Features of IT

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Ubiquitous application
Dramatic rate of cost decline:
Universal ownership
Exponential growth:
IT as a powerful competitive factor for organizations. Value of IT as a viable
competitive factor resulting is increased productivity, improved profitability, and
value for customers. IT professionals must identify information needs of the
organization and develop an IT strategy that is in line with the overall corporate
strategic plan. An IT plan includes factors such as: a computer hardware and
software requirement, systems definition, changes to the existing systems and
procedures, and the schedules and resource requirements for each project.
Information technology and Strategy
Information technology (IT) in every organization normally evolves from a means
to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization to a means to
influence the strategic position of the company.
Steps in Designing IT Architecture and infrastructure
The business architecture in turn will determine the IT architecture" and IT
infrastructure.
Business Vision
Business objectives
Business Processes and operations
The business architecture is divided into three closely related blueprints.
These three together constitute the business architecture:

1. Business function blueprint:

2. Data access blueprint
3. Application access blueprint:
IT Architecture
The difference between business architecture and IT architecture is, in
fact, comparable with the distinction between functional and technical
design, which has been used by system development methodologies for
years. The business architecture is dominated by managerial and
organizational questions (what). The answers to these questions are
translated, in the IT architecture, into automation directions (how) and
eventually in the choice of specific makes and types of technical means:
the IT infrastructure (with what).