"There appears to be a bit of a paradox between the massive and recent consolidation in ES and the excitement for and growth of SaaS and E 2.0. If E 2.0 and SaaS are such great opportunities, why are vendors still consolidating?"
-- Vince Kellen, Guest Editor
Enterprise software (ES) is changing. Adoption of SOA, SaaS, and E 2.0 technologies is breathing new life into the ES market. This bodes well for firms seeking more ES flexibility and ease of use.
"The prevailing traditional project management paradigm is, at best, struggling to deliver to the increasing expectations of business and government clients. At worst, it has become increasingly focused inward on certification, bureaucracy, and formal complexity."
-- Rob Thomsett, Guest Editor
This issue of Cutter Benchmark Review focuses on green IT and green IS. This installment will hopefully convince you that using IS to become more efficient and to reduce your organization's environmental footprint is not only the right thing to do, but plain-old good business and bottom-line management.
This issue focuses on the management of the agile enterprise and on understanding how organizations can facilitate and foster agile practices through investments in IT infrastructure and technology practices. As such, the survey our contributors crafted tackles issues of strategy, relative positioning and competition, as well as technology infrastructure, software development methodologies, and IT architecture.
"Are organizations better off building BI solutions when they need them and as quickly as they need them ... without a standardized and integrated DW?"
-- Larissa T. Moss, Guest Editor
Here we go again with another virtual solution! It didn't work for data warehousing -- what makes us think it will work for BI? We still have to address the data chaos in our organizations. BI without a DW won't get us there, but BI with a DW will.
