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In what has become the nation's largest annual gathering for peace and human rights, over twenty thousand people protested outside the gates of Fort Benning, GA, on November 18, 2007. Eleven people were arrested on federal criminal charges and face up to six months in prison.
Heading into its eighteenth annual protest at Georgia's Fort Benning, the movement to close the US Army's School of the Americas has continued to show signs of progress.
SOA often ends with a single project or a few projects, which limits the ability for broad-based SOA to deliver ROI. In its survey, Nucleus found that fewer than half of enterprises have really adopted SOA.
One of the most complex and expensive challenges in the integration of large-scale, distributed, mission-critical systems is ensuring the validity and timeliness of data exchange, i.e. delivering the right information to the right place at the right time.
According to industry analysts, the market for IT services involved in delivering SOA applications will dominate the enterprise technology budget. It is estimated that in 2010 more than US $33.7 billion will be spent on SOA services.
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In the next few hours, Congress is scheduled to vote on the McGovern-Lewis amendment that, if passed, could close down the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly and better known as the School of the Americas (SOA).
Apache Axis2/C is the Web services engine, that supports the full Web services stack, with implementations of essential WS-* specifications such as WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Eventing.
A recommendation for a book published last year titled "Mash Up Corporations - End of Business as Usual". Has been co-authored by a number of thought leaders in technology.
With the companies trying to co-relate information in order to enhance efficiency at minimal cost, interaction between multiple consoles and multiple management areas has become the need of the hour. And this business need is the driver behind Integration of IT assets.
It is well known to everyone that today's CIO is really under tremendous pressure to reduce IT spending and reduce deployment time. Hence, integration of IT assets holds the key to the success of any organization. This makes a CIO's job even more critical.
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias vowed on Wednesday to stop sending police to train at a U.S. facility criticized for a history of producing soldiers who went on to violate human rights.
The hype wave of Web 2.0 approaches a crescendo. Apparently it is going to transform IT and reenginner the business. The IT Skeptic thinks not. Actually I think "not again".
"The enterprise network is monetized differently, wherein all its users receive a paycheck to participate.
"For the owner of a Clarify™ system, the path is simpler, less politically complex, and branded by name: Dovetail Software.
Andy Mulholland, global chief technology officer of consultancy company Capgemini, believes service oriented architecture has a key role to play in the next generation of the web.
"Those who have called Daylight Savings Time a folly from the beginning may snicker at the Congressional decision to alter the dates, but those who have anything to do with software aren't laughing.
"Within the field of CRM, customer service and support (CS&S;) often shows itself to be a fair weather friend: when the storm hits, the system fails.
"The mushrooming SaaS industry likes to think of itself as the main driver of the sea change occurring within enterprise CRM, but there are several forces at work, all of which could be embraced by the concept of evolving software.
"Software-as-a-Service, SaaS, is driving – or perhaps riding shotgun with – an enormous, sea change in CRM. The model of "monolithic business function and application" is being broken down into smaller transaction sets and granular processes.
"At Dovetail Software, the solutions we offer to the Clarify™ user's installed base, and the scenarios and ramifications we encounter, generally mirror the larger world of SOA.
"More than a decade ago Sun Microsystems proclaimed that "the network is the operating system." Software developers are of course attuned to the development path and behavior of operating systems, since this is where their users and their applications will work together.
"Collaboration between teams, departments, and individuals within the enterprise is a growing business goal.
"Yesterday we talked about the dictatorship of software, or hopefully, the liberating aspect of it. We described the euphoria that happens in the workplace when agents start exploring their new Dovetail CRM applications as replacements for their legacy Clarify™ applications.
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