While more than half of organisations are already making plans for introducing SOA, large enterprises are being held back by the weight of their IT legacies, which have grown dramatically in the past decade as they have adopted ERP, CRM and many...
As SOA becomes mainstream in 2008, enterprises that have not acted will be at a strategic disadvantage to their competitors because their IT systems will not adapt quickly enough to the changing needs of the business and their clients," he said.
The reality is that almost everything is produced, prepared and delivered to us by a huge number of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises). An impressive website can convey or infer a greater capability or power than is actually available in...
In reality, businesses may not have evolved completely into "electronic shamrock organisations", as he theorised, but for many work is no longer just a place to go but something they do at home or while out of the office.
Alex Pannell, BT MPLS product manager, says: “The reality is that, at present, the number of customers actually taking advantage of technologies like differential classes of service (CoS) to enable convergence is relatively low.
Advanced, secure web services will be a reality by 2005. However, there is a lot of hype surrounding ‘On Demand’ computing, 3G, 64 bit computing, grids and artificial intelligence, which we believe enterprises should hold off until at least 2008.
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