| Business process management |
* align interactions between IT and business leaders, and
* create an environment where emerging requirements are identified quickly and business process are adapted accordingly. |
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| Collaboration solutions |
| To become more innovative and more competitive, companies are implementing solutions that support more forms of collaboration. Instant messaging enables live, real-time communication and collaboration – and can integrate with existing applications and business processes. |
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| Content management |
| The proliferation of information, along with sharpening storage, retrieval, management and mining requirements, is among the most demanding issues facing IT managers today. With an increase in unstructured data, more complex business processes and requirements for compliance, IT managers are looking for enterprise content management solutions. |
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| IT cost management |
| As a result, the issue of effective IT cost management with enterprises has risen in recent months from a “due-diligence” type of an activity, to a starting point on what business and IT priorities enterprises should fund…or continue to support. |
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| Data Management |
| Data management challenges, such as controlling data growth, improving application testing, and protecting data privacy are major areas of concern. The amount of data companies capture has increased significantly over the past few years – and it is becoming more and more difficult for organizations to figure out how to manage this growth. Ever-present requirements to keep business applications running at top performance means that companies must improve their capability to manage data in an integrated way. |
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| Disaster Recovery |
| Experts have concluded that if a disaster recovery plan is not universally understood and practiced…then it is probably not terribly more than a fig leaf |
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| Distribution management |
| IT managers are wrestling with how to integrate distribution management operations in new geographies with a wide range of systems -- from ERP apps, to inventory management and supply chain management packages. Pulling together information from a variety of sources also carries with it security concerns, including access control. |
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| Enterprise application integration |
| The objective of an enterprise modernization strategy is to rapidly inventory all assets, identify the utility of all key codes, and then develop an accessible library that allows IT managers to re-use assets in a cost-effective and time-efficient manner. |
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| Enterprise architecture |
* Help management analyze, plan and execute change faster and with better insight.
* Get IT and business stakeholders collaborating for better alignment around requirements.
* Create enterprise blueprints as a roadmap for exploiting IT architectural building blocks and achieving business transformation.
* Attain improved compliance and more predictable project outcomes.
* Improve IT contribution to business returns with improved integrity and agility. |
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| Compliance |
| Nearly a third of IT and business managers indicated that the board of directors and senior executives do not properly support IT governance, risk management and compliance initiatives, according to a survey conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), |
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| Systems Management |
| In the eternal search for optimized systems management, organizations are adopting new technologies almost as fast as they are being introduced by the vendor community. This is contributing to spiraling complexity of enterprise systems. |
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| Virtualization |
| We are approaching a point in the “virtualization” hype-cycle where performance and delivered value will have to manifest itself in some tangible form. But before we get to that point, it will be important to understand what is meant by the term, and how it can be implemented to tangibly contribute to key corporate objectives. |
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| Workforce Productivity |
| A typical organization relies on countless software applications to drive workforce productivity – from mainstays such as email and enterprise instant messaging and office productivity tools, to ERP and CRM and knowledge management applications, to systems for purchasing, customer service, billing and more. The applications exist separately, but users need to combine them, and the information they contain, to find answers, make decisions and complete tasks. |
