Enterprise Resource Planning ERP implementations are very complex. To obtain a fair level of understanding of the system, it is then necessary to model the supported business processes. However, the problem is the accuracy of the mapping between this model and the actual technical implementation. A solution is to make...
The background for the energy is the coming order-of-magnitude increase in the volume and variety of electronic payments, and the recent coordinated move by the major finance standards groups and the major banks of the world to define a suite of XML-based electronic payment messages called the IST Electronic Payment...
One of the main virtues of MDA is its ability to integrate with and support other technologies and methodologies. MDA can be used to improve significantly the way in which those elements of business process models that require automation are transformed into software. MDA can thus reduce the risks and...
The real-time enterprise is just on the horizon. The pressure to streamline business operations is significant in all areas. More and more advanced organizations are using business process modeling tools to help them understand and model their business processes. But many of the most exciting business process changes die when...
Middleware platform has become an essential component for current and future telecommunication infrastructure development. Different middleware platforms are widely used in developing telecommunication services. The interoperability between such different middleware platform and between parts of applications running on the different middleware platforms becomes even more important than ever before. The...
The Object Management Group, an organization usually associated with software standards has recently begun to promote a new software development methodology, the Model Driven Architecture. In conjunction with MDA, the OMG has started to move aggressively to create standards for business process modeling and business rules. These new standards will...
A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis and Optimization MDAO system for the evaluation and optimization of the performance of a High-Speed Civil Transport Aircraft has been developed at ONERA within the context of the CISAP project. This paper first describes the MDO system implemented at ONERA. This MDO system is constructed by coupling...
The aim of this paper is to describe the similarities between the TMF's NGOSS program and the OMG's MDA initiative, and to explain at a high-level how each could help the Enterprise and Service Provider communities to achieve increased return on technology investment. Both NGOSS and MDA strive to support...
This white paper begins with considering some of the problems that executives face to better understand the problems that Unisys Business Blueprints were developed to ameliorate. Unisys Business Blueprints represent a major improvement in the way best-of-breed software applications are sold and in the way business process outsourcing is managed....
This article reviews a thesis by Nicholas Carr, wherein IT has reached the end of its build-out phase and is now a commodity is right in important ways. This article points out Carr is also missing a key point: The convergence of computer technology, business process management BPM, and MDA...
As organizations, products, customers and technologies continue to change at an increasingly rapid rate; managers have sought overviews that will allow them to understand how everything within their organization fits together. The Zachman Framework is one popular way of conceptualizing how all of the more specific architectures that an organization...
Although MDA and BPM are both architectures for enterprise software systems the comparison stops there. MDA is designed to enable the computer-assisted generation of applications and components, i.e. software. By contrast, the purpose of BPM is to avoid writing, or generating, more software, its central thesis being to remove "process"...
Business Process Management BPM and the Model Driven Architecture MDA, while not identical, have a number of characteristics in common. However, the industry has yet to form a consensus regarding the relationship between BPM and MDA. Some BPM practitioners believe that MDA is not relevant to BPM and vice versa....
This article discusses and examines Multi-Discipline Accounts MDAs that are becoming the rage for small investors. Broker sponsors package families of separate account managers, with various investment styles, into diversified investment programs. These packages compete directly with those offered by funds-of-funds of mutual funds. The article concludes that for the...
The fear is that the high level, fee-based advice to which we have all worked so hard to foster, will be subverted by the packaging of the mutual fund industry or by multi-manager investments sold as a product, cheapening the role of the consultant. It is feared is that in...
Agreement with MIPS Technologies Enables Model Availability to Speed Development of Robust, Optimized MIPS-Based[TM] Products SAN JOSE, Calif. & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- CoWare([R]), Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level ESL design software and services, and MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard architectures,...
MIND CTI Ltd. (NASDAQ: MNDO), a leadingglobal provider of enterprise call accounting and telecom managementsolutions, announced today that PhonEX-ONE is the first billing and callaccounting certified product that conforms to Cisco's latest release ofCisco Unified Communication Manager. MIND also announced a strategic win ofits PhonEX-ONE Telecom Expense Management...
Introduces New Complimentary Education Offerings to Help Rep/Advisors with Business Growth FAIRFIELD, Iowa -- Cambridge Investment Research, Inc., Cambridge, one of the nation's top-tier independent broker/dealers, announced initial steps taken to expand its Business Development and Practice Management divisions - including new complimentary education offerings....
Starwood Hotels Announces the Launch of aloft Hotels Goodbye Polyester Promise, Aloha Aloft! WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Ten years after Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) shook up the hotel industry with the launch of W Hotels, the innovative hotel giant will...
Dirk Klein Brings More Than 25 Years of Experience To Support Curam Software's Growth in Australia and New Zealand HERNDON, Va. -- Curam Software, the leading provider of Social Enterprise Management SEM software solutions, today announced Dirk Klein as its new Managing Director for Australia...
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