Integration may depend on upgrading your installed versions of hardware/ software – this often escalates business case risk, over and above the purchase and integration costs, by creating a domino effect of enforced changes (which also bring further considerations)
Websearch is a powerful early-warning tool for discovering integration problems – just put the product name into your favourite search engine and add these two vital key words: “problems” and “integration.”
In days of downturn and slow recovery, expectations of iT change sharply; from investment in opportunity and optimism to cost-saving and rationalization. But the really wise guys and gals know that the wheels of fortune always need regular oiling to remove as much
Natural inertia leads to longer than anticipated retention of temporary solutions so a pattern of quick and dirty solutions to urgent problems might well make a mess of your long-term strategy – by creating a legacy of incompatible, [...]
Every organization depends on an increasingly complex mix of hardware, software and services but getting all of the components to play nicely together is more often an art, not a science. Believe it or not, components from the same manufacturer do not always fit together without a lot of effort and I must mention that [...]