At around 16 pages, Executive Reports offer a deep, strategic look into a cutting edge issue, and serve as foundations to developing your own approaches. Short abstracts on the cover of each report help you immediately understand how the subject matter might impact your enterprise.

Infrastructure Support Technology

Steve Andriole
BUSINESS-DRIVEN SECURITY INVESTMENTS

With all investments in information technology (IT), the object is to make the "right" investments and avoid the ones that will not sustain a viable strategy.


Distributed Corporate Architectures

Paul Harmon

This report provides an overview of how several major vendors are conceptualizing distributed architectures. In some cases, the vendor is only offering suggestions about how a client company might architect its application and middleware resources. In other cases, vendors offer specific products to fill all of the obvious layers in the architectural model the vendor is suggesting.


Security Strategy -- Who Does What To Whom When

Steve Andriole
BUSINESS-DRIVEN SECURITY INVESTMENTS

With all investments in information technology (IT), the object is to make the "right" investments and avoid the ones that will not sustain a viable strategy.


Database Options in Distributed Computing

Douglas Barry
INTRODUCTION

We truly live in the information age. It's hard to imagine that just over 50 years ago, the first electronic, general-purpose digital computer was invented. The ENIAC could perform 5,000 additions per second and more than 300 multiplications per second -- not even close to the power of the personal computer that I'm using today to write this report.


Data/Information/Knowledge Alignment Strategy: Getting What You Need When You Need It

Steve Andriole
BUSINESS-DRIVEN DATA/INFORMATION/KNOWLEDGE INVESTMENTS

With all investments in information technology (IT), the objective is to make the "right" investments and avoid the ones that will not sustain a viable strategy.


Applications Strategy: Making the Right Investments At the Right Time At the Right Price

Steve Andriole
THE END GAME: THE RIGHT APPLICATIONS PORTFOLIO

There's a pretty good chance that your applications portfolio is not what it should be. It probably consists of a hodgepodge of applications developed during the past 20 years or so that require some form of life support to exist.


Migrating to Enterprise Component Computing: Initiating A Corporate Transition Program

Michael Guttman, Jason Matthews, Haim Matthews, Michael Matthews

This report is the first in a series that will examine how companies should approach their enterprise-wide transition from "traditional computing" to "component computing." In our view, this is one of the most critical transitions most organizations will make in the next decade, and it involves much more than the direct insertion of component-based tools, techniques, and middleware into the t


Communications Strategy: Wiring Your Business for Competitive Advantage

Steve Andriole
THE END GAME: BUSINESS-DRIVEN COMMUNICATIONS INVESTMENTS

The end game is pretty clear: make the most cost-effective investments in communications technology that you can in order to make your business the most competitive.


It's the Business ... Aligning IT to Business Models and Processes

Steve Andriole
THE END GAME: BUSINESS-DRIVEN IT

"Alignment" is the same dream -- or should be -- of CFOs, CEOs, CIOs, and CTOs. As the cost of computing rises and the volatility of the marketplace grows, everyone is living the pipe dream of cost-effective IT perfectly consistent with strategic, tactical, and operational business objectives.