http://www.reportsnreports.com/Butler Group Market Research Reports XML feedhttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/16271-enterprise-communications-improving-productivity-and-collaborati.htmlMANAGEMENT 1.1 Management CATALYSTWith the deployment of integrated communication services there is an opportunity for organisations to significantly improve employee productivity, augment business processes, and foster innovation.KEY POINTSA flexible service-centric approach to communications, to enable the exploitation of cloud computing and shared services, is becoming crucial.User choice should start to be factored into IT strategy.IT management needs to start taking account of the increasingly connected world.Wireless conn...Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9375-content-management-maximising-the-value-of-enterprise-and-web-co.htmlUnstructured content accounts for approximately 80% of an organisation’s total data, yet many organisations are still failing to manage it adequately, despite having implemented a Content Management system. This suggests either that insufficient planning has gone into the implementation or that an inappropriate solution has been selected. Defining the objectives for a new solution and planning the implementation are critical; a badly implemented solution can be more damaging to the company than not deploying a new system at all, and it will fail to deliver any business benefits. Organisations must therefore allow time to fully define their objectives and requirements before selecting a solut...Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9376-information-security-protecting-the-business-and-its-information.htmlThe role of Information Security is to protect and support the safe delivery of business operations across all sectors of industry. That simple sounding challenge leads directly into a more complex conversation about what it is exactly that each organisat ...Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9377-soa-adoption-tracking-the-use-maturity-and-best-practices-of-s.htmlThere is now considerable experience in deploying solutions based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Most, but not all, of those experiences have been positive ones. Regardless of the perceived success many lessons have been learned that have refin ...Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9378-enterprise-collaboration-delivering-better-business-results-and.htmlWhen it comes to Enterprise Collaboration, many organisations remain 'land-locked'; restricted by the architectures, deployment models, and functionality of solutions that were conceived in another age - an age when there was no Web 2.0, no mobile Interne ...Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9379-evolving-enterprise-applications-2009-increasing-the-business-v.htmlEnterprise applications like ERP and CRM systems provide the DNA for successful organisations but their scope and impact is so extensive, and the cost and risk of change can be so high, that they are often viewed as static transactional engines that are a ...Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9380-application-development-and-lifecycle-management-the-impact-of-a.htmlThe options available for building software applications have never been so wide ranging as they are today. This is largely to do with the impact of the Web, with different solution models available depending on user needs, from infrastructure to end device considerations. The most recent trend of cloud computing is also opening new possibilities that are lowering the cost barrier, increasing access to high performance computing, and also lowering the skill barrier for non-programmer information workers, whether in SMEs or departments in large organisations, to build business applications....Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9381-business-intelligence-corporate-performance-management.htmlIn the current climate there is added pressure on business units in every organisation to show clearly how and where they are creating or adding value to the organisation. Good decision making and performance management are key to business value generation but neither are easy in today’s complex world. Furthermore, the corporate focus on IT costs is often driven by the enterprise-wide mandate to ‘do more with less’ and growing demands for compliance and governance-led transparency. Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions help organisations with all these aspects of business. They enable organisations to answer t...Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9382-managing-costs-in-it-2009-maximising-the-value-of-it-assets-and-.htmlThe increasing financial and economic pressures that many organisations have found themselves facing recently have led to an intense pressure for IT cost savings. Organisations are no longer willing to make speculative investments in information systems w ...Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9383-identity-and-access-management-2008-enabling-secure-access-for-.htmlBusinesses must take complete responsibility for the full and proper protection of the information that they hold, but at the same time that information has little value unless it is openly available to users who have the correct access rights. To keep up ...Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9384-it-risk-management-planning-cost-effective-mitigation-of-risks-.htmlIn any organisation large enough to deploy IT solutions, IT systems deliver substantial value through the automation of repetitive tasks; the synchronisation of interactions with customers, suppliers, and partners; the management of high-value and sensiti ...Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9385-enterprise-web-20building-the-next-generation-workplace.htmlIn some circles, the terms ?Enterprise Web 2.0? and ?Enterprise 2.0? are used interchangeably to describe the application of Web 2.0 ideas and technologies in the enterprise; however, Butler Group believes that a clear distinction exists between the use o ...Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9386-it-strategy-and-architecture-creating-an-enterprise-model-to-sup.htmlThe IT strategy of many organisations has evolved over a period of time rather than been purposely defined, and in many cases is not actually documented. However, businesses and customers expect IT systems and services to meet the requirements of the orga ...Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9387-soa-governance-applying-governance-to-ensure-the-long-term-benef.htmlThe number of SOA projects has accelerated to the point where SOA should be considered to be in early mainstream deployment rather than a ?bleeding edge? approach to delivering IT systems. However, alongside the success stories there is also a significant ...Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9388-document-and-records-management-controlling-information-risk-and.htmlWe are now in the second wave of Document and Records Management, with many organisations that implemented DRM systems a few years ago now looking to replace or roll out their systems to a wider audience. The provision of solutions built on top of DRM systems has greatly extended the capabilities of DRM so that organisations are now able to bring together information from multiple sources –structured data as well as unstructured information – to complete tasks initiated by the DRM system.There are two approaches to DRM: one is to deploy an Electronic Document and Records Management (EDRM) system that focuses mainly on DRM and workflow; and the s...Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9389-it-systems-management-exploiting-the-infrastructure-for-business.htmlTraditionally data centres have been managed in silo'ed teams dictated by the historic differences between the technologies such as network, storage, UNIX servers, Windows systems, and mainframes; these silos have generated highly specialist resources and ...Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9390-unified-communications-and-collaboration-laying-the-foundations-.htmlThese are challenging times, with organisations facing continuous change, including the shift to a more agile, virtual organisation, increasingly mobile workers, and the unremitting demands to increase productivity and lower costs. The requirement for a multi-channel IP network and unified communications to support all of an organisation’s interaction and collaboration needs has never been more evident.It is becoming increasingly important for IT management to begin to lay the foundations for the availability of integrated common communication services, either by infrastructure upgrades or through Managed Services. If organisations have not already, then Butler Group recomm...Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9391-business-process-management-building-end-to-end-process-solution.htmlMost technology systems continue to be viewed by the business community as inhibitors of progress, rather than as innovative solutions capable of delivering agile operations, Business Process Management is being actively positioned as the exception to this rule. Business professionals continue to struggle with business and technology alignment issues, and are actively searching for business-enhancing technology solutions that are fit-for-purpose and come without the need to undertake major time-constraining redevelopments whenever operational changes occur. BPM, in its various forms, has been available since before the millennium, and in Butler Group’...Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9392-sustainable-it-provision-meeting-the-challenge-of-corporate-soc.htmlCorporate, Social, and Environmental Responsibility (CSER) has become a significant issue for every enterprise, and is particularly pertinent for IT management which must focus on supporting the requirements of the organisation in this area. The challenge ...Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9393-application-delivery-creating-a-flexible-service-centric-networ.htmlThe effect of changing social patterns on business models cannot be ignored, with more and more of the workforce now based away from head office. A growing proportion of the workforce is also becoming more mobile, meaning that organisations must cater for them in corporate and IT strategies. The expectation is that it will be possible to work remotely, roam freely, and be able to use any type of device. However, there is an increased business risk to this freedom, with the main issues being the security of information outside the confines of the office and the ability to effectively manage the wider environment.Today, IT departments employ a variety of point-solutions and technologies ...Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9394-infrastructure-virtualisation-transforming-the-way-it-is-deliver.htmlThe convergence of three significant factors in the global economy have created the conditions that make IT virtualisation a technology that will become the dominant technology in data centres within the next two to three years: The need for organisations ...Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9395-rich-web-applications-the-business-benefits-of-web-enabled-appli.htmlRich Web Applications (RWA) are browser based Rich Internet Applications (RIA). They exploit new Application Programming Interfaces (API) in browsers that allow users to interact with a page on the Web as they would a desktop application.The conjunction ...Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9396-soa-platforms-software-infrastructure-requirements-for-successfu.htmlSOA products are experiencing high growth, but the market is still focused on a low volume of high-value sales to large enterprises. A very large number of vendors are competing for market share by aiming to offer the broadest possible set of SOA infrastr ...Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9397-managed-services-how-managed-services-can-help-it-departments-d.htmlSome organisations look towards outsourcing to assist them in achieving their business objectives, and some prefer to retain the delivery of IT services in-house. However, Butler Group is seeing an increasing number of organisations not only using outsour ...Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/9398-it-governance-managing-portfolios-projects-processes-and-peo.htmlWhether an organisation views IT as a strategic capability involving significant investment, or purely as a support service to be delivered at minimal cost, the reality is that all are dependent on information systems as an integral part of many business ...Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT