Recent Articles
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IBM Moves to Align BPM with Web Services Standard
With the ratification of the Web Services Distributed Management standard last week—and of a critical component in that standard called Common Base Events—IBM is working to align and integrate CBE concepts into its business process management capabilities. The goal, said IBM officials, is to provide more insight into issues occurring in business processes as they…
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$300M Shipper Builds Its Own IT System
When a company outgrows its core application package, surprising choices sometimes spring up. After turning into the largest same-day document shipper in North America, Dallas, Texas-based Dynamex Inc. has opted to swap its old shrink-wrapped order processing system from Datatrac for an enterprise IT platform built in-house, according to Andy Argento, the shipper’s vice president…
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Shuttle SN25P: nForce4 in a Small Package
Shuttle’s P-series line of small-form-factor systems represents a concerted effort to update the now-classic cube PC. The P-series is slightly larger than the company’s G4 line but offers more amenities, such as nearly tool-free installation, quieter operation, and more elegant cosmetics. The SN25P pushes the Shuttle line forward, offering a small-form-factor Athlon 64 system that…
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Mobile GPU Slap-Down: GeForce Go 6800 vs. Mobility Radeon X800
In the two-player GPU race, it should come as no surprise that ATI and nVidia throw rocks at each other—a lot of rocks. After all, who else are they going to throw rocks at, other than Intel’s underwhelming integrated cores? In the desktop GPU race, each company ultimately has to put its GPU where its…
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Site Sheds Light on Workflow Jargon
Anyone looking at BPM solutions should start at the Workflow Management Coalition’s Web site, www.wfmc.org, and look at the Workflow Management Coalition Terminology & Glossary. The glossary is a good starting point for understanding the nomenclature in an industry that, to put it politely, is pretty free with the jargon. Although it doesn’t make the…
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Intel Brings 64-bit Processing to the Pentium 4
Prozac for AMD? AMD’s been beating the 64-bit drum for several years now, long before the company actually shipped its 64-bit processors. Since the initial launch of the Opteron server and workstation in April of 2003, AMD worked with Microsoft to bring a 64-bit version of Windows. The x86-64 version of Windows Server 2003 slipped…
