Business Platform Transformation Strategy [ Source: Adaptivity Inc. ]
October 2008- Today’s CIO organizations face a complex array of challenges in managing the Business Platform (the group of applications and services that implement the Business Value Chain). The business perceives technology innovation as a business differentiator, demands application portfolio stability, requires change requests to be handled promptly, experiences growth rates that are often unpredictable and exponential, and exerts continuous pressure to reduce product time to market. Complicating this, these challenges are being made to IT ...

Webinar with Forrester: Mobility and the Open Web: Open Standards and Collaboration Redefine Enterprise IT [ Source: Black Duck Software ]
May 2012- Mobility has redefined customers' interaction with a company's products and applications. To address this shift, organizations are leveraging open-source components, development frameworks, open-web technologies; and collaborating by creating developer ecosystems. Featuring Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester Research.

Open Source Governance in Highly Regulated Companies [ Source: Black Duck Software ]
May 2012- Open source software can empower developers, increase innovation and improve competitiveness, and its popularity is growing tremendously. Open source now represents an average of 29% of the code deployed by IT and technology innovators are using 60%-80% of open source code, which can yield cost savings and free-up development resources to improve competitive differentiation. <br><br> And as open source becomes more common, the need for governance increases dramatically. Without proper controls ...

IT Complexity Metrics - How do you measure up? [ Source: CAPCO ]
April 2012- IT Complexity is so important that 'learning through failing' is no longer satisfactory given that this form of complexity so clearly and harshly impacts the cost, delivery quality and flexibility of the IT landscape. <br><br> We now need a robust and functioning model for complexity measurement and mitigation. This paper describes how Commerzbank, in partnership with Capco, is deriving such a model. We also examine how it can be developed ...

Powerful, Open Source Messaging for the Enterprise [ Source: Red Hat ]
December 2011- To compete effectively in their markets, today's enterprises are under pressure to eliminate the barriers imposed by distance, time, and technology. They must be able to create value for their customers - whether businesses or consumers - by delivering a broad array of information to employees, customers, and downstream systems. To do this, they must execute transactions securely, efficiently, and regardless of origination. And they must take action in real time. <br><...

Get on the Fast Track to Maximizing Customer Value: Operationalizing Customer Centricity to Drive Sustained Growth in a Low-Growth Environment [ Source: Informatica ]
May 2010- Overcome the barriers of account-centric systems. Enable desktop access to a customer-centric view to make more relevant cross-sell and up-sell offers, align service delivery with an accurate measure of customer value, and gain business agility and speed.