Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
by Stephen Bennett of Oracle Confronted with the age old problems of agility and complexity, today’s CIOs are under more pressure than ever to improve the strategic value of IT to the business. At best, these challenges have increased costs, limited innovation and increased risk. At worst, they have reduced IT’s ability to respond to…
Organization readiness – An enterprise first needs to adopt the principle of service-orientation. However, successful SOA depends on the readiness of the enterprise to become service-oriented. To get started with SOA, the guide recommends conducting a maturity assessment. Such an assessment is available from The Open Group and enables a practitioner to assess an organization’s…
Cloud has been at the forefront of every IT discussion in 2011 and will continue to be due to the potential system optimization and cost savings that are associated with it. However, industry-wide motivation and business impact behind cloud implementation remains unclear. To better understand the top end-user business requirements for cloud computing and determine…
“I just got my people trained on SOA,” I heard someone say recently, “and now they want to go off and learn about Cloud computing. When are they ever going to do some actual work?” We in IT are lucky that the big new ideas keep coming in, even if it can be hard sometimes…
There is no doubt that evaluating and implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) can be an intimidating and overwhelming process. When I first started to work with SOA standards, my first task―understanding what standards are out there―produced a daunting reading list. After plowing through several lengthy standards, I starting looking for the “Cliff Notes” versions! I…