Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Most of the tech press coverage of COBIT 5 so far amounts to little more than an announcement of its launch and a rehash of the press release. Such is one of the hallmarks of our age. But it isn’t all that helpful when you’re running an IT department at full speed half staffed. So…
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…
Virtualization is one of the biggest trends in IT today. Gartner accurately points out it is the single most important technology for IT departments in 2010. As more and more organizations hop on the virtualization bandwagon, the question that should be asked: Does virtualization really lead to significant cost savings? Most IT and finance managers…
After what can only be described as a desolate merger and acquisition landscape throughout most of 2009, a new study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts an upswing in both the volume and value of deals this year. And mergers and acquisitions in the high-tech sector will be leading the charge. According to the US technology M&A…
In an SEC filing Tuesday, Sun Microsystems said it will cut up to 3,000 jobs in the next 12 months as it and Oracle await the European Commission’s approval of their proposed $7.4 billion merger. Oracle’s purchase of the software and server company was given a thumbs-up from the U.S. Department of Justice but the…
While software purchase contracts are explicit in terms of fees, they require a level of knowledge and understanding of vendor rules and regulations that requires cross-functional expertise. As Forrester Research says companies are fed-up with enterprise “software licensing and pricing (as it) continues to be marred by complexity, soaring maintenance costs, and a lack of…
If it goes through, the acquisition of Sun will be an interesting challenge for Oracle. Oracle doesn’t have a hardware business today, and that will make for a challenging new business model to accommodate. Sun has an excellent line of servers but has struggled with market share (9.3%), and faces even stronger competition going forward…
Oracle and Sun Microsystems are poised to tie the knot after Oracle this morning said it’s making a $9.50 per share offer in cash for the embattled server and Java player. The total price of the deal will be approximately $7.4 billion, but since Sun brings $1.8 billion of net cash to the deal, the…
Do any of the following statements sound familiar? – “We need to SOA-enable more of our applications.” – “We’ll be more flexible if we tie our systems together with BPM.” – “Richer Web 2.0 interfaces can make it easier for less technical staff to learn and use our application.” You’ve probably heard similar statements recently….