planningIT is an enterprise-architecture management solution aimed at optimising IT investments and improving the alignment of IT to business strategy while supporting and maturing IT-planning capabilities. It does this by providing integrated business-demand management, solution assessment, and project-portfolio optimisation modules based on a logical IT inventory that also supports technology standardisation, architecture patterning, migration, and release management. The solution captures data related…
Technology Audits - published 01/03/2010 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Richard Edwards, Somak Roy
Informatica PowerCenter 8.6 provides the foundation for the Informatica data integration platform that addresses the data access, discovery, cleansing, integration, and delivery stages of the data integration process. The platform, enterprise data integration, data exchange in B2B and application environments, and in the cloud, are handled via an integrated environment. A metadata infrastructure supports a multi-modal data transformation and integration engine. Optional modules cover extended data access…
Technology Audits - published 23/04/2009 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Angela Eager, Somak Roy
ASG metaCMDB is a corporate Configuration Management Database (CMDB) solution. With it an organisation can define, and visually map, a data model comprising Configuration Items (CIs), and their attributes and relationships. metaCMDB populates this data model using connectors to data sources, such as IT management solutions or discovery and dependency mapping tools, whilst ensuring the accuracy and immediacy of the data through reconciliation and synchronisation capabilities. Corporate configuration manag…
Technology Audits - published 16/04/2009 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Somak Roy, Stephen Mann
HCL Technologies offers a suite of services related to SOA and BPM that includes roadmap planning, implementation facilitation, tool implementation, customisation, integration, formulation of governance mechanisms, setting up of integration competency centres (which involves training, documentation, frameworks, environments, and HCL proprietary tools), and post-implementation maintenance services. These planning and implementation services are available across a range of integration projects: SOA-based i…
Technology Audits - published 15/04/2009 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Joe Baguley, Rob Hailstone, Somak Roy
Aplicor offers an integrated bundle of hosted CRM and ERP solutions, comprising modules such as General Ledger, Cash Management, Project Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Fixed Assets, Sales Force Automation, Marketing, Customer Support, Project Management, and Partner Relationship Management. Aplicor’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering is aimed at mid-sized and large enterprises and differentiates itself with its focus on business requireme…
Technology Audits - published 17/03/2009 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Angela Eager, Somak Roy
InterSystems DeepSee™ is a Business Intelligence (BI) solution that enables the real-time analysis of transactional data, and is designed to be optimal for embedding within transactional applications. Business users in healthcare, government, financial services, telecommunications, retail, and logistics require analysis and alerting based on current data for real-time decision making. DeepSee has four modules that provide capabilities for building data models, analytical elements, dashboards, and connect…
Technology Audits - published 04/03/2009 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Richard Edwards, Somak Roy
Blue Coat’s Application Delivery Network (ADN) infrastructure enables the flow of information to users across the network structure of corporate headquarters, branch offices, and mobile users to be accelerated, optimised, and secured. A range of capabilities for WAN optimisation, application visibility, bandwidth management, URL filtering, and Web-borne malware protection is provided, primarily through two product lines – ProxySG (which combines Web security and WAN optimisation) and PacketShaper (which …
Technology Audits - published 26/02/2009 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Alan Rodger, Somak Roy
Pitney Bowes Customer Data Quality Platform (CDQP) is a domain-specific customer data quality management system that enables tasks such as integration, cleansing, matching, profiling, monitoring, and enriching the data with location and demographic information. For most B2C companies, accurate customer data and a single consolidated view of the customer is crucial for efficient outreach programs, efficient decision making, and also regulatory compliance for certain sectors such as banking. CDQP’s core op…
Technology Audits - published 17/12/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Mike Thompson, Somak Roy
B2M offers mprodigy, a mobile device management suite, aimed at providing high availability of mission-critical mobile devices and consistent user experience to mobile workers engaged in tasks such as parcel delivery and on-site maintenance. The suite comprises five software modules that support remote application and configuration updates, remote Help Desk and trouble shooting, asset management (hardware and software assets), reporting for device and service provider management, consistent connectivity …
Technology Audits - published 12/12/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Angela Eager, Somak Roy
Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) offers e-Messaging, a solution for two-way e-mail and SMS-based communication with customers. e-Messaging enables high-volume delivery; helps personalise messages; analyses the aggregated delivery and response status; develops workflow-based automated response systems to message replies; and indexes and archives messages to offer a customer-centric view. Client organisations with a sizeable direct customer communication operation will benefit from a solution of this n…
Technology Audits - published 05/12/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Sue Clarke
Cisco’s Unified Communications (UC) offering can be delivered on premise, on demand, managed, or hosted, and comprises a call processing platform; unified messaging; contact centre solutions; Web, video, and audio conferencing; mobility solutions; and clients for accessing all synchronous modes of communication. All of the aforementioned are supported by a service-aware network infrastructure, presence capabilities, and UC infrastructure management solutions. In addition, Cisco provides an application de…
Technology Audits - published 03/12/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Mark Blowers, Somak Roy
QAS Gateway is a contact data management software solution for the public sector that unifies address search functionality against the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), National Gazetteer for Scotland variations of the Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG) and Corporate Address Gazetteer (CAG). The solution can be used to bring these data sources within reach of more government departments allowing them to benefit from these high quality national resources for land and property information....
Technology Audits - published 27/11/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Sarah Burnett
CODA’s latest release of the company’s financial management suite, branded as Neon, comprises core financial applications such as General Ledger, Assets, Order to Pay, invoice matching, cash management, reporting and analysis, and planning and budgeting. In addition CODA offers a number of related applications supporting financial management processes such as Consolidation, Governance and Compliance, collaborative purchasing, approvals, workflow, spend management, analytics, and good integration capabili…
Technology Audits - published 27/11/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Angela Eager
Pitney Bowes Business Insight provides MapInfo Professional v9.5, a desktop application that supports mapping, visualisation, creation, editing, and analysis of business data with respect to location. For many B2C companies, analysing data in the context of location, and therefore in terms of related factors such as demographics, facilitates a number of planning and optimisation processes, including infrastructure planning, resource allocation, and customer trends. MapInfo Professional v9.5 indexes locat…
Technology Audits - published 25/11/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Angela Eager, Somak Roy
The IBM mobility solutions are aimed at enabling the extension of enterprise applications and collaboration software to handheld devices, across disparate networks, endpoint platforms, and form factors, in a way that reduces the costs of mobile enablement, as well as offering a consistent and high availability experience to the end user. The Lotus Mobile Connect module provides the core services of VPN connectivity, seamless roaming across multiple carrier networks, and session continuity. The IBM WebSph…
Technology Audits - published 22/10/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Mark Blowers
TelecityGroup has a network of 20 carrier-independent data centres located in key business hubs in several Western European countries, from which it provides core data centre services (with associated value-added services) in locations that provide its target customers with distinct advantages – most significantly the opportunity to locate elements of their IT infrastructure in close proximity to major Internet infrastructure that the company also hosts. For many Web- and content-centric companies, perfo…
Technology Audits - published 21/10/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Alan Rodger
DataSynapse’s Dynamic Application Service Management Platform (DASM) incorporates two key solutions: GridServer®, a grid management tool for platforming applications that can readily use parallel processing; and FabricServer, which enables transactional business applications to be provisioned in real time to physical and virtual servers, based on policy. FabricServer™ includes an Eclipse-based Studio that equips applications for virtualisation, and its runtime management assembles application components …
Technology Audits - published 15/09/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Alan Rodger, Somak Roy
The IT Service Management (ITSM) Blueprint is a service suite comprising an assessment of the ITSM maturity, a set of ITIL-based processes, detailed tool configurations, workshop-based training, and post implementation monitoring. The service set is aimed at developing the business case, securing buy-in, and closely linking best practice methodology-based processes with solution configuration. A lot of organisations struggle with ITIL adoption because of challenges associated with establishing and commun…
Technology Audits - published 01/09/2008 - Aanchal Sabharwal, Richard Edwards, Somak Roy
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