ITIL, SOA, BI, MDM, CMDB, BPM - Hot Acronyms Compared

Posted by Naveen Bala at 12:25AM Feb 05, 2008

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Jason Hiner posted Seven Hot Acronyms that you need to know, to keep up with the trends in IT Management.

I decided to compare ITIL, SOA, MDM, BI, CMDB, BPM, the hot acronyms in IT management according to Jason, to see what was popular in the job market and the median salaries for these skills. (I have not used TCO - total cost of ownership in the comparison)

For those who are clueless as to what these are,

ITIL stands for IT Infrastructure library, a set of concepts and techniques to manage IT.. (wiki)

SOA - Service Oriented Architecture, a way to modularize so that components become plug and play 

MDM - Master Data Management, processes to aggregate unique information about  customers, products, vendors, employees etc.

BI - Business Intelligence, collection and analysis of business information to support better decision making

CMDB - Configuration Management Database,  a repository of information about the entire IT infrastructure

BPM - Business Process Management, manage business processes through technology to make it more efficient

Wow! Don't we love our acronyms/abbreviations.

Now continuing to find out what is in most demand and what pays the most. For the attention deficits, I will publish the result first and then the analysis.

The most popular acronym is BI - Business Intelligence which averages about 7500 jobs a month. 

The Acronym that pays the most is CMDB - Configuration Management Database with a median salary of $91.08K.

 

 

 ITIL, SOA, MDM - Job Demand (July' 06 - June' 07)
 ITIL SOA MDM Job Demand

 

 ITIL, SOA, MDM - Median Salary Comparison

 MDM SOA ITIL Salary Comparison

 

 BPM CMDB BI - Job Demand (July'06 - June'07)
 BPM CMDB BI Job Dmeand

 BPM, CMDB, BI - Median Salary Comparison

 BPM CMDB BI Median Salary

 
 The Acronyms Ordered by Job Market Demand
  Avg. Jobs/Month
Median Salary
 BI 7500 $78.59K
 SOA 4000 $87.80K
 BPM 3000 $84.34K
 ITIL 2800 $80.98K
 MDM 500 $82.34K
 CMDB 200 $91.08K

 

My advice to current and future IT managers: Learn or at the very least familiarize yourself with SOA. SOA not only shows strong demand in the job market but also pays pretty well.

 

 

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