Executive Guide to Enterprise Architecture Planning and Implementation
This guide to enterprise architecture is designed to provide a soup to nuts overview of planning for and implementing enterprise architecture in an organization.
From Bangalore to Boston: The trend of bringing IT back in-house
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Though insourcing is a small trend as compared to the global outsourcing juggernaut, given the maturity of the outsourcing industry we are seeing more and more clients wrestling with the question of whether an outsourcing deal that is not meeting expectations should be re-tendered or insourced.<br />
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Most clients still prefer to fix broken deals by either renegotiating with the incumbent provider or re-tendering the work. However, insourcing is also being considered a viable option when the business case and business drivers make sense.<br />
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Retail Mobility: Consumers in Control
This paper discusses how large retailers are responding to the increasing use of mobile devices across the consumer landscape by both accelerating and continuously fine-tuning their mobile <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">commerce channel strategies. Retailers across categories have had varying levels of success in harnessing mobility, but the trend is clear: Successful retailers are those that are succeeding </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">with mobility.</span>
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Leveraging Social Media to Optimize Sourcing-to-Shelf Processes
This white paper analyzes how retailers can leverage social media across the entire value chain, from sourcing through arrival on the shelf.<br />
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Storage Virtualization: What to Know and What to Look For
This paper covers the real value of storage virtualization (from both business and IT perspectives) and offers explanations of the varying storage virtualization approaches with advice on how to make a technology and vendor decision. This paper is designed to explain the benefits of storage virtualization in as generic a way as possible and not to merely promote one vendors’ approach.<br />
File Sharing and Collaboration in the Enterprise – Mitigating the Security Risks
This paper discusses that to prevent data breaches, enterprises should first conduct a thorough audit of their file sharing practices. It contends that to ensure data security and compliance for the organization, one needs to know all data security risks and how to mitigate them. It is important to implement best practices for secure file sharing, so employees can continue to collaborate with internal and external parties. It concludes that implementing a secure file sharing solution minimizes the risk of data breaches and helps ensure compliance with internal policies and industry regulations.
Creating Elastic Digital Architectures
This white paper poses four key questions that companies need to ask today to add elasticity to their businesses. The questions focus specifically on how more flexible IT service <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">delivery and management can power new business structures and generate competitive advantage. In particular, it </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">explores the underlying elastic digital architecture (EDA), which is powered by foundational technologies that is referred to as the </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">SMAC stack (social, mobile, analytics and cloud).</span>
IT-As-A-Service: Achieving Financial Transparency
The goal of financial transparency is to show what T services cost. Intended for IT Leadership and IT Finance organizations, this whitepaper explores financial transparency and how to develop simple, fair and accurate chargeback/showback policies.
The Advantages of Virtualization for Secure File Transfer
This whitepaper addresses how to take advantage of virtualization benefits through a “virtual appliance.” With virtualization, software applications share expensive computing resources including space, power and cooling to increase efficiency. Organizations use virtualization strategies to reduce the cost and complexity of their IT infrastructure and to increase business agility.