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From mobile workers' perspectives, up-to-the-minute information is the life blood of their jobs. Regardless of whether they are in a home office or on the other side of the globe, speed and dependability are crucial. From an IT department's perspective, they must support the needs of all employees, while diligently maintaining security policies, which is becoming increasingly challenging now that the majority of the workforce has stepped beyond the corporate walls. Can these two opposing forces be reconciled? Can remote access be both fast and secure from any location?
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Managing IT services requires a life-cycle perspective through key capabilities such as performance base-lining, automated IT processes, change and configuration management, problem management, and compliance assurance. The integration of change and configuration management into a service life cycle is necessary to drive tighter change controls that impact the need for highly available business services and speed up problem and incident management processes. IT must understand the priority of changes and the impact of those changes on business services.
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The single key element that's missing from many IT organizations is an effective model for engaging consistently with business teams throughout the whole lifecycle of IT investments -- from when they're first considered, to when systems are being managed, changed and upgraded in operation. Although SOA doesn't deliver the answers, a broader "service-based" approach to IT delivery does. A holistic view of IT service delivery and management, based around a business-meaningful IT service model where managed IT services are mapped to business activities and processes, provides a solid foundation for consistent engagement between business and IT teams.
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Companies of all sizes rely on the information produced by spreadsheets to make important business decisions. Over time, these spreadsheets grow in complexity and the company needs to extend the spreadsheet logic beyond a single desktop. The development team is often asked to assist in automating or replicating the spreadsheet logic. Since Microsoft does not provide a Java-based API for Excel, developers puzzle over how to do this in a way that fits into their Java architecture. Four different Java-based approaches can be used to solve this problem, each with its own set of implications.
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SQL Server is so easy to use that in many enterprises, individual departments have installed SQL Server without involving the DBA management team. Often the DBA team is not even aware of the departmental SQL Server installation until a problem occurs that requires expertise beyond what the department can provide. This phenomenon of multiple SQL Server implementations is so frequent it has been given its own name: SQL Server sprawl.
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Companies today are facing an array of business challenges, including the growing number of remote and virtual employees; the rising costs and stresses of business travel; the need to make decisions faster than ever before; and the desire to be ecologically responsible. All of these are putting pressure on managers to find alternatives to in-person collaboration, and are having a noticeable impact on corporate communications. And for highly critical or strategic meetings, this personal dimension can mean the difference between success and failure.
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