enterprise architecture business in comment and analysis
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A game of two halves
Comment Then, there was an analyst event held alongside TechEd, where Microsoft's approach to service-orientated architecture (SOA) was discussed - which left me cold. Now Microsoft tells me it is a replacement for the old enterprise application... [30 Jun 2008]
Darryl West
CIO Profile His team has established a strong enterprise architecture focus and is driving an innovative group-wide simplification programme. Prior to joining Lloyds TSB, West held various IT and business management positions in the financial services sector. [11 Jun 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment Despite the hype, service oriented architecture (SOA) (20 per cent) and business intelligence (20 per cent) remain low down the tech shopping priorities. Not surprisingly security, enterprise hardware and software also remain big spending areas for... [26 Mar 2008]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment We are participating in programmes there and we are proposing an enterprise architecture for government. How do you get an efficient architecture that government can use to deliver its infrastructure and then how do you reuse assets within that? [05 Dec 2007]
IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'
Comment Cut out the noise, says Okin: "Decide what the most important thing is that you’re going to protect, and then decide what architecture you’re going to supply. On his enterprise risk 'heat map', he always finds that IT ends up as a risky area. [02 Jul 2007]
Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity
Comment I think the sector is moving to a more open architecture, using pretty much the same suppliers, which will allow more consolidation. The 'big ticket' plays - things like enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems - are done. [02 Jul 2007]
Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity
CIO Analysis I think the sector is moving to a more open architecture, using pretty much the same suppliers, which will allow more consolidation.silicon.com Retail & Leisure The 'big ticket' plays - things like enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems - are... [06 Jun 2007]
Link up all parts of your business
Comment Essentially this is adding service-oriented architecture (SOA) functionality to your existing applications. Enterprise portals were a popular incarnation of this technique but they have faded in popularity in recent years, as businesses found... [14 Mar 2007]
The telecoms operator of the future
Comment Ian Cox, analyst at ABI Research, says: "Networks are going through a period of profound change as they adopt service-oriented architecture and implement IT systems based on open standards. Business telecoms services will be delivered over networks... [02 Jan 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: BI to go mainstream?
Comment Generally a BI platform architecture can be complex to build and inflexible to change as business processes change. In such a crowded market, the key factors which will ultimately drive wider adoption are architecture and integration, with the aim... [01 Dec 2006]
Editor's Blog: So, er, what's the big idea?
Comment Some reach for the revolver if the words service-oriented architecture or enterprise application integration are spoken. How about this: ride the SOA wave over the next 10 years or watch your business or organisation fail. [29 Sep 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: SOA - huh?
Comment These enterprise applications can be included within the SOA as peers, using specific technologies to decompose the monolithic architectures to provide discrete functions as callable routines that can be utilised by any other part of the... [22 Sep 2006]
Analysis: Bringing IT in line with the business
Comment Those SLAs form the foundation for the enterprise technical architecture and design. Michael Disabato, vice president of network and telecom strategies at analyst company the Burton Group, says: "ITSM relies on an understanding of the enterprise's... [07 Jun 2006]
The McCue Interview: United Business Media CIO Matthew Graham-Hyde
Comment Now we are totally run as a business and there is more focus on having an enterprise architecture strategy. In infrastructure and technical architecture this standardisation means a move away from complex bespoke environments. [22 May 2006]
Leader: Dell wants blade runners
Leader All offer blades running Linux or Windows (not Sun, in the case of the latter - though let's not forget its ceasefire with Redmond) on an x86 architecture, quite often supplied by Intel. Since it set up seven years ago, it has settled on Dell... [16 Nov 2004]
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