Arjuna Agility™

In the future, competitive success will belong to organizations that are able to cope with rapid external and internal changes – organizations that can demonstrate ‘Business Agility’ – defined by Gartner as "An organization's ability to sense environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively to that change."

There are many factors that can contribute towards business agility including Information Technology. Whilst it is widely recognized that IT has a key role to play in enabling the ‘sense’ and ‘responding’ components of business agility it is also clear that IT can hinder agility through monolithic architectures and siloed applications and information.

Arjuna’s forthcoming product, Arjuna Agility™ (Agility) is a Peer-to-Peer Computing Platform. It enables business agility by creating an ‘internal cloud’ of IT resource within the enterprise. In particular, Agility:

  • de-risks the enterprise from over and under capacity problems by dynamically provisioning IT resources to meet changing business demand
  • improves utilization of existing IT by supporting the policy-controlled sharing of all IT resources (from bare metal to applications)
  • bridges the semantic gap between the way business people specify service requirements and the way IT departments interpret them by using an innovative Virtual Deployment Description Language (VDDL)
  • supports strong corporate governance by using Service Agreements to create a full audit trail of activities which may be useful for regulatory compliance (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley) as well as operational efficiency (e.g. tracking usage of software and hardware resources)
  • seamlessly extends the internal cloud across departmental or organizational boundaries if required

Agility provides these advantages without requiring existing IT infrastructure to be restructured or applications changed in any way. Agility maximizes the return on IT investment and, at the same time, provides the flexibility and speed of delivery that enterprise IT needs in order to effectively respond to business opportunities and threats when they arise.

In this increasingly turbulent market executives cannot rely on long-range forecasting and must instead create an organization that can quickly respond to change. An agile IT infrastructure is central in supporting the move towards business agility.

Download White Paper: Arjuna Agility™ - Removing the Barriers to Business Agility (PDF, 1.72MB)