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Application Governance (Client Access Only)
Applications governance is terribly misunderstood, yet critical. Chronic IT problems like perpetual complaints about applications, portfolio bloat, and outsourcing are applications governance matters. Platform configuration, IoC, SoC, MVC, and BPM, although commonly called governance, are not. To learn the d ...
Application Platform Strategies  -  TeleBriefing
September 01, 2009  -  Author(s): Joe Bugajski
Building the Business Case for Service Oriented Architecture Investment (Client Access Only)
Today’s budgetary environment of doing less with less makes it even more important for service oriented architecture (SOA) champions to make their business cases for SOA investment compelling to business stakeholders and to create and maintain momentum. In this Methodologies and Best Practices document, An ...
Application Platform Strategies  -  Methodologies & Best Practices
September 18, 2008  -  Author(s): Chris Haddad,Richard Watson
Root Document: Managing Data, Delivering Information, and Making IT Indispensable (Client Access Only)
Sound data management is the foundation for IT success. Unfortunately, data is in dismal shape in the enterprise. Many enterprises have no idea how many databases they have or what data reside in them. Data of all kinds—structured data, semi-structured documents, and unstructured content—are replicated, ...
Data Management Strategies  -  Overview
January 06, 2009  -  Author(s): Lyn Robison
Legacy Software Modernization (Client Access Only)
Legacy modernization is a topic that never strays far from the mind of technology executives. Risks of decreasing the knowledgebase couple with risks of changes to core systems to make modernization both essential and troublesome. In this management briefing, VP and Director Chris Howard lays out current dyn ...
Executive Advisory Program  -  Management Briefing
January 26, 2010  -  Author(s): Chris Howard
Organized Chaos: A Framework for Classifying Master Data Management Problems and Solutions (Client Access Only)
Many approaches to master data management (MDM) encourage “vertical” thinking—in which businesses contemplate and classify MDM problems according to business topics, such as customers, products, addresses, and other content-specific domains. Such thinking can help businesses organize and prioritize MDM ...
Data Management Strategies  -  Overview
September 16, 2009  -  Author(s): Joe Maguire
Related Searches: data management , metrics , metadata
A Guidance Framework for SOA Governance (Client Access Only)
Effective governance is a critical element in fostering a successful service oriented architecture (SOA) initiative. SOA governance directs the SOA initiative and helps ensure that it delivers value to the business. Unfortunately, numerous interviews with Burton Group clients reveal that many organizations d ...
Application Platform Strategies  -  Guidance
December 16, 2009  -  Author(s): Anne Thomas Manes
A Guidance Framework for Assessing BI Maturity (Client Access Only)
Business intelligence (BI) is in high demand, but organizations embarking on BI initiatives are often disappointed when those initiatives fail to deliver promised benefits. The success of a BI initiative is greatly affected by the organization’s overall BI maturity. The maturity model for BI initiatives pr ...
Data Management Strategies  -  Guidance
December 18, 2009  -  Author(s): Lyn Robison
Spring: A Container-Agnostic Java Platform (Client Access Only)
The open source Spring Framework (Spring) was originally intended to improve enterprise Java development by providing a simplified programming model and high-level abstractions around the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE). In the five years since its introduction, Spring has grown into a full end-t ...
Application Platform Strategies  -  Overview
July 10, 2008  -  Author(s): Joe Niski,Kirk Knoernschild
Federated Master Data Management (Client Access Only)
In this TeleBriefing, Data Management Strategies Senior Analyst Joe Bugajski discusses the federated design solution for Master Data Management (MDM). Master data is information that is critically important to business operations. Typical examples of master data includes customers, products, and suppliers. M ...
Data Management Strategies  -  TeleBriefing
August 13, 2008  -  Author(s): Joe Bugajski
Data Access Technologies (Client Access Only)
Data access methodologies, standards, technologies, and products improve as additional data sources and types become de rigueur for enterprise IT services. Sources on the intranet and Internet include large volumes of text records, images, and audio. Accessing this data using Representational State Transfer ...
Application Platform Strategies  -  Technical Position
December 22, 2008  -  Author(s): Joe Bugajski
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