Because of the enterprise’ growth with larger and larger business scale, plus merger, there are more and more subsidiaries. Statistics show that more than 50% of the staff members are working outside of the headquarters of the company. The company and its partners are getting eager and eager to work in remote collaboration and mobile commerce.

The traditional enterprise IT architectures lack a unified basis, leading to a complex IT environment, which is out of control; in addition, enterprise computing platforms are getting more scattered, as a result, those engaged in enterprise information management are weighed down with chores, and weak management cause a spate of problems such as dissatisfactory security and low stability, complex management, inconvenient maintenance and difficult upgrade; the general cost for an enterprise to get IT going is increasing year after year.

To adapt itself to the increasingly complex commercial environment and respond to transform in the future, an enterprise must foster its collaborative, real-time and nimble commercial capability before it can build up its sustainable competitive power.

With the Internet popularized, the “access capability” is becoming a key capability of the enterprise. Only “connection” will allow the maximum value of the information system of the enterprise. The enterprise must build up a capability of safely and quickly accessing to the key applications and information resources of the enterprise at any time and in any place, that is, any resource required can be accessed safely and quickly by anyone in any place using any device and in any method.

An American IDC market study shows that the global access architecture market is increasing by an average annual compound growth rate of 11.7%, and the market capacity by 2007 will have exceeded USD21.6 billion. The requirement by domestic users of China for enterprise access is increasing quickly.

 

 

Server-based Computing has become the mainstream technology of the current access architecture.