you. LiveCycle DS Community Edition (huh!?) is basically Blaze DS with a paid support subscription. For more information, see this page.
Following are the differences between LCDS and BlazeDS in terms of features. For more details on the features, please visit http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/dataservices/features.html
So, what then is XMLA? XML for Analysis is a standard that allows client applications to talk to multi-dimensional or OLAP data sources. The communication of messages back and forth is done using web standards – HTTP, SOAP, and XML. The query language used is MDX, which is the most commonly used multi-dimensional expression language today. Oracle’s Essbase, Microsoft’s Analysis Services, and SAP’s NetWeaver all support the MDX language and the XMLA specification [doc].
It would appear that BAM is about real-time event monitoring. It targets the status and results of business operations, processes and transactions from data surfaced from automated processes.
Teamwork is distributed as a shrink-wrapped application, with a friendly graphical multi-platform installer, and an easy startup path, compatible with Project Managers from non IT-fields. But it also includes in its core several typical "enterprise” features, which you usually find only in custom solutions. It is a web based purely Java project and groupware application, running on Hibernate, and release 4 extends project tree management with JBPM-based business processes. New features cover also full text search (extending Hibernate Search), iCalendar, Subversion and Twitter integration.
Today’s mashup applications can be described using a simple interaction model that supports search, review, collaborate, and update behaviors. Mashups can be used for business scenarios, providing support for common interactions where a user takes an action and the mashup application provides one or more responses. The user roles and data for each industry where mashups are used today are different and provide unique value to address the industry’s business requirements. The usage patterns are similar, though, because the underlining IT requirements are basically the same. This article touches a small set of possibilities afforded by mashup technology based on the use of early adopters. Enabling business users to create their own situational applications to address their own needs or solve their own problems is the value proposition that can be realized with mashup technology and IBM Mashup Center. Part 2 in this series of articles covers solution architecture and architectural patterns used to implement the business scenarios and usage patterns outlined in this article.
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Gartner Inc. (various analysts) * By 2012, business units will control at least 40% of the total budget for BI * Through 2012, more than 35% of the top 5,000 global companies will regularly fail to make insightful decisions about significant changes in their business and markets * By 2010, 20% of organizations will have an industry-specific analytic application delivered via SaaS as a standard component of their BI portfolio * In 2009, collaborative decision making will emerge as a new product category that combines social software with BI platform capabilities * By 2012, one-third of analytic applications applied to business processes will be delivered through large-grained application mashups
与达索和西门子PLM不同，PTC公司的PLM技术发展战略仍在致力于产品研发流程效率的提升，强调精益产品开发和统一平台。同时，将PLM的概念拓展到动态出版和工程计算的管理。 精益产品开发思路源于PTC公司与丰田公司的合作，丰田公司是精益生产的创造和践行者，也是全世界在精益产品开发方面做得最好的公司。精益产品开发是一种产品开发的思想，包含了一整套的方法论和实施方法。精益产品开发将精益生产中持续改进的概念引入到产品开发过程之中，实现对产品开发过程的精益管理。实现精益产品开发的核心在于：以客户为中心，对照现有的流程和目标，建立一套连续性的完整的产品开发流程，然后建立一套测量流程的手段，不断持之以恒地改善流程，不断优化，坚持不懈。
(2) 接口和集成模式 对于包含产品结构信息的数据，还有其特殊性。因为“封装”不能了解文件内部的具体数据，而PDM的产品结构配置模块必须掌握产品内部的结构关系。PDM集成这类数据有下面两种不同层次的模式。
Public Data Sets on AWS provides a centralized repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications. AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the community, and like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute and storage they use for their own applications. An initial list of data sets is already available, and more will be added soon.
“Even if there is some kind of economic recovery next year, SAP is likely to lose market share to the [software as a service] market, as well as to peers Oracle and Microsoft,” he writes. “SAP has not been innovating at the pace of its peers. Although new products could slow its market-share losses, SAP will have to increasingly rely upon its installed base for any growth. As a result, we expect SAP to under-perform MSFT and ORCL next year.”
性能指标树实际上跟PDM是一个对应的概念，实际上性能指标树与PDM的产品结构树是相区别又相关的概念。PDM的产品结构树管理产品的整机和零部件，性能指标树反映了管理产品功能、性能与质量指标。一辆车研发出来的车型，是通过性能指标树看到性能的不同，功能的不同，这些指标决定了车的好坏。所以说在产品的研发过程中，有两个树要管理，一个是PDM的产品结构树，一个是性能指标树，这两个树的环节管理非常关键。性能指标树和精益研发总线的聚焦目标，性能指标树是研发知识的一个载体，这个里面功能、性能、质量数据以及产生数据的流程以及知识都是管理的东西。所以这是一个研发知识的载体，一个公司能研制下一代产品，不是因为他具有上一代产品的图纸，而是因为他具有历代产品的功能、性能、质量指标的数据，才能成为新的产品的发展。
PERA精益研发平台是安世亚太（PERA GLOBAL）自主研发的旗舰产品，包括协同仿真平台PERA.Simulation、创新设计平台PERA.Innovation和质量设计平台PERA.Quality三个子平台。该平台是以精益为目标、以精益研发总线为基础建立的企业数字化样机研发平台，通过协同仿真、技术创新和质量管理三大核心技术，为企业打造立体的研发技术网络体系，帮助企业实现研发能力和产品质量的跨越式提升。
Sun确认了云计算的三个层级，分别为：软件即服务、平台即服务、基础构架即服务，Sun计划在三个不同的层次同时发力，并侧重于需求最多的层次。
Click on a dashboard chart element to drill to report detail. This will save time and enhance user experience by drilling down directly to the detail instead of having to click on the dashboard component and then filtering on the specific grouping.
Line of Business implementations not only experience growth, but greater success. According to this year's McKinsey survey on Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise, IT-driven implementations had 60% user dissatisfaction, whereas LoB-driven had 74% satisfaction. Part of this is vendor selection, but LoB implementations have greater engagement and adoption. I believe the best approach is to partner LoB with IT, what I once called middlespace, for the benefits of top down and bottom up adoption.
However, for business-driven internal enterprise Web 2.0 collaboration projects, I see growth. Why? Because the business will find their collaboration needs to grow in 2009, while they see IT providing them with fewer services. Collaboration needs grow as a result of layoffs, mergers, and deepening external partnerships (requiring new infrastructure to collaborate outside the firewall with trusted, external partners). And this happens while IT’s services shrink as a result of layoffs, a focus on streamlining operational costs, while not taking on new projects
在国际数据公司（IDC）对2008~2012年的BI工具预测中，为BA软件给出了一个清晰的范围，它包括两大部分：数据仓库平台和绩效管理工具及应用。数据仓库平台中包含数据仓库管理工具和ETL、数据质量工具；绩效管理工具及应用则包括了基于数据仓库或统一数据平台之上的分析功能，例如财务绩效和战略管理、供应链分析、劳动力分析、客户关系（CRM）分析应用、服务营运分析、生产规划、商业智能（BI）工具（查询、报表、多维分析、仪表盘）、高级分析（数据挖掘和统计）等。
这两个软件巨头在应用软件空间方面一直有长期的竞争，以及一个新Forrester研究报告刚刚宣布了新的赢家。该报告指出甲骨文公司的应用软件战略排名领先于SAP ，但两年前Forrester表示SAP公司赢得了与甲骨文战争。
虽然有很多人张口骂Windows ME的失败，但是ME比起Windows98如何？ME里面内置了很多功能都是XP直接采用的。而且，很多骂ME的人都是道听途说，总感觉那么多人骂肯定有被骂的道理，于是跟着骂，其实自己压根没见过ME是啥样。
另一个突显出来的问题，即仿真数据管理。仿真数据比较复杂，在产品开发过程中，通常包括设计、仿真（虚拟样机）和试验（物理样机）三个阶段，每一阶段的工作均需要大量的知识经验、研发流程等，并使用各种工具，产生大量数据。常见的数据有：几何模型、网格模型、载荷工况、边界条件、脚本、计算结果、仿真报告等。而精确的工程问题仿真分析必须对大量的分析仿真数据进行综合评估。为此企业必须花费大量的精力来管理仿真分析数据、评估分析结果，这项工作的难度甚至超过了分析项目本身的实际技术问题
Two key innovations in BI OnDemand help customers create and manage data warehouses in the cloud more quickly and flexibly, making sure business users receive the most current reporting and analytics information. First, the new content creation and development capabilities help customers to ensure that data from both on-demand and "on-premise" applications is quickly available to business users. Second, the BI OnDemand accelerator for Salesforce CRM enables customers to build a data warehouse with massive amounts of Salesforce data and prepare it for reporting and analytics-reducing the implementation time from weeks to days.
云计算（Cloud Computing）是分布式计算技术的一种，其最基本的概念，是通过网络将庞大的计算处理程序自动分拆成无数个较小的子程序，再交由多部服务器所组成的庞大系统经搜寻、计算分析之后将处理结果回传给用户。通过这项技术，网络服务提供者可以在数秒之内，处理数以千万计甚至亿计的信息，提供和“超级计算机”具有同样强大效能的网络服务。
ActionScriptCheatSheet.com offers a number of ActionScript related cheat sheets, including one for both version 2.0 and version 3.0 of ActionScript. There are cheat sheets listing the available packages, details about specific packages, and overviews. A lot of the cheat sheets are PDFs that contain multiple pages worth of information and have a very easy to follow layout. Along with the ActionScript cheat sheets, the author has created cheat sheets for Adobe Air, Papervision 3D, and Apollo.
Today's leading businesses rely on a mix of distributed technologies and new functionality, such as service-oriented architecture (SOA). Virtualization can improve the quality and time-to-market for these systems. But how can teams virtualize to improve the quality and time-to-market of SOA functionality that does not necessarily reside under a centralized team's control? The extended organization must connect these two strategies by virtualizing the shared behaviors of services, thereby multiplying the value of SOA.
What’s interesting [now] is that there is an emergent new model, and you all are here because you are part of that new model. I don’t think people have really understood how big this opportunity really is. It starts with the premise that the data services and architecture should be on servers. We call it cloud computing – they should be in a “cloud” somewhere. And that if you have the right kind of browser or the right kind of access, it doesn’t matter whether you have a PC or a Mac or a mobile phone or a BlackBerry or what have you – or new devices still to be developed – you can get access to the cloud. There are a number of companies that have benefited from that. Obviously, Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon come to mind. The computation and the data and so forth are in the servers.
wxWidgets lets developers create applications for Win32, Mac OS X, GTK , X11, Motif, WinCE, and more using one codebase. It can be used from languages such as C , Python, Perl, and C#/.NET. Unlike other cross-platform toolkits, wxWidgets applications look and feel native. This is because wxWidgets uses the platform's own native controls rather than emulating them. It's also extensive, free, open-source, and mature. Why not give it a try, like many others have?
One thing is now clear in this burgeoning new industry; that there is genuine interest in being a leading provider of enterprise mashup tools as organizations begin getting serious about applying them to make the development of Web-based business solutions faster, more commonplace, and less costly. One significant open question continues to be how long it will take for rapidly evolving mashup techniques to move into enterprises, which have been falling behind developments on the fast-pace of the consumer Web for a number of years now and are just now beginning to make inroads into some businesses.
As a case in point, take Xactly’s 5-way mashup, announced Monday (image courtesy of Xactly). Using Salesforce.com’s Force.com platform as the foundation, the SaaS vendor has mashed up its own sales compensation application with Amazon.com’s retail catalog, the Paypal payment system and an iGoogle gadget. The mashup creates an enterprise-class incentive rewards management and fulfilment application that at the same time is economical enough to be affordable for smaller businesses — subscriptions will be $10 per user per month, at the end of a 90-day free-of-charge launch window that ends December 1st.
The ecosystem has five attributes, Peck said: "Google's size is developing new sectors as a derivative; Google's direction and partners should have a resounding effect on existing companies; the Ecosystem should act as self-reinforcing to Google; Google's hardware competency is underrated, and a significant advantage; and the Ecosystem growth should create an economic lift for Google."
An SOA COE is an organization that assimilates and promotes best practices, knowledge, and pragmatic leading-edge solutions in the area of SOA. The COE introduces rigor and discipline across various SOA initiatives and provides benefits by building skills and competency to sustain successful execution of increasingly complex SOA initiatives. SOA is an approach to building applications that align business and IT goals. Typically, the business side of the organization likes the concept of SOA because SOA promotes business flexibility and agility. An ability to quickly react to changing market conditions or competition drives better return on investment. An ability to bring new products to market quickly is important for business executives; therefore, the ability of the IT organization to quickly ramp up supporting processes and applications is a key factor. The IT side of the organization likes SOA because it promotes loosely coupled, open standards-based architecture design principles. Better design principles and component reuse promotes operational speed and efficiency and cost savings.
In keeping with the proliferation of free software development initiatives and the increased interest in the business process management domain, many open source workflow and business process management systems have appeared during the last few years and are now under active development. This upsurge gives rise to two important questions: what are the capabilities of these systems? and how do they compare to each other and to their closed source counterparts? i.e. in other words what is the state-of-the-art in the area?. To gain an insight into the area, we have conducted an in-depth analysis of three of the major open source workflow management systems - jBPM, OpenWFE and Enhydra Shark, the results of which are reported here. This analysis is based on the workflow patterns framework and provides a continuation of the series of evaluations performed using the same framework on closed source systems, business process modeling languages and web-service composition standards. The results from evaluations of the three open source systems are compared with each other and also with the results from evaluations of three representative closed source systems - Staffware, WebSphere MQ and Oracle BPEL PM, documented in earlier works. The overall conclusion is that open source systems are targetted more toward developers rather than business analysts. They generally provide less support for the patterns than closed source systems, particularly with respect to the resource perspective which describes the various ways in which work is distributed amongst business users and managed through to completion.
Three Silverlight-Java interoperability scenarios: SOAP web service, REST web service and Syndication (RSS) feed service are reviewed. The SOAP web service and REST web service are created using tools currently available in NetBeans. A review of each interoperability scenario, along with demonstration code, includes some thoughts on where the interoperability scenario may be best used. Note that Silverlight also works with sockets, a more complex, less common interoperability scenario, which may be the subject of a future paper. The paper concludes with a review of Silverlight- Java interoperability for Silverlight 2 Beta 2 as well as some architectural guidance.
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