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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
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CA Spectrum Service Assurance offers organisations a business-service-centric view of IT management and performance. It uses service definitions and service models, defined in a Configuration Management Database (CMDB), or other Management Data Repository (MDR), to build a unified real-time service model of business-critical services and the underlying infrastructure elements that support them. CA Spectrum SA collects operational performance information from domain management tools to report at a busines…
Technology Audits - published 01/02/2010 - Balachandar Ganesh, Stephen Mann
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I’m beginning to wonder if our experience with consumer-oriented applications and services is setting an expectation that in-house and off-the-shelf enterprise applications can never live up to in terms of their ‘joy of use’. With ‘cool’ and ‘sexy’ now de rigueur for consumer apps, I sense that the time is fast approaching when line-of-business applications will be expected to be the same, albeit in a pin-striped suit and polished pair of Oxfords.
OpinionWire Articles - published 26/11/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Most people accept that change is an essential part of the growth of any organisation, yet research has shown that only one third of change initiatives succeed in their stated aim. There are two key factors behind the low success rate of organisational change initiatives. Firstly, there is often no accepted methodology behind the change and secondly, there is often a failure to promote the change requirements to the employees of an organisation.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/09/2009 - Mike Thompson
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The creation of an operating model provides the capability to better appreciate the organisation’s component parts and assimilate the continually changing environment in which enterprises exist. This enables closer alignment with the market and technology, and facilitates better and quicker integration leading to speedier deployment of solutions and a more effective organisation.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/09/2009 - Mark Blowers
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With IT budgets pared to the bone during the recession, many CIOs will be hoping for a little more wiggle room as the economic pressures ease. The situation is different for the public sector where heavy Government borrowing requirements are expected to continue to squeeze IT budgets.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 28/09/2009 - Sarah Burnett
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I’m embarrassed to admit that I used to believe the worst of South Africa’s new President. He was charged with rape and acquitted. He was also charged with corruption, racketeering and fraud, and these charges were dropped. He had been fired by Thabo Mbeki as the Deputy President when the corruption charges were first brought to bear.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 24/08/2009 - Terry White
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In March 2009, Enterprise Architecture Solutions Ltd (EAS) launched ‘The Essential Project’ – an open source Enterprise Architecture toolkit – which has had over 1,000 downloads. Whilst perhaps not in the same league as Ubuntu or other open source projects, this is not an insignificant number, especially when the launch was purposely kept low key.
OpinionWire Articles - published 10/08/2009 - Mark Blowers, Mark Blowers
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This is the fourth or fifth time we’ve been called in by a South African Government department to help them understand their plans.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/05/2009 - Terry White
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Last week the IT Governance Institute (ITGI), an affiliate of the well-respected Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), reported in its most recent senior-staff business survey that over 50% of all respondents do not feel that IT is an important contributor to innovation. This is an alarming piece of information if you then take into account that there is a reasonable probability that those same senior executives are also likely to be struggling to justify the value-for-money and busi…
OpinionWire Articles - published 05/02/2009 - Andy Kellett
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Whether it was greed, stupidity, or just bad luck that beset some of the most respected companies in 2008, the fallout from these problems will undoubtedly continue to affect all industries and sectors for the foreseeable future.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 27/01/2009 - Richard Edwards
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Nuance, the largest global speech recognition vendor, recently acquired Philips Speech Recognition Systems (PSRS) for €66 million (roughly US$96 million). The deal makes Nuance an up-and-coming player in the enterprise space, especially where speech technology is concerned. The acquisition of PSRS complements the company’s imaging solutions and its market-leading desktop speech recognition solution: Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Indeed, the company now appears to have somewhat cornered the market, as it also…
OpinionWire Articles - published 20/11/2008 - Richard Edwards
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Isn’t it always the case? You have something – a processor, broadband, hard drive – that is the latest, fastest, or the best and which will last forever (think 250Mb hard drives that will hold all the data you will ever need); but within about two weeks it becomes outdated and a ‘legacy’ technology. Up until now Wi-Fi has mainly managed to avoid the constant change required to keep abreast of the best – 802.11b became 802.11g quite seamlessly, not least because they both used the same 2.4GHz band, so the…
OpinionWire Articles - published 17/10/2008 - Mike Thompson
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When was the last time you changed jobs? Me; I started a new job this week. It’s great: new people; new challenges; and (hopefully) new opportunities. Like most new employees on their first day, I was excited (and a little anxious) about meeting new colleagues, adapting to different ways of working, discovering new knowledge, and learning new skills. However, what I hadn’t considered was the complexity of adopting a new set of personal productivity tools.
OpinionWire Articles - published 08/09/2008 - Stephen Mann
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