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SOA story is a nice one! It was at the top of CIO challenges for 2007, and reemphasised in recent C eBit, ... To consider the best way to develop, maintain application is to design them as independant LEGO buiding blocks, exchanging services is a nice creative dream. But... picture, in large companies, of application portfolio shows the real mess: heterogeneous applications, different programming language, weight of history, big amount of usable application, only a small part being used ...
BPM: Processus, toujours un thème central. Ce séminaire a lieu en Europe pendant tout 2007. Some very nice useful charts , from Gartner, about best of BPM, and a lot of additional charts . Among these, this one about BPM and SOA relation, or another one ... but... what about HOP (Human and Organizational Performance)? Must human problems be treated before technological and organizational problems? Old debate. Is corporate performance depending from good management of management ...
IT ROI, again, a nice contribution with 3 categories of funding for IT applications Stimulating article from McKinsey, on the old problem of relation of IT department with silos. This split inside IT between "IT demand" and "IT supply" is a (non perfect!) solution. That clarifies too the business owner location, treats better alignment challenges... En France, les notions de Maître d'ouvrage (dans les silos), de Maître d'ouvrage délégué (souvent dans les fonctions ...
A lot of informations recently published on this theme. What are the "new" issues and opportunities for CIO's ? Let's take a quote from this one Ovum analysts say in their Summit Seven predictions. "Virtualization, service-oriented architecture, management automation and integrated workflow tools will increasingly be coupled with externally provided software-as-a-service (SaaS), utility computing, business process outsourcing and other network-hosted applications and ...