IT Strategy

  • Integration Scenarios and the Networked Integration Environment

    Pillars of Your IT Integration Strategy for Customer Experience

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    In this report, we delve into the networked integration environment, its major layers and services, and its supporting environments, framed by the business drivers—customer experience scenarios that depend on integration.
    Apr. 14, 2005
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  • Integration and Customer Experience

    Creating an IT Integration Strategy to Deliver an Integrated Customer Experience

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    In this report, we discuss the importance of integration to customer experience and share our perspective on how to develop an IT integration strategy to deliver on your customer’s expectations.
    Mar. 31, 2005
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  • Managing Findability: Critical Core Competency

    Roles, Responsibilities, Programs, and Metrics You'll Need to Make It Easy for Audiences to Find the Right Information

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    How do you bring the quality, control and findability to your oceans of information? You need to invest in key roles and programs.
    Mar. 24, 2005
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  • Streamlining Production at the Harvard Business Review

    Just Enough XML

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    Harvard Business Review needed to improve the efficiency and timeliness of its derivative product production. A successful bridge between its culture of craftsmanship and automation fueled by XML proved key to its success.
    Mar. 18, 2005
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  • Designing a Fluid Enterprise Using an Adaptive, Customer-Centric IT Architecture

    Creating a Blended IT Architectural Portfolio to Support Your Customer-Centric Business

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    This report demonstrates our architecture blending process on four of the new architecture strategies in order to achieve enterprise fluidity for our fictional customer-adaptive business, Digits Undercover.
    Dec. 9, 2004
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  • Tagging Content for Meaning

    How WGBH and HP Are Using Metadata to Incorporate Unstructured Information into Operational Activities and Customer Scenarios

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    Tagging content (or, in technical terms, adding descriptive metadata to data) started out as way to dynamically format the same text differently for different purposes. Two pioneering organizations, WGBH and HP, have significant initiatives underway.
    Dec. 9, 2004
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  • Why It's Hard to Prioritize IT Initiatives around End-Customer Impacting Issues

    Current Disconnects between Business and IT; Suggestions for Bridging the Gaps

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    Are you having trouble getting customer-centric priorities at the top of your IT shopping list? You're not alone. There are increased tensions brewing between the business and IT for lots of good reasons. See if your organization looks like the picture w
    Nov. 10, 2004
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  • Creating a Blended Architectural Portfolio

    Candidate Strategies for Your Blended Architecture

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    The new Architecture strategies—services oriented, process based, event driven, Grid enhanced, or real time/right time—are each compelling on their own, but have you thought about bringing them together? Have you though how powerful a blend could be?
    Oct. 14, 2004
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  • Strategic Planning for Search

    Where We Think You’ll Want to Take Search

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    The range of problems search engines will address, and the value of findability, will increase steadily through 2007. An acceptable level of findability requires some new investments in technology and information management tasks--plus leadership.
    Oct. 14, 2004
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  • Sr. IT Architect for Cross-Channel Customer Experience

    Patty's Dream Team: Roles and Responsibilities You'll Need for Your Customer-Centric Organization

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    In order to deliver a great cross-channel experience to customers and partners, you’ll need to have a seasoned IT architect who is responsible for designing and evolving your application Architecture, services, and middleware to be customer adaptive.
    Oct. 7, 2004
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  • Microsoft's Roadmap for Windows

    Getting to Longhorn without Detours

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    Microsoft’s latest shift in plans for the next version of its Windows desktop and server operating systems reflects the challenge the company faces in developing and executing plans. Customer planning suffers a setback each time Microsoft announces these
    Sep. 30, 2004
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  • Pervasive Instant Messaging

    Moving toward an Asymmetric Contextual Model for Business IM

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    With IM and telephony converging, the challenges and opportunities are increasing for effective real-time collaboration.
    Sep. 23, 2004
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  • Content Management Evaluation Matrix

    A Blank Matrix to Facilitate Your Evaluation Process for Content Management Systems

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    In this report, we present our blank matrix for evaluating content management systems.
    Aug. 31, 2004
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  • Evaluating Product Search Solutions

    Summarizing the Evaluation Framework, the Seven Solutions, and the Comparisons

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    This report is the final chapter in our current product search solution research. In it, we assess our evaluation approach and show you where to focus your own evaluation efforts.
    May. 27, 2004
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  • Securing Roving Content

    Taking Stock of Microsoft-InterTrust Deal for the Future of Digital Rights Management

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    With the settlement of its patent dispute with InterTrust, Microsoft is now poised to standardize a set of underlying enterprise digital rights management services for roving content.
    May. 6, 2004
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  • PSGroup Bull's-Eye: Product Search Solutions: Best Architectures

    Which Providers Offer the Best Architectures?

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    Which vendor solution hits the Patricia Seybold Group Bull’s-Eye for Architecture against our product search evaluation framework?
    May. 6, 2004
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  • PSGroup Bull's-Eye: Product Search Solutions: Best Design and Development Capabilities

    Which Providers Offer the Best Design and Development Capabilities?

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    Which vendor solution hits the Patricia Seybold Group Bull’s-Eye for design and development against our product search evaluation framework?
    Apr. 29, 2004
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  • PSGroup Bull's-Eye: Product Search Solutions: Best Retrieval and Results Management Capabilities

    Which Providers Offer the Best Retrieval and Results Management Capabilities?

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    Which vendor solution hits the Patricia Seybold Group Bull’s-Eye for retrieval and results management against our product search evaluation framework?
    Apr. 15, 2004
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  • Product Search Solution RFP Template

    Patricia Seybold Group's Template for Preparing an RFP

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    You can write a great Product Search Solution RFP in a short time using our outline, Product Search Evaluation Framework, and following our guidance.
    Mar. 18, 2004
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  • Taxonomy of Collaboration

    A High-Level Framework for Understanding Types of Collaborative Services

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    Companies are making critical decisions on collaboration platforms and services within a highly dynamic marketplace. We begin our renewed focus on the collaboration space with a set of key distinctions that will enable better understanding, evaluation, a
    Feb. 19, 2004
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