Sponsoring The Enterprise Technology Convergence Council

I took a look at the IKOEX web site and there is a synergy with the way I think about EA and the work I am trying to achieve with my current employer. The key point I saw on one of the pages was a quote along the lines of the question we should be asking is not what data we need but what decisons do we need to make. Ironically, I was at a seminar on Microsoft's FAST enterprise search engine a few weeks ago and the question was posed to the attendees how woul you sell enterprise search to a C level exec. My response was it gives you the information you need to make the decisions you need to make - talking about relevancy, ranking, and accuracy of search results is irrelevant if it doesn't help you make a decision. As you note my background is in Financial Services but I am currently working as the architect for a law firm. As you would imagine, questions around BI, BPM, and ECM form most of my day to day now.

Date of Posting: 06 April 2010
Posted By: Stephen Ray
Manager Strategy, Architecture and Standards at WilmerHale , Washington, DC, US

There seems to be a wealth of knowledge on the forum. Just wanted to share that ... thank you for the resource connection.

Date of Posting: 01 March 2010
Posted By: Robert Goldberg, MBA
Business Planner at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA US

I really believe that these type of initiatives are an added value to both content professionals and the market. Convergence in thinking and technology of the different domains will be one of the critical success factors in a dynamic world. Especially in the services economy were unstructured processes (and thus activities and data) are the norm the greatest challenge is to increase productivity, and this can only be done by converging the different disciplines.

Date of Posting: 27 February 2010
Posted By: Pascal Ravesteyn
Associate Professor, HU University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands