Importance of modern technology in business solutions

An IT system must be built with the technology that ensures lasting support for the business and is cost effective.
In this section we would like to draw your attention to the importance of selecting the right technology and what you should demand from your solutions provider.

Expectations from technology

Whatever solution is required by your organisation it must be built on the right technology. An IT system will benefit you most when it is capable of the following:

• Ensuring the lowest possible cost of the whole solution
  
• Supporting business and IT standards
  
• Ensuring performance, scalability and fault tolerance
  
• Supporting extended enterprise
  
• Supporting complex transactions
  
• Supporting integration with legacy systems
  
• Supporting integration at business level
  

Always demand that technology proposed by your supplier satisfies these criteria.

Architecture makes the difference

But selecting the right technology is not enough. As modern solutions increasingly grow in complexity (business and applications integration, handling of business information coming through different media, etc.) it becomes vitally important that the suppliers use the technology in the right way. This building of solutions by utilising various technologies and components is called technical architectures.

The following sections present a selection of technologies that we strongly recommend to our customers when building solutions. The main ones are:

• BPMS systems
  
• Messaging technology
  
• XML
  
• Multi-tier, distributed applications platforms
  In the Recommendations section we give you the reasons why these technologies are so significant.

In the Recommendations section we give you the reasons why these technologies are so significant.