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Through a combination of trial and error and sound design, IT has evolved a number of basic processing patterns that have met current requirements and proven capable of further evolution as requirements change.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 30/10/2009 - Rob Hailstone
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Yahoo! and Microsoft have recently announced a ten-year agreement that will see Microsoft’s Bing powering Yahoo! Search, whilst Yahoo! will become the exclusive global sales force for both organisations’ premium search advertisers. Disappointingly, not much was said about mobile search except that Yahoo! has the option to exploit Microsoft technology for its mobile search capability. Butler Group believes that mobile search represents a significant opportunity for both companies, especially as its usage …
OpinionWire Articles - published 20/08/2009 - Mark Blowers
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The Archer SmartSuite Framework is an Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (E-GRC) solution that can help an organisation to reduce enterprise risks, manage and demonstrate compliance, automate business processes, and gain visibility into corporate risk and security controls. E-GRC solutions are required by organisations needing to manage their corporate risk profile in rapidly changing and increasingly complex business and regulatory environments, where the cost of non-compliance can be considera…
Technology Audits - published 12/08/2009 - Stephen Mann
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Information overload has become a paradigm for the Internet age, and it will not improve with time; quite the opposite, organisations will need to look at terabytes and petabytes of data storage in the years ahead for common enterprise applications. Particular industries have specialist needs: investment banks trading complex financial instruments will test trade strategies with data going back over many years – creating a heavy demand on infrastructure resources – and aerospace industries rely on electr…
White Papers - published 10/08/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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Modern businesses rely on enterprise applications like ERP and CRM to enable them to carry out the business of business, which makes those applications highly strategic and highly critical. Implemented over several years, modified and extended, tuned and customised, they represent substantial financial and intellectual property investments. They are valuable business assets that need to be managed as such. In challenging economic times it becomes even more important to nurture these evolving assets in or…
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 07/07/2009 - Angela Eager, Balachandar Ganesh, Chandranshu Singh, Mike Thompson, Rob Hailstone, Somak Roy
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A funny thing happened as I began planning this OpinionWire article; I was all set to write about the impact of Rupert Murdoch’s vision on charging for online news content when I used Twitter’s search facility to see what the world was Tweeting in response. It was only then that I finally understood the enormous potential of Twitter Search – both Tweeted comments and links to recent news articles and blogs available in real-time. This, coupled with Twitter’s recent announcement on search enhancements, wa…
OpinionWire Articles - published 14/05/2009 - Stephen Mann
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Corporate employees now spend more time working on e-mails, documents, spreadsheets, and presentations than ever before, and as a result the number of digital assets that have to be stored, managed, shared, and protected each year is increasing.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/04/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Corporate Intranets have been with us for well over a decade, and so as organisations consider all aspects of their business at this critical juncture, now is as good a time as any to revisit this highly important aspect of Information Management and corporate culture.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/04/2009 - Richard Edwards
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The notion of a wearable computer has been in and out of favour for several years in different forms. Many of the limiting factors, such as battery capacity and mobile connectivity, are now much less of an obstacle than they were just a few years ago, but the trend in mobile computing has been more towards the production of miniaturised multi-functional devices such as smart phones. These devices, whilst hugely popular, have their own limitations, primarily in terms of the human/machine interface.
OpinionWire Articles - published 23/04/2009 - Rob Hailstone
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Over the last few years IBM has invested heavily in Information Management (IM) technology, industry-focused IM expertise, professional services, and other resources. IBM’s Information Agenda combines these broad and complementary capabilities to enable organisations to manage and take full advantage of their information assets.
OpinionWire Articles - published 16/04/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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On 19 March of this year, the ratification of Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) was announced as an OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) standard. While the acronym doesn’t exactly trip neatly off the tongue, the standard nonetheless represents a capability that, should it be widely adopted, will enable a large advance in making sense of unstructured information.
OpinionWire Articles - published 03/04/2009 - Rob Hailstone
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Technology played a big part in Obama’s historic US presidential election victory. There are lessons to be learned from this by other political parties and more importantly, by many businesses who fail to make the most of their investments in IT.
OpinionWire Articles - published 14/11/2008 - Sarah Burnett
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Chordiant Software last week launched a new application to help organisations understand, manage, and improve their interaction with their customers. Chordiant Cx Visual Business Director allows senior business executives to use real business data, derived from customer interactions, to simulate the effect of changes in business strategies on business operations. Whilst aspects of the concept are not new, but similar to the executive information management tools of the 1990s, Chordiant has added new dime…
OpinionWire Articles - published 23/10/2008 - Angela Eager
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The term ‘Enterprise 2.0’ has become something of a catch-all phrase that describes the wholesale shift in enterprise IT thinking. Driven by changing business needs and social factors, organisations are starting to do things differently. Speed, agility, mobility, reuse, and innovation are the transformative drivers that are forcing organisations to push aside old technologies, models, and architectures to make way for the new Web 2.0 world of service-oriented, highly-virtualised, truly-commoditised, and …
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 18/09/2008 - Alan Rodger, Andy Kellett, Mark Blowers, Michael Azoff, Mike Davis, Mike Thompson, Richard Edwards, Rob Hailstone, Sarah Burnett, Tim Jennings
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Puzzling? On closer look, maybe not that much. However, Google’s phone search service launched exclusively for Hyderabad, India this year does violate a few seemingly inviolable Google themes.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 03/09/2008 - Somak Roy
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