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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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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

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Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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The change management Informatica needed to overhaul its business model

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We still operated our core license and maintenance business, but we changed everything, including CRM, revenue recognition, reporting, and customer success to support the new cloud business operating model. We knew we had a unique opportunity to build a new end-to-end architecture with a common AI-powered data model. Today, we’re a $1.6

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The secret weapon for transformation? Treating it like a merger

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Surely, dedicated teams backed by real budgets were mobilized to deliver a seamless journey, define the target architecture and drive change management at scale. Yet often, theres no centralized team guiding the integration of strategy, architecture and execution. Business architecture. Change management.

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Trade routes of the digital age: How data gravity shapes cloud strategy

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Every strategic decision, from customer engagement to AI-driven automation, relies on an organizations ability to manage, process and move vast amounts of information efficiently. However, as companies expand their operations and adopt multi-cloud architectures, they are faced with an invisible but powerful challenge: Data gravity.

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What is a cloud architect? A vital role for success in the cloud

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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.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

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It prevents vendor lock-in, gives a lever for strong negotiation, enables business flexibility in strategy execution owing to complicated architecture or regional limitations in terms of security and legal compliance if and when they rise and promotes portability from an application architecture perspective.

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