Information Technology (IT) is the most powerful tool ever created. It advances the entire sweep of human endeavor, from business, to science, to society at large. IT makes our organizations and activities more effective. Ultimately, IT empowers us as individuals. At Illuminata, we want to help optimize that march of progress.
Illuminata’s business is providing insights and advice about what’s possible, what’s practical and feasible, and how to go about building, deploying, and managing IT. We’re not a vendor, system integrator, or service provider ourselves. We’re independent advisors, helping enterprises, providers, and investors think clearly about where they are now, what future state they’d like to get to, and what steps are necessary to get there. We help clients make the best possible decisions, to leverage the IT products and services the market has to offer. We also help clients harness the leading edge—the new capabilities currently emerging from research, development, and prototypes.
We focus on large-scale IT—large computing and communications infrastructures, supporting large user bases, meeting demanding requirements. These situations naturally lead to our specialty: complex problems combining technical, organizational, and business issues.
If your organization seeks to boldly, imaginatively, effectively develop and use information technology–both today’s infrastructure and tomorrow’s opportunities–we’d like to help you do that. Drop us a line.
Getting to the Cloud
In years past, we heard “the network is the computer,” but it was really just an idealization, an approximation, a glimpse of some future utopia. Now, it’s becoming literally true.
Everything is online. Leading enterprises and software vendors routinely provide their applications “over the network.” As consumers, we expect applications to look and act just like Google, Facebook, and the Web. IT operations are rapidly becoming “service oriented.” Large swaths of applications that were once spread around are being consolidated and virtualized; functions that were routinely run in-house are now routinely considered for outsourcing. Within a few years, essentially all information technology–computing and communications alike–will be available “as a service” via “the cloud.” Are you ready? It’s happening so fast, most organizations aren’t.
How can you stand tall amidst this wave of change? Illuminata can help! Our IT Advisors will help you understand the changes that the various forms of ITaaS (IT as a Service), cloud, and virtualization are driving, and how to turn these to your advantage. We understand the technical, economic, business, and cultural shifts required to succeed in the Cloud Age.
Contact clientservices@illuminata.com to get going.
Transforming Document Creation
Documents are the lifeblood of just about every organization. They encode our information, our plans, our offerings to customers and partners, our legal agreements–our everything.
The last decade has seen considerable progress in the means by which we organize, store, search, and retrieve documents. Content Management Systems (CMSs) have arisen. We have whole new generations of standardized document formats (many based on XML and HTML). But what hasn’t changed–very much, at any rate–are the tools and processes by which we create, edit, review, and publish documents. More often than not, we’re still using the tools and strategies born in the PC revolution of the 1980s.
In a world that’s rapidly moving toward automation and network-speed team collaboration, and where time-to-delivery drives overall economic efficiency, documents are still handled manually and sequentially, leading to high labor costs and slow delivery. Does that seem right?! Not to us. As a publishing business, we realized we had to rework how we create, update, and publish documents for the Internet Age. Our experience working with other organizations including law firms, designers, manufacturers, and marketing teams confirms that they too could sorely use such process and tooling improvements.
Illuminata would like to work with your organization to share our unique insight into making document creation, review, and delivery dramatically more collaborative and automated. Contact clientservices@illuminata.com to schedule a Document Transformation Workshop or Lunch & Learn.
Out and About
Where will we be? Where can you find us? Below is a list of events Illuminata plans on attending this season. Our travel schedules are updated frequently as we confirm plans for additional events, so check back often. Click here for other events we’ve attended.
- IBM Smart Systems for a Smarter Planet, April 6-7, San Jose, CA
- HP Labs Day and Tour, April 9, Palo Alto, CA
- Blade Systems Insight 2010, April 18-20, Orlando, FL
- NetApp Analyst Days, June 23-24, San Jose, CA