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Reports from the Cutter Consortium
Adopting the SaaS Model for Business ApplicationsXin, Mingdi | Executive Reports | 01 June 2009 | Business-IT Strategies
The software as a service (SaaS) model has matured as a viable strategic alternative to conventional software service options. This Executive Report by Dr. Mingdi Xin elaborates on the distinct technical and managerial characteristics of SaaS and the implications of these differences on a client’s adoption decision. Proposi...
June 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Suite
Service-Oriented Architecture: Foundational Elements
Maitra, Amit K. | Executive Reports | 01 March 2009 | Enterprise Architecture
"Service-oriented architecture" (SOA) is a powerful term regularly abused by its constant reference to developmental technologies rather than its architectural approach. This Executive Report by Dr. Amit K. Maitra discusses SOA in the context of "services" as the term applies to architecture and to "architecture" as i...
March 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Lessons in Learning: The Story Behind the IT Sector's Chronic Training Gap
Goatham, Robert | Executive Reports | 01 March 2009 | Agile Project Management
Tapping into the full potential of an organization's human capital, especially in a project environment, remains a difficult challenge. In this Executive Report by Robert Goatham, we look at the cognitive processes by which individuals develop expertise and the educational roadblocks that prevent organizations from m...
March 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Innovation
Negotiating in Hard Times
Cohen, Moshe | Executive Reports | 01 March 2009 | Business-IT Strategies
Negotiations become more challenging during economic hard times. This Executive Report by Moshe Cohen discusses three crucial factors for negotiation -- negotiating styles, the drivers of negotiating strategy, and the emotional competence of negotiators -- and examines ways in which negotiations shift relative to these fa...
March 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Suite
Analysis by Amateurs
Lister, Tim; The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 February 2009 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Many organizations are depleting their systems analysis staff -- or have no systems analysts at all. This is not a matter of job titles; this is an important loss of systems skill sets. While the world is demanding IT efficiency and effectiveness, many IT organizatio...
February 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Cloud Computing: A New Paradigm in IT
Murugesan, San | Executive Reports | 01 February 2009 | Business Intelligence
Are you computing in the clouds -- working with a constellation of computing resources accessed via the Internet? If not, you will be sooner or later. Cloud computing, touted to be the next big thing in IT, promises to offer utilitylike availability of huge computing resources and is attracting lots of interest among ...
February 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
After a 40-Year Courtship, It's Time for the Business Analyst and the Project...
Wysocki, Robert K. | Executive Reports | 01 February 2009 | Agile Project Management
The need for a new type of professional has quietly emerged below the radar and onto the project landscape. This needed professional is either a senior-level project manager (PM) who has an intimate knowledge of the design and development of business processes or a senior-level business analyst (BA) who has a s...
February 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Innovation
Release Management Framework: Part II
Konkol, Sebastian | Executive Reports | 01 February 2009 | Enterprise Architecture
This Executive Report by Sebastian Konkol is the second in a two-part series focusing on the practice of release management. Release management is a method of coordinated introduction of various software modifications to the production systems environment. While the first report looked at the methodological aspec...
February 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Scaling Up Agile Adoption by Scaling Down: Focusing on Individual Skills for ...
Elssamadisy, Amr | Executive Reports | 01 January 2009 | Agile Project Management
Agile adoption initiatives both succeed and fail, and there is no agreement on why they do one or the other. The current focus for scaling agile seems to be on modifying existing agile practices, adding new ones, and getting the right toolset installed. But I've come to believe that the main reasons for the succes...
January 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Innovation
Producing Agile Applications
Sims, Oliver | Executive Reports | 01 January 2009 | Enterprise Architecture
Application developers need to handle a surprising amount of software technology. Platform suppliers cater to many architectural styles, thereby leaving a gap between their platforms and an application's business function. Filling this gap takes time and effort and reduces the "agility" -- simplicity and resilience -- o...
January 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Here Comes Cloud Computing
Orr, Ken; Maher, Andy; The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 January 2009 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts
With more and more companies unwilling or unable to invest in up-front capital costs for projects, lots of noise is being made about cloud computing as a fast and efficient deployment environment. Most companies will be wary but willing. Can you afford not t...
January 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Identifying Risks from an ITIL Service Perspective
Berry, John | Executive Reports | 01 January 2009 | Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and its fundamental concern for quality IT service delivery and management provides a completely fresh way of identifying the full range of risks that organizations face in conceiving, funding, executing, and operating IT services that support business objectives. ITI...
January 1, 2009, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
Joined-Up Service Sourcing and Usage
Allen, Paul | Executive Reports | 01 December 2008 | Enterprise Architecture
While effective service sourcing strategies are absolutely critical for effective outsourcing, they are commonly misunderstood and ill defined. Worse still, the execution of these approaches tends to be somewhat isolated, both from the domain of software architecture and development and the world of business decision m...
December 1, 2008, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Breaking the Facade of Truth: An Introspective View into and a Case Study Abo...
Spann, David | Executive Reports | 01 December 2008 | Agile Project Management
Each of the lessons, or "apparent truths," presented in this Executive Report by David Spann was discovered by one or more firms who actually went through an agile implementation process. The lessons include a need for a single definition of agile, a focus on agile as a quality process applied to software development...
December 1, 2008, Cutter Consortium: Innovation
People-Centric BI for Open Innovation
Di Maio, Paola | Executive Reports | 01 December 2008 | Business Intelligence
As businesses open up to interact with and leverage social networking environments and tools, we find users, customers, partners, and suppliers are taking up important roles, each day becoming more involved in the R&D of all commercial products and services. In this Executive Report by Paola Di Maio, we look at contem...
December 1, 2008, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
Taking the Measure of Marketing: Going Beyond BI to Measure and Manage Market...
Meili, Christophe; Guttman, Michael; Parodi, John | Executive Reports | 01 November 2008 | Business Intelligence
The enterprise needs marketing more than ever in these difficult times. But without the ability to measure the effectiveness of specific marketing activities, optimizing the use of marketing's resources is impossible, as is fact-based decision making. As discussed in this Executive Re...
November 1, 2008, Cutter Consortium: Business Intelligence
Release Management Framework: Part I
Konkol, Sebastian | Executive Reports | 01 November 2008 | Enterprise Architecture
This Executive Report by Sebastian Konkol focuses on the release management framework, which is a method involving the coordinated introduction of various software modifications to the production systems environment. The method aims at global optimization by building business value through the delivery of softwar...
November 1, 2008, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Architecture
Scrum Today
Dooley, Brian J. | Executive Reports | 01 November 2008 | Agile Project Management
Scrum is a lightweight management process that incorporates many of the elements that later became part of the Agile Manifesto and provides a methodology-agnostic and empirical platform for handling the needs of complex programming tasks where requirements are constantly shifting. It views the programming effort ...
November 1, 2008, Cutter Consortium: Innovation
The Financial Mess
The Cutter Business Technology Council | Executive Reports | 01 November 2008 | Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Let's face it, nobody today is thinking about anything other than the unraveling global economy and its effect on our companies and our lives. So we'd be crazy to write about any other subject. Our topic is trends, and this is the mother of all trends. What's happening now is not...
November 1, 2008, Cutter Consortium: Business Technology Trends & Impacts
Quality of Service: You Can't Measure What You Don't Specify!
Allen, Paul | Executive Reports | 01 September 2008 | Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
At the heart of risk management and governance of service-oriented applications is the need to achieve agreed and measurable quality of service (QoS) levels. Traditionally, analysis and design techniques have tended to focus primarily on functional requirements, relegating quality concerns to the backs...
September 1, 2008, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
Lessons Learned: Taking a Page from Risk Management History
Pritchard, Carl | Executive Reports | 01 April 2008 | Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
This Executive Report by Carl Pritchard uses lessons learned from three classic examples to get at the heart of risk perception and risk management. The examples -- the construction of Saint Paul's Cathedral; the promotion, construction, shipment, and installation of the Statue of Liberty; and the impl...
April 1, 2008, Cutter Consortium: Enterprise Risk Management & Governance
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