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21 May 2012
Welcome to The Cutter Edge. In each free edition you'll benefit from insight and business technology advice designed to help you further your organization's mission. Featured Article On the Critical Path for Change: Architect Agile Products and Processesby Roger Evernden, Senior Consultant, Cutter ConsortiumProducts and processes are two of the most vital components of a successful business. Useful, relevant, or innovative products are important for attracting and keeping customers. Efficient and effective processes are crucial to making the customer experience enjoyable and worthwhile. Product and process should therefore be included as key components in any business architecture.
[ Popular Research Exploration Warehouses in the Cloud: Substance or Hot Air?by Curt Hall, Senior Consultant, Cutter ConsortiumI think that many end-user organizations are going to have serious reservations about deploying their data warehouses permanently to the cloud, certainly at least initially. This is quite understandable, given that most companies tend to view their data -- especially customer data -- as a strategic asset.
[ Stat of the WeekQ: For which of these purposes do you use business intelligence/data analysis software?
According to Dennis Adams, "As companies begin looking at the piles of data being collected by systems such as those for ERP, SCM, CRM, and social networks, it is little wonder that companies are paying more and more attention to the issue of Big Data, which can be defined as today's rapidly collected large amount of data volume in various formats. To make use of this valuable resource -- and, in particular, to not be buried underneath it -- companies from this year's IT trends survey appear to be looking toward business analytics systems. Keeping in mind that most companies are in the business of making things and selling them or delivering services, it should come as no surprise that the most commonly used tools by this year's survey respondents focus on the supply chain or marketing/sales part of the value chain." * Excerpted from "Managing IT in the Enterprise: Full Steam Ahead" (
[ Editor's Pick Mobile Devices, Marketing, and Content Management SystemsIs it time for your organization to reevaluate its investment in mobile applications and content management systems? In this Executive Update, Cutter Senior Consultant Steve Kursh analyzes the results of a recent Cutter survey on mobile devices and provides practical insight that will help your organization fine-tune its mobile CMS strategy.
[ New in Cutter IT Journal The Consumerization of IT: Blessing or Curse?by Jim Love, Guest EditorIn this issue of Cutter IT Journal, we present a number of authors with differing approaches to and perspectives on what some have termed the "consumerization of IT." Whatever we call it -- BYOD (bring your own device), mobility, consumerization -- it's not new. Nor is it solely about devices. What we are witnessing is an inevitable outcome of the convergence of technical and social forces that have blurred the line between work and personal lives and identities. The writing has been on the wall (or in this case, the tablet) for some time now.
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Spotlight on Roger EverndenRoger Evernden specializes in the highly practical use of EA to manage organizational transformation. Cutter clients benefit from the unique combination of training and tools he provides to help architects and their teams throughout an EA program and at each capability level. Don't miss his webinar "How to Introduce Enterprise Patterns to Raise the Profile of Architectural Debate and Deliver Enterprise Transformation" on May 30. Live Webinar
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