Back to the drawing board for IT architects?
With budgets under severe pressure, many IT leaders are having to re-evaluate their technology blueprints
Case study: Greenwich Borough Council and IT architecture
Council focuses on security and flexibility to satisfy needs of online public services
Widely misunderstood and wilfully abused, the term “service-oriented architecture” fills many IT leaders with dread, but behind the monstrous hype are some frightfully sound principles. So how should organisations go about putting them into practice?
Meeting ever-changing IT needs at Unicef
Charity Unicef UK has used proven technology to build an IT architecture that can respond quickly to changing fundraising requirements and scale easily to meet spikes in donations
Case study:
Global IT architecture at Knight Frank
Cloud systems reign at the property consultancy with 196 offices in 38 countries
Five tips on implementing a new IT architecture
Architectures should be based on business capabilities
Tools of the architect's trade
Laying the IT foundations for a successful business is a challenging task at the best of times, but there are range of platforms and tools that can help
Process-command software provides a beneficial exchange of processing services
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Staff are increasingly using their personal devices for work. Productivity may increase as a result, but the trend brings with it security risks
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