The need to understand how the performance and problems within the technical infrastructure impacts the capabilities of the business is massive. However, the majority of companies can only measure application and specific asset performance, whereas many issues within the infrastructure lie at the transport level, where packet switching presents both great opportunities and major issues ...
15/03/2007 | Network_General__final.pdf | VIEW
Effective communications make use of many of our senses but what we see presents a huge amount of information - a picture is worth a thousand words - and can convey all sorts of meaning with a glance. Face to face, we can rely on visual cues, but the amount of information transmitted in more distant communication is limited by cost and complexity. As this cost falls, while the costs of transportation, both environmental and commercial, rise, broader use of remote visual communications becomes increasingly viable. But, after the relative anonymity and privacy of more discrete forms of communication - letters, email, the telephone - is the experience useful and comfortable for the individual and does video now add sufficient value to the organisation to justify the cost? ...
11/03/2007 | Video_Report.pdf | VIEW
Quocirca conducted two surveys separated by 12 months that looked at the data management infrastructure of UK and Irish businesses and how this was linked to their ability to respond to the whims of the regulators. In the year between the two surveys a lot had changed. ...
19/02/2007 | Another_Year_on_in_the_ILM_Journey_-_Quocirca_Feb_2007.pdf | VIEW
The Internet Protocol (IP) - used for transmitting data across networks everywhere - has moved beyond its origins. Once one of many, it has become a near standard for all types of computer communication. It is used pervasively, transmitting data to and from a multitude of devices ranging from those in our pockets to spacecraft circling distant planets. Arguably IP is the most successful open standard ever, but as network communications converge under a single standard used for an increasing number of applications, we need to understand how effectively these critical assets are being managed. ...
23/01/2007 | Managing_21st_Century_Networks_-_Quocirca_Jan_2007.pdf | VIEW
Avoiding user aggravations is key to mobile productivity. Low cost hardware and a plethora of options for connectivity should make it easier for employees to be more productive and take IT access to their point of need. However, outside the perimeter of the business location, additional controls need to be applied to ensure the security and integrity of data on the mobile device and network access. Balancing the need for control with the flexibility given to the user requires care and attention to both mobile strategy and implementation. Mobile users have many challenges facing them as they try to work outside of a managed and familiar working environment. Too many constraints and challenges can distract and divert users from the task in hand, meaning that productivity gains hoped for by deployment of the technology will be lost. ...
19/01/2007 | mobile_pitfalls.pdf | VIEW
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides a foundation to achieve software reuse. A key part of the SOA value proposition is the benefits realised from software reuse. ...
18/01/2007 | IBM_SOA_Entry_point_reuse_final.pdf | VIEW
The personal mobile channel in every consumer's pocket. In a shrinking world where individuals have more choices in almost any aspect of their lives than ever before, and more ways to communicate with each other and the world at large, the bonds and inertia that held consumers and employees loyal to their suppliers and employers have disappeared. Markets are fragmenting, industries are converging, and relationships are more dynamic and fragile. So how do organisations build a connection and maintain an ongoing dialogue with their current and future customers? ...
11/12/2006 | mobile_market_paper.pdf | VIEW
As business move away from buying applications to buying the means of facilitating business processes, a different approach to existing technology assets is required. ...
12/10/2006 | IBM_SOA_Entry_point_BPM.pdf | VIEW
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) will provide greater flexibility for those utilising them, but will also bring greater issues for data and functional connectivity. This paper contrasts and compares the capabilities of a point-to-point and an enterprise service bus approach. ...
12/10/2006 | IBM_SOA_Entry_point_Connectivity.pdf | VIEW
Managing the challenges of mobile communications. In the competitive global marketplace, businesses are placed under increasing pressure to have a flexible and efficient workforce that is as productive as possible and reacts to customer demands and changing conditions. The mobile phone, laptop and other small smart devices for mobile connection to corporate data all support these needs, allowing access wherever required to fit business processes. This brings its own risks, but businesses depend upon the flexibility delivered by their increasingly mobile and dispersed workforce, so must adopt a positive approach to securing their intellectual and physical assets as well as their employees. There are many aspects which are explored in this paper in greater detail, but the following list provides a mobile security action plan for an organisation of any size that is aware of existing use of, or has plans to deploy and take advantage of, mobile technologies ...
29/09/2006 | Security_White_Paper.pdf | VIEW
