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Using a transactional system to do analytics and reporting or to make ad hoc queries is akin to using a screwdriver to hammer nails. It’s simply the wrong tool. By stepping up to a specialty analytics server, end users can dig into digging into huge stores of data and gain real information on which to base faster, more accurate and ultimately more profitable business decisions.
Throughout an organization, individuals make decisions daily that influence the need for and the value received from information technology. A simple one-page framework can help companies allocate IT decision rights and accountabilities so that individual IT decisions align with strategic objectives.
Innovation success is not a one-time thing. True success involves creating growth businesses year in and year out. New research indicates that there are three basic elements involved in creating an innovation dynasty.
Research at 130 companies shows that only 17% are at the advanced, or synchronized, stage of IT portfolio management, meaning the rest are not optimizing IT investments. The authors note that in synchronized companies, senior business managers understand how IT affects strategy and the bottom line, and CIOs have learned to communicate IT goals in terms non-IT executives understand.
As ERP systems become increasingly comprehensive and complex, the costs and risks involved in changing them increase as well. In the end, they can become just another subset of the legacy systems they were supposed to replace.
Most companies recognize that IT must be aligned with business priorities. But as one CIO puts it, "Aligning a poorly performing IT organization to the right business objectives won't get the objectives accomplished." In search of alignment, many companies create a labyrinth of complexity -- costs rise, delays mount, and managers find it difficult to coordinate across business units. Is there a way out?
With IBM, organizations can develop comprehensive solutions to help gain visibility into business continuity risks, achieve control over utilization of sensitive business assets and automate a variety of processes for managing access to critical assets and data. Read this white paper to learn more.
Can You Afford Not to Upgrade Your Servers to Today’s Advanced, Energy-Efficient Technologies?
Welcome to the HP Technology Guide for Scalable Business Solutions. This guide features HP’s latest industry leading technologies – products designed to help you build and maintain an infrastructure that delivers the performance you need to drive your best business outcomes.
