Our research and advisory services enable clients to make smarter IT architecture and infrastructure decisions that yield actionable results. With Burton Group, you will be able to leverage existing and emerging technologies more effectively and reduce risk in the most complex IT environments.

 

We focus on infrastructure technologies, strategy adoption, and governance practices relating to application platforms and service orientation, collaboration and content, data center, identity and privacy, network and telecom, and security and risk management. As a trusted authority for hundreds of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 end-user organizations, we bring in-the-field experience and deep subject matter expertise to each client engagement.

 

Our consultants use the Burton Group Reference Architecture to carefully and comprehensively guide clients through their implementation options. This consensus-building tool forms a sound basis for technical direction, sidesteps the pitfalls of ill-conceived IT projects, and documents the rationale for decisions.

 

Our corporate roots are anchored by an uncompromising allegiance to the enterprise technologist and grow far outside the purview of vendor agendas. This independence stems from our mission to produce honest, meaningful research that is created by technologists for technologists. With an objective view of the IT landscape, our in-depth analysis and advice will help you make strategic decisions today that will ensure successful results tomorrow.

 

 

We offer six Research and Advisory Services and a team of seasoned analysts to help your organization get technically in-depth, straightforward, and practical research and advice.Our Application Platform Strategies (APS) service focuses on the development, deployment, integration, and management of enterprise application architectures. This research and advisory service covers technologies such as Java/Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Microsoft .NET, Web services, enterprise application integration architecture (EAI architecture) and service-oriented architecture (SOA).

 

Collaboration and Content Strategies (CCS) focuses on helping IT strategists ensure that collaboration and content solutions gain broad user adoption, are extensible by developers, and leverage common infrastructure services, while enabling applications that satisfy business needs. CCS uses a pragmatic approach that balances vendor and product maturity against emerging technologies that present both opportunity and risk.

 

With Data Center Strategies (DCS) organizations gain access to the industry’s leading thought leadership and technical insight on server hardware, software, storage, virtualization, management and orchestration with advice and direction on best architecture and management techniques to ensure flexibility and efficiency into the future.

 

Supporting the identity lifecycle, Identity and Privacy Strategies (IdPS) focuses on building general-purpose infrastructure for managing and applying identity information, IdPS covers topics such as identity management, access management, directory services, authentication, federated identity, privacy, and personalization.

 

Network and Telecom Strategies(NTS) focuses on enterprise network architecture and the converging technologies for voice, video, and data networks. NTS covers network transport technologies, including virtual private networks (VPNs), wireless, Internet Protocol telephony, storage area networks, and network architecture.

 

Security and Risk Management Strategies (SRMS) focuses on the design of enterprise security architecture, as well as developing, deploying, hardening, and defending IT network infrastructure. This research and advisory service covers technologies such as intrusion prevention, application firewalls, anti-virus, anti-spam, and information protection.

 

Our senior-level consultants provide strategic action plans that put emerging technologies in the context of enterprise organization goals, enabling decision makers to see how their choices impact the overall IT network infrastructure. Burton Group ensures that complex architecture initiatives are built right the first time.

 

 

By providing technical research and advisory resources and expert IT consulting services, Burton Group helps the world's most successful enterprises evaluate technologies, reduce risk, and maximize the return on their IT investments.

 

Every day, multibillion-dollar global organizations rely on us for guidance on multimillion-dollar IT architecture and network infrastructure decisions. We are committed to being an unbiased advocate for the enterprise technologist, a commitment reflected in that 80 percent of our clients are enterprise organizations rather than product vendors or service providers.

 

Since 1990, we have supported global enterprises with our in-depth and independent knowledge, research, analysis, methodologies and best practices. The majority of our clients are Fortune 500 and Global 2000 end-user organizations that span key market sectors, including aerospace, automotive, financial services, education, energy, government, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and retail. These enterprise organizations value our vendor-independent stance and technical architecture focus, which enable technologists to make intelligent IT decisions.