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Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software creates software systems to address business requirements quickly and cost-effectively. The time and money saved on development is wasted if the evaluation of the... system is deferred, which leads to performance issues. To manage these issues, Infosys' experts propose a review of the architecture from a performance perspective. It will identify and resolve performance issues early in the lifecycle. This white paper covers critical areas of COTS-based systems that must be reviewed in such an exercise.
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Enterprise Architecture
In this white paper, our experts evaluate all established meta-models and frameworks of Enterprise Business Architecture and extract the key ingredients to build a meta-model of their own. This composite meta-model, they...
say, can lead to a better definition of business architecture and consequently, effective business analysis.
This article appears in SETLabs Briefings on 'Effective Business Analysis' (Volume 6 No. 4)
While the dimensions of defining an enterprise architecture model - business, information, application and technical - have been fairly well established over the last few years, there is much less clarity on how to govern enterprise architecture. Our experience indicates...
that governance is not only more difficult to get right, but also determines the impact of the architecture team to a far greater degree. We describe and manage this governance along six dimensions.
We examine why making enterprise architecture work means more than just developing the right content. It requires a defined governance framework, which is the key to effective enterprise architecture. Infosys' governance framework helps organizations...
assess their performance and chart a continuous improvement course that deepens the impact of their EA program and ensures that it delivers the promised business value.
Evolving models such as outsourcing and collaboration and an increasing number of mergers and acquisitions have made planning the corporate IT landscape more challenging and competitive. While technology is helping businesses become more competitive,...
businesses are now more demanding than ever before. Enterprises that lack an agile IT infrastructure may well bid farewell to global markets.
This article appeared in the SETLabs Briefings on 'Enterprise Architecture & Business Competitiveness' (Oct-Dec, 2004).
Performance Engineering and Enhancement
Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software creates software systems to address business requirements quickly and cost-effectively. The time and money saved on development is wasted if the evaluation of the...
system is deferred, which leads to performance issues. To manage these issues, experts from Infosys propose a review of the architecture from a performance perspective. It will identify and resolve performance issues early in the lifecycle. This white paper covers critical areas of COTS-based systems that must be reviewed in such an exercise.
Performance benchmarking of applications, prior to deployment, is growing in importance. This paper covers recommendations and best practices that can be adopted for performance benchmarking.
The need to achieve system performance in a way that reduces risk and improves cost-effectiveness and time-to-market for performance-critical systems is one of the principal goals of IS organizations. It requires a holistic and quantitative approach to performance,...
without compromising on other system qualities such as flexibility, maintainability, reliability and usability. Infosys has put into practice such an approach by combining practices in performance engineering with client delivery experience. Adapted to ensure collaboration among globally distributed application development teams, it combines performance modeling with benchmarking, tuning and optimization to deliver high-performance systems.
Companies, in their quest to enhance operational efficiency, develop additional functionality through customizations and new product deployments. This results in development and deployment of application silos and at times, additions to hardware....
Such additions lead to unmanageable application / infrastructure with little focus on performance. We propose an end-to-end focus on performance management to maximize returns on existing investments by optimizing IT infrastructure.
Findings reveal that poorly performing IT applications are bleeding corporations to the tune of US $60 billion per year. Diagnosing and fixing these applications is both a science and an art that can reap rich dividends for organizations. Infosys experts tell you how in this article.
This article appeared in the SETLabs Briefings on 'Enterprise IT Perspectives' (Oct - Dec, 2006).
Performance management of enterprise applications is the key to maximizing returns on IT investment. With rapidly evolving technology, continued improvements in performance management and establishing baseline metrics is important to the sustenance of key infrastructure elements.
This article appeared in the SETLabs Briefings on 'Enterprise IT Perspectives' (Oct - Dec, 2006).
This paper explores various business drivers for globalization and examines the nature of globalization requirements for software products and applications. It discusses the typical globalization challenges that must be addressed before building global applications.