Building the Case for a .NET BRMS
Complex or frequently changing decision logic makes business rules difficult and expensive to author and maintain. Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) streamline business processes and make them easier to maintain by separating business logic from application code. With the right authoring tools, such as MS Word plug-ins, a BRMS enables Subject Matter Experts (SME) to help IT in maintaining key business logic in a structured, managed environment. Meanwhile, IT is enabled with strong tools to manage rules along with their other application artifacts, leveraging their .NET skills and familiar tools like Visual Studio and easily integrating into their .NET infrastructure. This whitepaper is provided by InRule Technology ®.

IBM Service Management for the Intelligent Utility Network
The Intelligent Utility Network is a significant initiative that will be driving utilities for the next ten years. But the roadmap does not need to be tackled all at once. The roadmap for each company will depend on your specific priorities. However, IBM’s experience suggests that the greatest initial value can be derived from implementing IBM Maximo Asset Management for meter asset management, and Tivoli Asset Management for IT and Tivoli Netcool technologies for managing advanced meters and SCADA equipment. IBM has successfully delivered IUN infrastructures around the world that provide superior reliability and end-to-end network data in near real time. We bring to the table the integration skills, leading-edge technology, and proven products to support every stage of an IUN initiative. To learn more about IBM’s service management solutions for the Intelligent Utility Network, contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit ibm.com/tivoli

IBM Whitepaper: Beyond converged networks: driving user productivity through unified communications and collaboration.
Unified communications and collaboration strategies can help organizations deliver a user experience that brings together communications and collaboration silos across and beyond traditional business boundaries. By adopting these solutions, organizations can address critical needs such as improving productivity and responsiveness, supporting an increasingly complex and global business network and meeting the communications

Evolving your XenApp and Presentation Server Infrastructure
A disaster recovery and business continuity solution

Avaya Unified Communications Can Reduce Cell Phone Expenses
Avaya defines Unified Communications as orchestrated communication and collaboration across locations, time, and medium to accelerate business results. It is achieved through the convergence of real-time, near-real-time, and non-real-time business communication applications including: calling, conferencing, messaging, contacts, calendaring, collaboration, and rich presence with voice, video, text, and visual elements. Users can access these capabilities using multiple modalities including voice, data, and speech access, through telephones, PCs, and mobile devices. These communications services are increasingly designed to be embedded into structured and unstructured business processes. This takes Unified Communications to the next level in terms of IP voice and video telephony; audio, web and video conferencing; unified messaging of voicemail, email, and fax; instant messaging and more.