Tool

Many organizations fail to adequately budget for their collaboration implementations, leading to cost and time overruns. This tool will help you budget for initial platform deployment and ongoing collaboration solution design.

Solution Set

In today's IT environment, organizations often have numerous applications communicating with each other chaotically. Middleware streamlines that communication process, providing maximum integration benefits.

Tool

Initial collaboration platform deployment consists of a number of discrete steps, from creating the front-end, support model, and back-end to designing and executing pilot projects. This tool will help serve as the basis for platform deployment...

Job Description

To successfully implement a collaboration platform, put the right people behind the implementation. If the budget allows, hire a dedicated resource to execute the implementation to increase user uptake. The Collaboration Business Analyst plays a...

Tool

Building a library of collaboration solutions for ad-hoc and persistent teams is essential for enabling effective collaboration. This tool assists IT architects and business analysts conducting collaboration pattern matching (pairing the...

Template/Policy

Info-Tech's Annual Audit Template will help you conduct an annual assessment of the existing collaboration environment. It will consider a variety of different factors to construct a strategy for the ongoing operation of the collaboration system.

Video

Successfully implementing a collaboration platform is essential for realizing business value. The implementation should be split into two distinct phases: initial platform deployment and ongoing solution design. IT managers are familiar with the...

Note

Successfully implementing a collaboration platform is essential for realizing business value. The implementation should be split into two distinct phases: initial platform deployment and ongoing solution design.

Vendor Research

Enterprises of all sizes are evaluating the potential of cloud computing for greater flexibility, speed, and lower costs in service delivery. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is one of three services typically based in externally maintained compute...

Solution Set

Adoption of the cloud has seen incredible growth in the last year, and has passed a tipping point. The impact of adoption will be experienced throughout IT.

Solution Set

Many organizations are abandoning their original Novell GroupWise and Lotus Notes e-mail platforms and are faced with e-mail migration for the first time in their history.

Note

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) exists in every enterprise. It is often a low priority for IT managers until changes to the business make a very real, and very expensive, project. The real cost of a failed ERP initiative is IT careers.

Note

There is real and growing interest in cloud computing despite the overuse and overhype of the term cloud. One of the fastest growing areas of the cloud is cloud-based development. Enterprises of all sizes are evalutating the potential of...

I have had a series of opportunities, over these last few weeks, to witness the industry confusion over the question of which platforms will succeed. Since the resolution, and understanding, of this question will drive much of the computing...

Solution Set

E-Mail vendors release significant platform upgrades more often than organizations need to upgrade, creating pressure to upgrade twice as frequently as upgrades are really warranted.

Dynamics AX is the flagship of Microsoft's ERP aspirations. The technology holds promise but will benefit from increased focus on industry-specific functionality and improved roll-out methodologies.

There are several key issues that need to be addressed when making the choice between Java or .NET as the primary development platform. Every IT executive must address how Java and .NET differ, how these differences affect adoption success, and...

Microsoft's SharePoint is gaining a lot of attention from both the media and prospects. But it's not the only option. There is a lot of choice within the portal marketplace. Align final product selection with the overall development strategy of...

Enterprises entering a mobile application initiative should start by assessing existing applications to determine if buying, building, or porting is the best way to achieve their goals. Info-Tech's assessment framework for application...