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This paper discusses in-depth discussion of the operating environment of the response, and answers three major issues: How can I achieve the flexibility of business in the infrastructure, so as to quickly promote the development of IT according to the business needs? How should I simplify the management method of IT infrastructure? And how I can start from a small project while getting full use of existing IT assets?
More than a year ago, IBM called "On Demand World", it means that in such a world, the best company's best company implemented should be absent. Business - in other words, "Enterprise's business processes (including internal and end-to-end integration with core partners, suppliers and customers) can be flexibly reflected, can quickly adapt to any customer needs, market opportunities Or external challenge. "
IBM spends a lot of effort to define and submit an infrastructure that is required to support its on demand. IBM refers to such an infrastructure called an on-demand operatin environment. This article will discuss in-depth discussion of the internal mechanism of the operating environment, and answer three major issues: How can I achieve the flexibility of business in the infrastructure? How should I simplify the management method of IT infrastructure? And how can I develop projects in an incremental way, while make full use of existing IT assets?
This paper is divided into six major parts. The first part discusses what fundamental changes in the current on-demand response period, and IBM's idea of creating the business with the business. The second part describes how the underlying technical infrastructure is closely combined with the design of new business models? The third part discusses the entry point of the business, and clearly indicates how to start, how to find progressive projects that meet your priority and resource conditions. The fourth part describes this technology infrastructure based on the performance of the necessary strain operating environment. The fifth part discusses the technology-oriented architecture, SOA-oriented architecture, and this architecture to be affected by service-oriented architecture, soabology. Finally, the sixth part answered a question. "How do I start using the necessary strain operation environment?"
IT's Status According to Businessweek Online, "Economy.com in West Chhester, Pennsylvania predicted that the next year's IT equipment and software will increase by 16%, reaching 532 billion US dollars. If this is the fact Then this will exceed the 2000 peak period Corporate American American American America spend $ 468 billion in technical adjustment and service. It has static contrast to this, Morgan Stanley's 225 chief information officers (CIO) in the top 1,000 companies in the country. According to the survey, compared with the 2003 decline in 2003, the total IT budget growth was more slow, only 5%. (See) No matter the 2004 IT fee is more than 2000, it still continues More than 2002 steadily increased, the improvement of investment is already excited to make people in the positions related to technology. Investment growth, fast response, product and service innovation, groundbreaking transformation - all this Everything makes technical experts are excited. But even if the focus on technology is slowly increased in business sectors, IBM's research or shows that users want to choose highly practical ways for their entire investment. They keenly discovered People need to achieve practical progress and obtain a metric. They also have some useful doubts. Do you try to attack the new market, change the core process, or achieve new technologies? These actions can be implemented Memory changes? When the number of available resources is limited, what is the reason for choosing a technology? Why start using these technologies now?
Commercial on demand for returning business is not to talk about technology for technology purposes. It uses a new way to implement business. It helps organizations into new phases of innovation while continuously increases productivity to meet the needs of improving the production of the bottom line. However, the underlying technology makes it differently compared with traditional techniques.
If you have a business process involving the company's interior, as well as end-to-end integrated with key partners, suppliers, customers, then you have the ability to respond to any customer needs, market opportunities or external challenges. However, in order to achieve this goal, we must do a lot of work. Today's infrastructure is very complicated and strict. Because most of the content in infrastructure is based on private hardware and software, these hardware and software are submitted before the establishment of industrial standards, so it is difficult to combine all things. To achieve the necessary flexibility, support today's dynamic business environment, this is more difficult.
Figure 1. Emerging on demandary strain calculation model
This situation must be changed. The demand for changes is forced to have a new computing model. This new astonix is mixed with the robust nature of the traditional IT computing model with industrial standards for the computational model of Internet and Web. It also exceeds these two models in some respects.
There is a difficult point in the INTERNET computing model. It makes a simple mechanism based on industrial standards, which can link many components, use these components to perform relatively simple features, such as information browsing and search, and sending and reading email, etc. The Internet computing model enables a small number of new business models. But more importantly, it completely changed the existing way of doing things, including communications, markets, sales and customer support between the company. With the arrival of this change, people also realized that the power based on industrial standards, its power will increase in an index level. This means that the industry requires more standards and mechanisms to handle more complex applications.
As a computational model, the basis of the construct is included, and its construction includes two models that use industrial standards to redefine the interaction between existing systems and technologies. This will create a highly modular environment, in which you can more easily define and manage applications and infrastructure components. Therefore, the implementation of business strategies is more flexible, higher in real-time, and has higher structure and computational model. Three important views in depth can help you be actually operated from the needs of the necessary strain business. The following paragraphs will discuss the content, reasons and methods of randomly strain business.
The first important point is that the need for flexibility and innovation is forcing companies to become more components, that is to say to break down the entire business into a plurality of components (or components). This way you can no longer look at your own business through organization, geographic location, and product or customer slice, but start to look at it through discrete functions (ie, actual completion work).
The second point is that the evolution of the application is similar, which is increasingly modular. Therefore, enterprises have gradually been concerned with large single applications made of millions of row code, but to consider the functionality of discrete modular elements to form applications, which can be more convenient to modify according to changes in business.
The third point of view is concerned about the necessary infrastructure. In the world that should be strained, since the components are required to support components, it is required to have an operational environment that can accelerate integration, simplifying the overall complexity and reduces unnecessary resource consumption. .
Corresponding connection technology and commerce although promoting business products and services often play a very important role, this relationship dynamics will change in the world of response. The relationship between the two will be more tight. We will be more difficult to distinguish between business and implementation of its technology. However, the most significant change in the most significant changes is the ring loop deduction between business and technology. Business design will gradually change, and you must consider the same goals when designing and deploying infrastructure.
Component-based business models have begun to discuss with people from people. Many people have tried to describe the true difference between this era and the previous era: Six Sigma quality control, zero defect, business process reconstruction, etc. In these ages, people have improved existing business models by applying certain technologies. The main difference between the era of strain and their most important difference is that the organizational controls the existing process and can be improved. At the same time, there is also a chance to break through the original way, improve the main phased function. The improvement method is to use new technologies to do what you have done before, and the only goal is to improve work efficiency. The new business design is combined with the possible technique that makes this design, it has formed a breakthrough.
During 2003, IBM has invested a number of funds to develop a method to accelerate the creation process of these new business design. Work is starting from a concept that has been passed out in the technical community. Although this concept has been circulated for a long time, IBM focuses on the viewpoint of making this concept from generality to a certain industry, from conceptuality into a high feasible and operability. These include creating a methodology that combines business components (and all components, including people, policies, operations, etc.) to combine their technologies (applications and infrastructure). The start of IBM is to create component business models for six industries (in the first quarter of 2004, but also the model of six industries, the remaining models of six industries will be completed early in the second quarter of 2004). These models are designed to identify unique and independent structural blocks (i.e., components) that make up the business, simplifying the business to look at itself, and achieve more efficient coupling between business operations and underlying technology infrastructure. This enhances the connection between you will change and invest in business output and expected returns.
However, creating such a component-based approach to remind us of business transformation and infrastructure optimization fusion, there is a huge gap between understanding what needs to do and actually completed. This gap is related to business processes, also related to the process of transverse integration. The purpose of building these processes is not just to resist changes, and it is actually supported and achieved. Many people who have become horizontal business processes are very hoped to find innovative methods, making their own business and universal, while continuing to increase productivity. However, most organizations need to differ from previous methods. Historically, the organization has paid attention to the automation and optimization of a single independent process. Think about the functional automation in the sales department! If your company is like most companies, then, whether it is developing, or chooses the industry's leading package, it has spent a lot of money in sales team automation and customer relationship management software.
But the automation process does not stop this. The work efficiency of the sales team has now improved, and they can access the app on the increasing device, and will be able to access the application from an increasing device. The desired infrastructure is also amazing: server, storage, communication infrastructure, security facilities, etc. Once you have these facilities, you must also equip almost the same facilities for partners.
You already know that the sales department is not running in vacuo. It is an integral part of an ecosystem, which includes market and a set of web-based market and sales projects. There is no doubt that the order within this ecosystem has experienced similar optimization and automation.
The market sector in Web-based procedures is to help guide the direction, allowing customers to access information and achieve self-learning. Most companies don't stop this. They invested in loyalty systems, expect to simplify business negotiations with core customers. A complete application and the corresponding infrastructure are in a germination state, support business activities, direction tracking, etc., and realize digital asset management and personalization applications. People have gained a lot of benefits.
Companies that have entered huge energy and resources in optimizing discrete sales and market functions, if only one of these processes is only independent, it can be obtained. The real wealth is in the gap between the two rules, that is, in the interaction between the organization. If the integration process has information on information support, making market staff and salesperson can understand every potential market and customers, then the union of the rules is excellent. When the customer can identify its own characteristics, tell you when they need anything, the opportunity of breakthroughs will come. By recording each transaction in the future, it is a good time to provide the customer if the market sector is able to provide the right information for our customers in the future.
To create this transverse integration, you need to exist in the market, sales, and various decentralized processes and application functions. The desire to achieve breakthroughs in the market and sales process will prompt you to consider your IT arrangements in a new way and rethink the way to handle infrastructure.
Support for the infrastructure necessary for response business must support the horizontal process, you must increase the degree of attention to overall flexibility. This is also the best reason to use industrial standards. To achieve this goal, the key is that the process that can be quickly seamlessly will be integrated with different suppliers. With the industrial standards, you don't have to recreate applications every time, hardware changes, nor does it have to rewrite programs because they have changed.
Of course, what you need is more flexible. You also need a simple and easier management IT environment. A year ago, IBM said that IT system needs more self-management, and should be able to utilize existing processing capabilities. Since then, people have launched a group of mutually mutually engaged solutions to implement the operation of the business, providing the inherent ability to achieve the above objectives in the heterogeneous environment. And all is just a beginning.
Operating environment: Don't be a universal solution or method to the door of the business. Different organizations have different priorities and individualities. This is this. There are many entry points in the system, and where you start depends on your organization's priority and resources. These entrances can include business design projects, technical projects, or other projects that use flexible financial management and delivery methods. In today's important environment, only a few organizations are ready to be prepared in all aspects, and can cope with the need for commercialization. Most companies choose to start with a slower speed. They focus on a key process and transform this process; or simplify the entire operating environment, improve overall flexibility and elasticity, while reducing the resources required for the current method. Experience shows that no matter how you start, you can get lower costs than current methods, and thus resource can be released, and the process of continuously rebuilding.
The entry point for the response to the operating environment allows us to learn more about how some companies use specific projects as entry points, and transform their operating environment into the need for strain operations:
Schneider LogisticsTM is a famous freight company that is the main carrier of Wal-Mart® and General Motors. This company must abide by the adjusted new needs, that is, the daily road time is up to 8 hours. Schneider now needs tracking and accounting for the time taken of the vehicle in its destination unloading. The entire truck team must monitor in real time to account for customer-oriented. WhirlPool® is a global consumer product manufacturer. This company is committed to seeking a way to deliver different messages, such as instant messaging, voicemail, email, etc., integrated into a unified message center, so that the format conversion can be performed according to the needs of the recipient. Its goal is to combine the new message center to the employee's personal knowledge portal. Honda Motors of Alabama is the latest US factory for Honda manufacturing systems. Honda has investing in product planning and reporting systems managed by IT staff, and now participates in the IBM's JStart team, allowing employees to access these systems via Web. Different working groups and department access systems means that they can be configured with a self-service, with a necessary strain, making these contents no longer becoming the door in the process.
Create an on-demand policy
A set of integration and infrastructure management capabilities are defined with the required strain operation environment, which you can use these capabilities in an incremental modular manner to achieve an on-demand.
It is not a single product, trademark or platform. Strictly, it is not a architecture. You can define a set of integration and infrastructure management capabilities, you can use these capabilities in incremental modularity, thereby achieving business.
Work with the main customer shoulder, you can go deep into the way, what kind of effort can be created to create such an infrastructure, which is really enabled (but not suppressed) business. Essential responses must use existing investments. No one wants to start from scratch. What you need is to integrate existing things into what you need in an ordered approach.
The design of the required strain operation environment must meet the design of the business itself. To achieve growing flexibility and componentization in your business design, the infrastructure must be transformed into standard infrastructure from complex, redundant, and proprietary hardware and software silhouses to optimize resources across the organization. Configuration.
Character analysis The feature of the necessary strain operational environments can provide the opportunity to realize the business regardless of the size and industries companies? Briefly, these features include guiding the company to improve business flexibility, simplifying underlying technology infrastructure management in a way that meets its business goals.
The first question that needs attention is to increase the flexibility of the business by designing the ability to accelerate integrated projects. This ability is critical, which can connect people, processes, information, etc., allowing companies to respond more flexibly to market, customer and competitors. With your extension, partners, suppliers, customers, etc., the importance of this ability will increasingly appearing in your process. For example, suppose ACUITY INSURANCE is a small insurance company. The company is foreseen that by allowing agents more easily access to information, you can get an increase in income and submit a proxy productivity. Respond by the agent by real-time business processes, Acuity can help agents enhance efficiency and productivity while enhancing their leadership in the market and the company's market share. ACUITY has developed an adaptive open infrastructure to create a direct transaction mode of the company. The result of this is that the premium increases by $ 200 million in two years, 15% higher than the national property disaster insurance company, and the average premium income of each agent has increased by 40% in the last year. .
The second question requires attention is the simplification of IT, to create an infrastructure that is easily submitted, deployed, and managed. The way you implement this goal is to create a unified logical view for all available resources in the network and access them through this view. Many companies are satisfied with excessive devices, which avoids almost every system will occasionally encounter peak problems. Through the interview and survey of more than 20,000 customers, it can be reduced by 15% to 35% of the company's asset investment by turning to adapting to dynamic resource supplies.
Let us look at the situation of the US Tennis Federation (U.S. Tennis Association, USTA), which is a non-profit organization, which is a US tennis, relying on the US Tennis Open to get a lot of income. The organization wants to protect and evaluate their intellectual property (such as score and images, because these things are not used in real time, and their value will decrease. USTA needs to provide immediate information and satisfactory services as a core sponsors, such as athletes, referees, media, etc. However, to create a huge income required for one year in two weeks, USTA must provide a true different experience for online enthusiasts, and send a global audience to quickly and accurately send Information.
IBM organizes the operation of the IT infrastructure of the US Open, helping the enthusiasts get the sitting position of the stadium over the Internet. IBM-prepared solutions can help people prioritize IT resources based on pre-defined business rules (using existing resources), and can easily provide new online resources quickly.
What is the ultimate situation of USTA? IBM implements a Web infrastructure that increases to 50 times the rest of the US Open, which supports USTA demand. It performs a period of time during the US Open (which is the time required) provides an on-demand accessibility for server resources, making USTA only pays only resources for use. IBM Ordnance Implementation Solution Helps USTA fully utilize business opportunities, increasing income, achieving competitive advantage. Since then, USOpen.org's Web traffic has increased by 18%.
Final conclusion is that if you want to achieve higher flexibility and componentization in your business design, the infrastructure must be transformed into standard infrastructure from complex, redundant, and proprietary hardware and software silhouses to be based entirely. Optimize the configuration of resources.
Function Analysis The functionality of the response running environment realizes the flexibility of the business and the simplification of IT. The two entry points are integrated and infrastructure management. The goal is to develop industry-based, integrated, automated, virtualized IT environments.
Merriam-Webster® defines the function (Capability) as "device or potential for a specified use or deployment." Therefore, each of the capabilities of the response operational environment plays a role of promoting elements, thereby achieving the deployment of the underlying infrastructure, which is the simplification of this infrastructure drive business and IT. In IBM, such functions are provided through middleware, hardware, and services, they are seamlessly integrated with each other, achieving the entire target. Next, this article will explore the necessary functions of these implementations that should have a response to the operating environment. The integration feature allows you to connect people, processes, and information to some ways, enabling you and your business process more flexible, making it more dynamic changes in markets, customers and competitors. In order to maximize the ability to integrate internal and external to the enterprise, the following six key features can be added over a period of time:
Business modeling realizes graphical description and simulation of business processes, including descriptions, resources requirements, and decision points, and more. Process conversion can be reused from existing applications and information in new ways. Application and Information Integration implements a combination of multiple information resources and business applications. Access to extend data and information to a new device and method class-independent connection type. Collaboration allows users to interact with dynamic information, applications, processes, and people in a personalized manner. Business process management allows you to implement the model, deployment, and analysis of the process under the target of the peer-to-end business process.
The infrastructure management feature expands the ability to accesses resources across the network and create a unified logical view. This dynamically simplifies the operating environment, the increased flexibility, and significantly reduces the cost. This simplified basis is the concept of virtualization and automation. Virtualization is the ability to separate the application directly on physical resource dependencies. With virtualization, you can get a single consistent view of all available resources on your network and access resources through this view without having to consider the location of resources. This way you can effectively access and manage these resources, thereby reducing the cost of allowing and system management while maintaining the necessary capacity. You can also make dynamic responses to the user's needs and collect fast-related information in your organization to win competitive advantage.
Automation allows your IT infrastructure to manage a lot of daily work. In self-managed infrastructure, you can improve efficiency and simplify resources. Fully automated IT infrastructure can sense changes in conditions, such as demand turmoil, or isolated application errors, and can find trends that may result in system downtime. The infrastructure then takes a correction behavior, automatically responds, ensuring that your IT resource can adapt to business destination.
In order to achieve simplified and optimization management of infrastructure, the following seven unique features can be implemented over a period of time:
Availability ensures the health status of the IT environment and the appropriate function. Safety helps protect the confidentiality and data integrity of information assets. Optimization helps to achieve maximum output from the use of IT infrastructure. Automatic configuration can provide appropriate resources to the appropriate procedure when appropriate. Infrastructure is enabled and triggered business objectives and responded according to it. Business service management helps you visualize the IT environment with your business terms and manage service levels based on your business target. Resource Virtualization provides a single consistent logical view and access method for all available resources in the network (including servers, storage, and distributed systems, etc.).
Although this is discussed by integration and infrastructure associations, these features are discussed, but it is actually closely connected between each function. For example, security is infiltrated in the IBM solution, providing a key in-depth function throughout the on-demand response operating environment.
Figure 2. Architecture of the operating environment with strain
At the same time, the strain calculation model (see Figure 2) has an application at all levels of the IT stack. In the system level, components are system objects (such as computing power, storage, file, etc.). In the application level, the component is a dynamically integrated application module that forms a complex but more flexible application. At business level, components are business objects, which are defined for specific longitudinal industries, or more generally transverse cross-industry applications. Since the basis of an on-demand strategic calculation model is industrial standards, you can use this model to define business, applications, and systems at different levels: such as interior of the department, entire enterprise, or ecosystem throughout the industry. It implements the real end-to-end business process integration. Feasibility analysis has been discussing topics on software and infrastructure development in the development of software and infrastructure development. Although most organizations have made some progress, these advances have not been smooth. So, what has changed now, which makes the component-based infrastructure become feasible? First, we must develop industry standards that can be used to create services and inter-service communications, and the main suppliers support these standards. Through the combination with the majority of industrial sectors, the interoperability of the business level is now being resolved, thereby changing the way simple connection. The second point, an infrastructure that supports customization, loosely coupled services appear. Finally, there is now a tool for collaboration with existing assets.
Service-oriented architecture as a mature result of these standards, with the required strain calculation model to achieve modular infrastructure construction methods, including software design, development, and operation. This method is referred to in the industry as a service-oriented architecture (SOA). In the SOA environment, each application and resource are viewed as a service. These services have some interfaces defined according to industrial standards, which enables them to exchange structured information, and provide sufficient flexibility to handle applications and underlying infrastructure (including business processes) as component processing, and as needed Mix and match.
In successful SOA environments include:
Business Basic Principles (not technical features) are key elements that determine IT investment. Each technique has a business objective for support. IT decision makers balance between technological strictness and listing time. The flexibility and agility in the operation are higher than the benefits of one-time benefits. Investing in a variety of applications is lower than only on a single application package or technology platform. Combining multiple business units, trust partners, important customers can reduce costs, enhance the degree of visibility of execution, while also creating new opportunities that cannot be expected.
Guardian® American Life Insurance Corporation In the fierce industrial competition and economic depression, the United States fourth largest joint venture insurance company, Guardian, the Americas, and Guardian, to individuals with business partners (including independent intermediaries and agents) Customer sales policy and the method of providing financial services have won victory in the business war. In 2002, the annual income increased by 3.5%, but this growth is not enough to offset the fee, so the loss of the company's loss is a million US dollars.
Guardian realized that management information from different business units, there is a lot of information silos, thus destroying the company's ability to run business. They choose to be committed to improving sales channels because the company's agent is the main source of income. At this time, the company found that its business processes and systems are actually working in business partners. The agent is just because there is no time and resources, so you can't search for information on cross-selling and upgrade sales in multiple databases, and you cannot find the strategy of successful sales, and customer information records. The independent mediation cannot easily access a comprehensive sales compensation program information, so it is helpless and retains the core salesperson. To get more income more efficiently, Guardian needs to integrate business processes with the information infrastructure that supports this process. The corporate of the company is the corporate technology infrastructure that redesign the underlying. Guardian has developed a SOA that integrates legacy systems and uses industry standards to ensure future development flexibility. By using this SOA, Guardian also created two critical applications: one is a web-based unified client viewing tool, which is used to demonstrate all products purchased from the company; there is a web-based tool It is a very effective tool that can be demonstrated to the agent in the future. This is a very effective tool, which has been a great sales team.
Now, many Guardian agents and companies are doing business together. The reason it is a proxy technology, and the company does not have a good idea as before. Although the company has become stronger for business partners, the new architecture also enables Guardian to reduce costs. In the past two and a half years, the only IT fee is reduced by 30%. In the future, Guardian should continue to develop new applications and services based on industry-based architecture, open information wells, allowing partners and employees to access information more efficiently.
The impact of software development has been described so far, this article has introduced the needs of the operating environment in demand and discusses the need to integrate and automate the horizontal business process. When you consider these questions, please remember that these horizontal business processes are unique to every business. Integration and automation for these processes cannot be implemented by purchasing applications. This is a custom process for each company. This is also the key to achieving this strategy and competitive advantage. Companies capable of implementing this horizontal integrated company can surpass most companies that lock in portrait, stubborn business processes. Software development is a key role in achieving this foreground. This includes the value, customization and deployment of existing legacy systems, and to build new custom software and applications. You can only use all available software assets to achieve integration and automation of business processes.
To achieve this goal, you must prepare new applications, modernize, extend packages, and existing features for existing applications, and then integrate new and existing applications, and finally Deploy new and existing applications.
This requires the software development team to achieve the following three software development rules:
Adopted the verified procedure for an iterative development, submitting an over-enhanced software system iterative version. Focus on the software architecture, build the foundation of the software design on reusable components and service-oriented models. Protect all assets related to the software development lifecycle and track changes in changes, thereby achieving changes and assets management.
It is a revolutionary innovation project that will now be implemented with a revolutionary innovation project that will now be implemented. It is a revolutionary innovation project. Your starting point should choose to immediately see the return on investment in accordance with the needs of the business. Adjustments to IT should keep up with the goals of the business. To know, over time, investments based on industry-based IT infrastructure will follow your business demand, provide support for your development. Although these features will eventually be submitted, they are still in the development process, while Schneider Logistics, WHIRLPOOL, HONDA, and some other company experience have proven that you can start this process now. This product is true. There are also some experts' opinions. If your company is like most companies, then you have sufficient opportunities. There is a table in the appendix, which lists relevant specifications, methods, and structural blocks, and highlights those where they can get gains immediately during steering from the need for strain operational environments. These steps are divided into two categories: the simplification of IT is achieved by integrating the flexibility of the business and through infrastructure management. The following list can help you solve the current specific problem:
By integrating the flexibility of business
Simplify the construction, development and deployment of the business application. Improve communication and collaboration methods on the business interior and business. By rapidly modifying business processes, a rapid response to changes in the market. Test applications and analyze the events they produce, so that the impact of business processes. A connection is established between the new and existing applications. By ensuring seamless information flow, the most relevant information is real response.
Simplify IT through infrastructure management
Security accesses and control of information, resources, applications. To ensure scalable and consistent management and control of the running process, support the end-to-end business system. Avoid system failure, solve the problem by automatic behavior. The self-protection of IT systems is achieved by monitoring and alarm systems, making systems from invasion and threats. Provide monitoring and alarm systems, establish a business service level protocol (SLA), and automatically detect and remedy the phenomenon of hazardous systems. Implementation According to the needs of dynamic resources, it reduces the time and costs that the IT resource is replaced to meet the business needs and the service level. Provides the ability to map the IT resources used by multiple business processes, providing capacity to monitor and control all layers in end-to-end solutions. Improve resource optimization and buffering in the heterogeneous environment, maximize ROI. Consolidate and simplify infrastructure, improve performance, maintainability, availability, recoverability, scalable, etc. Automatically equip system resources based on the instructions of business needs. Automatically equip existing resources to compensate for rapid changes.
The goal is to provide you with an evolving road to adjust the response to the operating environment. These services and products can help you implement business value immediately, while your feature can continue to develop and enhance over a longer period of time.
Are you ready? Now, the new business design, component-based business modeling, and the conversation between horizontal business processes is gradually beginning, and the topics in this regard will be more next year. New and more flexible business design, plus the support of the horizontal business process, is the key to competitiveness in the world. But there is another thing that drives these dialogue, that is, the recognition of these changes in increments.
In today's focus on effective environments, few companies can prepare large-scale transfer to business in demand. Most companies choose a more progressively evolving way, they choose one from a variety of possible entrance points. A company may focus on a key process and transform this process; another company may simplify the entire operating environment, improve overall flexibility and elasticity, while reducing the resources required for the current method. No matter what your starting point is, the most critical problem is that you have to help the company aware that the entire transition process will not be one. Value is gradually realized.
As your company has begun to transition, technology will gradually introduce the core of the business. Infrastructure, applications and business have a common design point: componentization. Acceptance of the on-demand strain calculation model will result in a large number of modular components, which are easily defined and deployed to support the dynamic definition of the application. Modules lead to flexibility and simplification, eventually trigger breakthroughs. Integration and infrastructure management is a function of business flexibility and IT simplification. Now, these features have proven their own value in actual products and technologies. All of this makes you start from now on, step-by-step steering.
The potential benefits that need to be strained model are amazing, you will not be smooth, but you will not be full of risk. You can start now, and you will continue to accumulate in the project according to the needs of your business, and the increased business and IT efficiency will return your cost. Existing assets and investments have also been fully utilized.
Due to the instability of the economic situation, the final hope of IT recovery inevitably falls on the issue of investment short-term returns or savings. However, investments in maximizing flexibility is equally important. This is also the advantage of an on demand. It makes technologies become transformation and growth pushers. It makes you a pioneer in the new generation of integrated business processes. It provides an unprecedented flexibility level, so you can change the system based on the situation, build and support the type of application you need, and you can access computing power and storage in a manner indicated by business requirements. This flexibility enables you to create an on-demand running environment, allowing your company to become a conversion process for business.
Appendix Note: The icon included in this appendix only represents a small part of the IBM product service.
Table 1. Flexibility of integrating business
The functions required by the business method How to achieve design, development, testing, and deployment of the design, development, testing, and deployment through IBM's products.
Business modeling business process management
IBM WebSphere® StudioIBM Rational Suite®IBM WebSphere Business IntegrationModeler, Message Broker and Technology AdaptersIBM WebSphere Process Modeler and IBM WebSphere MQ WorkflowIBM WebSphere Application Server inside and outside the enterprise to improve communication and collaboration with customers, partners, suppliers
Collaborate
IBM WebSphere PortalIBM Lotus WorkplaceIBM WebSphere Studio, Integration EditionIBM WebSphere Studio Business Integration Connect and AdaptersIBM DB2®Information Integrator by quickly and easily modify business processes, quickly respond to changes in the market
Business process management business modeling
IBM Websphere Business Integration ModelerIBM WebSphere StudioIBM Rational®XDE®IBM WebSphere MQ WorkflowIBM WebSphere Interchange ServerIBM WebSphere Application ServerIBM DB2 Information Integrator to test the application and analyze events generated by the application, understand the impact of business processes
Business process management
IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server, Monitor, Collaborations and Message Brokeribm WebSphere MQ Workflowibm WebSphere Interchange Server is seamless between new and existing applications, data and procedures
Application and Information Integration Process Conversion
IBM Websphere Business Integratione-business Adapters, Integration Connections, Collaborations, and Adapter Development ToolsIBM DB2 Information IntegratorIBM WebSphere MQIBM WebSphere PortalIBM Lotus®WorkplaceReact in real time to the most relevant information by ensuring a seamless flow of information business process management and application integration information Business modeling
IBM DB2 Information Integratoribm WebSphere MQ Workflowibm WebSphere Portalibm Lotus Workplace
Table 2. Simplify IT through infrastructure management
The function required by the business is how to securely access and control information, resources, and applications through IBM products.
Safety availability
IBM Tivoli® Identity Manageribm Tivoli Access Manageribm Tivoli Directory Server and Integratoribm Tivoli Storage ManagerPlatform Security (IBM RACF®, Kerberos) provides retractable consistent management and control to support end-to-end business systems
Safety automatic configuration infrastructure
IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console®ibm Tivoli Risk Manageribm Tivoli Monitoringibm Tivoli Storage Managementibm Integrated Solutions Console Avoid system failure and solves the problem by automated behavior
Safety automatic configuration availability
IBM Tivoli Monitoringibm Tivoli AutoMic Monitoring Engineibm Tivoli System Automation for Linux and OS / 390® IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic® Orchestrator enables automation self-protection of IT environments by monitoring and alarm system, protecting system from invasion and threats
Safety automatic configuration infrastructure
Case of IBM Tivoli Intrusion ManagerWeb Intrusion Detection SystemNetwork Intrusion Detection SystemIBM DB2® Universal Database®IBM Tivoli Risk ManagerPlatform Intrusion Detection Services provide monitoring and alarm system, allow the establishment of business SLA, and automatic detection and remedial maintenance of the system
Automatic configuration optimization infrastructure
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction PerformanceIBM Tivoli Service Level AdvisorIBM Tivoli Business Systems ManagerIBM Tivoli Enterprise ConsoleIBM Tivoli Data ExchangeIBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestrator on-demand by dynamically assigned resources, reducing the time and cost required to re-planning of IT resources to meet business requirements and service levels
Automatically configure infrastructure
IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manageribm Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic Orchestratoribm Tivoli Configuration Manager Table 3. Simplification through infrastructure management (continued)
The functions required by the business method How to provide the ability to map the ability to map multiple business processes using IT resources used by IBM, monitor and control each level in the end solution.
Business service management
IBM Tivoli Configuration Manageribm Tivoli License Manageribm Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance Consolidate and simplify infrastructure, improve maintainability, availability, recoverable, scalability, etc., and reserve future development space, and immediately reduce fixed costs
Resource virtualization optimization availability
IBM TotalSotrage® FAStTIBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server®IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape ServerIBM TotalStorage NAS 100 and 200IBM Ultrium Linear Tape OpenIBM eServer zSeries®, iSeries®, pSeries®, xSeries®IBM eServer zSeries - zVM with LinuxIBM eServer xSeries with VMWare in a heterogeneous Optimize resources in the environment and achieve resource buffering, thus maximizing ROI
Optimize Automatic Configuring Infrastructure Original Resource Virtualization
IBM TotalStorage VirtualizationIBM TotalStorage SAN Volume ControllerzSeries with Intelligent Resource Director and Workload Manager (WLM) across LPARs IBM Grid ToolboxIBM Grid Offering for Risk Management in accordance with business needs instructions, automatic allocation of system resources. Automatically configure existing resources so as needed to compensate for rapid changes
Automatic configuration optimization of infrastructure
IBM Tivoli Intelligent ThinkDynamic OrchestratorIBM DirectorIBM WebSphere Application Server Network DeploymentIBM DB2 Universal Database Workgroup ServerIBM eServer BladeCenterIBM eServer xSeriesIBM FAStT900 Storage Server
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