Essential IT projects for modern organizations

Modern organizations usually find it easier to build on their current information system processes to meet tomorrow’s business challenges. Building everything from scratch, all over again, can cost a bundle.

As such, IT spending is spread across a rather varied selection of initiatives that help profit from the current infrastructure while pushing towards the latest trends in technology deployments.

Organizations need to protect their assets, understand what their information stream contains and analyze it thouroughly, expand to new markets without hurting their domestic business model all the while become ever more mobile and accessible, especially through the web.

In this light, here’s a quick list of projects your organizations might want to look into in order to get the most from the hottest business technology trends. Wikipedia links were added for easier access to complementary information regarding each theme.

• Application integration – legacy meets the newest gear
• Business analytics – finally understanding what the market is saying
• Enterprise portals – the ultimate team-building bridge
• CRM (Customer Relationship Management) – links your helpdesk to the customers
• Intrusion detection and prevention – lock the thieves out
• Data management – get a feel for more powerful databases and bigger storage
• VoIP (Voice-over-Internet Protocol) – the phone as yet another internet appliance
• Mobile devices – anything without a wire
• E-commerce – electronic transactions from all over the web
• BPM (Business Process Management) – eliminate inefficiencies across every layer of any organization
• Web services – that’s where the customers expect to get a hold of you

In most organizations, these initiatives are the ones already being alloted the most money and for a good reason, they enable new levels of performance across a extensive array of key features of any forward thinking corporation.

Fortunately, credible open source projects (look at SourceForge) exist for all of these projects to be successfully initiated and realized in every organization, even the smaller ones.

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