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Enterprise architecture as a discipline still lacks the data and performance analytics-driven approach that is becoming pervasive in IT. Without a fact-based assessment of each architecture option, enterprise architecture is prone to be guided by opinion, which can prove expensive, open to manipulation, and inefficient. This is where a metrics-based tool such as ABACUS holds a distinct advantage.
Technology Audits - published 10/05/2010 - Mark Blowers, Nishant Singh
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The benefits of desktop virtualization have dramatically increased with the emergence of two new architectures: hosted virtual desktops (HVD) and application virtualization. Neither of these suffer the limitations of previous thin-client or desktop virtualization systems, and both can be implemented simultaneously using VMware View.
Technology Audits - published 10/05/2010 - Tim Stammers
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System Architect is an Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Analysis, and system modelling tool that helps organisations to define and maintain Enterprise Architecture models, governance, and transition initiatives to plan and manage business change and transformation. The foundation of the product is a multi-user, common repository that enables the maintenance of a single knowledgebase of operations and users to visualise the relationships between various business and technology objects from many d…
Technology Audits - published 21/07/2009 - Mark Blowers
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2009 is the year that Butler Group is predicting that many organisations will begin to take a serious look at desktop virtualisation. We do not anticipate that these will be all full scale deployments; rather pilot projects so IT and the business can understand the implications, costs, and benefits. The big question for IT is to determine which approach is best suited to their particular organisation’s specific requirements.
OpinionWire Articles - published 21/05/2009 - Roy Illsley
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Portfolio-based management has become a corporate necessity, as modern organisations are increasingly expected to ‘deliver more with less’ and provide governance-led transparency. HP Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Center is part of HP’s Business Technology Optimisation (BTO) portfolio – software that helps IT management run IT like a business – and can help customers cut IT costs, speed delivery of new services, and align IT for business value. HP’s enterprise-level project and portfolio manageme…
Technology Audits - published 06/05/2009 - Stephen Mann
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The terms Continuous Availability (CA), High Availability (HA), Fault Tolerant (FT), and Disaster Recovery (DR) have been used by the x86 virtualisation vendors as potential added-benefits from using the technology.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 17/03/2009 - Roy Illsley
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For many organisations Problem Management is somewhat of a poor relation to corporate Service Desk and Incident Management activity. Whilst the Service Desk and Incident Management processes are adequately staffed, defined, and operated, Problem Management is often ‘something to be done when time allows’.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 17/03/2009 - Stephen Mann
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I was doodling through my favourite website, Wikipedia – and I came across an article on “National IQ”. In 2006, Dr. Richard Lynn and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen published a book called “IQ and Global Inequality”.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 17/03/2009 - Terry White
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Speech-based transcription, dictation, and translation capabilities have improved markedly over the past decade due to refined algorithms, increased computational power, and general advancements in digital audio and recording equipment.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 05/03/2009 - Richard Edwards
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President Obama has been working on his green credentials for a while. Since before the presidential election Obama talked about his vision to invest US$150 billion in renewable energy such as wind power, solar power, and bio fuels over the next decade.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 05/03/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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As I write this article, Nigeria’s only geostationary satellite, NigComSat-1, is reported to have failed. The satellite was launched in May 2007, amid significant controversy.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 05/03/2009 - Terry White
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The way in which IT consumers pay for the software they use needs to be considered as fair and reasonable by the end-user, as well as appropriate to the business value that can be derived from it.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 05/03/2009 - Roy Illsley
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We frequently look ahead to the major ‘cloud computing’ trend that will see us using computing resources in the cloud, but back in the present a near-opposite medium, in the form of hardware-based delivery of enterprise software on appliances, continues to enjoy growing popularity.
OpinionWire Articles - published 05/03/2009 - Alan Rodger
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IT innovation is not currently at the top of most CIOs’ agendas, subsumed in the short term by business and cost pressures, and over a longer timeframe by the focus on applying IT to create business value, rather than on pure IT research.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 05/03/2009 - Tim Jennings
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In mid-December HCL Technologies, the international arm of the Indian technology firm HCL, completed its acquisition of Axon, paying around UK£440 million. Axon is one of the leading global providers of consulting and application services for users of SAP products, and the acquisition marks a major step forward for HCL Technologies – which has formerly focused mainly on technology-focused application services, and operations transformation – into higher-value consulting and application-related services.
OpinionWire Articles - published 09/01/2009 - Alan Rodger
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SEER for IT is an estimation model from Galorath that aids organisations in the task of assessing up front the feasibility of all IT infrastructure related projects, optimising project costs and schedules, assessing risks and probabilities, monitoring project progress, and initiating appropriate mid-course corrections if needed. Galorath provides a knowledge base that consists of historical project data in the form of a database of IT cost drivers that can be leveraged to generate project values and rang…
Technology Audits - published 05/12/2008 - Angela Eager, Balachandar Ganesh, Somak Roy
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Recommind, a provider of enterprise search solutions, recently announced a new offering designed to help organisations explore, preserve, and collect electronically stored information to prepare for and comply with litigation and regulatory investigations.
OpinionWire Articles - published 05/12/2008 - Richard Edwards
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For many organisations, improving project management skills has been a high priority, in reaction to the persistent problems of budget overruns, resource conflicts, late delivery, and ultimately project failures.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/11/2008 - Tim Jennings
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Organisations, and the IT industry in general, are moving slowly but surely towards a services-oriented, network-centric model of computing, and as a result the venerable Windows-based desktop computer – together with its applications – is starting to be seen as something of a legacy system.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/10/2008 - Richard Edwards
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The IT strategy of many organisations has evolved over a period of time rather than been purposely defined, and in many cases is not actually documented. However, businesses and customers expect IT systems and services to meet the requirements of the organisation with the consequent need for translating the organisation's objectives into IT strategy and capabilities, in order that together they can respond to the rapidly-changing environment. The adoption of an end-to-end architectural approach can help …
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 22/09/2008 - Chandranshu Singh, Karthik Balakrishnan, Mark Blowers, Roy Illsley, Tim Jennings
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Visiting Hyderabad last week, I was very impressed by how much the city as a whole had moved on in the 11 months since my last visit. Yes, the traffic situation was pretty much the same, but HITEC City (HITEC stands for Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy) was impressive, surrounded by many of the big names in the IT industry (as well as a few new names that perhaps we need to be on the watch for). Hyderabad itself is a fabulous mixture of the old and the new, and according to the lo…
OpinionWire Articles - published 18/09/2008 - Maxine Holt
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A situation many parents will identify with: children have returned to school this week, giving relief from school-holiday angst suffered by parents and their children alike. Having one primary school-aged daughter, the school holidays brought much “please can I have a go on your computer Mummy?” and my reluctance to let her do so in case she wiped my hard disk or similar, but it made me wonder what kind of IT capabilities our children are being taught in today’s schools.
OpinionWire Articles - published 05/09/2008 - Maxine Holt
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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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