Pervasive performance management for IT—The CIO is on a quest for better visibility and control into how
IT delivers value for the business. What are the metrics, tools, and best practices for measuring the business value of IT? How do they drive performance?
A fresh look at IT risk management—Increased regulation, the risk of losing sensitive data, and the board-level visibility risk creates has forced IT to take a fresh look at IT risk. What are the tools, services, and best practices for mitigating IT risk?
Changing sourcing models for IT management technology—Customers are changing the makeup of their IT organization to be a mixture of in sourced and outsourced resources and tools. What effect will this have on the IT management software market and on the evolution of new delivery models and technologies?
SOA content will be king—How will SOA take advantage of application services? Where will the services come from, and how will that expand and shape the SOA market?
The SOA consulting bonanza—How are large systems integrators approaching the market, and how are they working with and against ERP and platform software vendors to define the future?
SOA is not enough—SOA suites and practices have partially subsumed the business process management (BPM) and Web 2.0 markets. How will the integration of business intelligence and other tools further broaden the
definition of SOA, and how will that affect vendors and service providers? |