Business Innovation and Disruptive Technology: Harnessing the Power of Breakthrough Technology ...for Competitive Advantage

Extending the Radar Lessons

         Drivers for the adoption of real-time computing and the migration toward the real-time enterprise include IT advances in processing power, ubiquitous connectivity, and freely available bandwidth together with the business drivers of increased productivity and reduced costs, increased business agility, competitive advantage, and customer satisfaction.

         The major sections of the real-time computing value chain are comprised of real-time infrastructure, platforms, integration, processes, and applications.

         Benefits of real-time computing include competitive advantage, improved responsiveness and customer satisfaction, increased revenues, increased productivity, and cost reduction.

         Challenges for real-time computing include identification of real-time processes, re-engineering business processes for real-time computing, faster operations requiring more precision, and managing real-time responses.