From the turn of the millennium until the end of 2007 MLBS (Mobile Location Based Services) had promised much, but delivered very little in terms of commercial applications. Even in Japan and South Korea, the most advanced markets for commercial MLBS, usage was disappointing. 

According to Enterprise Integration Patterns author Gregor Hohpe, a new set of architectural techniques could help designers to better understand the elaborate conversation, workflow and event patterns that are seen more often these days. Read this e-guide to discover software that visually connects components in Apache Camel-based integrations. 

View this brief video to learn how SAP's mobile technology is helping Standard Bank, the largest bank in Africa, dramatically transform its banking services to better serve its customers. 

In this white paper, Rajesh K. Gupta, Electronic Arts' senior manager of applications for business intelligence (BI) and data services, explains how EA avoids many costly problems due to timely data access. Read this now to gain insight into how EA deployed job scheduling software and what benefits it reaped by doing so. 

As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming. 

Over the past two years, the mobile TV landscape has changed dramatically. 

Read this paper to learn how to enable a fast, scalable, fault-tolerant distributed foundation for data management that runs dynamically across the many-machine, many-core, memory-based computing topologies that today's organizations are assembling from existing IT resources and pay-as-you-go clouds. 

Hot spots can seriously reduce the efficiency of an organization's computer equipment. Watch this webcast for expert tips on remediating your data center's hot spots and discover the costs associated with the task. 

While desktop virtualization and VDI are certainly becoming trendy, the reality today is that properly designing a system is still complex and a source of worry and confusion for many architects. 

The benchmark study described in this whitepaper demonstrates Oracle Complex Event Processing's (CEP's) ability to provide both very high throughput and low latency on a single Exalogic compute node with a use case that is very typical of financial front office applications in capital markets. 

This free Sybase presentation provides a high-level overview of Complex Event Processing (CEP). It begins by defining CEP and its capital markets applications, and culminates with the powerful Sybase Aleri CEP platform and its features and benefits. 

The problem with becoming too comfortable with built-in SQL Server monitoring tools is that they're often used after problems have already arisen. Read this paper to discover how event notifications and extended events can help you drill down into SQL Server and proactively monitor your databases. 

Read this white paper to learn about the real-time analytics capabilities of complex event processing (CEP) and discover how this technology can be leveraged for business agility, particularly for algorithm monitiring in hte trading industry.