Butler Group believes that organisations must look beyond the requirements of compliance and towards deriving business benefits when considering the implementation of DRM. An implementation to address compliance alone cannot succeed. Foresighted organisations that look beyond compliance to plan their DRM implementation will also gain cost efficiencies from the business benefits.
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 19/06/2008 - Andy Kellett, Angela Eager, Balachandar Ganesh, Sarah Burnett, Sue Clarke
Traditionally data centres have been managed in silo’ed teams dictated by the historic differences between the technologies such as network, storage, UNIX servers, Windows systems, and mainframes; these silos have generated highly specialist resources and management tools, which do not easily integrate to provide an end-to-end perspective of the service IT is delivering to the business. Holistic Systems Management can help CIOs reshape their IT departments to be more business focused and agile.
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 08/04/2008 - Alan Rodger, Balachandar Ganesh, Mike Thompson, Roy Illsley, Tim Jennings
Most technology systems continue to be viewed by the business community as inhibitors of progress, rather than as innovative solutions capable of delivering agile operations, Business Process Management is being actively positioned as the exception to this rule. Business professionals continue to struggle with business and technology alignment issues, and are actively searching for business-enhancing technology solutions that are fit-for-purpose and come without the need to undertake major time-constrain…
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 07/01/2008 - Andy Kellett, Madan Sheina, Michael Azoff, Mike Thompson, Somak Roy
The Internet offers the dual benefit of reach and rich – the reach is possible because all you need is a device with a browser. The richness is possible through the technologies behind Rich Web Applications: desktop-like end user experience delivered via the Web browser. Butler Group believes building Rich Internet and Web Applications will become the default mode of application development in the future, currently driven forward by concepts intrinsic to Web 2.0, and Service Oriented Architecture.
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 13/06/2007 - Alan Rodger, Alan Rodger, Maxine Holt, Maxine Holt, Michael Azoff, Michael Azoff, Richard Edwards, Richard Edwards, Roy Illsley, Roy Illsley, Tim Jennings, Tim Jennings
The extreme number of SOA Platform vendors competing for market share means that consolidation will gather pace. There will still be scope for vendors with an incomplete portfolio to fill in the gaps through acquisition, but we will also see some of the larger vendors acquiring competitors simply to accelerate their market share growth.
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 13/06/2007 - Andy Kellett, Andy Kellett, Rob Hailstone, Rob Hailstone, Roy Illsley, Roy Illsley, Teresa Jones, Teresa Jones, Tim Jennings
Whether an organisation views IT as a strategic capability involving significant investment, or purely as a support service to be delivered at minimal cost, the reality is that all are dependent on information systems as an integral part of many business processes.
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 21/03/2007 - Mark Blowers, Mark Blowers, Mike Thompson, Roy Illsley, Roy Illsley, Tim Jennings, Tim Jennings
Documents, in whatever format they may exist, are an integral part of every business and institution. Indeed, organisations that cannot manage the production of documents effectively, efficiently, and diligently risk a great deal more than poor business performance.
To date, Electronic Document Management Systems have helped organisations improve internal efficiency; however, extending these systems to partners and stakeholders has proved much more difficult.
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 01/12/2006 - Maxine Holt, Richard Edwards, Roy Illsley, Sarah Burnett, Sue Clarke, Tim Jennings
Enterprise Search and Retrieval (ESR) tools enable users to discover the most appropriate information from multiple information sources and repositories. The ability to aggregate information from across all of the corporate repositories through a single search, enables users to deliver a comprehensive view of all interactions with a customer, citizen, or business partner about a product or piece of news, or about all the activity related to a business process.
Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports - published 25/09/2006 - Andy Kellett, Mike Davis, Richard Edwards, Sarah Burnett, Sue Clarke, Tim Jennings
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