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by Harry Chapman June 2006 Challenges to IT organizations have never been greater. Now, more than ever, IT organizations are the key to the long term success (or even survival) of their companies. Challenges to IT organizations have never been greater. Now, more than ever, IT organizations are the key to the long term success […]

by Max Dolgicer November 2019 Connectivity Another important aspect of a SOA is the protocol used for establishing connectivity between the client and the service. With other technologies (CORBA, DCOM, J2EE) these protocols are platform specific (i.e. Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP), Microsoft RPC (MS-RPC), and Java Remote Method Protocol (JRMP) respectively) and could not interoperate.

by Max Dolgicer April 2006 In these days of heightened scrutiny of all IT expenditures, we have to constantly ask ourselves what is the contribution of IT to the overall capabilities of the business? Many of the core business processes have already been automated, for example through the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and

by Max Dolgicer November 2019 In these days of heightened scrutiny of all IT expenditures, we have to constantly ask ourselves what is the contribution of IT to the overall capabilities of the business? Many of the core business processes have already been automated, for example through the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and

by Suzanne Robertson March 2006 When we published the first version of the Volere requirements template (http://www.volere.co.uk) we identified stakeholders (sections 2 and 3), goals (section 1), and scope (sections 7 and 8) as the foundation stones for discovering the relevant requirements. Since then we have applied Volere on many projects in many different industries.

by Gerry McGovern February 2006 Getting senior management’s attention is about showing how costs can be reduced and/or value created. Your website needs to show how it will reduce costs by X percent and increase productivity by Z percent.Content management has been a fuzzy, poorly respected discipline within many organizations. Many managers don’t regard content

by Ken Rau December 2005 Organizations have struggled with developing strategic plans for their Information Technology (IT) functions since the 60s. Most of this attention has centered on identifying technological opportunities that would benefit the organization economically and the ubiquitous dilemma of linking the organization’s strategy to the IT function’s direction. Less attention has been

by Suzanne Robertson November 2005 Tagging the specification Use the table of contents of the template (Figure 1) as the guide to running your audit. In essence you are matching the actual contents of the requirements specification that you are auditing with the generic content defined by the template. You are looking for subject matter

by Suzanne Robertson October 2005 When someone gives you a requirements specification how do you know whether the specification is complete and unambiguous? How do you know whether the specification is fit for its intended purpose? In short, how do you know whether it is a good specification? Requirements come in many different formats and

by Ted Lewis September 2005 BACKGROUND Change in this new century has and will continue to be the norm in both the private (business) and public (government) sectors. Changes in information technology are becoming more frequent as the world has become more complex and fluid. More so than ever, information technology is as much an