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The fact that IT and business processes are becoming ever closer can no longer be denied. In many industries many of the most critical business services cannot be supported without appropriate IT systems, marking high levels of ‘IT intensity’ (a measure of how pervasive IT is within organisations). This has made it more important than ever for a wide range of IT systems to be highly performant, always available, and to strongly protect information integrity. It is well understood that these demands lead …
White Papers - published 08/04/2008 - Alan Rodger
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Model Driven Development (MDD) is the next step of abstraction in writing software applications. In the history of computing, each higher level of abstraction has offered improved productivity and ease-of-writing applications. This has enabled the creation of far more complex applications without increasing the project management work load, or conversely, building like-for-like applications faster, cheaper, and with higher quality, compared with lower-level techniques.
White Papers - published 08/04/2008 - Michael Azoff
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Mainframe systems have become increasingly complex and with the shortage of experienced and appropriately trained staff, IT departments can easily end up running some systems in a just-good-enough mode, without achieving the maximum potential. But in doing this, such organizations are failing to grasp the significant impact that improved service delivery can make to their organizations. Failing to capitalize on an ability to grow new business and this lack of awareness of what could be achieved is restri…
White Papers - published 27/02/2008 - Martin Gandar
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There has been so much recent discussion around business/IT alignment that an outsider might believe that the requirement is a recent discovery. It has, of course, always been the case that the role of IT is to enable the business to conduct its operations more efficiently and effectively, and to support new initiatives. The current concern is the result of the combination of a period of rapid change in the business world and a period of relative under-investment in IT.
White Papers - published 18/01/2008 - Rob Hailstone
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This White Paper provides an introduction to the breadth of solutions provided by Progress Software Inc. (Progress) in support of the implementation of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It provides the context around the discrete products delivered by Progress, some of which are described in Butler Group’s Technology Audits.
White Papers - published 05/12/2007 - Rob Hailstone
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Data Center consolidation does not signify a move back to the centralized world of ten to 20 years ago, but the adoption of a more pragmatic appraisal of the IT infrastructure, focusing on optimizing the IT environment to meet the demands of the organization and providing a flexible foundation on which to base IT services. There is also a trend towards greater centralization of IT management and the consolidation of applications. HP’s Operations Center software can be used to support these initiatives by…
White Papers - published 05/10/2007 - Mark Blowers
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Organisations today are familiar with the concept of change, and the fact that managing change (of people, processes, and technology) particularly in the IT organisation can help gain better control. However, the simple management of changes should be regarded as a necessity; where IT has the potential to provide significant value is in the area of real business transformation. This may not be the case in every organisation; but for those that find they are outmanoeuvring the competition by using IT stra…
White Papers - published 21/09/2007 - Teresa Jones
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The recent emphasis for IT departments on systems consolidation and compliance with information legislation, has led to a backlog of application development work which must be accomplished in an effective and timely manner. Addressing this need, significant benefits in both speed and development costs can be realised by deploying service-oriented composite applications, which draw together business logic and data sources from multiple underlying systems.
White Papers - published 19/12/2006 - Rob Hailstone, Tim Jennings
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is set to become an inescapable part of our IT landscape in a very short timeframe. A quick review of the strategies and development budgets of the world’s IT vendors – from the very largest and most mature to the niche “boutique” software vendors – reveals that SOA will not be allowed to go away. Despite IT’s dreadful habit of disguising simple strategies within meaningless acronyms, it is worth a few minutes of any business executive’s time to understand what SOA is …
White Papers - published 08/12/2006 - Rob Hailstone
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The purpose of this White Paper is to detail the range of customer functional requirements that may need to be addressed by the organisation’s choice of Identity and Access Management (I&AM) solution, highlighting those of greatest importance and business benefit, along with other ownership considerations that Butler Group believes customers should assess. It discusses how Oracle is placed to meet these needs, in the context of today’s fast-changing and competitive I&AM market place, and (where solutions…
White Papers - published 22/11/2006 - Alan Rodger
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In order to deliver measurable value to the business community, security services have to be driven by, and closely aligned to, business needs. The purchase and support of enterprise security technology has moved well beyond the stage where products are bought in simply because new threats have been identified and potential systems holes need to be plugged. The speed with which new attacks, infections, and systems misuse takes place far outstrips any sector of the security industries abilities to respond…
White Papers - published 21/11/2006 - Andy Kellett
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Data Center consolidation does not signify a move back to the centralized world of ten to 20 years ago, but the adoption of a more pragmatic appraisal of the IT infrastructure, focusing on optimizing the IT environment to meet the demands of the organization and providing a flexible foundation on which to base IT services. There is also a trend towards greater centralization of IT management and the consolidation of applications. HP’s Service-Driven Operations (SDO) solution can be used to support these …
White Papers - published 15/11/2006 - Mark Blowers
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The retail banking sector is facing a crisis of confidence with its customers. The end-user clients are being constantly bombarded with attacks attempting to discover security details that would compromise their accounts. These phishing attacks have gone from e-mails that on click-through would take the user to dummy Web pages that could be used to garner account authentication information, to more sophisticated attacks that could overwrite host files and gain the same information in this manner.
White Papers - published 14/11/2006 - Mike Thompson
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The information to support this White Paper has been gathered by reviewing material published by both Microsoft and Altiris, as well as internal documents produced by Altiris that provide deeper technical insights into the issues involved. We have also undertaken extensive research of publicly available material and Butler Group’s own published research.
White Papers - published 31/10/2006 - Martin Gandar
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For sometime now Butler Group has been highlighting the importance of Data Quality (DQ) in the business decision-making process and the huge part that it plays in the successful delivery of business outcomes. However, the acceptance of this fact by the business world has been slow to come. Many organisations focus their attention on DQ wholly in the customer names and address area, but DQ issues apply to all business information and an end-to-end approach is required. This is challenging as the path take…
White Papers - published 04/10/2006 - Sarah Burnett
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