NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MICHAEL COONEY ON TECHNOLOGY UPDATE 11/15/04 Today's focus: The Extended Enterprise, Part 1
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Network World's Extended Enterprise supplement * Links related to Technology Update * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Veritas IDC White Paper, Distributed Applications Performance Management Performance management of distributed applications continues to grow in complexity, keeping pace with this constantly changing environment is a challenge for IT and performance management software vendors alike. Learn how the Veritas i3 Approach can be the foundation for your organization's Application Performance Management strategy. Download this IDC White Paper now http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=88411 _______________________________________________________________ THE 2005 IT ROADMAP: Future Vision - Attend the Technology Tour Event of the Year! Where is IT headed? Which technologies are the new must-haves? Which look good now but are dangerous risks? Find out first and see solutions free at this exclusive reserve-now-or-you're-on the-outside-looking-in event! http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=88459 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: The Extended Enterprise, Part 1 By Michael Cooney I want to point you to this week's Extended Enterprise supplement. In this installment we look at the way the application integration world is changing. Our author ( <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) writes that as affordable Web services technologies take hold, allowing even the smallest of businesses to link up, global industry-wide trading ecosystems will emerge. Mega databases run by third-party hubs will store vast amounts of data on global ecosystem operations, enabling forecasting on a scale never before possible. Many companies have already begun shifting their focus from custom external integration efforts to internal rollouts of standards-based technologies. By revamping themselves, they expect to ease the next generation of external integration projects. From this point of tightly integrated operations will evolve new business relationships based on unprecedented trust and instantaneous communication. Companies within the aerospace, automotive, high-tech, finance, human resources and retail industries have created some of the most cutting-edge extended enterprise ecosystems today. They already are seeing new business relationships develop. For example, in a multiphase, multimillion-dollar project of which the first phase will be completed by year-end, United Airlines has begun building an advanced content management system for plane maintenance documents from its many vendors and for use by its staff mechanics and contract maintenance facilities. Based on the Enigma 3C Platform from Enigma, the content management system will eliminate the last vestiges of paper manuals while improving content integration. When an engine or parts manufacturer modifies maintenance and manuals, the system will update the data for access by any who needs it - be it a staff or contract mechanic. United will tightly integrate and hyperlink maintenance manuals and data from the aircraft parts vendors, allowing mechanics to move from one manual to another regardless of which parts maker created the document. There are plenty more examples of this kind of integration. For more see: <http://www.nwfusion.com/ee/2004/111504open.html> RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS The extended enterprise Network World http://www.nwfusion.com/ee2/2003/ Extended enterprises take root Network World http://www.nwfusion.com/ee/2003/eeopen.html Security: defending the extended enterprise Network World http://www.nwfusion.com/supp/security2002/ The Extended Enterprise Issue Network World, 11/15/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/ee/2004/ Network World, 11/15/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/ee/2004/ _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Michael Cooney Michael Cooney is an Associate News Editor. Aside from his news responsibilities, Cooney handles the Infrastructure and Enterprise Application sections of Network World. Cooney has been writing for Network World since 1992. 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