Technovision and CORA - Overview
Written by Theo Elzinga | 
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Introduction
Because the rapidly growing number of technology innovations confuses many organisations Capgemini developed TechnoVision, a strategic framework for mapping the latest technologies, trends and innovations to the needs of a particular business or industry. Techno Vision (TV) pursues two objectives: provisioning of a clear picture of the information technologies that are the most relevant to the organizations' business drivers and how these technologies and their evolution will impact business.
Within TV 17 key information technology trends are identified, which are to believed to be most relevant to organisations. These trends are grouped into 7 TechnoVision clusters:
- The You Experience : new technologies make highly interactive user experiences possible.
- We Collaborate: predefined business transactions become ongoing relationships with clients and partners.
- Process On The Fly: a new wave of service-oriented solutions increases the ability to manage and execute processes.
- Thriving on Data: insight into crucial data and events helps in navigating a rapidly changing, information-rich environment.
- Sector as a Service: core, commoditized business solutions delivered as customized, standard software on demand.
- Invisible Infostructure: services increasingly supplied from the cloud hide the details of technologies and systems.
- LiberArchitecture: the approach that underpins and facilitates all other clusters.
Each of these clusters is rich in detail and draws on examples from multiple sectors. The real value of TV lies in the matrix where the business drivers are mapped to innovations. This process reveals the types of solutions that can best address the organizations' business needs.
Technovision and CORA
TV describes the identified information technology trends in detail. By connecting these trends on the layers and logical elements of the CORA model the impact on the IT landscape can be detailed further, visualized and assessed.
This way the following questions can be answered:
- Which layers and elements are needed to implement information technology trends or clusters?
- What architecture style (or combination of styles) can and should be used?
- Which vendor software components should be used?
The CORA model bridges the gap between the IT strategy (mapping the business drivers to innovations) and implementation of software because the CORA model can be used at different levels (Enterprise level, project implementation level) and has the possibility to design and implement elements with a mixture of ‘architecture styles’ on the best fitted platform available (or planned).
In upcoming blog-posts each information technology trend will be mapped onto the CORA model and assessed.
- CORA Methodology, playing with Lego
- The roadmap for Fusion Applications, CORA is there to help
- Technovisions "Sector-as-a-Service" mapped
- Business Logic and the CORA Model, Part II
- CORA and Cloud Computing: Static versus Dynamic View
- Technovisions "Thriving on Data" mapped
- CORA Foundation
- Business Logic and the CORA Model, Part I
- CORA and IBM
- CORA and Microsoft
- CORA and Cloud Computing: Overview
- Technovisions "Process-on-the-Fly" mapped onto CORA
- Risk aware design: using CORA to investigate an IT solution
- A ROA based iPhone App for SAP: Part II
- A ROA based iPhone App for SAP: Part I
- Technovisions "We Collaborate" mapped onto CORA
- SAP platform decomposition with CORA: SOA/ROA style
- 'Why' Driven Solution crafting
- CORA and TOGAF
- SAP platform decomposition with CORA: N-tier style
- Requirements for CORA
- CORA and Oracle
- Technovisions "You Experience" mapped onto CORA
- CORA and SAP
- CORA in action: design guidelines to implement repositories
- The basis of all, your data
- CORA and IAF
- Technovision and CORA - Overview
- The importance of an Integration layer
