Aligning Business with Technology

There has been a dramatic shift in the way businesses and organizations interact with customers and employees. The demand for real-time information by mobile, technology-aware workers is making IT organizations rethink how they meet requirements to deliver information. Service-oriented architectures, Web services, and infrastructure virtualization are among the techniques being used to address these new challenges. However, without the foresight of aligning technology deployments to business objectives, business stakeholders will not realize the full potential of their investments.

By incorporating network-based services from the Cisco SONA framework into the design and maintenance of their enterprise architecture, businesses will benefit through:

• Increasing business agility by using network services to improve application performance, scalability, and resiliency
• Creating new business models by enhancing existing or developing new application capabilities using services available only in the network.
• Reducing development costs by simplifying development tasks, reducing time to deploy, and reusing network-based services across multiple business applications
• Making the most of existing technology deployment by taking full advantage of previous investments while following a roadmap for standardization of the enterprise network platform.