IT Toolbox

AUGUST 9, 2022

Organisations are now operating entire businesses in the cloud and benefiting from faster, more efficient, reliable, secure and scalable computing, but many with legacy architecture and code are finding themselves competing with businesses that have been ‘born in the cloud’ and lacking the agility of their competitors.

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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.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

MARCH 18, 2013

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Five Key Agile Practices to Support Architects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But modernization projects are pushing ahead: In the same PWC survey, 81% of CIOs said they prioritized cloud-based architecture as a positive and tangible step forward to improve readiness to handle future challenges. 2025 is set to become a year where reinvention and agility will bring significant material advantage.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2024

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

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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. For the last 15 years or so, its been the de-facto standard for how modern software development works, says Monteiro.

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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. When reviewing implementation options, teams will question which standards apply and are key factors in making technical decisions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Modern security architectures deliver multiple layers of protection. A zero trust architecture supported by multi-factor authentication (MFA), separation of duties and least privilege access for both machines and roles will help prevent unauthorized users and machines from accessing the environment.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Just exactly how does one go about transforming an IT architecture? The first of these questions is whether or not the new architecture is going to be flexible enough. Once you’ve made the switch, are you going to find yourself ending up with a rigid architecture? How To Do A Transformation Correctly.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

The first is to foster a culture of agility, collaboration, and AI-driven innovation, driven in part by our new Office of AI. Were adopting best-in-class SaaS solutions, a next-generation data architecture, and AI-powered applications that improve decision-making, optimize operations, and unlock new revenue stream opportunities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2025

The idea was coined by legendary programmer Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, and he laid it out succinctly at the OOPSLA conference in 1992 : Shipping first-time code is like going into debt. Thats part of the Agile philosophy of continuous improvement.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 19, 2024

One problem leads to many solutions, which can drive architects, DevOps, and data science teams to debate and dispute platforms and architectures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

Agile project management definition Agile project management is a methodology used primarily in software development that favors flexibility and collaboration, incorporating customer feedback throughout the project life cycle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Let us take a look at some companies that have risen to the occasion and leveraged this crisis situation to rethink organizational architecture and embark upon network orchestration. . But it has geared up to adopt digital acceleration at high speed for agility. . Powering through the world’s energy needs .

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

The program begins April 12 and will cover aspects of cloud innovation and agility, with Jessica Groopman, founding partner at Kaleido Insights , kicking off the day with a look at three macrotrends reshaping cloud and software innovation. She will also field questions in a live discussion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

2] Foundational considerations include compute power, memory architecture as well as data processing, storage, and security. Modern compute infrastructures are designed to enhance business agility and time to market by supporting workloads for databases and analytics, AI and machine learning (ML), high performance computing (HPC) and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2022

Developed by The Open Group in 1995, TOGAF is one of the most widely used enterprise architecture frameworks today. TOGAF advises enterprises on how to implement an architecture that best supports stakeholders and the organization. It’s the biggest change to the framework since 2011, when the company released TOGAF 9.1.

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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. A cloud-native architecture, which is designed for openness, makes that possible.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 14, 2019

In my last post, I suggest teams should target nimble architectures and leverage agile principles that enable iterating on the design. If you're concerned about the technical debt accumulated by your organization, then consider developing ways to capture and measure it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2025

Because of the adoption of containers, microservices architectures, and CI/CD pipelines, these environments are increasingly complex and noisy. On top of that, IT teams have adopted DevOps, agile and SRE practices that drive much greater frequency of change into IT systems and landscapes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Go all-in with modern work processes — particularly agile Another way to ensure IT can more quickly deliver transformative features, functions, and services is to go all-in with modern approaches to work; more specifically, CIOs say that means fully embracing the agile development methodology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Now, leading organizations are going further, embracing a cyberresilience paradigm designed to bring agility to incident response while ensuring sustainable business operations, whatever the event or impact. Organizations can’t just think about backup but [also about] how to do recovery as well. Remember that preparation is everything.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax Innovation is driven by the ease and agility of working with data. Increasing ROI for the business requires a strategic understanding of — and the ability to clearly identify — where and how organizations win with data. Data and cloud strategy must align.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Some are rebalancing how they resource, replacing longstanding outsourcing arrangements with a concerted effort to build out internal competencies in areas such as agile development or DevSecOps or for technologies that have become integral to core business functions, notes Jim Alkone, CEO of Oleria, which markets security software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

An Agile and product management mindset is also necessary to foster an experimentation approach, and to move away from the desire to control data. This is why Agile and product mindset matter. Business engagement, enterprise data, delivery centers, and enterprise architecture. Thats a critical piece.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2023

It’s an application architecture. Walk the CEO — and then the whole ELT — through the list and choose no more than three for deeper investigations into how to integrate them into your company’s products and services. The result: Nobody knows how to plan the big stuff, leading to arguments instead of consensus about priorities.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 11, 2010

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 How To Get a Team to Think Agile. Thinking Agile.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

But 86% of technology managers also said that it’s challenging to find skilled professionals in software and applications development, technology process automation, and cloud architecture and operations. Companies will have to be more competitive than ever to land the right talent in these high-demand areas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2023

Instead, enterprises must be agile when it comes to change so they can best serve customers and compete. Modern data platforms can handle many workloads of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform but with different architectures that make them much more flexible, open, and easier to use.

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Traditional BSS will not deliver the flexibility, agility or experience that telcos need to evolve. What could a new model for BSS look like and how can we get there? How to approach CRM, charging and billing transformation. The role of the Open Digital Architecture and Open APIs in migrating to a more open, configurable BSS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

For instance, if you oversee security teams, you may want to consider the security-focused certifications, whereas if you manage an agile team, then project management and agile-focused certifications may be a better fit. This certification demonstrates your ability to work on or lead an agile team.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2025

Henderson is in the throes of an 18- to 20-month project to consolidate three database architectures for operational efficiencies. IT is also creating a new platform architecture to enable the firm to move off legacy technology and build cloud-based capabilities. The question became how to make the shift, Mehta says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2023

1] As the cloud continues to play a key role in building resilience and enabling agility, the role of the network is more critical than ever before. Unsurprisingly, more than half of enterprise IT spending in key market segments will shift to the cloud by 2025, according to Gartner. [1] without a modern network to support it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In this post, well examine the key drivers behind OPEX pressures in telecom and how to navigate them with greater confidence. An effective roadmap involves not only evaluating current system architecture, skills availability and cost of ownership, but also considering future business needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Instead, it’s about transforming how IT itself works, scales, and evolves so that it can keep pace with the continuous transformation that the technology organization is expected to deliver to the broader enterprise.

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