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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. As organizations increasingly migrate to the cloud, however, CIOs face the daunting challenge of navigating a complex and rapidly evolving cloud ecosystem.

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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud. According to the report, the implementation has fundamentally impacted the Councils financial management and its operations, forcing the council into a costly re-implementation phase that has more than doubled the projects original budget.

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

But the majority of companies in Germany, in particular, rely on the cloud in its various facets, and have now achieved a certain level of maturity when it comes to migrating workloads. The pressure to modernize IT and business processes has now clearly led to most cloud transformation projects being planned and implemented.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

Mitre had to create its own system, Clancy added, because most of the existing tools use vendor-managed cloud infrastructure for the AI inference part. Mitre has also tested dozens of commercial AI models in a secure Mitre-managed cloud environment with AWS Bedrock. We cant do that for security reasons, he says.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

Strategy 363
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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Clouds Transformation: The Softer Side. Implication: change management, goal changes, departmental funding changes. Implication: need for change management and new organizational design. Cloud Computing. (55).

Cloud 187
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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO Business Intelligence

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below. And that is the rub.