Research Reports

Enterprise Modernization: Maintain, Extend, and Integrate with IBM Rational on System z 
by Christian Gravelle

In today’s highly dynamic Internet age organizations are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to increase productivity and reduce costs across the enterprise IT ecosystem. More than ever, and given the economic times, those individuals responsible for steering their organizations IT direction are facing increased challenges in advancing their positions with reduced budgets while at the same time having to demonstrate even greater returns on their investments. In the quest to find further efficiencies in maintaining, extending and integrating enterprise assets, one such avenue that is garnering increased attention is that of enterprise modernization. The following will offer insight and perspective into this evolving facet of IT across the enterprise.

 

Electronic Health Records: Interactions and Transactions between Systems in an Ecosystem 
by Branham Group

Clinical reporting in primary care settings is predominantly paper driven. Meanwhile, hospitals and acute care settings are working with a combined paper and electronic system. Canada Health Infoway has created an Electronic Health Record (EHR) blueprint architecture as the infostructure foundation to guide Canada’s eHealth agenda. It is no longer a question of whether electronic health records will be implemented for all patients in Canada. Rather, it is a question of when and how, to what level of detail and how to access the information?

 

Integrating Adobe LiveCycle ES and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 
by Christian Gravelle

Today, many organizations are implementing applications using Adobe enterprise technologies to build more engaging experiences for their customers, partners, and internal users. These organizations also need to leverage their investments in existing enterprise content management systems (ECMs) such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. This paper provides two scenarios that illustrate how integrating Adobe LiveCycle ES (Enterprise Suite) software and MOSS can achieve additional productivity and efficiency for your organization.

 

Chronic Disease Management: An Investment toward Sustainability 
by Branham Group

Canada is facing an epidemic. Chronic disease is a significant economic and social burden on our country. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that chronic disease is responsible for 60% of the global disease burden. In Canada the financial burden of chronic illness, disability and death is over $80 billion. Governments at every level are engaging health organizations to develop programs and initiatives aimed at managing chronic disease.

 

Canada's Top 300 Tech Companies 
by Jessica Collins

2007 was a record-setting year of tremendous activity for Canadians and IT, as successful ICT mergers and acquisitions have dominated the news. While the big fish in the pond have not had their fill of the little fish, they have moved onto consuming one another, a trend already evident in 2008. A growing concern for improved public health processes and eco-friendly IT has also created new niches for existing players and industry veterans. The landscape of ICT is in a constant state of flux – and Canada has brought its A-game.

 

Unleashing the Business Value of Todays Mainframe 
by Christian Gravelle

The System z platform has evolved to provide new compatibilities helping the platform play well in a distributed environment and compete favorably with other servers in the market. Continued advancements in the platform’s architecture provide customers with the traditional capabilities that have been proven throughout its existence in addition to offering the new capabilities that are expected in today’s highly dynamic Internet age.

 

Deploying New Workloads to System z: Strategic Options 
by Christian Gravelle

In the 1990s, the future of the mainframe looked particularly grim, with many pundits writing epitaphs for mainframe systems then being replaced with more "nimble" and "cheaper" client/server distributed architectures. However, the industry did not see the expected mass exodus from the mainframe, and instead is now seeing increased interest in the mainframe as IT managers realize that the mainframe has few equals when it comes to reliability, security and additional cost benefits.

 

Symantec 2007 - Pulse of IT Security in Canada - Volume V 
by Branham Group

With attacks on IT infrastructures on the rise and continued discovery of vulnerabilities and exploits, attention continues to be focused on more effective ways of preventing and managing breaches in IT security. The annual Symantec Pulse of IT Security in Canada survey, now in its fifth year, assesses how key decision makers view and respond to IT security challenges in Canadian enterprises. This report highlights changes over the past 12 months.

 

Canada's Top 300 
by Branham Group

It was a year of change both in Canada and internationally. In 2006 our nation elected a new party into parliament, and war continued to affect the state of the world and the economy. With business processes costing more each year, companies have started to look toward India and China and also to Canada to help accomplish major business objectives. The year was another successful one for the Canadian IT sector, proving there is a continuing upward trend amongst the nation’s top IT companies. Industry Canada reports that since 2001, the Canadian economy has grown by 14 per cent, while the ICT sector’s GDP increased by 27 per cent—proving Canadian IT companies, as a whole, have been performing strongly throughout this period.

 

Symantec 2006 - Pulse of IT Security in Canada - Volume IV 
by Branham Group

With attacks on IT infrastructures on the rise and continued discovery of vulnerabilities and exploits, attention continues to be focused on more effective ways of preventing and managing breaches in IT security. The annual Symantec Pulse of IT Security in Canada survey, now in its fouth year, assesses how key decision makers view and respond to IT security challenges in Canadian enterprises. This report highlights changes over the past 12 months.

 

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