Scale Up TO ENTERPRISE CLASS

摘要

Every business wants to grow. But if a budding enterprise expects to scale effectively, its IT systems must be able to scale as well. That means taking control of your organization's technical infrastructure early on to be ready for the inevitable expanded roster of customers, suppliers, and employees that growth brings. The size of an organization shouldn't determine functionality. In fact, smaller businesses often require enterprise-class hardware, software, and services in many areas - particularly in networking, security, and Web provisioning, and sometimes in accounting and order management. Yet despite their oversize needs, smaller businesses are typically outfitted with an uncoordinated collection of point applications and systems managed by their individual expert users, notes AMR Research analyst Bob Locke.