I think by bringing together these silos and leveraging technology across all of the server entities, we can deliver much better business advantage and value. Users can no longer buy well-known products such as AS/400, NetFinity and RS/6000.
This attempts to take the existing IT environment as a set of vertical silos (for example, CRM, ERP, SCM), then layer across the horizontal process needs of the business and therefore turn the intersects into components.
Much of the collaboration between users and services providers must depend on what's being outsourced, Ward-Dutton added, saying the relationship isn't about selecting technology suppliers but supporting business processes and working to certain...
Governance frameworks and standard processes are getting mature enough to now consider multi-sourcing as a real option for IT services - it's been around in other industries for a long time. There are clear benefits to this approach but beware the...
Our customers like using the same language, the same information across the organisation and that no information silos are created. This application integration is the ultimate weapon in the battle against information silos.
Until recently, growth for most Indian services companies has been a pretty simple matter: win more contracts, take on more staff to do the work - and get bigger. The problem is, when companies are growing at 30 per cent per year, and taking on...