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Implement & Govern Technology Standards

Find the right balance between standardization and agility.

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Your Challenge

  • IT leaders are faced with a two-sided challenge: streamline operations and reduce costs, yet be agile and responsive to the needs of the business.
  • IT must decide where technology standards are appropriate, where flexibility is needed, and how to govern compliance and exceptions to standards.

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Storyboard: Develop Enterprise Architecture to Create an Engine for Growth & Competitive Advantage

With increasingly complex business models, more sophisticated solutions and escalating costs, IT leaders are finding it harder than ever to manage both cost and complexity within their organizations. Enterprise architecture is an engine for growth and competitive advantage.

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Enterprise Architecture: Four Stages of Value

Enterprise architecture is a discipline made up of frameworks, methods and tools that help organizations of all sizes chart a course away from unnecessary costs due to systems and process duplication in the entire organization. EA focuses on long-term strategic impact, reducing costs and improving time to market.

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Storyboard: Plan for Application Consolidation

Many organizations initiate application consolidation projects with an ambitious outlook, only to have them abort or fail because they didn't assess the feasibility of consolidating the particular applications.

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Application Consolidation Planning

Many organizations initiate applications consolidation projects with an ambitious outlook, only to have them abort or fail because they didn't assess the feasibility of consolidating the particular applications.

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Storyboard: Develop an Application Integration Strategy

Middleware tools provide real-time integration and SOA delivers improvements in IT service quality, agility, and costs. Evaluate these technologies for your organization.

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Federal Desktop Standards: Investigate Compliance Tools Now

The date for federal agencies to meet the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandate for implementing standard Windows desktop configurations has passed, and the official deadline to submit technical compliance reports is fast approaching. Government IT leaders must deploy a validated reporting tool in order to verify and show compliance.

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Enterprise Architecture, Policies, standardization, technology planning, EA, agile technology

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Find the right balance between standardization and agility.

Solution Road Map

Other Solution Sets in Enterprise Architecture & Standards
1. Develop EA to Create An Engine for Growth & Competitive Advantage
Enterprise architecture (EA) is an organizational discipline, not a technology.
2. Implement & Govern Technology Standards
Find the right balance between standardization and agility.
3. Choose a Consumerization Strategy
Find the right path for your organization.
4. Plan for Application Consolidation
Choose the right consolidation candidates to improve productivity and reduce operational inefficiency.
5. Build an Applications Roadmap
Use a roadmap to manage your apps portfolio and help realize your core objectives.
6. Manage the Application Lifecycle
From birth to death, stay by your application's side.
7. Control the Policy Management Lifecycle
Make sure your IT policies have teeth.
View the full Solution Road Map