In today’s business environment IT business leaders are thinking in terms of IT infrastructure and applications rather than business agility. And because the business is now so dependent on IT, business executives have come to resent the way IT imposes a structure on the business that many of them find inflexible.
In the competitive IT environment, business structures are changing and today’s business is a growing network of relationships between employees, customers, suppliers, and partners. This network is becoming more complex and dynamic which needs attention from the business leaders and they should questions about the agility of their organizations across this dynamic business network.
IT organizations should do a reality check to know if they have realized the importance of agility which will help them in enhancing their business performances. Therefore, business leaders should be prepared to deal with complexity successfully and should strive hard to build a focused and improved productivity in the IT alignment. This question requires a response from IT business leaders, are you ready for a change?
Impact 2012, IBM Websphere India’s Premier Conference for Business and IT Leadership is happening on the 1st of June in Mumbai, 12th June in Bangalore and 14th of June in Delhi. Visit this link for more details.
Today, many IT projects are geared at better alignment for business needs and users with IT resources. Business performance is directly proportional to degree to which the gap between the requirements of the business users and the fulfillment of these requirements can be bridged.
As businesses become more agile and responsive towards market changes and opportunities, greater attention must be paid to governance and risk mitigation. They should be managed effectively and guided to provide better visibility for business and operational execution.
Processes should be streamlined and automated. This helps in improving the level of service a business can deliver to its stakeholders. This improvement also helps in significant cost savings.
One area where there has been a lot of development lately on the path to business agility is decision making. Historically, decision making was inaccurate and ill timed. Offsetting the time delay is important as some decisions should be made immediately at the point of time when they are needed, with greater accuracy.
There are times when a certain set of conditions are met, a decision can be made. Unfortunately, in many organizations, decisions are still made manually and are supported with inadequate data. More often than not, the same decisions are not made when provided with the same data and are invariably difficult to inspect and validate.
Once a decision has been made, improvements to the decision are very time consuming to keep the decision effective. To mitigate this situation, an automated decision making system based on predetermined criteria from the business community, for operational decisions. The system would allow the users to inspect, validate, improve and update the criteria for decision making easily and quickly.
The industry cannot afford to rely on traditional methods of reporting and review to formulate decisions. This is a slow, cumbersome process that should replaced with a faster and more agile system to enable the business remain competitive and leverage new opportunities.
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In recent times, Cloud Computing has opened up new opportunities for the Information Technology sector. Business agility is one of the results of Cloud Computing. The cloud by nature helps businesses to become more agile. This phenomenon becomes possible, when cloud computing expedites the process of data delivery as well as managing IT services in a better way. The benefits of attaining business agility as a result of cloud computing means businesses can respond to customers quickly, deliver services at competitive prices and become profitable in the process.
Increasingly, we are seeing enterprises adopting Business agility to move towards the Cloud. One of the main drivers for businesses to become agile is cost. Cloud computing as a technology enables an organization to have a tremendous cost advantage. Whether its private/hybrid cloud or public cloud, enterprises look at the adoption from a strategic point of view. On one hand, where private clouds don’t offer the level of cost efficiency, as compared to a public cloud, it’s adopted by enterprises that focus to a short-midterm strategy.
The dynamic nature of the Cloud actually makes more sense for small and medium scale enterprises to adopt. This is primarily because their scale can make them realize the value of becoming agile, more quickly as compared to large enterprises. Moreover, since cost is a major factor for SMEs in the quest for business agility. Cloud provides the right platform to be agile and cost-efficient.
Therefore, if you haven’t thought about Business Agility, it’s time to do so, if you want to transform your business, anytime, anywhere.
Impact 2012, IBM Websphere India’s Premier Conference for Business and IT Leadership is happening on the 1st of June in Mumbai, 12th June in Bangalore and 14th of June in Delhi. Visit this link for more details.
In an environment that’s in flux, the change, complexity and uncertainty bring new challenges. And new opportunities. To keep up and to stay up to date, organizations should assimilate data through a variety of network nodes – sensors, mobile devices, the cloud and social media. Once obtained, the information should be processed to serve customers and other stakeholders better, resolve issues faster and operate at a higher level of efficiency.
One way organizations can manage this speed of response is by continually innovating and refining their current processes and makes them stronger, faster and more reliable. Leaders of this organization need to have a holistic view with information on demand for them to make rapid, accurate decisions. This information must be available from across the breadth and depth of their network and must be available quickly, flexibly and securely.
For information delivery to be seamless, companies should streamline, automate and connect separate activities and processes. This enables them with tighter integration, better control and faster responses.
To attain this state of responsiveness, IT and LOB leaders must coordinate seamlessly and provide a unified front to spearhead such an initiative. In fact, CEOs from around the world consider technology as the second most important external force, following market factors that will impact their business over the next three years.
Together, the IT and LOB leaders must be able to address issues like:
- How can IT investments be aligned better with business priorities?
- How can the organization make its decisions faster and more profitable?
- How can business drive change and processes be made more visible, integrated and flexible?
- How can new scalable, cost-effective IT capabilities be quickly developed, connected and deployed?
The answers to these questions will open new avenues for growth – and sometimes even revealing new blue oceans for profitability.
Impact 2012, IBM Websphere India’s Premier Conference for Business and IT Leadership is happening on the 1st of June in Mumbai, 12th June in Bangalore and 14th of June in Delhi. Visit this link for more details.
In today’s age, change and complexity are integral parts of the business. Uncertainty and unpredictable disruptions are the new norms. To thrive in such a chaotic environment, companies need to be more agile than ever before. Business agility is the key driver of transformation and growth for successful companies today.
The success of business today depends on the ability of an organization to make better decisions based on analytics and business rules. This has to be supported by a smarter approach to processes and integration. And of course, the company should be capable of accelerating application, service and information delivery while harnessing the power of new technologies like cloud and mobile.
Apart from the challenges above, the stagnant market with the chaos and complexity have presented unprecedented opportunities for both companies and industries to transform and grow to serve their customers in new ways. There are additional challenges with increasingly exponential expectations from stakeholders – a difficult proposition with reduced customer spending. This forces organizations to look for new ways to grow.
There are 3 main shifts that contribute to the scenario – the escalating expectations from stakeholders, the global threat of competition and the speed of change.
Rising expectations from stakeholders need businesses to maintain visibility and remain nimble to respond appropriately to the environment in flux. The global threat can emerge from long standing companies or from startups. The birth of new technologies keeps everybody off balance – thus needing a flexible ecosystem of processes and systems.
In such an environment, future facing organizations will need to internalize change and complexity while they seize every opportunity to adapt their fundamental business functions to go above and beyond customer expectations and harness tremendous competitive advantage – all thanks to business agility.
Impact 2012, IBM Websphere India’s Premier Conference for Business and IT Leadership is happening on the 1st of June in Mumbai, 12th June in Bangalore and 14th of June in Delhi. Visit this link for more details.
In these times of unprecedented change and complexity, it has become imperative for businesses and entire industries to transform the technology they use to serve customers in new ways. For instance, forward thinking companies are looking to apply the power of mobile to improve productivity, grow market share, drive innovation and enable a social enterprise.
Organizations must tap into information and activity throughout their entire network—including sensors, mobile devices, cloud technologies and social media. They must be constantly innovating and optimizing business processes, rapidly address new market opportunities and customer expectations. Finally, they must break down organizational silos in order to embrace rapid, proactive change.
The new business environment favors companies that can innovate and execute faster within and throughout their dynamic business networks. Agility helps organizations rapidly adapt and respond to changes and to accommodate shifts in partner and supplier relationships, customer preferences and even broader market fluctuations.
At Impact 2012, find out how you can transform the way technology is deployed in your business, powered by mobile.
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Impact 2012, IBM Websphere India’s Premier Conference for Business and IT Leadership is happening on the 1st of June in Mumbai, 12th June in Bangalore and 14th of June in Delhi. Visit this link for more details.
The premier conference for business and IT leadership, Impact 2012 with its new theme- “Transforming Technology. Anytime. Everywhere”, comes to your city.
Impact 2012 is on June 1st at the Grand Hyatt, Mumbai and June 12 at the ITC Windsor, Bangalore and on June 14th at the Le Meridian, New Delhi.
The flagship event of IBM software brand- Websphere, Impact 2012 intends to equip business and IT professionals to create better business outcomes by imparting the required expertise and skill set.
Impact for IT professionals
Meet the experts, expand your knowledge & sharpen your BPM, SOA, WebSphere, cloud and mobile knowledge skills and learn proven IT strategies that can be applied right away and build on in the future. Our experts will demonstrate the growing value of new technologies as a key driver for greater business value and agility.
Impact for Business professionals
Upgrade your skills as the event unfolds insights from within the industry and shares new business strategies and best practices. Also, capitalize on extensive learning opportunities in:
- Exploiting cloud computing,
- Improving marketing performance,
- And increasing business agility for your organisation.
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Impact 2012, IBM Websphere India’s Premier Conference for Business and IT Leadership is happening on the 1st of June in Mumbai, 12th June in Bangalore and 14th of June in Delhi. Visit this link for more details.
IBM ILOG Elixir Enterprise provides a full variety of advanced graphical displays for the most challenging line-of-business applications. Developers can easily take advantage of the many Flex visualization displays to create a new category of application that is functionally superior and visually pleasing.
Download IBM ILOG Elixir Enterprise, a suite of professional user interface controls that gives developers a full spectrum of advanced graphical displays for the most demanding line-of-business applications. It offers a wide variety of controls:
- 3D charts, radar charts, and treemap charts
- Dials and gauges
- Organization charts
- Maps and heatmaps
- Timelines and calendars
- Resource-oriented and task-oriented schedule displays
- Advanced services for creating intuitive diagram displays
The product runs on Linux, Mac OS and Windows and fits naturally into the Flex environment, fully supporting the new Flex 4 SDK, its data-binding and event models, and the standard Flex user interaction effects.
The evaluation period for this full-featured trial is 90 days.
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WebSphere MQ is a messaging and queuing middleware with publish/subscribe. Its recently enhanced with MQ Telemetry (MQTT) feature to enable large number of devices to connect from the edge of the network. This inter-connectivity is one of the key aspects to enable a Smarter Planet and Internet of Things.
Devices such as smart energy meters, SCADA systems, cars, trains, satellite locations, personal health care devices can now be connected to WebSphere MQ. The control commands can be sent to devices from the WebSphere MQ network. It also enables sensor readings to be reach the central systems for processing.
Technically, MQTT is a bidirectional/duplex messaging protocol enabling messages and events to be pushed from the client to the server and the server to the client. Its a publish subscribe protocol and has a tiny footprint on the wire. Its an asynchronous messaging protocol that is designed to run on constrained devices and or across constrained networks.
WebSphere MQ Telemetry feature integrates with the WebSphere MQ Software enabling MQTT clients to send or receive messages. It provides small client libraries that can be embedded into smart devices running on a number of different device platforms. Applications built with the clients use MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) and the WebSphere MQ Telemetry service to publish and subscribe messages reliably with WebSphere MQ.
There are several products and technologies that use or implement MQTT. Some of them are: WebSphere MQ Telemetry, WebSphere Sensor Events, Lotus Expeditor micro broker, WebSphere MQ Telemetry Daemon, Java and C client implementation and even third party and open source servers and clients.
Typical types of data or events that are sent using MQTT are things that can be measured like temperature, humidity, energy usage, etc. Some examples include sensor data that can be used to determine overuse of energy by some heating device, drastic changes in water levels or weather, etc. In short the business scenario for MQTT revolve around prediction, alert mechanisms, tracking or measurement.
Get started reading more about MQTT :
MQTT- http://mqtt.org
MQTT Specification – http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-mqtt/index.html
WebSphere MQ and MQ Telemetry – http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/wmq/
MQTT: the Smarter Planet Protocol – http://andypiper.co.uk/2010/08/05/mqtt-the-smarter-planet-protocol/
Lotus Expeditor (micro broker) – http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/expeditor/
Sensor Solutions – http://www-01.ibm.com/software/solutions/sensors/
Blog by: Neeraj Krishna and Srihari Kulkarni – Read our blogs at: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/messaging/?lang=en
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