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.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

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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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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

In a global economy where innovators increasingly win big, too many enterprises are stymied by legacy application systems. The norm will shift towards real-time, concurrent, and collaborative development fast-tracking innovation and increasing operational agility.

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CIO

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Rather than discuss “legacy systems,” talk about “revenue bottlenecks,” and replace “technical debt” with “innovation capacity.” Operational drag (interest): “Our teams spend 25% of their time on workarounds rather than innovation.” And it translates into an organization that’s stable and innovative.

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CIO

JANUARY 30, 2025

It has become a strategic cornerstone for shaping innovation, efficiency and compliance. As enterprises scale their digital transformation journeys, they face the dual challenge of managing vast, complex datasets while maintaining agility and security. In 2025, data management is no longer a backend operation.

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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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CIO

APRIL 22, 2025

It involves being open to new ideas, enhancing effective communication skills, being a lifelong learner, fostering a culture of innovation and embracing change with a positive attitude. Cultivating a dynamic, adaptive, inclusive and compassionate mindset is essential to fostering continuous innovation.

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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.

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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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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This surge is driven by the rapid expansion of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, both of which are reshaping industries and enabling unprecedented scalability and innovation. The result was a compromised availability architecture.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As the next generation of AI training and fine-tuning workloads takes shape, limits to existing infrastructure will risk slowing innovation. For well over a decade, innovative customers have been extracting AI-powered insights from data managed on NetApp solutions. Through relentless innovation.

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Luis Goncalves

APRIL 11, 2025

Continuous Delivery: Maintaining Innovation Velocity As your startup scales, maintaining speed and quality in product development becomes increasingly challenging. This requires specific approaches to product development, architecture, and delivery processes. Discover how to maintain agility while scaling 4.

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Weak Development Team Technical Review Sustainability Systems Review 165

CIO

APRIL 11, 2023

We spoke with Siddhartha Gupta, Global Head of Application Modernization on Azure at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , about this trend and what financial services organizations need to do to improve their capacity for agility and innovation. They must adopt innovations as soon as they become available.

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Innovation Cloud Fintech Azure 204

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

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

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.

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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

MARCH 26, 2025

This ensures that our technology roadmap is fully aligned with our overarching business objectives and fosters a continuous cycle of innovation and efficiency. He adds, I cultivate a culture of innovation and healthy competition, ensuring that both business and technology teams remain motivated to achieve shared goals.

Real Estate 159

Real Estate Leadership Study Innovation 159

CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These outdated systems are not only costly to maintain but also hinder the integration of new technologies, agility, and business value delivery. It adopted a microservices architecture to decouple legacy components, allowing for incremental updates without disrupting the entire system. A: Expensive, bad processes.

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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.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

Innovation with respect to the customer experience remains crucial as global CX technology spending grows year-over-year , including increased spending on generative AI, the cloud, and digital services. In 2019, 80% of enterprise executives said innovation was a top priority but only 30% said they were good at it.

Architecture 164

Architecture Innovation Enterprise Cloud 164

CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

The process would start with an overhaul of large on-premises or on-cloud applications and platforms, focused on migrating everything to the latest tech architecture. To power this type of transformation and drive the right innovation at scale within organizations, it is critical for businesses to blend data, domain, and AI together.

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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.

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

My position was created to be the single accountable executive for innovation, digital technologies, AI, analytics, cybersecurity and IT,” she says. “In Or as she puts it: “I walked into an architecture with a set of bespoke solutions that were selected based on whatever the need was at the time.

Architecture 178

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CIO

JANUARY 3, 2025

Because of the adoption of containers, microservices architectures, and CI/CD pipelines, these environments are increasingly complex and noisy. On top of that, IT teams have adopted DevOps, agile and SRE practices that drive much greater frequency of change into IT systems and landscapes.

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Organization Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence DevOps 158

CIO

AUGUST 29, 2024

During the show, Cheriyan reflected on his decades-long career and the principles and philosophies he’s applied to successfully innovate, collaborate, and lead people and transformations. The four questions I talk about in the article are around architecture, risk, talent, and expense. Can you talk about how that came about?

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Innovation Artificial Inteligence Banking CTO Coach 173

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

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We’ve broken up a large entity that required people to wait in line and put delivery people working on applications, business process improvement, and fintech innovation back in the hands of the business.” “Techniculture is where technology, business, and culture collide,” says Nester, explaining his remodeling plan for IT.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Hes seeing the need for professionals who can not only navigate the technology itself, but also manage increasing complexities around its surrounding architectures, data sets, infrastructure, applications, and overall security. Weve been innovating with AI, ML, and LLMs for years, he says. But not every company can say the same.

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CIO

JUNE 12, 2023

It was an absolute blast celebrating the most innovative organizations and accomplished leaders in the tech world. CIBC, a leading financial institution, embarked on a journey of modernizing their stable of applications and enabling new data services, resulting in enhanced business agility. Got questions or need further assistance?

Innovation 156

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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.

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Technical Advisors Technical Review Weak Development Team Software Review 113

CIO

JULY 2, 2024

CIOs face the daunting challenge of driving innovation while managing costs and ensuring practical implementation in a rapidly advancing digital landscape. This article presents essential strategies for CIOs to strike the optimal balance among innovation, value, cost, and practicality in tech investments.

Technical Review 167

Technical Review Innovation Technology Systems Review 167

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

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Don’t miss CIO’s Future of Digital Innovation Summit and Awards Canada, happening on November 29-30 produced by IDC and CIO, in partnership with TECHNATION. Registration is complimentary , and attendees will have the opportunity to gain the latest knowledge in innovation from experts in a broad range of industries.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2025

Toshibas Roberge is creating an innovation and strategy department for the IT organizations he heads. Modernizing systems, consolidating platforms, and retiring obsolete solutions reduce complexity and create a more agile environment. To prepare for more challenges next year, IT leaders have three choices.

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