Matthias Schulz, CIO of the Year 2009, speaks about Enterprise IT Systems vs the Public Internet
In February, Computerwoche, the popular weekly magazine for IT Managers published an interview with Matthias Schulz, CIO of the Year. Mr.Schulz summarizes what generally enterprise should learn from the public internet in three major cornerstones: effortless maintenance of information, instant searchability and controlled processes.
Why is this mentioned in our blog? Well, it is because Mr.Schulz has been a long time codeBeamer user! He introduced codeBeamer as collaboration platform at his former employer, an international financial institution. Later, based on the previous positive experience, he introduced it also at Easycash, his current company specializing in customized card-based payment solutions. In both cases, the decision making was preceeded by extensive research and comparison of the leading vendors, which concluded that codeBeamer was the best fit to these requirements.
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Search the Computerwoche site for the original article in German (we can't link it here because of weird legal problems), or read our English translation below.
Matthias Schulz: By omitting to adopt good, approved and efficient concepts consistently and completely, enterprises spoil an exorbitant amount of time and budget. For example, the requirements for a collaboration and information management system (CS) significantly resemble those of the world biggest CS, the internet. Surprisingly, only few enterprises adopt these basic concepts within their own organisation. The requirements can be classified in three categories: portal entry, search functions as well as process support and process automation.
Regarding portal, users intend to register information without any efforts, continued by reading, updating and, if required, deleting these information - ideally in team function. This is neither enabled by huge and multi-paged documents in file-folder-structures nor by paperworks in countless folders. The document itself as information container is also inappropriate as no one is willing to read x pages before getting the comprehensive information or obtaining interesting sequences of information; also processing of documents in parallel will be hardly possible.
Instead, it would be much better to demonstrate the information in first front, filed in small units without redundancies and linked with relevant pages.
Also search functions shall be analogue with the WWW, i.e. each information filed has to be tagged and be accessable via search engine functions. We all know the online booking functions for a railway or flight ticket. This process automation can be also converted to the CS of an enterprise. The better the process engine, the stronger ITIL processes, test and project models, even approval processes can be automised as well as optimized.
Within the past two years, I have implemented a collaboration tool within Easycash that mostly fulfills these requirements. I have also made good experiences with this tool in the former company I worked for in Austria.
Posted at 10:15AM Mar 24, 2010 by Intland Team in Customer Stories |