The purpose of SOA is to provide a long-lived catalogue of services that deliver functionality of recognised value to the business. The services must be capable of being used (or 'consumed') in any valid context irrespective of differences in technology, and they must be capable of evolving as requirements change with the minimum possible impact on consumers or other services. The services thus provided form the foundation for adaptable systems that can support the organisation's need to stay agile in th…
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 12/10/2009 - Angela Eager, Rob Hailstone, Tim Jennings
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
There are different opinions on the best way to control IT cost. Some say outsource what others can demonstrate they do better, and streamline and automate processes. Others advise standardisation on fewer platforms and technologies, along with the implementation of better IT management tools. All of these measures have the potential for IT costs savings; however, the challenge faced by IT management is to choose the most appropriate ones for their organisation.
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 06/03/2009 - Mark Blowers, Stephen Mann, Tim Jennings
The increasing dependence, across all industry sectors, on IT as the life-blood of business raises the obvious question: “What happens when it goes wrong?”. IT Risk Management has become hugely complex and very high profile. It is no longer acceptable for IT to take the approach of plugging leaks as they are discovered – rather it has become necessary to adopt a holistic approach to Risk Management that can apply traditional measures of cost-justification to problem resolution across the whole breadth of…
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 02/12/2008 - Alan Rodger, Andy Kellett, Chandranshu Singh, Mark Blowers, Maxine Holt, Rob Hailstone, Roy Illsley, Somak Roy, Stephen Mann, Tim Jennings
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
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
Getting started on SOA can be a daunting task, since there are so many considerations across all the phases of the lifecycle. Butler Group's new ‘SOA Governance’ Report provides a broad perspective on the requirements and practicalities of SOA governance, and offers insight and the information needed for an organisation to get started on this important initiative. The Report is applicable for an organisation just considering its first SOA deployment, and is also highly relevant to those organisations tha…
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 24/06/2008 - Balachandar Ganesh, Karthik Balakrishnan, Mike Thompson, Rob Hailstone
These are challenging times, with organisations facing continuous change, including the shift to a more agile, virtual organisation, increasingly mobile workers, and the unremitting demands to increase productivity and lower costs. The requirement for a multi-channel IP network and unified communications to support all of an organisation’s interaction and collaboration needs has never been more evident.
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 31/03/2008 - Balachandar Ganesh, Mark Blowers, Richard Edwards, Somak Roy, Tim Jennings
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