In the game “Sim City,” players start from an underdeveloped green field—completely unencumbered by existing constructs such as buildings, power lines, roadways, and that 100-year-old tree you can’t cut down because of what it represents […]
It’s 2013: do you know where your corporate data is? Not so long ago, the answer would have been relatively simple. From financial spreadsheets to business proposals, product designs, customer lists, and beyond, virtually all […]
It’s well known that many IT budgets have been frozen or reduced over the last decade. The bulk of those cuts have been around maintenance and upgrades that keep application portfolios current and functioning. Issues […]
Ideally, using the enterprise portfolio as the basis for defining business demand and requirements to enable the execution of transformation initiatives is a step in the right direction. If you can’t use enterprise portfolios for […]
The leaders of most organizations have a complex array of decision criteria to balance building for business growth and strategic cost cutting. At this point, the tactics for reducing the costs of business such as […]
At a high level, application integration means leveraging technical infrastructure to make diverse applications communicate with each other to achieve a business objective. The integration needs to be seamless and reliable, regardless of platform and […]
The goal of many businesses is simple: Have the business and IT departments work together to drive growth and innovation, at an affordable cost. Applications play a critical role, and modernizing them is the key […]