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System of Record: You Can't Innovate on an Unstable Foundation
4 August 2011
 
Bill Swanton  

Gartner's Pace-Layered Application Strategy helps companies segment their IT efforts to ensure that the demands from the business for differentiation and innovation are met. However, the system of record is the foundation that these higher-level systems rely on.





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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Analysis
    • Systems of Record Must Be Stable, Providing Reliable Core Processes and Believable Data
    • Effective Systems of Any Kind Require Mature Application Governance Processes
    • Any Differentiating or Innovative Process or Project Will, at Some Point, Rely on the System of Record for Its Ultimate Success
    • Architect Systems of Record to Provide Stable Services to the Faster-Changing Layers
    • Attempting to Develop Differentiating or Innovative Processes Within the System of Record Will Be Slow and Costly
  • Recommended Reading
Tables
Table 1.
Examples of Dependency on Systems of Record
Figures
Figure 1.
System of Record: Unstable Foundations Breed Failure
Figure 2.
Differentiating and Innovative Processes Ultimately Depend on the System of Record




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