About US
The Burton Group Difference
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.
Research and Consulting Services
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.
Burton Group Background
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.