IT systems planning is a standard practice aimed at controlling the complexity of information systems. By cutting up an IT system into smaller and smaller components, systems planning enables businesses to analyse existing components, target IT developments in line with business needs, and, above all, fully understand the impact of those developments on existing components. An IT systems plan helps to define priorities, and subsequently to manage and implement a structured calendar that sets a course and is shared by all stakeholders.
However, business needs are becoming increasingly urgent: e-business and Web 2.0 are bringing customers right into the heart of information systems, business processes and rules are being used to manage risk, and there are new mobile technologies... as well as the requirement to be productive and “agile”. How do you build a business vision appropriate to this new environment? How can you move more quickly from that business view to a concrete view consisting of applications and projects? What is the role of new technologies in the systems planning process?
In short, how do you reconcile the long term, which is the systems planner’s traditional timescale, and the short term, which is increasingly the timescale that drives project owners?
SOA-based systems planning takes into account these new business needs, and, above all, builds them into a concrete path for implementing genuine business solutions. This seminar aims to get beyond current fads and give delegates the keys to this new approach to systems planning, drawing on real implementation cases.
