"All the technology in the world does not, by itself, constitute MDM. The technology has to be accompanied by a strong set of organizational rules, business rules, and well-defined data elements that can be universally understood by the user community."
-- Al Moreno and Greg Mancuso, Guest Editors
BI is an area of great interest, one that deserves our attention and analysis. Therefore, for this issue, we tapped the expertise of two individuals with a few decades of combined expertise in the field. Our objective is to benchmark the state of BI and allow our authors to comment on the emergent lessons.
This month's Cutter Benchmark Review is the second in our annual series on IT budgets and the IT budgeting process. The budgeting process is one of critical importance to IT and business professionals in our subscriber base. This is perhaps even more important today as we continue to see a recovery in IT spending as well as the shifting of priorities away from a narrow focus on cost cutting and efficiency (a trend that we picked up in last year's data).
"Through collaboration, we can find how to deliver the right results for all stakeholders in the organization, for as the Japanese proverb says, `None of us is as smart as all of us.'"
-- Pollyanna Pixton, Guest Editor
Not another meeting! All that collaboration takes too much time. People need to stop talking and start building.
Agile software development has emerged as a viable option for enhancing speed of delivery and customer satisfaction in systems development projects. With the viability of Agile approaches now beyond suspicion, we at CBR thought an issue on how to make the Agile approach stick in your organization would provide the most ROR (return on reading).
