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CIO Executive Council

A Peer-Advisory Service and Professional Association for CIOs

Webcast: In the Google Apps Cloud: How to Achieve Your Business Objectives

Dec 3rd, '09, 1 - 2 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)

Join Council member Brent Hoag, Director, Global IT, at JohnsonDiversey, as he discusses the adoption of Google Apps which has helped meet four corporate goals; sustainability, simplification, increased employee productivity and global collaboration.

Webcast: Collaboration Initiatives: Benchmarks & Best Practices

Dec 15th, '09, 4 - 5 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)

Join Council members Ruth Thorpe, VP & CIO at the U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations of Sanofi-Aventis, and Gary Kuyper, CIO at Bethany Christian Services, as they speak about their collaboration initiatives and experiences in how and why they chose the social networking and collaboration tools they are using and their business goals for collaboration, and facing culture change challenges.

Data Overview: Collaboration Initiatives Field Guide: Benchmarks & Best Practices

This appendix to the Council Field Guide provides an analysis which discusses benchmarks for collaboration IT implementation costs, adoption rates and payoffs. The overview identifies top IT and business goals and satisfaction rates for collaboration initiatives as well as best practices and lessons learned for implementing collaboration IT.

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Just what will you find in the new crop of precertified suites? Here’s a sampling of options.Red Hat: Offers the ...

Just what will you find in the new crop of precertified suites? Here’s a sampling of options.

Red Hat: Offers the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite, with the JBoss application server, plus tools for portal management, business process rules management, caching, distributed transaction management, messaging and development.

SourceLabs: Offers the SASH stack for Java middleware, comprising Spring Framework for business logic and component integration, Apache Axis for Web services, Apache Struts for Web application development, and Hibernate for object-relational mapping and data abstraction.

SpikeSource: Offers three preintegrated middleware stacks: the LAMP Stack (composed of Linux, Apache, MySQL and a choice of Perl or PHP) for websites with dynamic database-driven content, the Tomcat-based Servlet Stack for dynamic websites written using Java-based Web technologies, and the JBoss-based J2EE Stack for Web applications using Java Servlets and Enterprise JavaBeans.

Unisys: Offers three Open and Secure Integrated Solutions (Oasis) suites—one for application servers and two for open-source databases—using technologies such as the JBoss application server, and the MySQL or PostgreSQL databases. In the application server, Unisys includes its own Java virtual machine, designed for high-transaction scalable environments, and its own application-level security software.