With technology expertise and business savvy, today's enterprise architects are helping to connecting silos and enable the enterprise vision. Consulting firm Shift Technologies, which runs the Open Group Arabia chapter talked about how Enterprise Architecture (EA) is helping orgnisations work with IT that enables business strategy today and tomorrow. Kavitha Rajasekhar Vivek brings you this report.

Managed services experts offer 13 tips from selecting a service provider to planning to using metrics and everything in between to keep you sane and your expectations realistic.

Most companies know that succession planning is essential today, but very few have automated their process. According to a recent Aberdeen Group report, only 7% of companies had a fully automated and integrated succession planning process.

The services-oriented architecture (SOA) moniker might be "sullied" by industry hype, high-profile failures and misdirection, but SOA is certainly not dead, say analysts. The services-oriented architecture moniker might be "sullied" by industry hype, high-profile failures and misdirection, but SOA is certainly not dead, said one analyst.

Increased corporate investment in new virtual private networking (VPN) technologies indicates that companies now recognise the Internet as a business-class network, according to a survey by Forrester Research. Forrester Research found that deployment of state-of-the-art VPN technology has increased as much as 80% during the past year.