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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

CIO Business Intelligence

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).

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Five Key Agile Practices to Support Architects

Social, Agile and Transformation

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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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

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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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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The ‘Great IT Rebrand’: Restructuring IT for business success

CIO Business Intelligence

Traditionally viewed as rock-solid and steady, the insurance industry is not exactly associated with taking big risks. Gray Nester, CIO, Brown & Brown Insurance Gray Nester / Brown & Brown Some, like BBNI’s Technology Solutions Group, are being renamed and restructured to orchestrate greater immersion in the business.

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South Africa’s King Price Insurance moves to cloud as business grows

CIO Business Intelligence

Insurance companies are no longer only there for their customers in times of disaster. Modern approaches to insurance and changes in customer expectations mean that the insurance business model looks very different than it used to. For many insurers, this means investing in cloud. If yes, how did you approach that?

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