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Management Consultants' News Review - On The Annual Consultants'
Forum
The Annual Consultants’ Forum is Europe’s biggest gathering
of senior consultants – the great, and maybe even the good, of the
industry. The event is co-organised by Management Consultants’ News
publisher PMP and the Management Consultancies Association, so we
were on hand to report the highlights.
This newswire carries the key messages from the Forum’s speakers,
a fairly stellar line-up ranging from Management Consultancies Association
president David Bailey to former Financial Times editor Andrew Gowers
– as well as influential consultancy clients such as e-government
supremo Ian Watmore, First Direct bank chief executive Richard Kimber
and former Inland Revenue business services director John Yard.
Their client perspective came through clear and strong during
the day, giving consultants an insight into how the other half think.
The day’s debates also covered the strength of consultancy
opportunities such as offshore outsourcing, through to the continued
difficult market conditions for management consultants:
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IBM System z9 - The Next Generation
The System z9 is the latest generation of mainframe computers
from IBM, the culmination of a three year, $1.2billion development
effort. It is positioned at the heart of the collaborative enterprise
based on traditional mainframe virtues coupled with a highly secure,
virtualized and open environment.
Does the z9 really have a significant role to play in the
twenty first century IT environment?
To provide an objective assessment PMP has asked five independent
analysts for their opinions. This white paper gives a synopsis of
these views, with more in-depth analysis available if required.
To read their views and download the paper click below:
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Conspectus Summit on Outsourcing - "ACHIEVING THE RIGHT
RESULTS"
The recent Conspectus Summit conference on Outsourcing featured
speakers among both buyers and suppliers of outsourcing services,
as well as external consultants. But whatever their perspective,
the speakers emphasised time and again the importance of relationship
building in outsourcing success.
This newswire sums up opinion from the conference in a series
of easy-access articles. The theme of ‘achieving the right results’
from outsourcing partnerships is timely, coming against a background
of growing complexity in the market – as outsourcing spreads beyond
IT to finance, HR and back-office processing, and contracts extend
from those based on simple service level agreements to those built
around shared risk and reward.
However, no business can walk away from the task of dealing
with outsourcing’s growing complexity. Figures from Gartner suggest
that by 2007, 56% of IT services will be outsourced. It’s a fad
that’s here to stay.
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Industry Reports: INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY
The squeeze on organisations to extract more value out of their
IT investments has pushed integration technology to the top of the
corporate agenda in recent years. Maybe it is a sign of the increasing
sophistication of corporate end users, as well as the greater simplicity
of the software, that boardrooms can now happily get involved in
an IT area that was previously irredeemably 'techie'.
At the same time, integration product sets have helped widen
their own appeal by incorporating new accessible areas of automation,
like business process management, workflow and business activity
monitoring. It all holds out the hope that organisations can build
a flexible technology infrastructure that allows them to react rapidly
to business change - this industry report examines various aspects
of how this dream can be made a reality.
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PMP Research - "A FRESH LOOK AT THE MAINFRAME"
After years of the mantra of distributed computing the wheel
is slowly turning and enterprises are beginning to take a critical
look at how they architect their IT infrastructure. Simply deploying
more and more distributed resources has resulted in a level of complexity
that is difficult to manage, often under utilised and increasingly
expensive to maintain.
No wonder that reducing this complexity and optimising the
use of IT is high on the agenda for most CIO's today. This is why
many businesses are now taking a fresh look at how they can use
mainframes to make their IT environment more controllable, secure
and cost effective.
PMP Research asked four leading industry analysts to give
their views on why the mainframe still has a critical role to play
in today's IT environment.
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Conspectus Summit on Enterprise Integration - "MAKING IT REAL,
MAKING IT HAPPEN"
Few people could have predicted a few years ago that enterprise
integration technology would ever escape from the ‘techie’ realm
to become a mainstream business cost saver.
But with the growing need to improve information sharing
across different areas of the business, and react more rapidly to
regulatory and business change, integration technology has come
into its own.
However, while enterprise application integration (EAI) software
is designed to simplify IT management and datasharing, there are
still a number of business and technical issues to address in the
drive towards ‘joined up computing’.
A recent Conspectus Summit event, sponsored by Capgemini
and Oracle, discussed the latest thinking in this area – and this
report highlights some of the key presentations and findings from
the event.
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Conspectus Summit on Outsourcing - "RETAINING CONTROL"
The mood among corporate IT buyers is as sunny as it's been
for years: the economy has steadied, the IT market has recovered
and many organisations are investing in technology for competitive
advantage.
But one thing everyone agrees on is that we will never return
to the free-spending 1990s: corporate IT purchasers are a bit older
and wiser - and outsourcing typifies that hard-won experience. Outsourcing
is the one area of IT that guarantees cost savings, and that's why
it's been the one IT boom area in recent years.
But now companies are learning to demand more of their outsource
service suppliers: not only cost savings and guaranteed service
levels, but innovation and service improvements.
A recent Conspectus Summit, sponsored by Computacenter,
discussed these latest trends - and this report captures some of
the key presentations from the event. We hope it will be a useful
addition to your IT knowledge bank.
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Industry Reports: INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
This is the third issue of Industry Reports, a highly visual,
online consultant information service from PMP Research.
This time round we are focusing on the opportunities for
consultants in IT infrastructure management - the efficient running
of corporate IT networks, everything from top-level hardware servers
to mobile devices, enterprise-level applications to desktop software,
as well as the key security and communications systems.
Knowledge of this area presents a clear market opening for
consultancy firms. And as the consultant workforce becomes increasingly
mobile and firms engage in more online collaboration with clients
and partners, the complexity (and importance) of keeping their own
technology infrastructure up-and-running grows.
We report on PMP research into the infrastructure management
systems market, with a special focus on leading supplier Marimba,
including its relationship with consumer conglomerate Procter &
Gamble.
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Industry Reports: BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANCY
This second issue of Industry Reports, the online information
service from PMP Research, looks at the business communications
market place from the consultant's perspective.
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Industry Reports: REAL-ESTATE & PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
In this issue, we aim to provide advice and guidance on the
information technology available to your organisation. This includes
original market research among the leading agents and property companies,
expert opinion on the latest technology choices available, and a
special focus on J.D. Edwards.
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