Make sure IT works as an enabler

Kathy Gibson reports from SMEXA 2014 – The buzzword today is about using IT to enable change, but there’s a lot to be done to make sure it works. Richard Cascarino, from IT auditing company Richard Cascarino and Associates, quotes GM’s Jack Welch that IT has...

Cloud computing is a big data enabler

Cloud computing and big data analytics are two “terms” that few would have imagined being used in the same sentence. Yet, placed together, the two concepts can offer businesses the ability to engage in big data at a reasonable price tag. This is the...

SOA is a strategic enabler

Technology has evolved to a point where, for the first time it’s the business principles and the needs of an organisation that can drive the way in which technology can execute on those needs. It is through service-oriented architecture (SOA) that this relationship...