CIO

APRIL 16, 2025

Jenga builder: Enterprise architects piece together both reusable and replaceable components and solutions enabling responsive (adaptable, resilient) architectures that accelerate time-to-market without disrupting other components or the architecture overall (e.g. compromising quality, structure, integrity, goals).

Technical Review 186

Technical Review Enterprise Strategy Innovation 186

Xebia

APRIL 14, 2025

Their journey offers valuable lessons for IT leaders seeking scalable and efficient architecture solutions. This story may sound familiar to many IT leaders: the business grows, but legacy IT architecture cant keep up limiting innovation and speed. Domain-Driven Design gurus could see good old bounded contexts here.

Architecture 130

Architecture Microservices Transportation System 130

CIO

MAY 6, 2025

In this model, organizations are investing in creating architectures for intelligent choices and using technology to augment people, not automate tasks, transforming the entire value chain, he says. CIOs should consider how agentic AI and other emerging AI capabilities enable the creation of intelligent organizations.

CTO Coach 214

CTO Coach Software Review Generative AI Technical Review 214

CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Decisions made in isolation lead to inefficiencies, slower responses to market changes, and a lack of agility that stifles innovation. Architects help organizations remain agile, innovative, and aligned by bridging gaps between strategy and technology. The future of leadership is agile, adaptable and architecturally driven.

Fractional CTO 179

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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

Strategy Technical Advisors Agile Culture 183

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.

Serverless 155

Serverless Architecture Microservices Scalability 155

CIO

APRIL 23, 2025

I believe that the fundamental design principles behind these systems, being siloed, batch-focused, schema-rigid and often proprietary, are inherently misaligned with the demands of our modern, agile, data-centric and AI-enabled insurance industry. This is where Delta Lakehouse architecture truly shines.

Insurance 164

Insurance Artificial Inteligence Data Architecture 164

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.

Technology 166

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.

Industry 183

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.

Architecture 193

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.

Technical Review 179

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?

Technical Advisors 210

Technical Advisors Disaster Recovery Generative AI Innovation 210

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 164

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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]

Generative AI 187

Generative AI Applications Artificial Inteligence Azure 187

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.

Fractional CTO 212

Fractional CTO Software Development CTO Coach Architecture 212

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

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

APRIL 30, 2025

Cloud architects are responsible for managing the cloud computing architecture in an organization, especially as cloud technologies grow increasingly complex. At organizations that have already completed their cloud adoption, cloud architects help maintain, oversee, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud architecture over time.

Cloud 163

Cloud AWS Azure Disaster Recovery 163

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

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 286

Organization Company Strategic Planning Microservices 286

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

Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 28, 2025

Contextual AI Integration for Agile Product Teams Imagine this scenario: An empowered product team implements an AI assistant to help with feature prioritization and customer insights. Despite everyone using the same AI tool, it doesnt understand how the product team actually works.

Agile 52

Agile Architecture Tools Development 52

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

CIO

APRIL 22, 2025

Data-driven decision making and AI integration will remain critical must-haves for IT leaders For IT leaders, leveragingtrusted, high-quality datais essential to drive smarter decisions, enhance organizational agility and embed a data-driven culture. IQ ensures preparedness; EQ enables agility.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Leadership Technology Sustainability 159

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 15, 2025

The idea was coined by legendary programmer Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, and he laid it out succinctly at the OOPSLA conference in 1992 : Shipping first-time code is like going into debt. Thats part of the Agile philosophy of continuous improvement.

Technical Advisors 155

Technical Advisors Technical Review Weak Development Team Software Review 155

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