Seven Benefits of Addressing IT Heterogeneity with a Common Language of IT

IT heterogeneity exists in today’s computing environments for three reasons:

• Legacy technologies still support critical business processes.
• The distributed computing era’s best-in-class technology approach led to enterprise IT integrating and managing multiple products and technologies.
• Mergers and acquisitions increase IT heterogeneity through acquired technologies and products.

IT heterogeneity poses both a challenge and an opportunity, depending on how an IT team chooses to address it. In this slideshow, Mahesh Kumar, vice president of strategy at BDNA – the company behind Technopedia.com, the world’s largest IT reference catalog – shares the benefits IT professionals receive when they adopt a common language of IT to tackle the variability issue that exists within their IT departments.