EDS Fellows highlight top 8 resolutions for a Happy IT in 2006, here is the list

* Raising the level of abstraction in IT solutions -- Objects, commercial off the shelf (COTS), tactical outsourcing
* Contextual understanding of data and information to access the knowledge buried in vast amounts of data
* Decision Automation -- Heuristics, flexible application logic, data mining, software agents
* Infrastructures -- Consider higher bandwidths such as Internet2, grid, storage, mobility
* Mobility Anytime, Anywhere -- Providers with proven best practices, mobile computing services and extended office capabilities can offer solid insight into the methodologies, security policies and procedures, and technology solutions to make it all come together
* Service Oriented Architecture -- Enables components, applications, functions and systems to be published, consumed and combined dynamically over an intelligent network, enabling virtualization
* Context-Aware, Multi-Layered, Rule/Role-Based Security -- Giving a company the ability to manage the life-cycles of digital identities and their resources efficiently across many platforms
* Utility IT in a Brokered Services Environment -- Managing a relationship between internal and external resources to achieve the intended business result

Gartner analysts recently released their latest CIO research, "CIO Resolutions for 2006," which predicts a 2006 of opposing forces -- from economic challenges to surging innovation -- and how to contain costs and proceed with caution.

Source: EDS Blog


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