The newest discipline in enterprise-wide information technology is challenging South African business to change the way it views its information systems. Infrastructure resource planning (IRP) has been recognised by analysts as a strategic enabling business process which must be managed in the same way as any other core business function.
Software Futures will introduce this new concept at two breakfast seminars in Cape Town and Johannesburg on 10 and 11 March respectively. The free seminars are aimed as senior businesspeople. They will be addressed by infrastructure management visionary Steve Gardner, chairman and CEO of Peregrine Systems, who will present his infrastructure management vision; and Francois Pretorius of Arthur Andersen Computer Risk Management, who will present on the connection between infrastructure management and the Arthur Andersen Business Risk Model.
Infrastructure management is the critical component in achieving this with the twin objectives of:
Maximising the usefulness and availability of an infrastructure; and
Minimising and controlling the investment and expense required to acquire and maintain it.
"Companies are beginning to realise that they need to determine the effectiveness of their IT infrastructure management, and how well their overall technology investment is being maximised," says Software Futures MD Aletha Ling.
Those interested in attending can contact Catherine Bell on (021) 418 0126 or cathb@softwarefutures.com; or Kayleen on 0800 600 231 or peregrine@softwarefutures.com.
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