Enterprise Cloud Computing as the Digital Nervous System of the Enterprise

Leading organizations are driving technology delivery to a ubiqitous always-on model

Feb. 7, 2010 07:00 PM

Businesses today face a tsunami of challenges unlike it has ever faced in history: globalization, geo-political, rise of the Internet consumer, customer mind-share dynamics, proliferation of information and content to manage and maintain (with regulatory & security concerns).

This requires new ways to do business:

provide an enriched and consistent quality customer experience;
conduct business over any form of electronic channel;
rapid adoption of new business models;
transact business in the most efficient & effective means possible;
incorporate "turn on dime" transaction workflow, and rapidly make informed decisions.

So what are IT executives supposed to do with this? Most are faced with...

budget cuts;
skill set shortages; complexity of their infrastructure;
while keeping the lights on and doing more with less!

The good news is...

Innovations in the "2.0" phase of everything IT (Web, Cloud, Client/Server, Grid, Utility, Datacenter, SOA, and Utility Computing) are creating a foundation of "interactive & real time" information, connectivity and processing capabilities.

These capabilities may just become the foundation building blocks for IT organizations to build and use to create an always connected, always available, always working type of platform. Perhaps the combination of these capabilities could become the foundation of building the "nervous system" of business.

What has been missing is the past are two things:

"interactive experience" that is similar in nature to humans collaborating, sharing and conducting business; and
"interactive infrastructure" that is able to interpret, sense/respond and execute processing as needed-when needed.

A holistic implementation of Enterpise Clouds link information, processing, business processes and humans providing the missing components of interative experience & infrastructure which create the foundation for the nervous system of business - provided for by IT.

Food for thought! What would it mean to your organization to create such a dynamically linked, interactive business platform?

▪ Adaptivity CEO Tony Bishop's Cloud Expo Presentation on SYS-CON.TV

▪ Adaptivity Chairman and CEO Launches His Cloud Computing Blog on Ulitzer

About Tony Bishop
Tony is the Founder and CEO of Adaptivity. As Chairman and CEO, Tony leads the team and provides hands-on coaching, thought leadership and executive strategy support for our key clients and partners. He is an innovative IT executive, with an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations. He most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia’s Corporate Investment Banking Technology Group, where his team designed, built, and implemented a leading-edge service-oriented architecture and utility computing infrastructure. Tony and our team have been recognized by the industry with awards from InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, NetworkWorld, Waters, and Wall Street & Technology, among others, for their efforts in building world-class technology to differentiate their business. He has 20 years working as a user and as a supplier in various design, strategy, and architecture roles across multiple industries. Tony is the recipient of 40 under 40 Most Innovative IT Leaders, Premier 100 IT Leaders as selected by ComputerWorld in 2007, and a member of Wall Street Gold Book 2007.