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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, one of the largest energy companies in the world has embraced TOGAF — to a point. The company’s enterprise architecture team has replaced some of the framework’s governance features with those more appropriate to its practices and increased the framework’s flexibility to fit the company’s task execution model.

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Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing

CIO Business Intelligence

It can help companies be more responsive, lower the cost of transmitting and storing data, and improve compliance with regulations related to data sovereignty. With this model, a partner owns and maintains the equipment, but the company operates it. Companies pay a monthly fee. Edge as a service. Cloud services for edge.

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Can you have too many security tools?

CIO Business Intelligence

Having multiple subscriptions to the same tool spread throughout an organization also removes the benefit of negotiated packaged deals that can save companies money. Security issues: Tools often communicate and work together, sharing data, credentials, and secrets. the world’s leading tech media, data, and marketing services company.

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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

CIO Business Intelligence

They must also deliver the speed and low-latency great customer experiences require in an era marked by dramatic innovations in edge computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things, unified communications, and other singular computing trends now synonymous with business success.

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Sustainability: Real progress but also thorny challenges ahead

CIO Business Intelligence

There is no denying that environmental sustainability is top of mind for many companies today. So far, however, companies seem to be staying the course. IDC’s July 2024 CIO Sentiment Survey found that despite these uncertainties, 75% of organizations plan to either keep investing or accelerate their sustainability efforts.

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The transformation of shared services

CIO Business Intelligence

In the Asia/Pacific region, for example, companies are facing challenges in shared services implementation ranging from inaccuracies in outcomes to prolonged request completion times (IDC Survey: Shared Services Automation for Business Optimization, March 2024). the world’s leading tech media, data, and marketing services company.

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Competition is stiff, but retailers know what it takes to compete

CIO Business Intelligence

the world’s leading tech media, data, and marketing services company. Schwartz is an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), focusing on IT business, digital business, disaster recovery, and data management. IDC is a wholly owned subsidiary of International Data Group (IDG Inc.),

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