Globalization and web 2.0 or enterprise 2.0 / CIO 2.0 in a nutshell                 We're now at the busy crossroads where globalization meets Web 2.0. This presents both a challenge to the old ways of doing business and an opportunity to gain tremendous leverage via the right goods and services.

Organizations want to take advantage of open, flexible Web or Enterprise 2.0 technologies. They want to use people friendly software and mash-ups to add a new dimension of imagination and innovation engines;

>The web as a platform                                                        >Collective intelligence                  >Better user experience                                                       >Independence - I.e, no more blackberries, laptops, pdas, wireless devices, cell phones 

>>Unlock your data - How do you free your data and assemble in a meanigful way? 

>>Software applications that serves the many vs. the few in an organization

SOA                                                                                                       Enterprise SOA is a blueprint for an adaptable, flexible, and open IT architecture for developing services-based, enterprise-scale business solutions. Our solutions, as a technical foundation, enterprise SOA moves IT architectures to higher levels of adaptability – and moves companies closer to the vision of real-time enterprises by elevating Web services to an enterprise level. The pillars of SOA

CBM                                                                                                     

What is a 'constituent'? Each constituent is a grouping of the people, technology, and resources delivering specific business value and potentially able to operate independently – in the extreme, as a separate company, or part of another company. Constituents have well-defined interfaces, allowing them to interact smoothly with each other and to be 'snapped' in and out at will, like building blocks. Using the CBM, an enterprise can be viewed as a collection of constituents coming together to create business value. An analogy is in chemistry, where atoms combine and recombine to form different molecules, doing different things.

How are business and IT linked? The CBM is an end-to-end way of looking at the business through all the layers: not just the business layer, but the application layer and IT infrastructure too. The combination of the views of all the layers is the foundation for sensible recommendations concerning the enterprise. By linking the CBM with service oriented architecture (SOA), we can also address the underlying IT infrastructure.

What's the basic concept of CBM? After building the constituent map, we can identify improvement opportunities by choosing and applying evaluation criteria such as cost, revenue potential of a given market opportunity, strategic fit, alignment between business and applications, and many others. This is done by asking diagnostic questions for all relevant constituents. Applying these criteria produces a 'Blue Print'.