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| Thought Paper |
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Evolving an Agile Enterprise: Composite Applications for Competitive Advantage |
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| Abstract |
In an era characterized by 'doing more with less', there is an enormous pressure on the
CIO to squeeze more value out of the IT investments. Pressures mount further when
businesses are required to comply with multiple regulatory requirements in extremely short
time frames. Added to these pressures are the challenges to provide a flexible IT
infrastructure that helps the organization to adopt new business models, integrate valuechain
partners, and deliver value that is above competition benchmarks.
Faced by challenges that are multifaceted as well as unprecedented, the CIO has realized
that no longer, the traditional options of upgrades, customizations, and back-end
integration seem to suffice. It is an era of 'real-time enterprise', and the need of the hour is
to be able to develop new business capabilities by modifying business processes without
disruption of the supporting IT systems. The new reality is that organizations should be
able to build applications on the fly in order to capitalize upon emerging business
opportunities and seize competitive advantage. Processes no longer can remain cramped
in the silos of individual enterprise applications. They must branch out of individual
applications and fuse with each other across application boundaries to create new
capability and provide higher strategic and operational efficiency.
Composite applications fulfill this objective of organizations by helping them leverage and
extend the value of existing enterprise applications, drive down the cost of change and
increase the pace of innovation.
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