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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

It adopted a microservices architecture to decouple legacy components, allowing for incremental updates without disrupting the entire system. Budget constraints Barrier: IT modernization requires substantial investment, and budget constraints are a common hurdle.

Budget 307
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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. A human-centric approach helps with the change management efforts around using agentic AI while evaluating the benefits and risks. Before gen AI, speed to market drove many application architecture decisions.

CTO Hire 356
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Stop navigating the cloud, and start shaping it

CIO Business Intelligence

Budgeting and forecasting. Setting budgets and forecasting future cloud expenses helps organizations plan their spending and avoid unexpected costs. Regularly reviewing and adjusting budgets based on actual usage ensures better financial control. It focuses on technical aspects such as architecture, security and compliance.

Cloud 223
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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.

Agile 363
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The Hidden Costs of AI Implementation: What No One Tells You

Eric D. Brown

The remaining 70% comprises hidden costs that rarely make it into initial budgets or project proposals. I recently talked to the CEO of a mid-sized manufacturing company that budgeted $500,000 for an AI-driven quality control system. Then, there’s the data architecture overhaul. Yes, you read that right – 30%.

Budget 130
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ERP modernization: Still a make-or-break project for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

We really liked [NetSuite’s] architecture and that it’s in the cloud, and it hit the vast majority of our business requirements,” Shannon notes. There were no roadblocks, and the migration came in 20% under budget. They had capabilities in all the functional areas that were important to us.”

Oracle 329
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The hard truth about lifecycle management

CIO Business Intelligence

Search for a definition of lifecycle management and you’ll find something along the lines of: A strategic approach to managing the life cycle of an application or platform from conception to end of life — from provisioning, through operations, to retirement. Under this definition lifecycle management doesn’t seem to do anything.