Business Technology Optimization
Business Technology Optimization (BTO), is an enterprise software product category focused on helping businesses ensure that every dollar invested in information technology, every resource allocated, and every application in development or production meets business goals. BTO is part of an emerging business philosophy to manage IT resources as a business rather than as a service bureau.
Unlike software offerings and methodologies that focus on internal IT processes, BTO optimizes the strategic functions between technology and business. The depth and breadth of BTO software allows technology executives to better manage a wide range of strategic IT functions that directly impact business results. Effective project and portfolio management, testing new SAP deployments, or reducing the mean time to repair custom J2EE applications are just a few examples.
BTO software addresses key functions recognized by IT executives and industry analysts as requirements for automating The New business/technology lifecycle. These functions include:
- IT governance;
- project portfolio management;
- change management; and
- application quality, performance, and availability.
- application management - systems management - datacenter management
Many software companies provide BTO products and services. Mercury Interactive Corporation (now owned by HP) is believed to be the first to call itself a "BTO vendor". However many companies develop and sell BTO software, including:
- IBM Software - BMC Software - Compuware - Borland - Computer Associates (now CA) - Sun Microsystems - Whittman Hart
Today most large enterprise IT orginzation have implemented some form of BTO software.
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