Enterprise Web 2.0:Building the Next-generation Workplace

In some circles, the terms ‘Enterprise Web 2.0’ and ‘Enterprise 2.0’ are used interchangeably to describe the application of Web 2.0 ideas and technologies in the enterprise; however, Butler Group believes that a clear distinction exists between the use of these two terms, and that this differentiation is important to maintain, as it enables a more meaningful discussion to be had when examining the future role of IT within the business.

KEY FINDINGS
The principal tenets of Web 2.0 are that the Web is the platform, software and content are delivered as services, and that people participate.
The IT skills crisis will have an impact on all organisations seeking to exploit Enterprise Web 2.0 technologies.
Government portals and information search services provide plenty of opportunities for Web 2.0 technologies.
The mashup is as important to Web 2.0 as Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) was to Microsoft Windows 2.0.
Enterprise Web 2.0 technologies are enabling organisations to overcome barriers of time and location in order to better suit their business needs and their customer requirements.
Business professionals are moving their teams and offices on to the Web.
Agile software development methodologies sit well with the ethos of Enterprise Web 2.0.
Businesses will emerge whose primary source of income will be providing data services for mashups.
Organisations are having to adapt their security policies to meet new operational and business requirements brought about by Web 2.0.
A great deal of sensitive data is residing at the edge of the enterprise in a world devoid of corporate policy or control.
Organisations must find ways to utilise the new-found Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills and competencies being developed through the use of consumer IT.
The new generation of power user will create applications that have a broader appeal and impact than the spreadsheets of their predecessors.
The failure to consider the impact of social enhancement technology on the performance of the enterprise is a big mistake.
The social forces driving change in the consumer computing world are also impacting the way that business gets done.

CATALYST
The term ‘Enterprise 2.0’ has become the catch-all phrase that describes the wholesale change in enterprise IT thinking. Driven by changing business needs and social factors, organisations are starting to do things differently. Speed, agility, mobility, reuse, and innovation are the transformative drivers that are forcing organisations to push aside old technologies, models, and architectures to make way for the new Web 2.0 world of service-oriented, highly-virtualised, truly-commoditised, and eventually ‘utilitised’ systems and solutions. Social software, collaboration, and real-time communications are pivotal parts of the ‘Enterprise Web 2.0’ story, and these are acting as the conduits for new cultural ideas and practices.

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Business Intelligence: Corporate Performance Management

In the current climate there is added pressure on business units in every organisation to show clearly how and where they are creating or adding value to the organisation. Good decision making and performance management are key to business value generation but neither are easy in today’s complex world. Furthermore, the corporate focus on IT costs is often driven by the enterprise-wide mandate to ‘do more with less’ and growing demands for compliance and governance-led transparency. Business Intelligence (BI) and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions help organisations with all these aspects of business. They enable organisations to answer three key business questions: “How are we doing?”, “Why are we doing this?”, and “What should we be doing next?”. In terms of product offerings, these largely equate to: scorecarding, reporting and analysis, and forecasting. Most organisations do of course have systems in place to measure and monitor aspects of business performance, but all too often these systems stop at the Finance department. BI and CPM extend this practice to other areas of the business, and provide operational managers and employees with actionable business intelligence, i.e. information that is both relevant and timely.

KEY FINDINGS

BI deployments are driven by competitive pressures, rapidly changing market conditions, regulatory requirements, and the need for better risk management.
The notion of performance management has become increasingly connected to the BI market of late.
CPM is first and foremost a business initiative which requires an inclusive approach that encourages broad participation and adoption across the enterprise
BI and CPM solutions should offer flexibility to enable a best of breed approach towards deployment.
Ease of use and other end-user considerations are of paramount importance when considering
Performance Management solutions.
Data quality and integration is still a major issue for BI and CPM, as most enterprise applications still have their own, siloed view of corporate data.
The integration of Enterprise Search technology into BI platforms extends the reach and range of existing investments across the enterprise.
Mashups are a natural adjunct to the BI world, as are widgets and gadgets.
Effective collaborative Business Intelligence is the key to achieving and sustaining competitive advantage.
Software as a Service will offer hesitant organisations a relatively low-risk path to Performance Management.

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Application Development and Lifecycle Management: The Impact of Agile Practices on People, Processes, and Tools

The options available for building software applications have never been so wide ranging as they are today. This is largely to do with the impact of the Web, with different solution models available depending on user needs, from infrastructure to end device considerations. The most recent trend of cloud computing is also opening new possibilities that are lowering the cost barrier, increasing access to high performance computing, and also lowering the skill barrier for non-programmer information workers, whether in SMEs or departments in large organisations, to build business applications.

KEY FINDINGS
- ALM systems have improved considerably from the first generation of products; the new generation is Web-based and strong on collaboration.
- Agile methodology adoption has entered mainstream development and is making developers and managers rethink how they carry out application development.
- Agile practices are having a major influence on the ALM solutions market; supporting Agile processes is a hot area.
- ALM system architecture identifies core lifecycle functions, including process support with workflow, integrated data repository, and reporting.
- Business Intelligence (BI) for application development has now become an ALM system fixture, offering advanced analytics applied to project statistics.
- Software estimation remains a niche activity but should, be a core lifecycle activity in ALM.
- Defect and Issue Management is another core activity that cross-cuts the application lifecycle and is supported well by leading ALM systems.
- ALM system users should have read-and-write features for process guides, allowing users to modify content, supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange.
- ALM systems that alter the functionality exposed depending on the process selected represent an advanced, state-of-the-art technology, not yet seen in the market.
- The rise in Software Systems Engineering reflects the increasing use of software

CATALYST
Application development continues to evolve with processes and methodologies receiving significant
attention through Agile practices, while on the tooling side a new generation of Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM) products are appearing with process and workflow support figuring largely.
June 2009

ANALYSIS
Introduction
Software application development is one of those subjects that never disappears but is always evolving. Since the last general survey Report on this subject – Application Lifecycle
Management (ALM), published in September 2005 – there has been a lot of activity in the ALM field. With our colleagues in Datamonitor we published an ALM Decision Matrix in 2007 that looked at the vendor ALM suite market, and we now repeat that exercise in this Report with all the leading vendors participating. (The Datamonitor Decision Matrix also replaces what used to be the Market Lifecycle Ratings in  Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports).
The areas that are currently receiving the greatest activity in application development are:
- Agile development and Agile project management.
- ALM.
- Testing and test management.
- Enterprise Web 2.0.

The application development subjects that are on the horizon, are:
- Development in the Cloud.
- Parallel programming (especially General Purpose computing on Graphics Processing Units – or
GPGPU).
- Extension of ALM to overlap IT governance.
- RESTful Service Oriented Architecture. (REST is Representational State Transfer).

While what and how applications are being developed evolves, developers are still needed to programme the machines and create these applications. It had been considered that advanced modelling such as Model Driven Development (MDD) in the guise of software factories would at some point deliver on the next leap forward, a technological breakthrough such as a higher abstraction compiler that takes models rather than a high-level programming language to churn out the machine code. The Object Management Group’s Model Driven Architecture (MDA) appeared to be moving in that direction. This did not transpire, and is not likely to in the immediate future. These themes are expanded upon below.

Business Issues

Ultimately, software applications are built to satisfy the needs of the business, and the subject of the clash of two different cultures – the IT department and the rest of the business – has been discussed often, possibly to exhaustion. Some intractable problems become ‘solved’ through irrelevance because the ground has moved, and it can be said that whereas in the early days of computing the computer department in a business was a quite distinct function, a place where data was sent to be processed and returned with some useful statistics or reports, today there are businesses whose sole basis for existence relies on the IT function. Examples vary from obvious ones such as online banks and Web 2.0 companies, to less obvious virtual companies that operate solely due to the existence of the Internet and products with embedded software where the software component has grown exponentially. The net result of this shift towards greater reliance on IT is that the business has to take a greater interest in its IT function to succeed in the market, especially if the IT people are not delivering.

A real-world example illustrates how businesses are tackling this problem (names are omitted for confidentiality reasons): an IT company arose from being a small operation to having a billion dollar turnover in a short period. This company used to release its key platform application on an annual basis, but as a result of this rapid growth its current releases were taking 18 months and longer. The CEO gave the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) the highest priority directive to solve the problem. The CTO decided that all the company’s developers would switch to Scrum, the most popular Agile methodology, in big-bang fashion. The switchover was a success and delivery was back to a 12-month cycle. BT is another example where in this instance the CEO directed the company to adopt Agile, and an incremental adoption plan is in progress. Alternately, the concept of reducing waste is a message that many businesses understand and this is central to Lean Development, which takes many ideas from the lean movement and Total Quality Management, and combines them into an Agile methodology. Lean Development is found to be more comprehensible to businesses than some of the more developer-oriented Agile practices.

Businesses also want greater real-time insight into software project progress, and the new generation of BI solutions integrated into ALM suites provide this capability. Rather than reacting post-event, senior managers can act to avert problems escalating into software crisis dimensions. In particular, visibility
into quality control and test performance of the work in progress is necessary. When schedules become pressured, testing is the area that is traditionally cut by Project Managers. Therefore senior business managers must keep track of testing and quality – getting this wrong incurs long-term damage to the organisation in the marketplace. Agile methodologies are liked by business executives because they make
testing an integral part of the development lifecycle, not the last activity before
shipping.

Enterprise Web 2.0 represents a puzzle to many company executives: they see staggeringly successful businesses emerge, based on the Internet and the set of concepts and technologies behind Web 2.0, but do not see how this is relevant for them, or how they can emulate that success. This is likely to change as Web 2.0 culture permeates the workforce, that were raised in the Internet age, and use of the Web grows. Cloud Computing will accelerate that process, as various entrants trial new business models for earning revenue by offering utility-like computing services. Addressing security concerns is paramount though and will act as the brake whenever any mission-critical applications are considered. Expendable, low-risk business activity will find its way to the Cloud today. It will probably take the Internet mark 2 (there are various initiatives for upgrading the Internet, increasing bandwidth and improving security at nodes being prime motivations), for Cloud Computing to become truly ubiquitous.

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Global Security Software Market in Retail Industry 2008-2012

Security software helps organizations achieve higher scalability in terms of data management and data operations. It’s features such as easy & protected access to content and ease of sharing content help organizations scale up their revenue. At present, organizations all over the world are undergoing a consolidation phase. This has led to the creation of huge data centers, which are managing complex information for enterprises. This data is termed as ‘knowledge’, and its security is of paramount issue for enterprises. According to a study, year 2008 witnessed a significant increase in security attacks by cybercriminals, whereas breaches through malwares and Trojans have increased by multi folds. Also, it has been found that a majority of the security breaches in 2008 was through internal resources.

Security issues are more prevalent in the retail industry wherein databases grow on a daily basis. Thus, security software that are protecting accessibility, integrity, and data transfer in organizations, are becoming a popular choice for such enterprises. Their easy to operate features, requirement specific solutions, and reliability have turned them as essential requirement for enterprises.

The report by TechNavio Insights forecasts the size of the Global Security Software Market in Retail Industry over the period 2008-2012. It segments the market into various geographic regions (representing the market size for each of these regions). Further, it discusses the key market trends, drivers and challenges of the Global Security Software Market in the Retail Industry, and profiles some of the key vendors of this Industry.

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The Future of Software Delivery: The opportunities and challenges of emerging software delivery models – Aarkstore Enterprise

The Future of Software Delivery

The opportunities and challenges of emerging software delivery models

Report Overview

The way companies perceive and purchase their software is starting to change. Organizations no longer have to buy an on-premise application and host it on site, they can have it delivered on-demand, as a service or hosted by the software provider or a third party. But while these new models offer more choice in how they pay, receive and use applications, the proliferation of terms has led to some confusion amongst organizations about what they are and what they constitute. ‘The Future of Software Delivery: The opportunities and challenges of emerging software delivery models’ is a new report published by Business Insights that examines the market conditions that led to the emergence of these new models and the benefits they offer over traditional delivery types. This report also examines future market opportunities for software delivery models and how they may be extended to hardware platforms in the future.

Key Findings

The size of the on-demand CRM market will increase rapidly through 2009 to reach 27% of total market size as the CAGR for on-demand far exceeds that for the total CRM market.

There are signs that enterprises with revenue of more than $1bn are also adopting more SaaS (Software as a Service) applications. Originally some industry commentators predicted SaaS would not expand beyond SMBs into larger organizations.

A study by Triple Tree and the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) found that on-demand deployments were 50% to 90% faster, with a total cost of ownership five to ten times less than installed software.

The growth rates for on-demand CRM and ERP application markets are significantly higher than for the premise-based market. This is an indicator of the high levels of growth potential in the market.

Use this report to…

• Identify and target future growth areas of on-demand CRM using this report’s analysis of new market opportunities by sizeband, vertical and region, as well as market forecasts for key sectors.

• Understand the key issues in the software delivery market including vendor ecosystem, competitor offering and on-demand vs on-premise deployments.

• Enhance your sales and marketing strategies with this report’s comparison of different vendor strategies and recommendations on improving your go-to-market strategy. • Assess emerging software delivery models with this report’s cost analysis of implementing software via different models.

Explore issues including…

On-demand is often used interchangeably with SaaS, but it’s also a bigger concept in its own right, referring to a new way for organizations to respond faster to customer demand, build new partnerships or react to market changes.

Vendor ecosystem. At the moment there is no single vendor leading the market for SaaS delivered solutions. Jostling for dominance in this market are traditional applications vendors, infrastructure vendors, pure play SaaS vendors and services providers.

SaaS in the enterprise. SaaS looks set to continue pervading the enterprise, whether through those application areas that suit Internet-based delivery, such as web conferencing and collaboration tools, to those that were previously considered as necessary to be kept behind the firewall: helpdesk, back-up software, word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows, content management and even supply chain management software.

Discover

• What’s the difference between SaaS and traditional on-site implementations?

• Will any of these alternative software models become the primary way that organisations buy software?

• How is today’s hosting model different to the ill-fated ASP model of the 1990s?

• Where does hosting fit in and how does it differ?

• What are the limitations of these software delivery models?

• Who are the leading vendors in this space? And is there a market leader yet?

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OEM PC Diagnostics Software Market Opportunities Strategies and Forecasts, 2008 to 2014

A mission critical diagnostic system provides open connectivity between platforms and operating systems. Products provide a consistent mechanism for a wide variety of system interconnection. Common API’s and operational procedures simplify the tasks that must be carried out when integrating different systems.

PC manufactures need to avoid hardware problems. They need to avoid calls for service they need to be able to tell is a problem is with the hardware or software when a call does come in. If there is a hardware PC problem, the service center needs to be able to fix it quickly.

Calls to the service center are costly. OEM PC diagnostic software spreads the cost of implementing feature rich functionality over the entire customer base.

As companies seek to work more efficiently with each other in ecosystems messaging is the vehicle for information exchange between applications. As the supply chain is automated, the value of mission critical messaging becomes more evident.

OEM PC diagnostics markets at $121.4 million in 2007 are anticipated to reach $337 million by 2014. Demand for increased reliably of systems is the market driver. In addition, the packaged software solutions are more efficient than home grown testing and diagnostic solutions because the spread the cost of adding features over the broad customer base.

 

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Directory of MNCs India Software Operations By Aarkstore Enterpise

The companies profiled in the directory can be broadly classified into two categories on the basis of their parent companies – IT and End User companies; 158 coampnies fall into the former category and the balance 39 in the latter. Out of the IT companies, 63% are from IT services and balance is IT product companies. About 82% of the companies profiled have their parents from the North American region,13% from the Europe and the balance Asia. The main line of business of all these companies broadly falls into following categories: BFSI and related software Healthcare, life sciences etc Electronics, Wireless Telecommunications, Semiconductors, microprocessors, Networking, storage and connectivity SW Engineering, Scientific, Automobile, Aerospace & CAD/CAM Software Application Development, Enterprise solutions like SCM, ERP, CRM, etc Web Services, security, e-commerce and Internet based technologies Business Inteligence, learning solutions, performance management, open source software, Data management & Data warehousing Computer peripherals, Printing & Imaging Data processing, Billing, Smart cards, business process & ITes Packaged software, multi media, publishing and allied Reasons to Buy Get complete details of the companies with line of business, number of employees etc Get a ready reckoner, which provides critical elements of information on the basic line of business of the Indian company (development of IT products or IT services) and on parent companies (Country and line of business) Understand the activities of the Software operations of the major MNCs in India. Explore business partnerships MNC’s planning to enter India will find the report useful to know the experience of the other MNCs that have been operating in India.

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Worldwide Optical Transmission TEM, and Scanning SEM Electron Microscope Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2009 to 2015

Breakthrough technology in microscopy brings advancements that provide customers with the power to discover things they have never seen before, and to solve problems never before solvable.
 
 Microscope markets are segmented as optical microscopes, electron microscopes, scanning probe microscopes, and focused ion beam microscopy. Optical microscopes are light microscopes. The optical microscope is limited in the minimum size and nature of the features it can resolve by manufacturability constraints and the physics of light. While optical microscopes once accounted for the bulk of all microscopes sold in the world, today their percentage of total revenue is shrinking.
 
 New microscopy technologies have been developed to overcome the limitations of light microscopes. Electron, scanning probe, and focused ion beam microscopy are essential aspects of different approaches to visualization at the nanoparticle level. The field of microscopy continues to evolve rapidly, as new requirements and imaging technologies are developed.
 
 Technology integration, marking the convergence of information technology and digital imaging, is expected to change standard laboratories into advanced research centers. Current innovations in the microscopy industry are towards development of microscopes with higher precision and resolution.
 
 Developments in image restoration, reconstruction, and other related fields will continue to influence the industry.
 
 Innovations in electronics, engineering and industrial materials permit the industry to effectively overcome conventional barriers, allowing new systems to evolve based on new technologies.
 
 Custom-assembled systems are based on modular approaches to product delivery. Platforms are implemented as frameworks that accept any of a variety of modules. In this manner customization is supported in the microscope industry. These custom-assembled systems enable end users incorporate existing workflow.
 
 The microscope markets are driven by the need for research facilities to attract the most qualified researchers. The best researchers are attracted to good equipment. They will move to where the best equipment is. For enterprises and universities to land and hang on to leading researchers, they have to upgrade their equipment or those people are gone in a year.
 
 The research and industrial use of imaging has shifted rapidly with the increasing significance of nanotechnology. To look at particles on the nano-scale requires increased sophistication and use of more expensive imaging equipment. This means that fewer organizations can afford the imaging equipment needed to stay competitive and that those organizations that can afford the very expensive imaging equipment will tend to be quite large.
 
 Nanotechnology funding at $8.5 billion in 2008 is anticipated to increase rapidly as countries respond ot the economic meltdown. Every dollar invested in nanotechnology research turns $5 in tax dollars within a year and continues to provide that level of taxes for the next 20 to 50 years. This is a very good investment.
 
 Countries are learning that they need to compete at a level of industrial development in the new global economy. The financial meltdown represents at its core the disintegration of national boundaries in the traditional sense. In its place are global enterprises based in a particular country, providing tax dollars to that base nation.
 
 In this global economy, innovation is central. Innovation is based on software systems that improve productivity. Software is used to manage information and make it more accessible. Innovation improves enterprise and business decision making. Nanotechnology and electron microscopes are a central aspect of this global initiative.
 
 FEI has had momentum in the microscope research markets unmatched by any competitor. The wins in the research market are significant because the nanotechnology techniques being developed there will work for another generation, driving markets in every segment as the research in nanotechnology being conducted now provides technology that will flow out into industry and government at a rapid pace.
 
 FEI Company (Nasdaq:FEIC) high-resolution imaging and analysis system Titan(3(TM)) 80-300 scanning/transmission electron microscope (S/TEM) competitive win in the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) of Saudi Arabia bring enormous opportunity to the company.
 
 Nanoparticles are so tiny that good technology is a basic part of the industry. The best researchers prefer the FEI technology, giving the company significant competitive advantage.
 
 IBM has extended 3D MRI to the Nanoscale. IBM Research (NYSE: IBM) scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI.
 
 Microscope market forecasts indicate that markets at $3.5 billion in 2008 are anticipated to reach $7.7 billion by 2015. Growth is stimulated by worldwide government investment in innovation in response to the meltdown of financial markets.

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