Technology forecast winter 09
Features
Crossing the big divide between strategy and operations
An information mediation layer is the key to operationalizing agility and bridging the gap between strategy and operations.
Rise of business management applications
The emerging capabilities of these applications are crucial to closing the gap between strategy and operations in pursuit of agility.
Closing the strategy-operations gap: two examples
How emerging characteristics of business management applications enable agility in information lifecycle management and accounting fraud risk detection.
Interviews
From efficiency to effectiveness
Jonathan Becher of SAP Business Objects discusses the role of applications in linking strategy and execution to bring effectiveness to businesses.
Agility from information mediation
Executives from E2open discuss how mediating in the cloud creates agility in the demand and supply network operations of their customers.
Abstracting above applications for agility
Edward Abbo of Oracle discusses how abstracting above applications provides agility for enterprises.
Decoupling data semantics from data storage for agility
Stan Swete of Workday discusses how the company enables agility in organizational and business process changes.
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