IBM Makes e-business Blueprints Freely Available.Business/Hi-Tech WritersLAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000 Company Publishes Patterns For e-business To Address Skills Shortage, Speed Deployment Looking to speed the deployment of e-business solutions in the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of an international IT skills shortage, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) today made available free e-business blueprints called Patterns for e-business. IBM's Patterns for e-business is a collection of knowledge and deployable code culled from years of experience in implementing e-business solutions. Through the evaluation of more than 20,000 customer engagements, IBM has identified proven methodologies for initial e-business projects, such as setting up a business-to-business relationship or a business-to-consumer Web site. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
"Patterns for e-business is a unique resource to help businesses reduce the risk and cost of implementing systems, which can provide a real competitive advantage," said Peter Tarrant, vice president of e-business marketing, IBM. "Having a solid starting point Noun 1. starting point - earliest limiting point terminus a quo commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, starting time, beginning, start, kickoff, first - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the and roadmap will help customers and partners make their employees more productive and speed their deployment of e-business solutions." After many years experience in designing and implementing systems, IBM recognized many striking, cross-industry similarities in customer requirements for building an e-business architecture. The resulting Patterns for e-business initiative offers a set of architectural and design standards Design standards Specifications of materials, physical measurements, processes, performance of products, and characteristics of services rendered. Design standards may be established by individual manufacturers, trade associations, and national or or "best-practices" as a starting point. "This innovative software architecture initiative from IBM is the first of its kind," said Martin Butler
Martin Neil Butler (born 15 September 1974 in Dudley, England) is an English football striker currently playing for Grimsby Town on loan from Walsall. , chairman and founder, Butler Group. "The industry could benefit greatly from IBM's experience in the e-business arena, especially when one considers the tremendous problems companies encounter due to the IT labor shortage A Labor shortage is an economic condition in which there are insufficient qualified candidates (employees) to fill the market-place demands for employment at any price. This condition is sometimes referred to by Economists as "an insufficiency in the labor force. ." IBM has published six initial Patterns for e-business: -- User to Business -- User to Online Buying -- Business to Business -- User to User -- User to Data -- Application Integration "IBM proposed a solution based on the Patterns for e-business, which enabled us to markedly decrease our development time," said Howard Hughes, e-business applications manager, Mohawk Industries Mohawk Industries is an American company that supplies residential and commercial flooring and other home products. It is one of the two largest carpet manufacturers in the world. It is exchanged on the New York Stock Exchange under the listed security MHK. . "Building a solution based on knowledge culled from IBM's years of experience in helping similar kinds of businesses succeed gave us greater confidence in moving forward with our own implementation." Patterns for e-business also includes evaluation copies of select IBM software, such as WebSphere Studio, DB2 and Visual Age for Java, which can easily be deployed in the Patterns architecture. Accessing Patterns for e-business Documents To get the information needed for speeding the process of application development, IT professionals should visit IBM's Patterns for e-business Web site in the developerWorks Web architecture zone, a section that offers free resources and guidelines for the design and management of e-business applications. It can be found at: http://www.ibm.com/framework/patterns. About IBM IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM software offers the widest range of applications, middleware and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. for all types of computing platforms See platform. , allowing customers to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. The fastest way to get more information about IBM software is through the IBM software home page at http://www.software.ibm.com/. |
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