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Butler Group

Introducing Butler Group

Information Technology is moving forward at an ever-increasing pace and Butler Group is committed to ensuring that your business profits fully from these advances, gaining the optimum competitive edge and exploiting the benefits of today’s IT - to the maximum.

Who are we?

Butler Group is the premier European provider of Information Technology research, analysis, and advice. Founded in 1990 by Martin Butler, the Company is respected throughout the business world for the impartiality and incisiveness of its research and opinion.

What do we do?

Butler Group provides a comprehensive portfolio of Research, Events, and Subscription Services, catering for the specialised needs of all levels of executive, from IT professionals to senior managers and board directors. Our products and services cover every aspect of the increasingly important impact Information Technology has on every business, from product purchase decisions to developing effective high-level strategy.

They range from the visionary - looking up to five years ahead - to the current practical use of technology.

Butler Group helps clients to:

Access relevant IT information which addresses the critical issues faced by their organisation.
Reduce risks, allowing them the freedom to innovate through the use of IT.
Maximise the value of their IT, now and into the future.

Whatever your IT issue, no matter how simple or complex, our independent and experienced expert Analysts can provide you with a continuous stream of clear, concise, and impartial advice - within the context of your business application.

By delivering timely analysis of the most important issues and debates, we will support you when making even the most complex of business decisions.

And at all times, we adhere to our mission statement - Analysis without compromise.

What makes us different?

Butler Group occupies a unique position at the heart of the European IT community. Although 100% independent, we work closely with the companies developing Information Technologies and services, which enables us to provide incisive and informed opinion to the organisations using these technologies.

Unlike our competitors, we offer a specifically European perspective. Combined with our proven track record, flexibility and accessibility, this makes us the ideal partner to guide companies through all the complexities of Information Technology, and the many benefits it can bring to their organisation.

Who benefits from our services?

Butler Group clients range from companies, corporations, and public sector organisations to technology vendors. Over 70% of the UK’s top companies use our services, and we have achieved similar penetration across our other key markets - Europe (Scandinavia and Benelux) and Australia. Whatever the size of your organisation, you can gain a valuable competitive edge with Butler Group.

How do we deliver our services?

Our Services cover all the areas in which IT impacts business - at every level from strategic thinking and expert opinion through to analysis and product reviews.

The services we deliver, cover four main areas of business operations:

Commerce - Activities involving financial transactions with trading partners, such as customers, suppliers, partners and competitors: Collaborative Commerce, Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, and Mobile Commerce.
Intelligence - Activities aimed at improving the effectiveness of a business: Corporate Portals, Business Intelligence, and Knowledge Management.
Operations - Activities supporting the operation of commercial transactions: Enterprise Resource Planning, Business Process Management, Content Management, Financials, Human Resources, Enterprise Management, Policy, and Legislation.
Technology Infrastructure - All resources which enable commerce, operations, and intelligence to operate: Data Management, Application Deployment and Integration, Systems Management, Security, Sourcing, Web Services, and Wireless Computing Platforms.

How does Butler Group add value to your business?

Our unique position, as Europe’s leading source of independent IT analysis.
Our ability to bring together the vendor and user communities.
Our wealth of expertise, and proven 10-year track record.
Our understanding of every aspect of Information Technology.
The depth and breadth of our research.
Clear and candid assessment of current, emerging and future technologies.
Business-driven insight into the practical application of all IT products and services.
Strategic thinking at the highest level for senior decision-makers.
Our commitment to providing value for money through flexible subscription services.
Our relationships with the major vendors and - above all - the quality of our people, more than 25% of which are Analysts, providing you with the concise, clear, and independent research to help you optimise the use of IT in your business.

List of reports from Butler Group

Enterprise Communications: Improving Productivity and Collaboration Through a Unified Platform 2/1/2010 \| published by: Butler Group ... global market, where an organisation’s performance is influenced by events that are mostly outside its direct control. The consequence of this new business environment is that organisational success is now a factor of the speed ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Infrastructure Management: Driving Increased Business Value Through the Strategic Use of IT 12/1/2009 \| published by: Butler Group ... global market, where an organisation’s performance is influenced by events that are mostly outside its direct control. The consequence of this new business environment is that organisational success is now a factor of the speed ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Information Security: Protecting the Business and its Information 11/1/2009 \| published by: Butler Group ... is exactly that each organisation needs to protect. Business operations constantly change in order to meet evolving operational demands, additional data has to be maintained to sustain new activities, and the latest service and information ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Content Management: Maximising the Value of Enterprise and Web Content 11/1/2009 \| published by: Butler Group ... gone into the implementation or that an inappropriate solution has been selected. Defining the objectives for a new solution and planning the implementation are critical; a badly implemented solution can be more damaging to the ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
SOA Adoption: Tracking the Use, Maturity, and Best Practices of SOA 10/1/2009 \| published by: Butler Group ... learned that have refined our expectations of SOA and increased the prospects of success for later adopters. This Report re-examines many of the principles and assumptions surrounding SOA to give an up-to-date appraisal of issues ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Enterprise Collaboration - Delivering Better Business Results and Outcomes 9/1/2009 \| published by: Butler Group ... no mobile Internet, no impending pandemic, and no economic crisis. Of those organisations that are trying to move ahead in the 'new world of work', many IT departments are struggling to keep pace with the ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Evolving Enterprise Applications 2009 - Increasing the Business Value of Investments in ERP and CRM 7/15/2009 \| published by: Butler Group ... often viewed as static transactional engines that are altered only when absolutely necessary. Although understandable, this approach has negative repercussions for the business and prevents the full value of these expensive, strategic and under-utilised assets ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Application Development and Lifecycle Management: The Impact of Agile Practices on People, Processes, and Tools 6/1/2009 \| published by: Butler Group ... 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 ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Business Intelligence: Corporate Performance Management 4/1/2009 \| published by: Butler Group ... 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 ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Managing Costs in IT 2009: Maximising the Value of IT Assets and Budgets 3/1/2009 \| published by: Butler Group ... information systems without a clear understanding of the costs and measurement of the benefits. Today, a new air of realism demands that cost efficiencies must be derived from existing systems, that costs must be firmly ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Identity and Access Management 2008 - Enabling Secure Access for Web, Enterprise, and Remote Users 12/1/2008 \| published by: Butler Group ... have the correct access rights. To keep up with today’s ever-evolving information-access landscape, Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions must provide the unchallengeable ability to control, define, and prove the access credentials of all groups ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
IT Risk Management - Planning Cost-effective Mitigation of Risks to IT Services 12/1/2008 \| published by: Butler Group ... information and the delivery and analysis of this information on behalf of users; and increasingly the automation and optimisation of end-to-end processes and the enforcement of business and statutory policies. For each of these benefits, ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
IT Strategy and Architecture: Creating an Enterprise Model to Support IT Strategic Planning 9/1/2008 \| published by: Butler Group ... to meet the requirements of the organisation with the consequent need for translating the organisation’s objectives into IT strategy and capabilities, in order that together they can respond to the rapidly-changing environment. The adoption of ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Enterprise Web 2.0:Building the Next-generation Workplace 9/1/2008 \| published by: Butler Group ... 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 ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
SOA Governance: Applying Governance to Ensure the Long-term Benefits of SOA 6/1/2008 \| published by: Butler Group ... stories there is also a significant set of organisations for which SOA doesn’t seem to be delivering the expected benefits. Typical problems reported are that services are not being reused and the business is not ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Document and Records Management: Controlling Information Risk and Aiding Compliance 6/1/2008 \| published by: Butler Group ... audience. The provision of solutions built on top of DRM systems has greatly extended the capabilities of DRM so that organisations are now able to bring together information from multiple sources -structured data as well ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Unified Communications and Collaboration: Laying the Foundations for Business Process Flexibility and Innovation 4/1/2008 \| published by: Butler Group ... a multi-channel IP network and unified communications to support all of an organisation’s interaction and collaboration needs has never been more evident. It is becoming increasingly important for IT management to begin to lay the ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
IT Systems Management: Exploiting the Infrastructure for Business Value 4/1/2008 \| published by: Butler Group ... and management tools, which do not easily integrate to provide an end-to-end perspective of the service IT is delivering to the business. In fact these silo'ed teams often drive the technology selection process in organisations, ... \| read more...	$2,995.00
Document Collaboration - Linking People, Process, and Content 1/1/2008 \| published by: Butler Group ... Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMSs) have helped organizations improve internal efficiency; however, extending these systems to partners and stakeholders has proved more difficult. Internet connectivity now provides incredible reach, but productivity is still constrained by ... \| read more...	$2,500.00