Enterprise Impact Simulation - Making It Happen
William Walton - March 26, 2001

EIS-enabled IT

The demand for Enterprise Impact Simulation (EIS) is driven by collaborative commerce, enabled by IT. Businesses engaged in c-commerce run on Internet time. Change-readiness is the watchword. The predictive capabilities of EIS deliver change-readiness. Two specific predictions are particularly relevant to the demands of c-commerce. The first is the accurate prediction of effort and duration for IT projects. The second is the accurate prediction of impact to business functions, organizations, and other IT systems as a result of those projects. These predictive capabilities require accurate, coherent, comprehensive knowledge of the components used in the simulation; IT blueprints...