Jeff Frick11
Are there specific applications where the delta between an Integrated approach and BYO than others?
Jeff Frick
And what if BYO is BOB?
Jeff Frick Build your Own vs Best of Breed, & I don't mean the old MSFT Browser thing Bob. ;-)
Crowd Captain BYO = Build your own; and BoB = Best of Breed
John Furrier
I am seeing large enterprises going for purpose built. IBM sold their low end servers to Lenovo and focusing on optimized systems. Steve Mills validated that appliances (or purpose built) is the winning formula
Oracle Hardware
Integrated approach doesn't preclude best of breed but that is one of the points to look at if you consider an integrated approach
Carl ray
Gartner's "Ten Trends and Technologies to Impact IT" article talks about this trend, saying IT is getting too complex to be buying at the component level, and more companies are looking for vendors they can trust to do this integration.
Oracle Hardware
As far as applications, the areas that show the greatest potential are enterprise wide, mission critical like Financials, HR, Merchandising, etc.
Oracle Hardware
One of the drivers is that organizations have fixed resources of time as well as money but time is always finite
Mohan Desai
BOB is even better if it comes pre-integrated
Oracle Hardware
So if you can imagine the benefits of being able to time to your team. For example, what would your team do with an additional 4 hrs a week for each member of your staff
Oracle Hardware
Or, what would it mean if you could complete your supply chain plan in less than an hour than overnight. You can run it during the day and adjust to unforeseen changes
Howard Curzman
There are several areas where an integrated approach will drive unique and extended value due to the optimizations developed across each layer of the stack. OLTP, Batch, and In Memory workloads in particular.
Kate Islas
Any standard processes (GL, HR, etc) with big batch reports or heavy transactions. But even customers innovating custom java apps, see huge adv w/ with integrated DB or MW platform