IT failures are a leading threat to businesses worldwide, and British companies have been found particularly ill-prepared at handling them.����һ��ʧ�ܵ��쵼����в��ȫ����ҵ����Ӣ��Ĺ�˾�ѷ��֣��ر���׼�����㣬�ڴ������ǡ� According to a survey from Mercury Interactive Corporation, a third of UK companies are handling IT risks in an uncoordinated fashion.��һ�������ʾ���ӹ��Ļ�����˾�����֮һ��Ӣ��˾���ڴ�����ķ�����һ��Э����ʱװ��

In comparison in the Asia Pacific region, 83 percent of companies said IT risks were being well managed while 71 percent of companies in the US said the same.�ڱȽϣ�����̫���� 83 ���Ĺ�˾��ʾ����ķ��ձ����ƹ��?��71 ���Ĺ�˾�������˵����ͬ�ġ�

Security initiatives adopted by a company, which caused companies embarrassing losses if they failed to protect data, topped the IT risk list with 36 percent.��ȫ���飬ͨ������һ�乫˾����ɹ�˾��ʧ�����Σ��������û�ܵõ���������ݣ�������ķ����嵥��36 �� ��

"The risks coming from IT affect the overall business results, loss of revenue and customers��. An IT failure at an airline company for example, can cause the airline reservations to go down. The same for a company like eBay," said Mark Sarbiewski, senior director for product marketing at Mercury. ������������Ӱ�����徭Ӫҵ��������ʧ������Ϳͻ��� �� ��һ�����ʧ����ij���չ�˾�Ĺ�˾������˵�����ܻᵼ�º��չ�˾������ȥ��ͬʱ��Ϊһ�乫˾һ����Ȥ��˵�� ����������˹��߼����ܲ�ƷӪ��Ĺ���

Other key findings from the report were:������Ҫ������ӱ�����У�

  • The business outcomes most dependent on IT were: the ability to reduce cost of operations (80 percent), ensuring regulatory compliance (66 percent) and the ability to merge (58 percent).ҵ��ɹ��������������У��������Լ��پ�Ӫ�ɱ��� �� 80 �� �� ����ȷ��������ӣ� 66 �� �����������Ժϲ��� 58 �� �� ��
  • 55 percent believed that less than half of their IT initiatives in the past two years had not delivered the expected business outcome. 55 ����Ϊ������һ��ij��飬���ڹ�ȥ���꣬��û�н���Ԥ�ڵ�ҵ��ɹ�

Sarbiewski said something intriguing - "most companies these days were taking a handful of monolithic applications like Siebel and SAP and replacing them with hundreds of smaller applications."�����˹��˵��һЩ����Ѱζ��-���󲿷ֵĹ�˾�⼸�����ڲ�ȡ����ƬӦ�ã���S iebel��S AP��ȡ����������ٸ���ģ��С��Ӧ�á� �� This was bringing in a fundamental change in IT but the kind of reliability they offered was questionable, he added.����ʵ����һ�����Եı仯�������ֵĿɿ��ԣ��������ṩ���������ʵģ����˵�� What he fails to recognize is that it protects industries from single-point-of-failure issues and leads to progressive degradation of service in event of catastrophy.��ʲô������ϵ��ǣ������ҵ���ӵ����ʧЧ���⣬���������˻��ķ���һ��catastrophy ��

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