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John Chambers - Gartner Symposium

Any devices, any content, anywhere Cant control the devices when you consider what is happening and your ecosystem partners New biz models are coming based on social, mobile IT folks need to take tech terms and convert to biz value How do you get the productivity out of these new capabilities - that is the key Full stack of technology needs to be considered Can network be dumb and cheap? Not really - it all works together Collaboration - how do all the products come together? First loosely then tightly coupled together Drive productivity Market transitions are requiring IT to talk in biz terms Borderless - customer are telling Gartner they are confused Any device, any media, anywhere The concept is that the company will have no borders Where does UCS fit? Processor capability and agility; lower cost; less servers; less storage 900 customers to 1700 customers - gartner says cisco doesn't have the enterprise mgmt solutions JC absolutely fair criticism Single biggest risk for CIOs? J...

Effective EA Governance - Gartner Symposium

Betsy Burton EA governance needs to be driven by biz strategy Applying artifacts, models and frameworks to move biz towards a future state Most companies are doing technical architecture Gartner - 88% of CEOs are looking for IT strategic value 60% of CEOs prefer to adopt technology with manageable risk EA has a unique role to play Why is EA governance critical? By 2013 there will be no distinction between biz and IT strategies McKinsey survey - how tightly coupled are biz and IT strategies? "IT in the new normal" EA is about making better biz decisions Linchpin between biz strategy and possible response EA is never done, continually going on Governance - the biggest issues are related to business, people and process So EA governance is really about allocation of decision rights and the required processes, policies associated with those rights Control is an illusion; blurring of roles, decisions rights Eg biz folks buying IT outside the org through SaaS; IT is not included Eg ...

Marc Benioff - Salesforce.com - Gartner Symposium

Customer success is number one SFDC was cloud before cloud was cool Views himself as a change agent; IT is hard Looking at how to transform the industry; explode the paradigms Radical changes are coming to IT Mobility, iPad, Facebook, ... All major transformations What is the future of OP? It's easier for SFDC to enable capabilities in the cloud because of architecture Companies' datacenters are terribly inefficient HW and SW upgrades, installs, etc With SFDC you are always on the latest technology and latest version - how many customers are on the latest version of their OP systems? Very few Oracle is buying companies like crazy and consolidating all these acquisitions SFDC is innovating Siebel was a failure; people migrated off to SFDC after millions of dollars of failed implementations Private clouds are not the answer Sharing is the answer Mobile and social is accelerating Ray Ozzie left Microsoft He created LotusNotes Microsoft Sharepoint doesn't work Facebook is winni...

IBM Cloud Strategy - Gartner Symposium

Rethink how work gets done in your org Cloud enables mobile workforce and data on any device Eg1 - private desktop cloud; greater remote worker flexibility; no sacrifice of control; supports DR Need to plan properly including network, apps, security Eg2 Verizon - new end user services; offsite data protection with onsite speeds; fully managed in the cloud; backup via high speed secure network Eg3 Nedbank - focused on internal developers; development teams too slow; dev and test environments provisioned in minutes Eg4 Panasonic - globally integrated enterprise; adopting LotusLive globally; workforce collaboration

Identity and Access Mgmt - Gartner Symposium

IAM is at the heart of every business Helps manage risk through accountability and transparency - intelligence = audit and analytics - administration - access Value changes with maturity 1) security efficiency; IAM for the sake of IT; save time and money 2) security effectiveness; compliant with policy and regulation 3) business enablement; this is where most of the value is Look at all three; value metrics Business process improvements Risk management Fine grained controls Trend - people are bailing on the Admin projects because it doesn't provide value that was expected; instead people are moving to intelligence; failing to deliver compliance; maybe there is a different way; end game is intelligence; provisioning by itself is not enough Intelligence focuses on auditing, monitoring and manual remediation, and analytics Provisioning still needs to happen; admin is becoming more out of the box; what are the most important systems to protect? Primary functional capability across inte...

Enterprise Business Architecture - Gartner Symposium

Betsy Burton Step 1 - define a tight scope and goal; specific scope and a part of the business that is critical to the strategy; EBA should leverage EA Step 2 - organize an EBA core team; archeology work to find the existing models that represent process or organization; extended virtual team; biz process analysts, pm, folks from HR, biz functional leaders + IT strategic planning, CxOs, IT folks; meet regularly with the core team; rotate people on and off the team - keep it fresh; bringing biz and IT together Step 3 - Future State - leverage the biz capability model; do future state before current state; understand roles and skills associated with the future state; then look at current state Roles, Skills, Impact, Gaps, metrics, processes, organizations Step 4 - Current State - where are you today Step 5/6 - Gap analysis and migration plan; hire new people? change biz process? train people? new apps? tie biz arch view with the rest of EA; technology becomes relevant to biz goals Step 7...

ERP/CRM Jail - Gartner Symposium

Establish realistic business process and data integrity requirements Common elements of integration - MDM - process and data integration - biz service repository - integrated composition technology - common security arch - integrated monitoring and mgmt Life of the layers - record, differentiation, innovation - 10-20, 3-5, 1-3yrs - op cloud, op/sass, op - 75/25, 50/50, 25/75 IT:biz

EA for CIOs - Gartner Symposium

Philip Allega What does EA really mean? Everything you do must be defensible - value to the org By 2012, 70% of Sustainable EA initiatives will be non-IT function; communicate in language of the biz EA is no longer reporting into the IT organization; shifting EA is about business and IT unification Leverage Hype Cycle to position EA Be careful not to get stuck on optimizing frameworks - must also demonstrate real progress Value proposition of EA - too many choices - define scope and applicability for you today based on maturity - what do your stakeholders need - scope to your specific needs

Gartner Keynote - Symposium

Users have unprecedented choice IT must move from implementers to influencers Service providers and IT companies going directly to the business CIO = chief information officer; info is key Info gathering, sharing and consumption Must be able to aggregate structured and unstructured data People in biz will need access to the full spectrum of info Dell ideaStorm website to enlist input from customers Business Intelligence transformation In memory data storage to deal with massive amounts of data Combine collaboration with information - cultural shift Find experts Enabling the intelligent business Built to last is obsolete - now Built to Change Pace layering Ave cost of DC is over $50M - build to change Systems of record vs Systems of differentiation vs Systems of innovation IT Dynamism