Integrating with back end systems is the only way to build rich mobile applications.
Connecting to back-end systems to integrate existing enterprise data into the workflow becomes critical.
In the old model, software was created to smooth processes and increase efficiency for back-end systems.
Oracle is helping out by adapting its database software to run on lower-end systems.
It was no easy feat and required dealing with exceedingly complex back-end systems, as well as many handsets.
It can run on high-end systems and on Hadoop or cloud installations.
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As for services, a new generation of easy-connection software like Sun Microsystems Jini might wipe out low- end systems integrators in a blink.
It does this by communicating between those programs and back-end systems.
Instead, their customer service agents spend most of their time bridging a digital divide between the consumer and those back-end systems only the agents can reach.
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One of the biggest but arguably easiest-to-remedy pitfalls is that an increasing array of networking equipment and end systems today are shipped with IPv6 enabled by default.
In other words: if you want to get the most out of your mobile devices and apps, then you need to bolster, if not overhaul, your back-end systems.
Further, since 4G is an IP-based technology, back-end systems will be upgraded to IP-capable networks and this will provide opportunities for Cisco and other companies in the IP router and infrastructure business.
On the wired side, there is concern that bandwidth will not be able to keep up with demand since the companies that build the back-end systems have no real incentive to continue adding capacity.
If a city were to try to go it alone, it would have to make huge investments in back-end systems to provide all of these services, to run the fiber directly to the homes, and in-home devices.
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And herein lies the nagging doubt that many SAP customers, influencers and employees still have: Can SAP can fully transform its old-school ERP ways in order to un-tether back end systems and deal with critical mobility pain points like security and scalability?
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Public safety is unified in its quest for this additional spectrum and as the network begins to take shape, it will be working with the commercial network operators to share some services, back-end systems, and other assets in order to maximize the network while minimizing its costs.
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But servers divided into low-end commodity systems and high-end machines that tended to be sold as part of a solution, and competition hounded the joy out of commodity servers, too.
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It is also empowering the high-end navigation systems of VW group brands Volkswagen and Skoda.
The company has to evolve into selling cloud software as well as higher-end hardware systems.
So even as prospects for arms sales in the Middle East are receding, domestic demand for high-end military systems looks likely to rise.
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The distributed denial-of-service attack failed to crash those payment networks, but David says Anonymous did manage to poke around their back-end computer systems.
Engineers and designers eagerly watch as we test out plush seat recliners, back massagers and high-end audio systems all of which seem taken straight from a multimillion-dollar mansion.
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The best of them deliver lively performance and offer upscale amenities like heated leather seats and high-end audio systems that can integrate with smartphones to stream music and data from the Internet.
The days of 60% margins on high-end storage systems may be gone, but Darren Thomas, a former head of storage at Compaq and now chief executive of Zambeel, a start-up, says that storage remains the most durable part of the technology industry.
The result is that most of the world's traditional systems end up being remarkably similar.
But these established giants face competition at the electronics-systems end of defence contracts.
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At the high end the Power systems come with 32 sockets, 256 cores and 4 threads per core, matching mainframes in their processing capacity.
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Since Polycom sells business-focused, high-end Telepresence video systems to companies, the app will also link to those systems, as well as to more modest, desktop-based video setups.
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