IT professionals around the world are exploring application and desktop virtualization not only to accelerate their migrations but as a superior means to delivering computing services to their business users. This paper is an evaluation of companies’ migration plans of their current operating systems
For several years running, Business Process Management (BPM) has become a top priority for companies. CIOs and ITexecutives continue to place business process improvement asthe top business priority for their IT organizations. Of course, there are many options for improving business processes—ranging from complete process reengineering toadopting new process management methodologies, like LeanSix Sigma, or
It’s a dynamic business world — can your organization keep up? The world is a smarter place than it was ten years ago, or even five years ago. Our systems and processes are more intelligent, instrumented and interconnected than they have ever been before. The convergence of physical and digital infrastructures is changing what’s possible
It is clear that service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) are synergistic. BPM provides us the tools and techniques for understanding ourbusiness processes, the use of business resources in conductingthose processes, automation of those processes to gain more efficiency and analysis for optimizing and gaining better insight into how our business is functioning
Today’s economies and commodity markets are swinging rapidly, barriers to global competition are disappearing, andempowered customers are changing preferences and expecta-tions faster than businesses can respond. In such an environ-ment businesses must be able to work smarter, increasingbusiness agility while optimizing their costs. Only too oftenwe find ourselves restrained from meeting these imperativesby siloed processes
In today’s rapidly changing environment, much is being said about the need for business agility, integration and optimiza-tion. Yet agile change at the cost of business integrity andoperational excellence is a fragile value proposition at best.While business agility is critical for excellence in managingchange, business performance and business integrity are critical for excellence in business
As companies throughout the world examine the business value of Cloud computing, it is important to understand how Cloud can lower IT expenses. Understanding how long it takes until your business can recoup the investment it made in Cloud Computing is the “payback” period. In today’s economic environment, this is a critical component of any
In recent years, cloud computing environments have beengaining popularity. In the IBMGlobal CIO Study 2009, when asked about their most important visionary initiatives, cloud computing was cited by more than one-third of CIOs as being among the most important. The many inherent benefits of a cloud environment make it attractive to organizations looking to speed
Cloud computing promotes a new dialogue between business and IT decision makers. It allows decision makers to define business service requirements first and then decide how to balance the use of shared, internal virtualized IT resources and external public services most cost-effectively while maintaining required levels of cost, performance, security, and business resilience. This focus
Cloud computing offers to change the way we use computing with the promise of significant economic and efficiency benefits. The speed of adoption depends on how trust in new cloud models can be established. Trust needs to be achieved, especially when data is stored in new ways and in new locations, including for example different