CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

Agile 363

Agile Enterprise Enterprise Architecture 363

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Two things play an essential role in a firm’s ability to adapt successfully: its data and its applications. What companies need to do in order to cope with future challenges is adapt quickly: slim down and become more agile, be more innovative, become more cost-effective, yet be secure in IT terms.

Industry 305

Industry IBM Applications Banking 305

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

At a time when technology innovation cycles are getting shorter, we will struggle to keep pace if we have to navigate around legacy systems that act as barriers to speed and agility. Over time the speed and agility barriers associated with the ERP spread to other systems as they, in turn, formed an expanding wave of technical debt.

Agile 277

Agile Operating Systems Hardware System 277

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The latter option had emerged as a compelling solution, offering the promise of enhanced agility, reduced operational costs, and seamless scalability. Financial services unique challenges However, it is important to understand that serverless architecture is not a silver bullet. Architecture complexity. Vendor lock-in.

Architecture 259

Architecture Financial Enterprise Enterprise 259

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

To keep up, IT must be able to rapidly design and deliver application architectures that not only meet the business needs of the company but also meet data recovery and compliance mandates. It’s a tall order, because as technologies, business needs, and applications change, so must the environments where they are deployed.

Disaster Recovery 277

Disaster Recovery Open Source Applications Virtualization 277

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

CIOs must take an active role in educating their C-suite counterparts about the strategic applications of technologies like, for example, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain, and cloud computing. Such a dynamic culture ensures that the organization remains flexible and adaptable in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Strategy 305

Strategy Agile Financial Artificial Intelligence 305

Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In the Forrester/InfoWorld Enterprise Architecture Awards competition, we look for the most dramatic stories of EA’s strategic leadership and concrete business impact.

Agile 370

Agile Architecture Enterprise Enterprise 370

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. Technology modernization strategy : Evaluate the overall IT landscape through the lens of enterprise architecture and assess IT applications through a 7R framework.

Cloud 245

Cloud Strategy Architecture Enterprise 245

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Although organizations have embraced microservices-based applications, IT leaders continue to grapple with the need to unify and gain efficiencies in their infrastructure and operations across both traditional and modern application architectures. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is one such solution.

Vmware 173

Vmware Virtualization Architecture Applications 173

Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

Pursue cryptographic agility Once companies have figured out which assets and communications they need to protect first, how do they actually go about switching to quantum-safe cryptography? Instead, Horvath and other experts recommend that enterprises pursue quantum agility. It seems easy to do but its actually catastrophic.

Research 466

Research Enterprise Agile Enterprise 466

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Pre-COVID, agility became an aspiration and rallying cry for organizations seeking to embrace emerging technologies and pursue technology-enabled innovation, often to stave off digital disruption in their industries. This goes beyond implementing agile methodology. Balance control with agility. Think a step ahead.

Agile 364

Agile CTO Hire Architecture Applications 364

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 28, 2022

Here, agility is essential, and smart IT leaders are doubling down on efforts to streamline IT, whether that involves reprioritizing projects and realigning the IT portfolio, rationalizing applications and pursuing cloud-native approaches, increasing automation through DevOps or AIOps adoption, or overhauling the structure of IT operations.

Agile 344

Agile Architecture Development Resources 344

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. Another main priority with EA is agility and ensuring that your EA strategy has a strong focus on agility and agile adoption.

Architecture 321

Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Agile 321

Forrester IT

AUGUST 1, 2024

Modern Application Development Services Defined Clients want more autonomy to better control their own innovation and development capabilities to build modern and up-to-date custom applications.

Applications 460

Applications Development Survey Change Management 460

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 27, 2025

When organizations migrate applications to the cloud, they expect to see significant benefits: increased scalability, stronger security and accelerated adoption of new technologies. Certainly, no CIO would try to migrate a mainframe or a traditional monolithic application directly to the cloud. Whats the solution? Modernization.

Cloud 255

Cloud Applications Agile Resources 255

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The evolution of agile development The agile manifesto was released in 2001 and, since then, the development philosophy has steadily gained over the previous waterfall style of software development. Agents can be more loosely coupled than services, making these architectures more flexible, resilient and smart.

CTO Hire 354

CTO Hire Software Development Software Software 354

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

In 2008, SAP developed the SAP HANA architecture in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University with the goal of analyzing large amounts of data in real-time. The entire architecture of S/4HANA is tightly integrated and coordinated from a software perspective. In 2010, SAP introduced the HANA database.

System 269

System SAP Licensing Architecture 269

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Two things play an essential role in a firms ability to adapt successfully: its data and its applications. What companies need to do in order to cope with future challenges is adapt quickly: slim down and become more agile, be more innovative, become more cost-effective, yet be secure in IT terms.

Industry 245

Industry IBM Applications Banking 245

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

More organizations than ever have adopted some sort of enterprise architecture framework, which provides important rules and structure that connect technology and the business. The results of this company’s enterprise architecture journey are detailed in IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (September 2024).

Architecture 289

Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Disaster Recovery 289

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Our research shows 52% of organizations are increasing AI investments through 2025 even though, along with enterprise applications, AI is the primary contributor to tech debt. What part of the enterprise architecture do you need to support this, and what part of your IT is creating tech debt and limiting your action on these ambitions?

How To 342

How To Budget Architecture Strategy 342

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

For decades, businesses have relied on MPLS and SD-WAN to connect branch offices and remote workers to critical applications. Paying a premium to backhaul traffic to a central data center made sense when that was where all applications lived. That worked when everything lived in the corporate data center. Ready to rethink your network?

Network 252

Network WAN Architecture Security 252

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

The challenge is reminiscent of the 1990s when CIOs reigned in application silos by moving to ERP systems, and in the 2010s when CIOs had to contain mobile devices through BYOD policies. It has to be Five 9s capable and agile for a still defining AI world. Todays challenge is perhaps far greater.

Government 264

Government Policies Open Source Agile 264

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2022

Here, agility is essential, and smart IT leaders are doubling down on efforts to streamline IT, whether that involves reprioritizing projects and realigning the IT portfolio, rationalizing applications and pursuing cloud-native approaches, increasing automation through DevOps or AIOps adoption, or overhauling the structure of IT operations.

Agile 290

Agile Architecture Development Resources 290

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

Technology investments, such as in generative AI, are a priority in addressing the need to meet rising expectations while also driving operational agility and resilience. He advises beginning the new year by revisiting the organizations entire architecture and standards. Are they still fit for purpose?

Strategy 351

Strategy Agile Disaster Recovery Enterprise 351

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

As enterprises scale their digital transformation journeys, they face the dual challenge of managing vast, complex datasets while maintaining agility and security. These capabilities rely on distributed architectures designed to handle diverse data streams efficiently.

Government 282

Government Trends Security Data 282

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2022

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is an enterprise architecture methodology that offers a high-level framework for enterprise software development. TOGAF 10 brings a stronger focus to organizations using the agile methodology, making it easier to apply the framework to an organization’s specific needs.

Architecture 277

Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Agile 277

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

The imperative for APMR According to IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 1 (January 2024), 23% of organizations are shifting budgets toward GenAI projects, potentially overlooking the crucial role of application portfolio modernization and rationalization (APMR). Employ AI and ML to assist in processes.

Applications 275

Applications Agile Strategy Research 275

Forrester IT

AUGUST 7, 2020

A few days ago, I discussed application architecture in banking with a banking software vendor. Starting from there, we had a look at that vendor’s core banking solutions and further back-end systems such as trade finance. The vendor quickly suggested that its solutions align with Forrester’s concept of a lean core.

Banking 482

Banking Architecture Applications Software 482

Forrester IT

MAY 7, 2024

AppGen platforms will integrate the steps of software analysis, development, security, testing, and delivery by providing TuringBots for both low-code and high-code development spanning every step — all while incorporating the principles of agile and DevOps along the way.

Applications 293

Applications Devops Agile Analysis 293

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With this in mind, we embarked on a digital transformation that enables us to better meet customer needs now and in the future by adopting a lightweight, microservices architecture. We found that being architecturally led elevates the customer and their needs so we can design the right solution for the right problem.

Architecture 264

Architecture Engineering Enterprise Enterprise 264

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. What could be worse than to plan for an event that requires the scaling of an application’s infrastructure only to have it all fall flat on its face when the time comes?”.

Applications 347

Applications Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 347

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These outdated systems are not only costly to maintain but also hinder the integration of new technologies, agility, and business value delivery. For instance, Capital One successfully transitioned from mainframe systems to a cloud-first strategy by gradually migrating critical applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Budget 306

Budget Cloud Research Strategy 306

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

All industries and modern applications are undergoing rapid transformation powered by advances in accelerated computing, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. That’s why we’re introducing a new disaggregated architecture that will enable our customers to continue pushing the boundaries of performance and scale.

Engineering 290

Engineering Data Storage Training 290

Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 19, 2024

Gather a DevOps or data science team to define the architecture for a new application, data lakehouse, or AI service, and you’re likely to run into debates on technical approaches and disputes on platforms. The solution architect’s

Architecture 169

Architecture Agile Devops How To 169

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2023

We spoke with Siddhartha Gupta, Global Head of Application Modernization on Azure at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , about this trend and what financial services organizations need to do to improve their capacity for agility and innovation. To succeed, they must first build a culture of development within the organization.

Cloud 340

Cloud Microsoft Financial Banking 340

Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Routed Optical Networking offers an architecture that unifies the wave division multiplexing (WDM), optical transport network (OTN), and packet transport layers into a single layer that’s easier to control – just as Ethernet VPN and segment routing simplify the service and traffic engineering network layers, according to Cisco.

Network 418

Network Software Software Data Center 418

Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Agile content management systems (CMSes) build on the momentum of nearly 30 years of delivering modern, digital, internet-powered experiences. With a nod to both developers and practitioners, agile CMS seeks to enable collaborative, iterative approaches to content and experiences that satisfy both sides of the house.

Agile 273

Agile Internet Development System 273