Jim Carty has been in the IT-related industry for 22 years in a variety of roles including development, marketing, management, and operations. Most recently, he has taught New Web Technologies at Columbia University and been the CIO of one of PNC Bank’s divisions. See www.isvaluecorp.com for more information.
In order for companies to benefit from the strategic value of information
technology, there needs to be much closer alignment between IT and the
business side. So far, these two counterparts have had a difficult time
seeing eye to eye. The problem is that despite earnest intentions by both to
work together, the application integration tools that IT has had to work with
have been cumbersome. This has resulted in too many projects being delivered
late and over budget and has caused the business side to stop expecting IT to
deliver what it needs when it needs it.
Integration is the bugaboo. Organizations are taking an enterprise-level look
at their applications and this means integrating and sharing data between
applications is a requirement in many projects. Gartner Dataquest predicts
spending on integration projects will reach a staggering $10.6 billion in
2006.
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Jim Carty has been in the IT-related industry for 22 years in a variety of roles including development, marketing, management, and operations. Most recently, he has taught New Web Technologies at Columbia University and been the CIO of one of PNC Bank’s divisions. See www.isvaluecorp.com for more information.
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