Collaboration success is all about getting the dynamics of the group right - it will fail if companies do not pay attention to this. Line of business managers are becoming much more likely to buy collaboration products," says David Coleman...
Vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and HP use terms as diverse as 'on demand', 'agile business', 'grid computing' and 'adaptive infrastructure' to describe their visions of utility computing, but the general push is similar, even if the...
Businesses are gearing up to adopt service-oriented architecture (SOA), citing tangible benefits resulting from a more agile and responsive IT infrastructure. Graham Benson, IT director at the Web Factory - the IT services arm of online music and...
Socitm said partnerships and outsourcing are the other strategies most mentioned by IT managers thinking up ways of bridging the resource gap, with open source another option, although not one that is currently being used much by local authorities...
He said: "Banks have to admit CRM was a one-way push model but I don't think that is enough anymore. In terms of technology investment this translates into a more flexible and agile service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Speaking to silicon.com, LCC's head of IT, Dylan Roberts, said the council wants its IT to be more agile and better aligned with the business objectives. There are also plans for the council to use Microsoft's service oriented architecture (SOA...