Enterprise Communications: Improving Productivity and Collaboration Through a Unified Platform

Butler Group
February 1, 2010
240 Pages - SKU: BTL2616116
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The demand for increased flexibility from an organisation’s IT capability is creating new challenges for IT infrastructure management. Much of this new demand is coming from the changing nature of operating in an increasingly interconnected 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 with which it responds to market conditions; and therefore, by implication, the speed with which it can adapt to any new environment. The role of technology is adding to these challenges by creating tensions between the structures that exist with organisations today, as well as creating tensions within the IT departmental structure. These forces are demonstrating the need for IT to reconsider its role in the organisation, and just as importantly, for the organisation to consider how it wants to embrace technology, and what role technology has in its core activities. In other words is IT a strategic capability or a merely a support function?- This Report reveals:
  • Why the roles of security and infrastructure management are converging.
  • How the market in infrastructure management is becoming more competitive.
  • Why the concept of a Manager-of-Managers is beginning to be more widely adopted.
  • How the influence of new technologies, such as virtualisation and cloud computing, is changing the role of infrastructure management.
  • Why automation requires new processes and procedures to deliver improved service levels.
  • How infrastructure management is becoming a strategic business tool.
  • Why the IT department will need to be re-structured to operate effectively with these new management tools and responsibilities.
  • How infrastructure management can be used to mitigate the risks of introducing new technologies.
  • Why the impact of environmental management will become a key capability for any infrastructure management tool.