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As technology demands on logistics services providers (LSPs) become more intense, organizations are seeking to integrate or consolidate their third-part logistics (3PL) providers' solutions for tasks such as warehousing, inventory management, shipment management, cross-docking, order management, bar coding, analytics and far more. We offer a roadmap for selecting whether to make such a transition in logistics systems via a big bang or phased/pilot approach.
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ChainLink Analyst on How Cloud-Enabled Supply Chain Networks Drive Companies ...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how technology innovators and new services from such suppliers as Tradeshift are translating advances in procurement and finance into business impacts.
Increasing Business Productivity in Connected Enterprises and an Always-On Di...Cognizant
To remain competitive, businesses must enhance productivity through a connected enterprise set of solutions. We offer a roadmap and set of tools for insuring that Gen-Now workers obtain the stateless, limitless and boundaryless computing that they need and expect in an always-on digital business world.
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"The advent of digital has dramatically impacted how CMOs run their marketing operations. By identifying and employing the processes, business models and technologies required in today's digitally intensive business environment, companies can strengthen their brand, enrich their relationships with customers, and manage an increasingly complex mix of partners, processes, and technologies.
As technology demands on logistics services providers (LSPs) become more intense, organizations are seeking to integrate or consolidate their third-part logistics (3PL) providers' solutions for tasks such as warehousing, inventory management, shipment management, cross-docking, order management, bar coding, analytics and far more. We offer a roadmap for selecting whether to make such a transition in logistics systems via a big bang or phased/pilot approach.
Profitability in the Direct-to-Consumer Marketplace: A Playbook for Media and...Cognizant
Amid constant change, industry leaders need an upgraded IT infrastructure capable of adapting to audience expectations while proactively anticipating ever-evolving business requirements.
ChainLink Analyst on How Cloud-Enabled Supply Chain Networks Drive Companies ...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how technology innovators and new services from such suppliers as Tradeshift are translating advances in procurement and finance into business impacts.
There are many presentations explaining the changes of 5G on the network side of things. All the technical advantages of 5G in the use of services and new service creation.
But what about the monetisation of these new services and new business models? Which system will support operators in actually making money out of their 5G investment?
Have you already evaluated if your BSS platform is ready to support you to really benefit from the new revenue wave that 5G will deliver?
In this presentation we have highlighted the key areas where you should be looking to see if your BSS is ready to enable your growth.
How Insurers Can Leverage Social and Messaging Apps to Enhance Digital ValueCognizant
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Pervasive digital technology is fundamentally changing the retail banking business model. Here's how banking Chief Information Officers (CIOs) need to change in order to lead the digital charge, according to our recent study.
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IT must apply new strategies and tools to the service management function, in order to address fundamental changes in how end-users consume technology and services. Here's how IT can increase service delivery speeds and user satisfaction, while delivering greater business value.
Crafting the Modern Manufacturing Enterprise in the Post-COVID-19 WorldCognizant
To get ahead in the industrial space amid the prolonged pandemic, manufacturers must embrace holistic agility and resilience, and democratize access to applications and data. This will eliminate operational silos at last and free data to more effectively inform everything: just-in-time build and logistics decisions, operational execution, customer experience product engineering decisions and everything in between, driving innovative product launches and much-needed cost reductions.
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This thought-piece discusses how established companies can manage the duality dilemma triggered by the coexistence of new digital offerings and legacy products, and provides expert insights into how a common set of core capabilities can accelerate the digital transformation journey ahead.
In our latest white paper, our expert authors share insights on why an integrated, real-time approach is key to business planning in the digital age. This special report is the great work of our supply chain experts, who are leading some of our firm’s most innovative thinking and solutions with top global clients.
Learn About:
The evolution of planning capabilities in the enterprise
Why an integrated business planning (IBP) framework should include end-to-end business processes across the organization
A view into the different maturity levels an organization can achieve and strategies for developing a digital-driven IBP framework
How companies can get started and accelerate their journey to advanced business planning
The Sharing Economy: Implications for Property & Casualty InsurersCognizant
Collaborative consumption, also known as the "Peer-to-Peer" or "P2P" economy, poses significant risks for insurers. At the same time, consumers' willingness to share and utilize assets and services like Uber and Airbnb offers significant revenue opportunities for P&C carriers at a time when most have experienced flat-line growth.
Cognitive Integration: How Canonical Models and Controlled Vocabulary Enable ...Cognizant
For pharmaceuticals companies dealing with multiple partners' systems, employing a canonical model for data communications facilitates point-to-point integration, and applying a controlled vocabulary (CV) in such models alleviates semantical ambiguity and facilitates cognitive and systems integration. We demonstrate how this works with a pharma business scenario involving Contract Research Organizations (CROs).
B2B Integration for Healthcare - InfographicLightwell
B2B integration is a tough challenge, and technology upheavals and healthcare transformation are only going to make it tougher. You’re right to be concerned. Fortunately, IBM’s right here to help.
There are many presentations explaining the changes of 5G on the network side of things. All the technical advantages of 5G in the use of services and new service creation.
But what about the monetisation of these new services and new business models? Which system will support operators in actually making money out of their 5G investment?
Have you already evaluated if your BSS platform is ready to support you to really benefit from the new revenue wave that 5G will deliver?
In this presentation we have highlighted the key areas where you should be looking to see if your BSS is ready to enable your growth.
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The evolution of planning capabilities in the enterprise
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B2B integration is a tough challenge, and technology upheavals and healthcare transformation are only going to make it tougher. You’re right to be concerned. Fortunately, IBM’s right here to help.
IBM WebSphere DataPower B2B Appliance XB62Lightwell
Increase the speed and reliability of extending your business beyond organizational walls with IBM WebSphere DataPower B2B Appliance XB62.
Highlights:
● Centralize and consolidate business- to-business (B2B) trading-partner connectivity with a purpose-built, DMZ-ready B2B Gateway
● Access new customers and new routes to market with standards-based trading- partner management
● Rapidly adjust product and service offerings to meet changing requirements with support for Web 2.0 technologies
● Unlock siloed information with drop-in B2B integration for heterogeneous environment
IBM Sterling Distributed Order ManagementLightwell
Deliver a superior customer experience through efficient order orchestration with IBM Sterling Distributed Order Management.
Benefits:
• Deliver the perfect order
• Provide highly personalized service
• Support expanded product and service offerings
• Provide more accurate promise dates
• Leverage new fulfillment strategies
• Improve order ll rates and cycle times
• Reduce order management costs
• Reduce buffer stock inventory
• Maximize customer satisfaction and revenue
• Minimize shipping and expediting costs
• Easily on-board new clients or acquired divisions
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Learn about the products that make up the IBM Managed File Transfer Suite: the key capabilities they provide, what they allow our customers to do, how to know when you need a specific solution, and more. This guide provides an overview of IBM Sterling Control Center, File Gateway, Secure Proxy, Connect:Direct Advanced, and the Aspera File Sharing Suite.
IBM Sterling Delivery and Service SchedulingLightwell
Significantly improve customer expectations by providing superior product delivery and services with IBM Sterling Delivery and Service Scheduling.
Benefits of order transaction:
• Increases revenue through additional service offerings
• Improves customer satisfaction by scheduling product deliveries and associated services at time of sale
• Improves the fulfillment of both products and services based on the order conditions and resource availability
• Decreases the cost of providing services by outsourcing to a third party
IBM Websphere MQ: The Messaging Solution for Virtually All IndustriesLightwell
Simpler, faster and more reliable messaging to help enable a more responsive and agile enterprise with IBM MQ.
Highlights of IBM MQ:
● Help enable enhanced customer interaction with faster, more reliable data processing, exchange and connectivity
● Help enable mobile banking and mobile retail innovation with support for MQTT applications
● Manage compliance and risk effectively with more reliable, security-rich data exchange
● Help enhance collaboration with a universal messaging backbone that connects virtually all systems and devices from mainframe to mobile and sensors
● Help enable pricing innovation and faster revenue growth in telcos with simpler applications
● Integrate more seamlessly telco business and operations for enhanced customer loyalty
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This guide provides a quick overview of what we believe manufacturers need to address within each of these
technological transformation areas and how IBM solutions can support that transformation.
IBM offers manufacturers the integrated solutions and services required to keep pace with today’s transformational business requirements. Based on the experiences and feedback from working with many leading consumer products clients around the globe, we have designed a portfolio of offerings that addresses the specific needs of consumer products companies from strategy and roadmap development to integrated software solution delivery all focused on using technology enablers to create new value across your enterprise.We help manufacturers deepen their relationships with their consumers, offer differentiated value to channel partners to generate competitive advantage, establish supply network improvements to increase efficiencies and achieve operational excellence—all for the express purpose of
supporting continued profitable growth.
The AI-powered digital transformation platform automates and streamlines end-to-end business processes, including content, processes, and communications. This hyper-automation technology enables you to eliminate repetitive and manual tasks and enables the business user to work with increased efficiency and decision-making.
The AI-powered digital transformation platform automates and streamlines end-to-end business processes, including content, processes, and communications. This hyper-automation technology enables you to eliminate repetitive and manual tasks and enables the business user to work with increased efficiency and decision-making.
Salesforce Industries, anciennement connu sous le nom de Salesforce Verticals, est une division de Salesforce dédiée à la création de solutions logicielles spécifiques pour des secteurs d'activité particuliers, également appelés "industries" en anglais. Cette division se concentre sur la personnalisation des produits Salesforce pour répondre aux besoins et aux défis spécifiques de chaque secteur, en proposant des solutions et des fonctionnalités adaptées.
L'objectif principal de Salesforce Industries est de fournir des solutions CRM (Customer Relationship Management) et d'autres services cloud qui permettent aux entreprises de divers secteurs, tels que la santé, les télécommunications, les services financiers, l'énergie, les médias, la vente au détail, et bien d'autres, d'améliorer leurs opérations, d'optimiser leurs processus métier, et de mieux servir leurs clients.Chaque industrie a ses propres caractéristiques, réglementations, et besoins spécifiques. Salesforce Industries travaille en étroite collaboration avec des entreprises de chaque secteur pour adapter ses produits, notamment Salesforce Customer 360, à leurs exigences particulières. Ces solutions personnalisées permettent aux entreprises d'améliorer la gestion des relations avec leurs clients, d'automatiser des processus complexes, de gagner en efficacité, et de fournir des expériences client exceptionnelles.
En résumé, Salesforce Industries est la branche de Salesforce qui se spécialise dans l'adaptation des solutions Salesforce aux industries spécifiques, aidant ainsi les entreprises à mieux répondre aux besoins de leurs marchés et de leurs clients.
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Shifting to a Customer-centric
Business Model :-
Many businesses already see the writing on the wall: Only 8 percent of companies
say their current business model will remain economically viable if their industry
keeps digitizing at its current course and speed.2 But to become a modern digital
business, you must go beyond just digitizing old business models and instead use
technology to align your people, processes, and technology around entirely new ways
of serving customers.
By placing the customer at the center of everything you do, you can create products,
services, and experiences that are more valuable to your buyer, allowing you to stand
out in an increasingly commoditized world, drive more profit, and generate more
brand loyalty.
The goal of this white paper is to demonstrate why the only successful way to approach a major ecommerce project today is to pursue a rigorous "integration first" strategy, rather than relying on traditional procurement methods. Based on our experience helping hundreds of companies achieve their online commerce goals, we'll also provide you with practical, hands-on advice for managing your project and evaluating software using this approach.
Engagement Workflow for Today's EnterpriseBP Logix
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Project Deliverable 4: Analytics, Interfaces, and Cloud Technology
By: Justin M. Blazejewski
CIS 499
Professor Dr. Janet Durgin
25 November 2012
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Project Deliverable 4: Analytics, Interfaces, and Cloud Technology
By: Justin M. Blazejewski
CIS 499
Professor Dr. Janet Durgin
25 November 2012
Introduction
Business Analytics means the practice of iterative and methodological examination of a business’s data with a special emphasis on statistic making. Business Analytics can further help businesses automate and optimize their business processes. Companies in which data plays a pivotal role, treats its data as a corporate assets and leverages it for gaining competitive advantage. A successful business analytics would typically depend on data quality, highly skillful and experienced professionals who understand the technologies, knows how to work with it and also understands the organizations processes in depth. Apart from this, the organization should have a capable infrastructure to support the operations of business analytics.
Usage of Business Analysis is done for the following purposes:
· Exploration of data so as to find patterns and trends
· Identifying relationships in key data variables for forecasting. For instance next probable purchase by the customer
· Drilling down to the results to find out why a particular incident took place. This approach is done by performing statistical analysis and quantitative analysis with business analytical tools
· Predicting future results by employing predictive modeling and predictive analytics
· Testing previous decisions using A/B and Multivariate testing
· Assisting business in decision making such as figuring out the amount of discount to be given for a new customer
Post identifying of business goal, an analysis methodology needs to be selected and the data is acquired to support the analysis. This data acquisition normally involves extracting data from systems that may be spread throughout different locations an ...
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Manual searches and information delays were creating operational bottlenecks and business inefficiencies for Coca Cola. CCBCC’s business was running on a multitude of different technologies. Manual searches and information delays were creating operational bottlenecks and business inefficiencies. CCBCC would manually enter the equipment services work order into their legacy system when work orders arrived via phone or fax from their customers. This process was time consuming and open to error, and so CCBCC began to question the potential cost of these errors. CCBCC needed to quickly accept and return information electronically without error and focus on software replacement as a means to improve cross-application and system integration. They needed a flexible and robust system to integrate internally with SAP as well as other existing systems.
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Protecting Margins and Creating Value in TelecomLightwell
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Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a button
IBM Comprehensive Business-to-Partner Integration
1. IBM Software Communications and Media
Comprehensive business-
to-partner integration: a
tool for revenue growth
Flexible software solutions that help reduce costs while driving revenue
expansion are welcome in virtually any business climate. But when
money is tight and market segments are in a state of flux, they are
essential. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the communications
and media sectors where companies are in the middle of a convergence
– some would say collision – of delivering traditional products and
services and delivering new value-added products and services such as
digital content and personalized support. This convergence forces the
rapid adoption of new business models and integration strategies that
extend beyond the firewall. For example, communications service
providers need an improved way to integrate digital content from
media providers, while media providers need a way to more quickly
open new sales and distribution channels for their digital content.
Case in point: an information technology director at a leading wireless
telecommunications company was tasked with creating a B2B
integration platform that would allow the company to collaborate with
over a hundred value-added service providers, equipment suppliers, and
sales channels. He already had enterprise integration solutions in place,
but to meet his goals, he faced months of custom integration and
process development with these existing solutions. Then he discovered
a comprehensive business integration solution that had 99 percent of
virtually all the capabilities off-the-shelf he thought he would need to
build to support the B2B integration. The closer he looked, the more
excited he became about what he could accomplish with this single tool.
He could onboard partners in a fraction of the time it took previously.
He could customize data feeds for his partners in hours. He could build
business processes on the fly and more easily generate dashboards for
business unit owners and partners. He could deploy flow-through
processing of transactions, events, and files from partners and suppliers,
and he could do it in whatever manner that made the most sense: either
directly to internal systems or through his existing enterprise
integration solutions. Best of all, he could do virtually all of it with a
team of six people with basic Java skills. This, in contrast to his original
plan that required a staff, six to seven times as large, and that required
engineers with expensive programming skills.
Contents:
2 New Environment, new requirements
2 Flexibility, reliability, speed
3 Value to sales and marketing – even
better offers, enhanced distribution
4 Enhancing marketplace offers
4 Expanding marketplace presence
4 Value to finance officers – gaining a
competitive edge, lower operating
costs
4 Value to IT management – becoming
more responsive to the business;
leveraging existing investments;
improving performance
5 Value to security officers – safeguarding
copyrights, protecting sensitive data,
reliable delivery and visibility beyond
the firewall
5 Summary
2. The results went beyond expectations. With process
automation and self-service tools, partner onboarding was
90 percent faster.1
And because the solution employed process
integration (changing rules) rather than system integration
(changing code), implementation cost, time and risk were
reduced by 80 percent. But that was just the start.
During the integration project, the company merged with
another provider of mobile services with hundreds of stores
nationwide. By this time, the IT exec was well familiar
with what the B2B solution could do. Fifteen days later,
he had consolidated the customer data from both companies
so that virtually any store could access virtually any customer
record from either company.
This is the kind of software you want to know about when
times are tough. This paper will discuss the characteristics of
next-generation comprehensive business-to-partner
integration, and how it complements traditional enterprise
integration, with emphasis on cost-cutting and revenue-
generation. It will then take a look at the benefits from the
perspective of decision makers across the communications and
media industry – in sales and marketing, finance, information
technology and security.
New Environment, new requirements
The demand for digital content and value-added services is
turning communications and media companies into super-
enablers of digital products and services. While revenue
opportunities from these new products and services are sizable
and promising, introducing such new products and services is
not without its operational challenges. Companies need
reliable, flexible business processes to collaborate with new
value chain partners and drive new offers to consumers.
Communications and media industry analysts and experts
refer to the dynamics in the communications and media
industry as the emergence of the mediacosm, a new
market segment of the converged sectors of communications,
media, and entertainment. Mediacosm revenue opportunities
come from bundling traditional services with games, videos,
and Web applications.
The emergence of the mediacosm is driving communications
and media companies to restructure the business processes
they rely on to market, sell, and deliver products and services.
Not only do these processes need to accommodate demand
for new digital content, they need to span across enterprises
and help enable automated collaboration between value
chain partners.
To become super-enablers, companies are focusing greater
attention on community excellence – or building an extended
community of business partners and suppliers to bring new
products and services to market and enhance how products
and services are sold and distributed.
Community excellence initiatives require the ability to:
Create new business ecosystems that support real-time•
collaboration between systems and people across enterprises
Create new business processes that extend to multiple•
partners, suppliers, and customers
More quickly onboard and off-board business partners•
Seamlessly connect events, transactions, and files from•
external partners with internal systems and processes
Give virtually all stakeholders visibility into business•
operations at multiple levels of granularity
Rapidly respond to business changes•
Monitor and act on events in real time•
Next, we will look at the B2B integration capabilities needed
to support these goals.
Flexibility, reliability, speed
From a business process perspective, the challenges
communications and media companies face today are similar
to those of leading retail companies such as Target or Home
Depot. These companies have learned to collaborate with
partners and suppliers to help reduce costs and bring greater
value to consumers. They rely on sophisticated business
integration solutions to drive high volume/lower margin
products and do it efficiently and profitably. These integration
solutions allow retailers to:
Extend internal operations to new suppliers and channel•
partners
Facilitate collaboration for faster inventory turns•
Rapidly adapt to changing legislative and technology•
requirements
Accommodate business across geographical boundaries•
IBM Software Communications and Media
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3. The end result is a cost-effective and consistent operational
infrastructure which extends in a flexible manner to deal with
the heterogeneity of both your existing systems and your
partner environment. While ease of use is essential to meet
time-to-market goals, the entire infrastructure needs to be
built on rock solid, robust technology. It needs to scale, be
reliable, (you can’t lose a transaction), and provide for business
process management so that you can better adapt to what
your competitors are doing, add new offers, or change the
rules of an offer on the fly. You also need comprehensive
dashboards and exception monitoring, both for internal
customers and for your partners. To collaborate successfully,
your partners need real-time visibility to the business
interactions with your company. Just as important, they need
the ability to review historical interactions for support and
root cause analysis.
In summary, your business integration solution should allow
you to react to market segment dynamics more quickly and
with very little effort. As a gateway, it needs to be able to talk
to virtually any system you have in place today and virtually
any communication method your business partners might
support. As a process enabler, it should allow you to more
quickly assemble offers to meet the needs of your customers.
As a visibility and collaboration tool, it should enable more
efficient ways of selling and give both you and your partners
even better insight into your business operations. As a means
to governance, it should track and record virtually every
transaction, comprehensively, at the granularity you specify.
And, finally, as a security tool, it should offer protection
against fraud, theft, revenue leakages, and liability.
Value to sales and marketing – even
better offers, enhanced distribution
Sales and marketing executives in the communications and
media industry are focused on acquiring new customers and
maintaining their existing base – which means delivering
exciting offers ahead of the competition. They need to act
more quickly to manage customer demand for greater choice
and respond to the overall marketplace demand for freshness.
For communications providers, the goal is to efficiently
and effectively integrate products and services sourced
from multiple content providers. To media companies, it
is to distribute digital content over a diverse set of global
sales channels.
One reason these systems are so efficient is that they hide the
complexity of back-office applications. For example, Figure 1
illustrates a comprehensive B2B environment in a
telecommunications company. The systems on the left
represent the existing IT environment, with product catalogs,
billing systems, enterprise resource planning systems, and
more. Virtually all these systems are in place and are required
for managing the business. The center shows the new business
processes established on a consistent technology platform.
Virtually all of these are reusable business services that draw
from information in back-end business systems. But what’s
important is that the people who create these processes do not
need to understand how the back-end systems work. In fact,
these processes are insulated from the back-end systems and
are designed to function in an environment where the
back-end systems are almost always in a state of change.
Figure 1: Business-to-Partner Integration Flow
The right side illustrates that your value chain partners are
going to communicate with you in a variety of ways. So you
see movies coming in over a safeguarded environment called
IBM®
Sterling Connect:Direct®
, billing information coming
in via EDI over AS2, and sales documents arriving through
e-mail, Web services or Web extensions. When systems talk to
each other, you need to have similarities in semantics or you
need to be able to mediate the differences in semantics and
standards in an automated way. B2B integration gives you a
way to interpret virtually all these different data formats, so
that your business operations are insulated from complexity
on that end as well.
Communications and MediaIBM Software
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4. Communications and MediaIBM Software
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A business integration solution focused on community
excellence helps enable sales and marketing to increase
revenue and customer lifetime value in two distinct ways:
enhancing the depth and breadth of marketplace offers and
expanding sales channel presence in the marketplace.
Enhancing marketplace offers
To retain current customers and attract new ones, companies
need to create a rich product and service mix – which means
they need the ability to more quickly onboard a diverse set of
partners such as suppliers of movies, music and games.
A business integration solution focused on community
excellence can help sales and marketing meet these goals
faster by allowing content partners to self-provision, access
self-help, and monitor data exchange transactions. And, as
seen earlier, it is designed to also support the seamless
integration and transformation of partner data with back-
office systems. This can enable sales and marketing to more
quickly aggregate product and pricing data into catalogs for
use in downstream offer modeling.
Expanding marketplace presence
Sales and marketing also faces the challenge of expanding
marketplace presence through new sales and distribution
channels. Take, for example, the media provider who desires
to expand into a new region by selling through online retailers
within the region. The right business integration solution can
enable sales and marketing to prepare and deliver virtually all
the business data these retailers need to effectively sell the
media provider’s products and services. This includes product,
pricing, marketing, and accounting data – virtually all
exchanged in the format and medium the online retailers
require. The result is increased revenues through new
distribution channels that are easier to launch and support.
Value to finance officers – gaining a
competitive edge, lower operating costs
The research firm Gartner predicts that “by 2015, complex
relationships will be the norm between telecom service
providers, their customers, equipment/device vendors, and
applications/content providers.” Gartner says that “Telecom
service providers cannot afford to continue clinging onto old
business paradigms or current competitive advantages.
Rather, they should start to consider how they can create
relevant roles for themselves in the new, open ecosystem that
will emerge.”2
But revenue growth is not the only measure of value. An even
higher benefit is having a business integration infrastructure
in place that supports business expansion while lowering
operational costs. If the business can deliver improved results,
90 percent faster, using fewer resources and developers who
cost half as much, that’s news your CFO wants to hear. Good
business integration solutions help increase profitability by
reducing the cost of integration and the time it takes to realize
operational benefits.
Value to IT management – becoming
more responsive to the business;
leveraging existing investments;
improving performance
One of the first concerns of IT executives is to be more
responsive to the business. A good business integration
solution will not only allow you to solve urgent matters
rapidly, it can do it in a way that forms the foundation of a
strategic, long-term, sustainable business architecture.
Integration technology has been around for decades, and
many companies today have achieved pockets of integration.
However, what’s being discussed here is next-generation
integration technology that leverages previous integration
investments and provides a way to bridge these technologies
to support collaborative business processes. It is designed to
seamlessly integrate processes and data across the firewall and
also helps enable virtually any internal integration project,
independent of the systems and busses that comprise your
existing infrastructure.
This single solution/single vendor approach can hold a great
deal of appeal to IT managers who have been burned by
consultant fees from multiple vendors – or by products put
together through technology acquisitions.
Other important ways IT managers can benefit both directly
and indirectly are through:
Improved business agility. A good business integration
solution can reliably and flexibly integrate with virtually any
system or partner. It can support virtually any communication
standard, system, protocol, file or data format as well as
any-to-any data mapping. So, instead of having to deny a
customer request, or postpone implementation, IT can
respond immediately.
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Security should also allow for data inspection, creating
detailed logs of virtually every transaction, so you can go back
and analyze the source and root cause of an attempted security
breach. Protocol support should include AS2, Connect:Direct,
(the file transfer solution used by the world’s largest banks)
and Secure FTP+, a tool that allows security officers who need
to shut down vulnerable FTP ports to continue to support
FTP scripts through Sterling Connect:Direct.
Finally, in order for all security functions to manage
communications across the firewall, they should be built into
one tool, so that security staff do not have to manage multiple
tools from multiple vendors.
Summary
The communications and media industry is undergoing a
major transformation, as companies expand their suppliers and
sales channels exponentially. In this climate, solutions that
speed partner onboarding, help optimize business
collaboration and consolidate catalog and customer
information would be perceived as valuable; however in a time
when M A activity is at its peak, partners can change
overnight, and competition is fierce, so it becomes a business
imperative.
No longer can companies tolerate sluggish time to market
or wasted resources. Today’s environment demands flexible,
well-designed partner and systems integration solutions
that can help leverage existing investments, respond more
easily to change, cut costs as they improve performance,
and enable companies to capitalize on opportunities ahead
of their competitors.
While you may already have integration solutions in place
that allow you to expose services and build SOA-based
processes, the questions to ask are, how long does it take and
what does it cost?
A simple analogy is to think of hiring practices in times of
economic turmoil. You have just interviewed two candidates.
One is highly skilled, but resistant to change, difficult to work
with and demands an enormous salary. The other is also
skilled – but in many disciplines, and many of the latest
technologies. He is open to new ideas and thrives on change.
He gets along with everybody (including candidate 1), and
would be an asset in virtually any department. He also works
cheap and goes out of his way to help ensure the profitability
of the company.
Which one gets the job, in this or any economy?
Improved operational efficiency. By seamlessly automating
manual IT and business processes inside and outside the
enterprise, a good business integration solution can enable
business growth while cutting operational costs. Capabilities
such as document routing, archiving, business rule validation,
exception handling and alerts replace costly manual processes
with comprehensive automation. So IT managers can deliver
even better service at lower cost and can also help business
managers lower their operational costs.
Improved business performance. A good business
integration solution provides visibility into actionable
information across key business processes. Process monitoring
through dashboards shortens reaction time and improves
decision making – across business units, across firewalls, and
also within IT. So again, the same tools that benefit the
business, benefit IT managers directly.
Value to security officers – safeguarding
copyrights, protecting sensitive data,
reliable delivery and visibility beyond the
firewall
Historically, security officers in communications and media
companies have generally only had to worry about
transactions with a handful of business partners. But with the
shift to partner and channel expansion, they become
responsible for millions of transactions with hundreds of
partners. For communications service providers in particular,
this is a major challenge. No longer are communications
companies just providers of the network pipe through which
content passes. Today they need to deal with issues such as
safeguarding copyrights for digital content products and
protecting sensitive customer and billing data exchange
with partners. In short, rather than playing an ancillary
role in the business to mitigate legal action, security
becomes mission critical.
A good business integration solution should be built from the
ground up to safeguard high-volume transactions across
firewalls and over the Internet. It should support a
comprehensive range of encryption, certificate types, digital
signatures, and other methods to help ensure data integrity
and security. In addition, security capabilities should include
real-time alerts to help enable staff to respond to security
violations instantaneously.