Details for The Demand for Enterprise Agility is Forcing ISVs to Step Up

Research firms and industry analysts have written extensively about the importance of enterprise agility.  Agile solutions and enterprises can adapt to change, market trends and evolving standards and regulatory requirements at a greatly reduced expense and time to market.  In the case of independent software vendors (ISVs), agility is absolutely critical.

After all, ISVs must address the issue of agility internally as well as on behalf of their clients.  ISVs seek agile strategies and solutions that can quickly adapt to changing market and customer requirements. Achieving this kind of agility, however, is not so easy when products are mature and rooted in older, traditional development methodologies (which is the case for many ISVs today.)  Where does one start? Who or what must start it? What exactly does agility accomplish in the end?  These are just a few of the many questions that organizations face as they consider this quest for agility, as well as what enterprise agility means to ISVs today, what experts have to say about agility, plus the human and technology resources required to achieve it.  In addition, special attention to BPM technology and its role in enterprise agility.