HYDRASIGHTS 2008: Service Oriented Architecture

Read Hydrasights' predictions on the uptake of SOA in 2008.

The financial services industry deals with a commodity that is primarily electronic—money. Consequently it spends more per employee on IT than any other industry. Despite this, there is a worrying tendency for information that should be confidential to end up in the public domain. Why is this and what can be done?

On-premise to On-demand
The Software as a Service Opportunity for Independent Software Vendors
BOB TARZEY

Predictions of the death of software are over-stated and the reality is that all businesses are
becoming ever more reliant on it. What is changing are the number of options available for
how the software applications that businesses rely on are managed, delivered and paid for.
Many independent software vendors (ISVs) are recognising the benefits of offering software
as a service (SaaS) as an alternative for their customers and once the teething problems have been overcome there are a number of long term benefits for both parties.

Web-enabled applications and the internet
Satisfying the growing expectations of business users
BOB TARZEY

Businesses across Europe are becoming increasingly reliant on web-enabled applications that are accessed over the public internet. One of the key drivers for this is to open up communications with external organisations that are fundamental to core business processes. Doing this provides a competitive advantage but as more and more businesses web-enable their key business applications to achieve the same goals, ever better performance and availability across the internet needs to be achieved by the early movers to maintain their lead while satisfying the growing expectations of business users

What Business Managers Think of Their IT Managers?
IDC REPORT

As markets rapidly change to meet changing consumer demand, IT is being asked to align to new business requirements. Read this IDC Report on the challenges faced by both business and IT managers and what factors they consider as each others major pitfalls.

M&A – Realising the Asset
CDMS
STEVE CLARKE

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is back in town. Enthusiasm is up and activity is once again paralleling the M&A fever around the millennium. Back then we famously saw deals such as Scottish Power acquiring Manweb, North West Water buying Norweb, and Welsh Water absorbing South Wales Electricity. Now we are reading speculation about the future ownership of Thames Water and, on the international stage, EU discussions about the proposed merger of Gaz de France and Suez.

Building a Successful Enterprise Content Management Project Team
GARTNER

Good project governance with the right team and sponsorship is critical to the success of an enterprise content management (ECM) initiative. This research outlines how application managers should structure the ECM project team to support the implementation.