White Papers, Technology Briefs, and Industry Analyst Reports on Business Integration

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Leverage Information Builders for Successful Health Information Exchange Information Builders, specialists in the field of health integration, offers a health information exchange solution that creates a portal where hospitals, physicians, and other providers can engage in the meaningful use of electronic health records.

The Best Way to Integrate Salesforce.com With WebSphere This paper explains how the iWay Salesforce.com adapter minimizes the challenges associated with manual Salesforce.com integration efforts and works seamlessly within the WebSphere environment.

Optimizing Data Quality in the Enterprise: How to Tackle Your Bad Information This paper discusses some techniques companies can implement to enhance data quality across the entire enterprise. We also highlight iWay Software's suite of data quality management solutions, which provide businesses with the ability to effectively and economically enhance the correctness, completeness, and consistency of information in each and every system within their technology infrastructure.

Boost the Value of Information With Master Data Management Master data management improves accuracy and streamlines sharing by seamlessly linking together and synchronizing the disparate information that exists across a business.

10 Things You Can Do With the iWay Salesforce.com Adapter In this paper, we will highlight the ten key ways in which the iWay Salesforce.com adapter can enhance important operations and initiatives across your business.

Successful Mergers and Acquisitions: Ensure Your M&As Through Strategic Use of Integration Technology The risks associated with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are high. Various obstacles exist that, without proactive planning, can set the stage for failure. At the top of the list is the need to bring together disparate IT infrastructures to support the new, combined entity. In this white paper we will examine the importance of integration as part of any M&A strategy, and discuss those factors that need to be carefully considered when defining and implementing an integration plan.

Enterprise Information Management (EIM): The Hidden Secret to Peak Business Performance Poor data quality costs organizations millions each year. Master data issues lead to multiple systems with conflicting information for the same product or person. Data scattered across different silos are a challenge to consolidate. Find out how real-time Enterprise Information Management (EIM) addresses these issues and significantly improves the way information is managed and leveraged across a company.

Leveraging Integration to Weather the Economic Storm This white paper highlights four primary ways to use integration to make your business better during a down economy.

Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements – Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities iWay Activity Monitor integrates BAM and BI technology to capture end-to-end transaction and workflow data across multiple applications and business units, summarizing and displaying trading partner metrics to help managers make informed decisions.

iWay Software Secure Messaging Option iWay Service Manager's Secure Messaging Option allows buisness users, and their partners, to enhance the security and harden the integration infrastructure used to exchange messages between organizations.

iWay SOA Middleware: An Agile Framework for Fast, Flexible, Low-Risk Service Deployments Can service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles untangle the complexity of today's business integration requirements? This paper provides an overview of the promises and realities of collaborative SOA environments, and describes how iWay SOA Middleware solutions make the benefits of an SOA achievable, while protecting investments in already-in-place applications, middleware, and information systems. With each new project, a company can gradually strengthen its SOA foundation without force-fitting all aspects of an operation into a Web-based service model.

Multi-Enterprise Integration and Managed File Transfer iWay Software's Managed File Transfer (MFT) offers the industry's most complete suite of integration technology for coordinating processes and sending files in a managed and secure fashion. This paper explores some common integration scenarios and explains how iWay simplifies the setup, processing, and overhead related to managing file transfers.

Worst Practices in SOA Implementation Designed to help organizations learn from the mistakes of others, this paper provides insight into the top-four worst practices for SOA integration. It also provides guidance on how to avoid and/or overcome these worst practices in order to realize the true value of an open, reusable integration architecture. By reading this paper, you will have a solid understanding of how to avoid SOA integration failure and achieve success with your initiatives.

Is a Data Warehouse the Only Option? Seven Styles of Data Integration There are many ways to access data for analysis and reporting. You should analyze each business challenge to understand whether a data warehouse or another type of information-access method presents the best solution. This white paper identifies seven basic ways to integrate and access data to solve various business problems.

Where Integration Meets Business Intelligence: Creating an Actionable BI Environment for Monitoring What's still lacking for many companies is the ability to gain unique insights or make decisions faster by deriving actionable information from routine business processes. That's what the next generation of BI will entail and it's emerging now.

Why Business Managers Should Care About Service-Oriented Architecture Technical staff frequently talk about the need for service-oriented architecture (SOA), but rarely in terms that business managers understand. We can sum up the benefits of service-oriented architecture and show you ways to avoid the danger of implementing technology for technology's sake.

Implement a Best-of-Breed Fusion Center Knowledge is power, and today's law enforcement professional must be a knowledge-based worker. From the police chief to the patrol officer, everyone needs the latest information to rapidly gain awareness and understanding of the events in their jurisdiction. A well-designed Fusion Center can make this possible, but accessing, consolidating, and then distributing the myriad information sources required by a Fusion Center is no mean feat. This paper discusses the critical components and success factors required to design and implement a best-of-breed Fusion Center in order to effectively fight, and even prevent, crime.

The Role of ESB in SOA: Creating a Loosely Coupled Integration Architecture Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - a highly evolved approach to integration that transforms IT service delivery - can significantly improve business agility and streamline business processes. A good enterprise service bus (ESB) - a component of SOA used to develop services - can enhance SOA by enabling a loosely coupled relationship between service interfaces and applications, minimizing code-writing and facilitating service changes without requiring intimate knowledge of underlying enterprise systems. This paper discusses the relationship between ESB, loose coupling, and the effort needed to align IT with business process owners in order to ensure a successful SOA implementation in any organization.

Butler Group on iWay Service Manager iWay Service Manager is a complete integrated design environment... from an end-user perspective it is simply a complete management solution that can be used with the graphical interface to design process-centric applications. without the need for developers to understand or map to the underlying infrastructure

Tackling the Data Management Challenge Through Server Consolidation Obtaining the best data for specific applications requires more than simply the ability to connect to like sources using similar semantics. It means making decisions about how fresh the data must be, where it must ultimately reside, and in what forms users need it. Navigate the challenges of data and server consolidation with help from Unisys and Information Builders.

An Integrated Justice Solution From iWay Software This paper defines the elements of information sharing within the Integrated Justice community. iWay Software's Integrated Justice Suite facilitates the collection, transformation, integration, formatting, delivery, and analysis of justice information.

Nucleus Research Case Study: Alcan Achieves 934% ROI on EAI Project The ability to tie together data from multiple sources using iWay Software and bring it forward in new e-commerce initiatives has enabled Alcan to realize significant savings in operational costs while also generating incremental revenue.

The Coexistence of Old and New B2B Technologies iWay Software provides certified solutions that promote coexistence of EDI and Internet-based B2B. This paper explains how iWay Software solutions ensure that new systems remain backwards compatible with old systems, while driving down costs, increasing flexibility, and minimizing custom programming.

The iWay Security Exchange The iWay Security Exchange enables government, law enforcement, and private industry to effectively exchange and share information easily in real time. Based on iWay and IBM WebSphere integration environments, iSE is a complete software and services solution that provides the most complete architecture available for cost effectively enabling the exchange of information with little to no impact on existing information assets.

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