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 over forty enterprise technologies. 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 Research and Advisory Services and a team of seasoned analysts to help your organization get technically in-depth, straightforward, and practical research and advice.
Burton Group IT1 is a comprehensive research and advisory solution that provides executives and technologists with complete access to all of Burton Group in-depth and vendor-neutral research of extensive enterprise technologies. Delivered through an enterprise-wide subscription, IT1 gives users unlimited access to Burton Group analysts and to powerful, intuitive research and decision support tools unmatched in the industry.
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing helps you understand the business risks and rewards and provides practical advice for the underlying architectures, technologies and platforms of cloud computing.
Executive Advisory Program
Our Executive Advisory Program (EAP) gives the executive the information and tools to help effectively manage and lead the enterprise IT organization. We provide strategic advice supported by pragmatic, actionable research for technologists to connect business strategy with execution.
Research Assistant Program
To ensure you receive maximum value from your Burton Group IT1 subscription, we provide streamlined access to analysts and consultants through our Research Assistant program. Our Research Assistant program identifies and delivers the research you need based on your priorities, current initiatives and hot topics.
Burton Group IT1 simplifies our clients’ ability to access vital knowledge and skills across multiple coverage areas. If you are only interested in specific coverage areas, Burton Group offers:
Application Platform
Software delivery teams are under tremendous pressure to prove value to their businesses. Application Platform addresses core strategies to help these teams improve the software delivery process, increase quality and reliability, reduce costs, and accelerate time to value.
Collaboration and Content
Focuses on the complex set of decisions facing IT strategists in order to 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
Data Center
New and future data center technologies for server and storage virtualization, compute densities, server and storage management improvements, and data center physical and logical architectures.
Data Management
Planning, building, integrating, and optimizing data management infrastructure, addressing the full data life cycle and both traditional (e.g., on-premises, database management system-based) and emerging (e.g., data management software-as-a-service) architectures.
Identity and Privacy
Identity Infrastructure Planning and building general-purpose infrastructure for managing and applying identity information, and supporting the digital identity lifecycle.
Network and Telecom
Planning and building network infrastructure for managing the convergence of voice, video, and data networks.
Security and Risk Management
Planning and creation of security architecture, infrastructure, and programs for complex global enterprise networks. Technology focused reports on vendor product offerings.
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.