At Platinion, the focus is naturally on project work. However, we are asked time and again to share our knowledge and experience. Below is a selection of publications we have authored or contributed to. Please note that the publications themselves are often available only in German.
Platinion's Publications
Buzzwords: When consulting gets confusing
Overstretched terms like "Cloud", "SOA" or "ESB" require a reflection of their original core meaning and overall a discussion of their strengths and weaknesses that's more to the point. Nils Tegtmeier in Information Management and Consulting (IM) 05/2010.
IT Transformation Conference, May 18, 2010
Dr. Hagen Pfeiffer, CEO of Platinion, gave a speech with the title "Spotting true innovation in business IT!" at the 3rd Conference IT Transformation 2010 in Noordwijkerhout (Netherlands). New technologies often merely cause a hype–cynics come to the fore. But maybe beneath all the noise and false claims to fame there is an undercurrent of true innovation which yields real benefits to its business adopters. Dr. Hagen Pfeiffer showed an example, of how emerging business triggers can impact IT to innovate and presented a method to successfully come to the right decision on investment.
For further information, please use this link: www.it-transformation.nl
Pragmatic IT Landscaping: Quickly Creating Transparency Within Large System Landscapes
OBJEKTspektrum 01/2010: IT projects with far-reaching consequences require a thorough analysis of the present enterprise system landscape. Appropriate lead times for this are not always planned in. The existing information base on the systems' status quite often turns out to be rudimentary, outdated, and fragmented.
Olaf Kiese and Jens Müller present alternatives to the holistic enterprise architecture management approach.
ZfCM Special Issue 3/2009: Service-Oriented IT Architectures–Critical Survey and Challenges for Controlling
SOA will continue to be an important and economically relevant topic for management. Experts from BCG and Platinion describe how service-oriented architectures can be of use for controlling.
IT Banken und Versicherungen 09/2009: Migrating Manually?
How success factors for data consolidation can be derived from the merger of institutions. The experts Kaj Burchardi, Alexander Christoph, Christoph Geier, and Ludger Küpper draw the conclusion: The manual migration is always part of the overall strategy and therefore should be integrated into the planning from the outset.
IM 05/2008: Replacement of Core Systems–A Project like Any Other?
By showing concrete examples from the energy industry, we highlight the most important characteristics for the replacement of core systems while considering extraordinary complexities and high risks. Authors: Hagen Pfeiffer, Jens Elei, Patrick Klose, and Valentin Balzer.
