Leveraging Your Architecture

by Jeff Tash

IT organizations are drowning in their own computing infrastructure and applications portfolio. Over the past five years, operating at “web speed,” both industry and government have invested massive amounts of money into computer and communications equipment. Meanwhile IT, technologically, has been subjected to wave after wave of paradigm shifts -relational, ethernet, client/server, object-oriented, the Internet. Future forecasts alarmingly warn of continuously accelerating technological change.

IT standards and architectures are the glue that unites global IT communities. This presentation will show how top-tier, leading-edge companies and government organizations are developing and using IT portals to manage and control corporate IT standards and leveraging shared organizational knowledge, especially among groups of people who share common experiences because they work with common tools.