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IBM: 78% of mainframe shops are piloting, operating AI apps

Network World

Hybrid by design The mainframe’s ability to be integrated with and modernized by cloud computing architectures is an integral part of its future role. Most enterprises have built tech estates on hybrid cloud architecture, the researchers stated. “In

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Rethinking enterprise architects’ roles for agile transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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How to talk to your board about tech debt

CIO Business Intelligence

When your CEO or CFO asks about the budget needed for technical debt remediation , do you find yourself struggling to justify the investment? Suboptimal integration strategies are partly to blame, and on top of this, companies often don’t have security architecture that can handle both people and AI agents working on IT systems.

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Is SaaS dead? Not quite, but it’s evolving rapidly

CIO Business Intelligence

Composable architecture offers a middle ground between rigid, one-size-fits-all SaaS platforms and fully custom-built solutions. CIOs will need to work closely with finance teams to model different pricing scenarios and choose the options that best align with their organizations needs and budget constraints.

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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

These outdated systems are not only costly to maintain but also hinder the integration of new technologies, agility, and business value delivery. It adopted a microservices architecture to decouple legacy components, allowing for incremental updates without disrupting the entire system.

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12 tips for achieving IT agility in the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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6 deadly sins of enterprise architecture

CIO Business Intelligence

For all its advances, enterprise architecture remains a new world filled with tasks and responsibilities no one has completely figured out. The list of headaches and regulations can be long and the joy that comes from a smaller budget can be fleeting. No one knows anything. Finding the right balance may be impossible.