EA best practice drive
National Computing Centre community initiative aims to increase professionalism in enterprise architecture and systems engineering, reports ZDNet.
The National Computing Centre has launched an initiative to promote professionalism in enterprise architecture and systems engineering. In a series of workshops known as the 'EA-SE Programme', IT professionals will meet to define best practice in both subject areas.
This best practice will feed into education and training programmes. The programme also aims to provide a common language for enterprise architecture and systems engineering.
NetWeaver makes headway
SAP customers appear to be embracing the company's NetWeaver development and integration platform, reports ITWire. "We're starting to see NetWeaver being sold as its own applications platform," said Mark Kaplan, Asia-Pacific lead on SAP for Accenture, during the keynote at the Mastering SAP Technologies conference in Melbourne.
Simon Dale, SAP Asia-Pacific CTO, presented the results of an internal survey of SAP's 150 largest global customers, which suggested that almost two-thirds had now committed to the NetWeaver architecture.
Of those customers, 35% had already embraced NetWeaver as their main enterprise architecture, another 21% intended to do so by 2008, and a further 5% expected to move to NetWeaver by 2010.
WAN customers dissatisfied
Most WAN customers are not satisfied with their providers, and customers of large WAN providers are even more likely to be unhappy, according to a survey of UK network managers by MPLS service provider Masergy, reports Tech World.
The areas where the WAN suppliers rated worst were collaboration and support - especially their lack of responsiveness and business understanding. And they are still too slow at installing circuits and resolving service and billing issues, said many of the 50 network managers surveyed.
The big problem for the large telcos is that their customers' expectations are running way ahead of what they are able and willing to supply, argued Tony Hurtado, Masergy's head of global marketing.
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