In today's complex ICT infrastructure it is a challenge to assure the performance and availability of our business critical applications. Having the ability to act upon unforeseen circumstances is crucial to an IT departments credibility. But while continuously monitoring systems and application health is a great starting point, it does not end there. The next step in the process is learning to deal with continues changing event storm in an efficient manner.

Mobile devices are taking over, end-users love to have information at their fingertips and IT is requested to enable this. Its clear to us all that everybody will benefit from the collaboration increase, but enterprise IT needs to take away the mobile infrastructure blind-spot. There is a need to control access, enforce policy, ensure security, remain in control and enable the integration in existing enterprise back-ends.

Preserving productivity can be a challenge when a large spectrum of application is to be maintained. Application currency is crucial for reducing availability and security risks. The required effort can be overwhelming. Currency management is to be performed but preferable with the least amount of effort. Comprehensive insight on the task at hand is required. And this all while assuring regulatory compliance.

Managing Business Critical Data while keeping up to date with ever evolving end-user toolset requirements is to say challenging at least. SQL & SharePoint are in continous evolution. Our challange, retaining historical user generated data. Historical data that is evolving together with the tools. Data being used to evolve the business to new levels. It is critical that the data for business drivers is to be preserved together with the evolving data management frameworks.