• Supports up to two Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 series on Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem Highly scalable DDR3 memory (12 DIMMs)
• High-speed PCI Express* 2.0 I/O (up to 4 slots)• Highly-flexible storage configurations
• Target Applications: File and print servers, e-mail servers, storage servers and vertical-specific business applications
• Supports up to two Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 series on Intel® Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem Increase server performance with no increase in power consumption
• Fast, scalable, energy-efficient memory 12 DIMMs of registered or unbuffered DDR3 ensure ample capacity and energy-efficient performance for any application

Product Description
The Intel Server Board S5500HCV is designed for affordable performance, targeting vertical-specific applications. With nine DIMMs of DDR3 memory and high-end features, such as integrated management, onboard SW RAID, and high performance dual Gigabit Ethernet, the Intel Server Board S5500HCV performs well in small to medium business environments.

Boxed Server Board S5500HCV

• Intel Corp.
• 5U Pedestal Server RDT PWR

Product Description
The Intel Server Chassis SC5400 offers an ideal solution for a variety of business environments. With great reliability, wide-ranging scalability, strong manageability, the SC5400 is a solid, cost-effective solution for a range of environments, from small businesses to database servers.

5U Pedestal Server Rdt Pwr

However, if a business architecture has to be modelled, encoded and assembled by using a large number of tools and software components it cannot provide the benefits. Today’s heavily fragmented and hardcoding-integrated IT systems (including SOA) are too rigid to enable rapidly changing business environments. Most IT departments do not focus on adaptability and innovation because they have been requested to focus on lowering cost and system stability. Therefore, six month rollout cycles are the norm with three month being the exception. Business users expectations of stability and executive demands for lower cost are incompatible with the ability to achieve a flexble and adaptive, competitive IT infrastructure. Efficiency is still the main IT goal, with effectiveness a far-off second and agility being no more than an overused buzzword.

Combine this with the misconception that running a business can be pre-planned and therefore encoded into processes and rules, with decisions being taken by predictive analysis based on historical (or better outdated?) business data. I propose that good business decisions are always taken by experienced people who use intuition to combine relevant data in business context. After billions of IT investments neither process management nor business intelligence have delivered the promised wonderland of the automated enterprise that the board can run remotely from the beach. Why?

Neither BPM nor BI consider the human side of running a business and therefore fail to produce a nimble, agile organization. Based on unproven management theories and over-optimistic information technology benefit claims a huge IT bureaucracy is now necessary to manage a complex technology stack. Control and use of the technology stack is only feasable through outsourcing partners and the necessary complex contracts reduce corporate agility even more. Billions are spent by the IT monopolists for marketing to sell an illusion of the IT-controlled business that does not exist and is not achievable by the proposed complex means.

The above situation was the reason for ISIS Papyrus to develop a new IT platform that does not require a huge technology stack and does not need complex programming but a simple modeling and rule definition methodology to build a flexible and adaptible Business Architecture that is mostly under the control of the business and not the IT department.

Agility AND innovation happen on the people level. BPM and SixSigma trash out the people empowerment slogan but fail to deliver because in neither approach people are given the freedom to do things as they see fit as long as the goals are achieved. Enterprise 2.0 is a countermovement to the bureaucratic IT-Governance approach, but if it is simply putting Web 2.0 behind the firewall without giving the user access to plausible business data entities there is not such thing as empowerment.

William of Ockham wrote in Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate: “The explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible and not invent further entities to explain a theory.” He was a friar and felt that the one entity of God would explain everything. Bertrand Russel translated it to: “The simplest explanation is usually the best.” Translated further to IT means that coded software systems or process solutions that require substantial resources to be model a business and even more to then adapt it to changing needs make things more complex than necessary. Flexibility AND adaptability by the user – while ensuring transparency and maintainability – are the key capabilities of modern systems. SixSigma adds a lot of bureaucratic complexity that is certainly not in line with Occam’s Razor. Let’s simplify …

A detailed description of Business Architecture features of the Papyrus Platform you will on my Papyrus Architecture blog.

Customers can use ILOG JRules as a “decision service” for Oracle BPEL Process Manager, providing the means for publishing rules and rule sets as reusable services that result from multiple business processes. This allows users to build flexible service-oriented architectures (SOA) by leveraging existing resources, while minimizing the cost of deploying new applications. Oracle BPEL Process Manager and the JRules-enabled decision service are critical components of a BPM solution, each reducing the cost and complexity of integration projects while increasing their strategic value.

“The global economy is operating in real-time, around the clock and organizations need to ensure their business change is operating at the same pace. That means ensuring systems have the flexibility to respond to changes rapidly and effectively,” said Amlan Debnath, vice president, Server Technologies at Oracle. “ILOG’s support of Oracle BPEL Process Manager provides our joint customers with a combination of flexibility, scalability and performance that is required in today’s business environment.”

BRMS: Essential to BPM and SOA
Business rule management systems (BRMS) combine with business process management systems (BPMS) to achieve the highest levels of process agility. A BRMS allows business policies to be managed separately from the rest of the application, eliminating the need to make policy changes to a BPM application through traditional software coding. This approach also means policies can be managed through BRMS-based decision services as part of a Service-oriented architecture (SOA). The resulting solutions provide for the continuous adjustment of processes in response to changing business conditions and allow business users to maintain the application, lowering IT maintenance costs. The BRMS market leader, ILOG is also the leader in technical integration with BPM vendors, including industry leaders Axway, BEA, EMC-Documentum, FileNet, Fuego, Fujitsu, IBM, Oracle, Vitria and W4. Currently, more than 30 Global 2000 organizations use ILOG’s BRMS products in combination with a BPM solution.

Oracle BPEL Process Manager, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, connects and coordinates business processes that span multiple departments and applications, combining processes and policies contained in disparate packaged applications and legacy systems into one platform. A key goal of Oracle’s BPM approach is to delegate the definition, coordination and execution of business processes to the business analysts – not IT – allowing them to visually define the business flows between applications, departments, business partners and individuals. ILOG JRules extends this functionality by allowing the business analysts to have access to the policies that are ultimately driving the business processes.

ILOG has consistently built on its history of product innovation to make ILOG JRules the industry’s leading business rule software. For the third year in a row, ILOG has been named to the leader quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Rule Engines and ILOG was recently named the BRMS market leader by IT research firm IDC. ILOG’s BRMS customers include eBay, Freddie Mac, Sabre, Zurich American and many other leading Global 2000 companies and governments worldwide.

ILOG is a member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork.

About ILOG
ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 2,000 global corporations and more than 400 leading software vendors rely on ILOG’s market-leading business rule management system (BRMS), optimization and visualization software components, to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge. ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 600 people worldwide.

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