This issue focuses on the management of the agile enterprise and on understanding how organizations can facilitate and foster agile practices through investments in IT infrastructure and technology practices. As such, the survey our contributors crafted tackles issues of strategy, relative positioning and competition, as well as technology infrastructure, software development methodologies, and IT architecture.
April 2008
April 2008
"Are organizations better off building BI solutions when they need them and as quickly as they need them ... without a standardized and integrated DW?"
-- Larissa T. Moss, Guest Editor
Bulwark Against Chaos
Here we go again with another virtual solution! It didn't work for data warehousing -- what makes us think it will work for BI? We still have to address the data chaos in our organizations. BI without a DW won't get us there, but BI with a DW will.
In this issue:- Business Intelligence: With or Without a Data Warehouse?
- The Three-Stage Evolution of an Enterprise Data Warehouse
- Consider the Contract: Choosing the BI Solution Architecture that Meets End Users'
- Agile Strategies for Enterprise DW and BI
- Breaking Free: BI Without DW
- Real-Time BI: Information Mashup Through SOA and Web 2.0 Technologies
- Who Cares? A Realistic Business Perspective on the BI/DW Decision
March 2008
Mashups are one candidate gaining increasing attention. It is therefore a perfect time for us to produce an issue on this topic to provide you, our readers, with the conceptual framework, the vocabulary, and an overview of the issues surrounding this emerging approach to enterprise business and data integration.
March 2008
"Even though they (and we) may not know it, all organizations already have an embryonic business architecture in place. But today’s problems require a more formal business architecture to connect the business with the technologies it increasingly depends on."
-- Ken Orr, Guest Editor
In this issue:- Business Architecture
- The Business Motivation Model: Matching the Means to the Ends
- Business Architecture and Accountability to Business Intent
- Improving Enterprise Performance with Business Architecture
- A Collaborative Framework for Business Architecture
- Defining a Great Business Architect
- Business Ownership of Business Architecture: A Case Study
- The Role of Collaborative Governance in Business Architecture
February 2008
This issue of CBR is on crafting better business cases. Our intent is to evaluate how the organizations in our base of respondents make business cases today; to benchmark the success (or lack thereof); and to provide tangible guidance on improving the quality of your arguments and the odds of receiving approval for the projects that you propose.