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Transforming Digital Business with APIs

The app, in many digital forms, mobile, cloud and the Internet of Things, has created the opportunity for enterprises to optimize interaction with employees, customers and business partners in fundamentally new ways. Choosing the right digital platform can be the difference between success and failure.

A Winning API Strategy: Developing Secure Mobile Apps with a UX that Delights Customers

The mobile app has become “the” strategic initiative for all digital organizations attempting to drive business forward. “By 2017, mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times, generating revenue of more than $77 billion — making apps one of the most popular computing tools for users across the globe.”1 The app has become more than a simple method of communication. It is the new critical point of engagement, the face of the organization, and quite possibly the difference maker in customers staying or leaving. Getting the “user experience” (or UX) right in the eyes of the consumer is no longer a nice to have but fundamental to achieving success.

5 Pillars of API Management

Across industry sectors, the boundaries of the traditional enterprise are blurring, as organizations open up their on-premise data and application functionality to partner organizations, the Web, mobile apps, smart devices and the cloud. APIs (application programming interfaces) form the foundation of this new open enterprise, allowing enterprises to reuse their existing information assets across organizational boundaries.

A Guide to REST and API Design

In his 1966 book “The Psychology of Science,” American psychologist Abraham Maslow tackled the idea that those in the field of psychology needed to approach treatment from multiple perspectives, to take on new ideas, and not just continue using the same theories and techniques created by Freud and his followers so many years ago. Acknowledging that changing your point of view can be difficult, Maslow wrote “[I]t is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything like a nail.” We have all had this experience. We get so used to the way things have been done in the past, we sometimes don’t question the reasons for doing them.

A How-to Guide to OAuth & API Security

OAuth is an emerging Web standard for authorizing limited access to applications and data. It is designed so that users can grant restricted access to resources they own—such as pictures residing on a site like Flickr or SmugMug—to a third-party client like a photo printing site. In the past, it was common to ask the user to share their username and password with the client, a deceptively simple request masking unacceptable security risk. In contrast to this, OAuth promotes a least privilege model, allowing a user to grant limited access to their applications and data by issuing a token with limited capability.

What is a Process-Based Application?

Companies today need to move from a functional model to a process‐oriented model, allowing them to be more flexible and proactive to changes in their environment. Current information systems and processes rarely correspond to a transparent, cross border organization. On the contrary, these information systems replicate and reinforce the classical and functional organizational structure, where each business unit has its own applications and data silos. This of course leads to inefficiencies due to redundancy of data in different systems.

Common Pitfalls in Process Optimization

Process optimization is “the discipline of adjusting a process so as to optimize some specified set of parameters without violating some constraint” and should always links back to the heart of the business strategy. The optimization efforts should strengthen the reason of existence of a company, and lead to cost minimization, output maximization, or both.

There are 5 common pitfalls to avoid when engaging in process optimization:

1. Unclear start and finish of the process optimization project

2. Using the wrong key performance indicators

3. Lack of ownership and support throughout the organization

4. Not embedding process changes

5. Lack of execution Edition.

Develop a 1st Business Process Application with Bonita BPM 6

Whether you are wondering how BPMN can significantly improve the efficiency of your daily operations or whether you are wondering how to turn an existing process into an optimized dynamic application, this paper addresses these challenges through a concrete business example: the modeling and the automation of an employee leave management procedure. We have put ourselves in the shoes of a project team engaged in the development of its first BPMN implementation.

The example application is developed with Bonita BPM 6 Teamwork Subscription Edition. This paper also gives some pointers to develop it with Bonita BPM 6 Community Edition.

The Ultimate Guide to BPMN2

We realize that many people and organizations who could benefit from BPMN have yet to give it a try. It may be that you’ve been putting it off under the mistaken assumption that you need to be an expert to use BPMN. Or it may be because the standard itself, and many of the things written about BPMN, are bit unwieldy and hard to dissect.

The Fastest Way to Microsoft® App-V 5.0

App-V 5.0 is a pivotal upgrade to Microsoft’s application virtualization technology. With this upgrade comes a reworked App-V package format, improved streaming, easier connectivity among virtualized applications and side-by-side support for existing 4.5/4.6 packages. Other key features include mounting of App-V applications to folders instead of the Q: drive, removal of size limitations and streamlined integration of virtualized applications with other desktop applications via extensions.

A Smart Strategy for Windows Server 2003 Migration

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 will reach its end-of-life by July 2015, servers will no longer be receiving security updates, leaving critical business systems vulnerable to attacks. The server operating system has run for many years and there are many customers, who have Windows Server 2003 in production today and some will continue to do so until end-of life of Windows Server 2003 for different reasons. If you are still using Windows Server 2003, now is the time to consider your options. The place to start is to develop a business case around operating system migration. A migration project requires many resources and will take some time and planning.

Mitigating Mobile App Risk to Ensure Safe, Reliable Deployments

Driven by the trends of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Bring Your Own App (BYOA), and the consumerization of IT, the mobile device tsunami is inundating enterprises around the world. In many organizations IT is responding by giving employees unfettered access to these apps. But that can expose the organization to considerable risk.

Achieving Application Readiness Maturity

Imagine that you’re a production line manager in a manufacturing company and you’re under pressure to deliver an increasing number of products that are rapidly growing in complexity. You also have to deliver an increasing number of versions of each product. And you have to speed up the production line substantially. If you can’t meet these requirements, your company’s customers will find what they need elsewhere.

Redefining the Economics of Storage

This white paper assesses Dell's storage and services vision and the company's ability to meet market demands.

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Boosting Storage Performance for IO Intensive Enterprise Applications

The business-critical applications that keep enterprises humming place ever-increasing I/O demands on storage. The Dell™ Compellent™ Storage Center™ platform optimizes I/O-intensive workloads in virtual desktop, messaging and database environments. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

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