Enterprise Integration Solutions , Software and Consulting - iStart.co.nz
Welcome to the Consulting and Integration solutions research pavilion. Below you will find information from most of the leading vendors of these solutions and services in New Zealand, including contact details, case studies, articles, demos, web links, brochures and white papers to assist you research and locate the best solution for your organisation. Check also the iStart Diary for local seminars on this subject. All vendors showcased below will be glad to assist with your enquiries.
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Delta Software is an established IT software and consulting company focused on delivering expertise and tools for improved operational performance. We pride ourselves on operating to the highest standards of business conduct in all our dealings with clients, suppliers, partners and employees.
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'As a systems integrator and open systems supplier, Eagle Technology Group boasts a market-leading line-up of hardware and software partners and a highly skilled and talented staff of technical specialists and product consultants. Eagle Technology's commitment to its customers is reflected as the supplier of choice for an impressive customer base. Local ownership and operation ensures the company has the independence to be innovative, creative and responsive.'
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IBM Global Services are qualified to help you realise the potential of e-business. We provide distinct resources to help strengthen your competitive edge as you grow your business-to-business or business-to consumer e-business operations. We develop creative solutions through strategic application of new technologies to achieve bottom-line results.
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Through partnerships with world leading suppliers of software, hardware and peripherals and our own team of specialists, Fujitsu New Zealand Ltd provides a full range of business solutions based around software products and services, IT infrastructure and hardware, IT operations and support, and business consulting.
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HP services is one of the few providers worldwide that can act as a single source for a total enterprise IT services solution. The company provides end-to-end, full lifecycle services and support that covers planning, design, implementation, management, and support of networks, applications & systems.
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Intergen is a Microsoft Gold Partner in Commerce and Collaborative Solutions. We specialise in exploiting Microsoft technology to meet new business opportunities. Our experience is extensive and includes integrating a wide range of systems using XML, BizTalk and Web Services.
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Olympic Software is a New Zealand based company specialising in Business Software and Internet Solutions. A vision of "World Class Software Engineering" underpins our strong philosophy of developing innovative solutions, maximising clients' capabilities and enhancing their competitive advantage.
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Systems integration is about designing, building or adjusting your company IT or business process systems to ensure there's a cohesive approach to information across diverse components or equipment from multiple vendors.
Integration generally means combining parts so that they work together or form a whole. In information technology that can mean bringing different manufacturers' products together into a single system.
Why do we need it?
During the 80s, the dawning of the age of business computer systems, technology grew in great leaps and bounds with little concern for how it was all going to work together. Mainframes, minicomputers and eventually the PC had different operating systems, as did the networks that connected them.
As the 90s shifted the focus to connectivity, network operating systems became more complex but meant a greater range of hardware and software could co-operate on the same network. Now as we enter the age of interconnected enterprises internal systems are expected to interact across departments and branches as well as with the systems of partners in the supply chain.
That's where systems integration or the services offered by a systems integrator become invaluable. If in-house IT resources are already stretched, this is a function that can be outsourced to a consulting company with IT analysis and software customising skills.
Who should consider systems integration?
If your organisation has grown in a piecemeal way with different departments responsible for their own IT development and are considering ways to improve efficiency and get into business-to-business electronic commerce then you need to think seriously about systems integration.
If different departments’ systems are connected to each other, each department can get a much better view of how to sell to and service the customer.
Systems integration ensures that organisations can begin to operate more holistically, with systems working together to build a corporate memory and much deeper relationships with customers and business partners. Getting the old and new systems working together opens the way for greater co-operation, speedier access to data and a much better grasp of resources.
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Interview: Infor Global CTO – Kiwi Bruce Gordon and the power of SOA |
Bruce Gordon, the kiwi CTO of global software vendor Infor, explains the benefits of using service-oriented architecture as the foundation for robust, adaptable, business solutions. |
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Web Services -Right Here, Right Now |
Delivering Web Services Today with IBM Solutions. By Lawrence Wilkes Principal Analyst, CBDi Forum. |
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Messaging - your business lifeblood |
The human body needs a constant flow of nutrients and energy to survive. Blockages can be fatal and in business it’s no different. Marty Verry examines the business equivalent to human pacemakers and dialysis machines - integration solutions and message-broking services - and how they’re being used locally. |
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XML Web Services Basics |
This MSDN article provides an overview of the value of XML Web services, and includes introductions to key technologies such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. |
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Free IBM Whitepaper |
Free IBM Whitepaper: Automating control of your e-business applications and infrastructure. |
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Worldwide Retail Exchange selects Sonic Software's XML engine |
With the end goal of increasing supply chain efficiencies and overall productivity, the WWRE is leveraging Sonic's native XML storage and processing. |
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Why Web Services Will Gradually Dominate e-Business Development |
Web services may be pitched as a radically new development paradigm that will suddenly transform the way we conduct e-business, but Nigel Thomas of SpiritSoft predicts that the adoption curve will be much more gradual. In this article, he presents his vision of the incremental but inexorable impact that Web services will have on e-business application development. |
