Application Development Strategies for Enabling Business Change
Mon Apr 26, 2004 - Tue Apr 27, 2004
The pace of business change continues to accelerate, which in
turn creates a demand for greater flexibility on the part of IT
systems. Members discussed the challenges associated with
keeping up with business change and compared approaches to
reducing systems complexity through enterprise-wide
architecture and application integration initiatives.
Achieving Flexibility in a Complex World
Nothing we do is standalone anymore. Every business decision
triggers an IT event. By now, it is self-evident that business
change is not only perpetual, its accelerating. As the world
becomes more complex, IT has to adapt more quickly than ever.
Business requirements are complex enough; adding unnecessary
systems complexity creates rigidity, excess cost, and market risk.
Enterprise Architecture Enables Flexibility
Like urban planning, enterprise architecture requires an evolving
view of the ideal, providing a long-term vision to counterbalance
the short-term view that characterizes most day-to-day project
activity. Enterprise architecture can provide the principles,
controls, and governance necessary to make flexibility possible.
Enterprise Application Integration
EAI reflects the realization that applications no longer live in a
vacuum, requiring a strategic, systematic approach to managing
the necessary system interfaces. Several members described their
EAI approaches and their progress to date in bringing order to
this major source of systems complexity.
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