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Published on: 3/17/2003
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"Alignment with business needs is the CIOs number one priority," said Hank Weghorst, President & CEO of Troux Technologies."The problem today is IT visibility: IT and business executives lack the common picture of how IT resources and costs align with business processes, functions, and priorities.Troux solves this important problem by delivering the products, technology, and services required to truly understand the relationships between business and IT."
According to the Gartner Group, "every CIO in the world has one supreme challenge: Make technology serve the business better while keeping pace with business change."Today, the Gartner Group reports, "over 60 percent of IT spending in most enterprises is now in the business units and outside the IS organization."This new enterprise architecture must be driven by a close alignment of business and technology.
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"The first step was to provide IT with a 360 degree view of the end-to-end IT environment," said Hank Weghorst, President & CEO of Troux Technologies."Now, Troux has substantially raised the bar by expanding IT Visibility to support not just improved IT operations, but the strategic alignment of business and technology that CIOs most desire."
The New Business-Focused IT Architecture Demands Enterprise IT Visibility
The lack of IT visibility is the top obstacle to business/technology alignment.According to the Gartner Group, "most enterprises today have no formal architecture whatsoever.