Enterprise Architecture & Services Oriented Architecture

Employees are the new Consumers With the growing technological capabilities of mobile devices from leading vendors such as Apple, Microsoft, RIM and Google we are now seeing mobile devices and their applications becoming relevant to every type of business activity. The difference between consumer and business user requirements is blurring and ... read more..

why it pays to rationalise your BI infrastructure Your IT budget is razor thin, your staff is maxed out, and management has ordered another round of cuts. Meanwhile, three departments are clamouring for specialised applications to compete effectively against the market leader thats eating your lunch. Somehow youre expected to ... read more..

Building trust between IT and FinanceIn most organisations the economic decision maker for large scale IT purchases is the Finance Director/CFO or Board of Directors of which they are part. However, despite this, there is a lack of understanding between IT and the finance function (www.pwc.co.uk/pdf/best_of_enemies.pdf). The National Computing Centre ... read more..

Research conducted by the National Computing Centre and Atos Consulting, the consulting arm of Atos Origin, has revealed growing acceptance and planned take-up of Open Source, despite current caution.Report highlights include:Over 50% have either adopted or are planning to adopt Open SourceOver 55% either accept or include Open Source in ... read more..

This guide is intended for technology, business, and public sector leaders who are interested in learning about Microsofts business vision and our priorities in the enterprise. Microsoft in the Enterprise ... read more..

Making the right investment choices to support business growth and demanding tangible business benefits, help organisations respond to these increased expectations. Our research has shown us that not only do high performing organisations get the IT basics right they are also constantly striving for further improvement.Successful IT in High ... read more..

At its core, the company of today is made up of two types of worker: the digital native and the digital immigrant. The question is - how many of each kind work in your company already? And more importantly, are you prepared for the significant growth of the digital native ... read more..

Although Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) makes most sense in the context of supporting a strategic business initiative, most organisations will not want to commit to such a radical change without having successfully delivered a proof-of-concept project. Organisations considering starting up now will face the additional challenge of justifying external expenditure ... read more..

This Butler Group Technical Paper emphasises the how of a Master Data Management (MDM) programme. There are many different definitions of MDM. The one used here is aimed to help clarify the goal of the MDM programme: MDM is a combination of tools, processes, and people to establish an ongoing ... read more..

Dorothy Tudor explores the elements of Agile project delivery with specific reference to DSDM Atern. She examines the factors which make success more likely in an Agile project and gives steps to successful implementation. What is Agile? The modern definition of Agile development approaches has evolved since the mid-1990s as part of ... read more..

This document reviews the state of the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market from the perspective of the specialised needs of organisations with all or part of their focus on engineering. We have taken input from recent surveys undertaken by Datamonitor as well as the extensive supporting research undertaken by a ... read more..

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, ... read more..

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 of around the discrete products by Progress, some of which are described in Butler Group's Technology Audits. Breaking up ... read more..

The issue of long-term information storage can no longer be ignored or deferred, as although storage hardware prices continue to drop, the acquisition of more storage capacity does not constitute or Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy. One need only look to new technologies arriving over the horizon to see that ... read more..

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is set to become an inescapable part of our IT landscape in a very short timeframe. 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 trying to achieve, ... read more..

Many organisations implementing ITIL as part of their IT Service Management framework begin with the Configuration Management Database (CMDB). While a CMDB is a key piece of any successful ITIL implementation, there are several traps that are easily fallen into when implementing one. In fact, its complexity and asset-centric view ... read more..

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 ... read more..

Martin Percival provides us with his top tips for implementing SOA successfully within your organsiation. 1 Map SOA to your business To be successful, organisations must approach SOA from outside the traditional technology boundaries. Rather than trying to map business goals and requirements onto an SOA vision, companies should ... read more..

Alison Booth predicts that during 2006 we should expect to see much more of the word service as the focus turns from products and licenses to services: 'software as a service', 'information as a service', ...with many of these services being delivered over the internet.Web 2.0 - the internet is ... read more..