Containing cost by leveraging existing investments with new functionality. Adapting to change faster than your competitors. Doing it your way. These are the guiding principles that define business today. Failure to ensure each is incorporated into your business and IT strategies sets the tides against you.
Businesses have access to information - tons of it.
Decision making has improved exponentially over that past few years. Now it is time to take action. Unfortunately, many companies cannot afford to take action. The current paradigm of information technology is an evolutionary collection of vendor-locked components. The result is an inflexible infrastructure that the business is dependent upon in order to conduct business as usual.