With our knowledge of enterprise infrastructure and application development issues, onStrategies helps analyst organizations extend their coverage in areas ranging from application development to business intelligence and data warehousing, database management, enterprise application integration, application lifecycle management, and middleware strategy. Additionally, we have built an extensive knowledge base on IT organization technology selection, implementation, and ROI issues.

Looking to supplement or extend your firm's research coverage? Call on onStrategies to provide expertise on key technology infrastructure issues.

Selected samples of our published research are listed below.

Presentations

BPM's from Venus, SOA's from Mars (pdf) 

CIO Agenda

Published montly by Computerwire, CIO Agenda is an ongoing series dissecting best practices in enterprise IT. Recent coverage has focused on IT governance, ITIL service delivery, SOA transition, IT valuation, managing open source technology and other areas.

For a sample issue click here. For more information on CIO Agenda and Computerwire research, click here.

Computer Finance

Published by Computerwire from 1994 - 2001, Computer Finance analyzes the “real cost of computing” across hardware, software, and networking technologies. As chief analyst, Tony Baer specialized in studying best practices on how IT organizations identified, selected, and justified technology solutions; quantified and promoted their benefits; and staffed and managed the teams that performed development and implementation.

Selected issues and reports from Computer Finance are available here.

SELECTED ISSUES

• Computer Finance (Content Management Special Issue), 6/1/2001 (pdf file)
• Computer Finance, 4/1/2001 (pdf file)
• Computer Finance, 2/1/2001 (pdf file)
• Computer Finance (Mobile/Wireless Special Issue), 1/1/2001 (pdf file)

SELECTED REPORTS

• Tivoli ROI (4/1/1998)
• CA Unicenter ROI (12/1/1997)
• Data Quality -- Methodology and Payback (1/1/1997)
• Data Warehouse Economics, 1/1/2000
• e-Procurement Impact (6/1/1999)
• The Economics of Components: Java-Based Development, 8/1/2000
• The Economics of Linux, 4/1/2000
• Putting a Price on the New DBA, 01/11/1997
• ROI And The Software Quality Payback: Testing Web Applications, 9/1/2000
• ROI and the Software Quality Payback: Testing Enterprise Applications (9/1/1997)
• Web Impact on Software Licensing, 10/1/1999
• Windows 2000 TCO, 4/1/2000
• Windows Thin Client TCO, 12/1/1999 - 1/1/2000
• Y2K Final Report, 2/1/2000

Summit Strategies - Selected Reports

Selected reports are available here. Contact Summit Strategies for more information.

• Universal Servers: Build Them and They Will Come?, Summit Strategies, 8/1/1997
• Database Markets: Are We Having Fun Yet?, Summit Strategies, 7/7/1998 (pdf file)
• Enterprise Application Integration: The New Gold Rush?, Summit Strategies, 8/13/1999 (pdf file)
• Enterprise Application Integration: Mining the Gold, Summit Strategies, 12/7/1999 (pdf file)

BOOKS

• Understanding the .NET Framework, June 2002. Wrox Press. Baer and coauthors.
• J2EE Technology in Practice, June 2001, Addison Wesley. Baer and coauthors. Editors: Jim Inscore, Rick Catell.