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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

Infrastructure architecture: Building the foundational layers of hardware, networking and cloud resources that support the entire technology ecosystem. Aggregated TCO: Evaluating the total cost across hardware, software, services and operational expenditures is key. They must ensure any gaps are identified and addressed accordingly.

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No One Should Be Surprised About The Facebook, Inc. Lawsuit In The U.S.

Forrester IT

inclusive of Facebook app, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and its other apps, services, and hardware) is a social media monopoly. Today the US government and 40+ states filed a lawsuit claiming that Facebook, Inc. This US lawsuit was more a question of “when” and joins a roster of European lawsuits already in existence.

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The three-pronged transformation strategy driving innovation at PPG

CIO Business Intelligence

We have nine business units, some B2C and some B2B, but regardless of the business unit or customer, we use the same set of digital technologies across the enterprise. To consolidate and modernize our technology, we focus on three transformations: customer facing, back office, and architecture.

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How do CSPs sell more to SMEs?

TM Forum

In developed markets, B2C revenue growth has become anemic at best, as revenue from traditional services continues to decline. build new value in the B2C market. MagentaBusiness HomeOffice is a subscription service for small businesses that provides connectivity, collaboration tools, security packages, consulting, support and hardware.

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Unified commerce elevates customer experience for Hippo Stores

CIO Business Intelligence

Ranjit Satyanath, CTO, Hippo Stores istock The one-stop-shop for construction materials, including steel, cement, bricks, hardware, paint, tiles, electricals, and sanitaryware, caters to both professional construction companies and individual consumers. Hippo Stores opened its first outlet in New Delhi in 2021.

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Jio showcases enablement of secure IoT over Blockchain platform

TM Forum

For example, enabling the rapid creation of B2B2X and B2C business and operational models between multiple partners. As shown in the diagram above, customers’ options include billing as a service – for instance, to support B2C models at low cost. This saves hardware re-spinning costs and reduces time to market.

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Making self-service Network slice-as-a-Service a commercial reality

TM Forum

The team proves that network disaggregation, virtualization, and programmability with an open ecosystem of hardware and software vendors can be deployed in a gigabit passive optical network (GPON), where traditional points of presence can be fully re-architected as a cloud central office. 5G slicing as a service business scenario diagram.

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