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Cloud Customer Architecture for Enterprise Social Collaboration describes how to leverage social collaboration tools to harness ideas, exchange information, and increase the speed of innovation across the business.
 
This cloud reference architecture was written for enterprise Information Technology (IT) and business decision makers to assist in understanding the technical capabilities and integration requirements necessary to deliver Enterprise Social Collaboration solutions. It is a vendor-neutral and best practices approach to describe the flows and relationships between business capabilities, functional areas, and architectural components delivered as a cloud solution.
 
This whitepaper discusses how social collaboration solutions can be applied to different industries and aligned with key business initiatives.

Cloud Customer Architecture for e-Commerce describes how to support e-Commerce solutions using cloud computing. The reference architecture contains a detailed view of the components, subcomponents and relationships for a cloud-based e-Commerce solution.
 
This whitepaper describes the flows and relationships between business capabilities and architectural components for e-Commerce applications that use cloud computing infrastructure, platforms and/or services. The elements of the architecture are used to instantiate an e-Commerce system using private, public, or hybrid cloud deployment models. Applications comprising the core components may be delivered as a service, from on-premises, or hosted.
 
A runtime scenario is outlined with deployment

Blockchain technology has the potential to have a major impact on how institutions process transactions and conduct business.
 
Blockchain technology provides a secure transaction ledger database through a decentralized network. It has the potential to reduce operational costs and friction, create transaction records that are secure and immutable, enable transparent ledgers with nearly instant updates, and open up new opportunities for growth.
 
This whitepaper introduces basic blockchain concepts that define a standard reference architecture that can be used in creating blockchain applications.
 
Sections of the paper include:

• Blockchain fundamentals
• Key characteristics of a blockchain network
• Blockchain reference architecture capabilities
• An example supply chain scenario using the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain implementation
• Cloud deployment considerations
• Specific examples of blockchain applications

Cloud Customer Architecture for Big Data and Analytics describes the architectural elements and cloud components needed to build out big data and analytics solutions.
 
Big data analytics and cloud computing are a top priority for CIOs. Harnessing the value and power of big data and cloud computing can give your company a competitive advantage, spark new innovations, and increase revenue. Many companies are experimenting and iterating with different cloud configurations as a way to understand and refine requirements for their big data analytics solutions without upfront capital investment.
 
This whitepaper includes proven architecture patterns that have been deployed in successful enterprise projects and a description of capabilities offered by cloud providers.

The Practical Guide to Platform-as-a-Service was written to help enterprise information technology (IT) managers, business decision makers, application architects and application developers understand the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud service category and how it can be used to solve business challenges rapidly and cost effectively.
 
This guide contains best practices for using PaaS in terms of architecture, development processes, integration, deployment and operation.
 
Differences between traditional application development and delivery and the appropriate techniques for PaaS platforms are highlighted, since in many cases the biggest gains for the enterprise result from the adoption of newer, more efficient, more rapid and less error-prone techniques for creating, testing and deploying applications.

The Practical Guide to Cloud Service Agreements was written to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers analyze cloud service agreements (CSAs) from different cloud service providers.
 
CSAs are written to set clear expectations for service between the cloud customer (buyer) and the cloud provider (seller), but should also exist between a customer and other cloud entities, such as the cloud carrier, the cloud broker and even the cloud auditor. This guide focuses primarily on the CSA details between the cloud customer and cloud provider.
 
The “Guide for Evaluating Cloud Service Agreements” section is the heart of the paper. It provides a prescriptive series of steps that cloud customers should take to evaluate CSAs in order to compare multiple cloud providers or to negotiate terms with a selected provider

Interoperability and Portability for Cloud Computing: A Guide was written to provide a clear definition of interoperability and portability and how these concepts relate to various aspects of cloud computing and to cloud services.
 
The aim of this guide is to give both cloud service customers and cloud service providers guidance in the provision and selection of cloud services indicating how interoperability and portability affect the cost, security, and risk involved.
 
Version 2.0 is updated to reflect the ISO/IEC 19941 Cloud Computing Interoperability and Portability standard and its facet models of interoperability, data portability, and application portability. Containers and their associated technologies are addressed in the paper, as well as automation in the use of cloud services.

Convergence of Social, Mobile and Cloud: 7 Steps to Ensure Success is a practical reference to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers analyze and consider the implications of social, mobile and cloud technologies on their business. Organizations increasingly value how these technologies can improve customer engagement, forge new partnerships and drive competitive advantage and seek to understand the impact on new and existing business processes.
 
This guide contains guidance and strategies to help decision makers evaluate and compare offerings in key areas from different providers. Along with the base technologies of social, mobile and cloud, the guide discusses the importance of supporting technologies like integration, Big Data analytics and DevOps that enhance the business value of convergence. Industry-specific use cases are used to highlight business impact.

Convergence of Social, Mobile and Cloud: 7 Steps to Ensure Success is a practical reference to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers analyze and consider the implications of social, mobile and cloud technologies on their business. Organizations increasingly value how these technologies can improve customer engagement, forge new partnerships and drive competitive advantage and seek to understand the impact on new and existing business processes.
 
This guide contains guidance and strategies to help decision makers evaluate and compare offerings in key areas from different providers. Along with the base technologies of social, mobile and cloud, the guide discusses the importance of supporting technologies like integration, Big Data analytics and DevOps that enhance the business value of convergence. Industry-specific use cases are used to highlight business impact.

The Impact of Cloud Computing on Healthcare was written to help enterprise information technology (IT) and business decision makers of the healthcare industry as they analyze and consider the implications of cloud computing on their business.
 
This guide contains guidance and strategies to help decision makers evaluate and compare cloud computing offerings from different providers, taking into account requirements from various actors including medical practices, hospitals, research facilities, insurance companies and governments. The paper covers current market dynamics, challenges and benefits of cloud computing on healthcare IT.
 
Throughout the paper, the role that management and IT standards play to improve the flexibility, interoperability and portability of cloud computing environments is highlighted.
 
Topics covered in detail:

• Key factors influencing cloud computing adoption in the healthcare industry, the barriers to address, and considerations for service and deployment models
• Specific IT trends in the healthcare industry that are addressed most effectively, both technically and economically, by cloud computing as opposed to traditional IT environments
• Cloud computing services for healthcare currently available that provide substantial benefits to healthcare organizations and patients
• The planning process for migrating healthcare IT systems and applications to the cloud
• Recommendations for how best to achieve the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining an acceptable level of risk

Cloud Customer Architecture for Enterprise Social Collaboration describes how to leverage social collaboration tools to harness ideas, exchange information, and increase the speed of innovation across the business.
 
This cloud reference architecture was written for enterprise Information Technology (IT) and business decision makers to assist in understanding the technical capabilities and integration requirements necessary to deliver Enterprise Social Collaboration solutions. It is a vendor-neutral and best practices approach to describe the flows and relationships between business capabilities, functional areas, and architectural components delivered as a cloud solution.
 
This paper discusses how social collaboration solutions can be applied to different industries and aligned with key business initiatives.

Blockchain technology has the potential to have a major impact on how institutions process transactions and conduct business.
 
Blockchain technology provides a secure transaction ledger database through a decentralized network. It has the potential to reduce operational costs and friction, create transaction records that are secure and immutable, enable transparent ledgers with nearly instant updates, and open up new opportunities for growth.
 
This whitepaper introduces basic blockchain concepts that define a standard reference architecture that can be used in creating blockchain applications.
 
Sections of the paper include:

• Blockchain fundamentals
• Key characteristics of a blockchain network
• Blockchain reference architecture capabilities
• An example supply chain scenario using the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain implementation
• Cloud deployment considerations
• Specific examples of blockchain applications