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How to talk to your board about tech debt

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When your CEO or CFO asks about the budget needed for technical debt remediation , do you find yourself struggling to justify the investment? 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.

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

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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).

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Budgeting and planning for your first digital product

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Be clear about your budget bracket. Then, you can reframe the issue into how much of a working, functional digital product can be built with that budget and how long it will take to do that. The budgets and timeframes for new end-user software products tend to fall into one of several categories. Budget range.

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From legacy to lakehouse: Centralizing insurance data with Delta Lake

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Maintaining legacy systems can consume a substantial share of IT budgets up to 70% according to some analyses diverting resources that could otherwise be invested in innovation and digital transformation. This is where Delta Lakehouse architecture truly shines. The financial and security implications are significant.

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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

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It adopted a microservices architecture to decouple legacy components, allowing for incremental updates without disrupting the entire system. Budget constraints Barrier: IT modernization requires substantial investment, and budget constraints are a common hurdle.

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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

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Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. Jeff Wysocki, CIO at mining firm Mosaic Company, acknowledges those budget-busting concerns, but he says CIOs may be able to work with their public cloud provider to get those costs under control.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. Related: 6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget Budgeting, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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