Establishing an effective supplier network can transform an organisation’s supplier base into a streamlined chain that generates procurement cost savings, eradicates manual and paper-laden processes, and increases the overall value of an existing Enterprise Resource Planning system.

Taking

Quadrem

Square pegs in round holes

Business units and IT can and have to meet if the enterprise is going to survive the digital revolution. The CIO plays a central role in this.

Enterprise

Paul Vecchiatto

Dragging the network into the 22nd century

Gartner’s Enterprise Networking Modernisation Paradigm report highlights the more mature approach to networks that enterprises must adopt.

Dragging

Samantha Perry

On the Spot - EPM

This month, Brainstorm looks at enterprise project management (EPM), and asks whether or not EPM tools are taking over the world, or manual methods are still being used.

Brainstorm

Samantha Perry

Travis Broughton, enterprise architect, Intel Corp

Synopsis Biography Intel's data centres are at the heart of Intel's massive worldwide computing environment, which includes more than 240,000 network nodes and carries an average 137 million e-mail messages and 166 terabytes of WAN traffic each month. Business needs are growing rapidly, increasing the demands on Intel's data centre resources. While server requirements are expected to grow at 15 to 23% a year, energy costs - typically around 10% of an IT budget-could account for 50% of the average IT budget in just a few years.

Travis