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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'.
Business Agility: "An organization's ability to sense environmental change and respond efficiently and effectively to that change." Gartner
There are many factors that can contribute towards business agility and one of them is 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) enables business agility by creating an ‘internal cloud’ of computing resource within the enterprise.
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This paper gives an overview of the trends driving agile IT, and shows why supporting enterprise applications within a highly agile system raises difficult problems. In particular, increased, dynamic data sharing can have severe consequences for the reliability of the agile enterprise. Failure to address these problems will significantly restrict the ability of the new emerging infrastructures, such as Grid computing and Extreme Transaction Processing, to fully address the goals of agility and cost-reduction. Investment in solutions which do not support data sharing in enterprise applications will prevent enterprises from obtaining full value from their most valuable asset - their data.
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