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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO Business Intelligence

The agile methodology, which facilitates collaboration between stakeholders, teams, and customers during software development, is fast gaining prominence in today’s enterprises. The Scrum master leads this process, providing guidance to the team and product owner and ensuring agile practices are followed by team members.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

The SAP Business Technology Platform offers in-memory processing, agile services for data integration and application extension, as well as embedded analytics and intelligent technologies. Functions contained in the so-called Digital Core, SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management, are licensed per user.

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IT resiliency: Running two different hypervisors

CIO Business Intelligence

Some delayed decisions by relying on existing VMware licenses, while others explored alternatives or ran redundancies to compare options. Reveal the best of both worlds Carter noted that many VMware customers have invested in its solutions for decades but now seek modernization for greater agility, scalability, and cloud-native environments.

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VMware licensing and pricing hikes: What options do you have?

CIO Business Intelligence

A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. Facing backlash from existing customers, Broadcom has attempted to explain the new product and licensing model with a hope that current customers can manage the transition. An increase of 300%.

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Breaking down silos: A holistic approach to running Virtual Machines and Containers on the same platform at scale.

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders must address these unsolved issues and complexities to drive agility and efficiency across their entire application portfolio. Managing both architectures with different operating models reduces agility, delays time to market, hampers innovation, and significantly increases costs. Much of what VCF offers is well established.

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The vision behind restructuring OKQ8’s IT department

CIO Business Intelligence

Another important move is about the overarching ways of working, where OKQ8 has already switched to working Agile, but Artvin is hesitant. My experience is its very difficult to make Agile work in traditional companies, he says. So Im in the process of re-establishing a hybrid model where we mix classic with Agile.

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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization

CIO Business Intelligence

In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth. Further, most software license agreements include annual processes to reset maintenance costs when consumption patterns change.

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