News & Views

2008 from Ventana Research and published by BPM Magazine – “…Improving business performance is a goal that cannot be realized without mutual cooperation and alignment between business and IT. In collaboration, IT focuses on architecture, system administration, scalability and performance, security and infrastructure, while business evaluates the practical usability and capabilities of tools being considered and how effectively they can be integrated into organizational and business processes. All parties must ensure that both technical requirements and the business needs are well defined, harmonized and prioritized. Leaving everything to one party or the other can be a sure path to failure…”

180 View – The article’s title is really Aligning Business and IT to improve Performance on SAP but the content is mostly not about SAP and contains some useful advice such as “A related danger is that companies that have made significant investments in a large ERP system such as those from SAP reasonably wish to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) as much as possible over the life of the system. One failure-prone way to do this is to use the system for purposes beyond those for which it originally was designed or purchased”