CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Adopting agile methodologies for flexibility and adaptation The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously stated, “Change is the only constant.” In today’s business environment, agile methodologies have become indispensable for maintaining alignment between IT and business strategies.

Strategy 183

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The latter option had emerged as a compelling solution, offering the promise of enhanced agility, reduced operational costs, and seamless scalability. Financial services unique challenges However, it is important to understand that serverless architecture is not a silver bullet. Architecture complexity. Legacy infrastructure.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

At a time when technology innovation cycles are getting shorter, we will struggle to keep pace if we have to navigate around legacy systems that act as barriers to speed and agility. Over time the speed and agility barriers associated with the ERP spread to other systems as they, in turn, formed an expanding wave of technical debt.

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Technology Operating System Agile Hardware 166

CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

What companies need to do in order to cope with future challenges is adapt quickly: slim down and become more agile, be more innovative, become more cost-effective, yet be secure in IT terms. Generally speaking, a healthy application and data architecture is at the heart of successful modernisation.

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Industry AWS Banking Agile 183

CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. Another main priority with EA is agility and ensuring that your EA strategy has a strong focus on agility and agile adoption.

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Architecture Enterprise Agile Artificial Inteligence 193

CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

In todays digital-first economy, enterprise architecture must also evolve from a control function to an enablement platform. This transformation requires a fundamental shift in how we approach technology delivery moving from project-based thinking to product-oriented architecture. The stakes have never been higher.

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Technical Review Enterprise Technology Architecture 179

CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

Technology investments, such as in generative AI, are a priority in addressing the need to meet rising expectations while also driving operational agility and resilience. He advises beginning the new year by revisiting the organizations entire architecture and standards. Are they still fit for purpose?

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

According to research from NTT DATA , 90% of organisations acknowledge that outdated infrastructure severely curtails their capacity to integrate cutting-edge technologies, including GenAI, negatively impacts their business agility, and limits their ability to innovate. [1]

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The evolution of agile development The agile manifesto was released in 2001 and, since then, the development philosophy has steadily gained over the previous waterfall style of software development. Agents can be more loosely coupled than services, making these architectures more flexible, resilient and smart.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

More organizations than ever have adopted some sort of enterprise architecture framework, which provides important rules and structure that connect technology and the business. The results of this company’s enterprise architecture journey are detailed in IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (September 2024).

Architecture 173

Architecture Enterprise Disaster Recovery Technical Review 173

CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

However, as companies expand their operations and adopt multi-cloud architectures, they are faced with an invisible but powerful challenge: Data gravity. Instead of fighting against data gravity, organizations should design architectures that leverage their strengths while mitigating their risks.

Strategy 133

Strategy Cloud Data Technical Review 133

CIO

JANUARY 30, 2025

As enterprises scale their digital transformation journeys, they face the dual challenge of managing vast, complex datasets while maintaining agility and security. These capabilities rely on distributed architectures designed to handle diverse data streams efficiently.

Scalability 169

Scalability Government Trends Artificial Inteligence 169

CIO

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Suboptimal integration strategies are partly to blame, and on top of this, companies often don’t have security architecture that can handle both people and AI agents working on IT systems. Most importantly, position technical debt management not as a cost center, but as an investment in business agility and competitive advantage.

How To 205

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The result was a compromised availability architecture. The role of enterprise architecture and transformational leadership in sustainability Enterprise architecture is a framework to drive the transformation necessary for organizations to remain agile and resilient amid rapid technological and environmental changes.

Sustainability 156

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CIO

JANUARY 31, 2023

With digital operating models altering business processes and the IT landscape, enterprise architecture (EA) — a rigid stalwart of IT — has shown signs of evolving as well. An enterprise architecture tool is often sold as a prerequisite by consulting firms that often earn software commissions. says LeanXI’s Christ.

Architecture 208

Architecture Enterprise Technical Review Fractional CTO 208

CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital landscape, the cloud has emerged as a cornerstone of modern business infrastructure, offering unparalleled scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. Technology modernization strategy : Evaluate the overall IT landscape through the lens of enterprise architecture and assess IT applications through a 7R framework.

Cloud 147

Cloud Strategy Architecture Policies 147

CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

To keep up, IT must be able to rapidly design and deliver application architectures that not only meet the business needs of the company but also meet data recovery and compliance mandates. Few CIOs would have imagined how radically their infrastructures would change over the last 10 years — and the speed of change is only accelerating.

Disaster Recovery 166

Disaster Recovery Open Source Compliance Virtualization 166

Luis Goncalves

APRIL 11, 2025

This requires specific approaches to product development, architecture, and delivery processes. Agility: Adapting to Market Changes The ability to pivot quickly in response to market feedback is critical when scaling startups. Companies maintaining agility during scaling can seize opportunities rigid organizations miss.

Weak Development Team 165

Weak Development Team Technical Review Sustainability Systems Review 165

CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

What companies need to do in order to cope with future challenges is adapt quickly: slim down and become more agile, be more innovative, become more cost-effective, yet be secure in IT terms. Generally speaking, a healthy application and data architecture is at the heart of successful modernisation.

Industry 147

Industry Banking AWS Agile 147

CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

Since these technology solutions can’t scale without a modular, well-architected foundation of platform services, she’s set her sights on moving from a set of customized and packaged software to a more modern architecture. We need our architecture to help deliver on that intent.” My team is very proactive and customer-focused.

Architecture 178

Architecture Construction Real Estate Recruiting 178

CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As a long-time partner with NVIDIA, NetApp has delivered certified NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and NetApp ® AIPod ™ architectures and has seen rapid adoption of AI workflows on first-party cloud offerings at the hyperscalers. Planned innovations: Disaggregated storage architecture.

Artificial Inteligence 174

Artificial Inteligence Engineering Data Storage 174

Agile Alliance

MARCH 22, 2022

These include adopting Agile methods, modern engineering practices, DevOps, API design, microservices, and cloud architectures. The post Learning Over Delivery – How Companies Become Learning Organizations with Dojos first appeared on Agile Alliance.

Organization 266

Organization Company Strategic Planning Microservices 266

CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

Without the right cloud architecture, enterprises can be crushed under a mass of operational disruption that impedes their digital transformation. What’s getting in the way of transformation journeys for enterprises? This isn’t a matter of demonstrating greater organizational resilience or patience.

Architecture 164

Architecture Innovation Enterprise Cloud 164

CIO

APRIL 2, 2025

In 2008, SAP developed the SAP HANA architecture in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University with the goal of analyzing large amounts of data in real-time. The entire architecture of S/4HANA is tightly integrated and coordinated from a software perspective. In 2010, SAP introduced the HANA database.

System 168

System Architecture Cloud Tourism 168

CIO

APRIL 23, 2024

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) certifications are becoming valuable in larger organizations looking for efficient project delivery, reduced time-to-market, and ways to provide better stakeholder value. Scaled Agile: Scaled Agile is a key provider of agile training, courses, and certification, including SAFe.

Agile 148

Agile SCRUM Coaching Technical Advisors 148

CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

When evaluating options, prioritize platforms that facilitate data democratization through low-code or no-code architectures. A robust data distillery should integrate governance, modeling, architecture, and warehousing capabilities while providing comprehensive oversight aligning with industry standards and regulations.

Enterprise 158

Enterprise Data Insurance Business Intelligence 158

CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Now that systems are being replaced, it’s also about creating a new architecture without those types of connections. Paring down agile Another change the digital organization has gone through recently is to start backing away from a pure agile approach. But it’s extremely difficult to suddenly launch a successfully IT system.

Agile 195

Agile Weak Development Team Automotive System 195

CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With this in mind, we embarked on a digital transformation that enables us to better meet customer needs now and in the future by adopting a lightweight, microservices architecture. We found that being architecturally led elevates the customer and their needs so we can design the right solution for the right problem.

Architecture 158

Architecture Technical Review Microservices Engineering 158

CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

In the realm of systems, this translates to leveraging architectural patterns that prioritize modularity, scalability, and adaptability. Headless, composable architectures are helping businesses select best-of-breed products and compose them into a system that aligns with business goals. What is a composable architecture?

Architecture 148

Architecture Innovation Quality Assurance System Architecture 148

CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

Evaluate ROI and substantiate it with relevance, optimization and impact Utilize your tech investments to deliver financial and operational agility. A high-performing database architecture can significantly improve user retention and lead generation. Any solution or product comes with an expiration date.

Real Estate 155

Real Estate Leadership Study Technology 155

Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The adoption of cloud-native architectures and containerization is transforming the way we develop, deploy, and manage applications. Containers offer speed, agility, and scalability, fueling a significant shift in IT strategies.

Virtualization 96

Virtualization Scalability Agile Architecture 96

CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Although organizations have embraced microservices-based applications, IT leaders continue to grapple with the need to unify and gain efficiencies in their infrastructure and operations across both traditional and modern application architectures. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is one such solution. Much of what VCF offers is well established.

Virtualization 103

Virtualization Microservices Architecture Policies 103

CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

We need to re-establish the IT architecture and get an architectural capability, he adds. So IT architects need to get as close to business development as possible in order to shape the target architecture in line with the business plan. My experience is its very difficult to make Agile work in traditional companies, he says.

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