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It adopted a microservices architecture to decouple legacy components, allowing for incremental updates without disrupting the entire system. Additionally, leveraging cloud-based solutions reduced the burden of maintaining on-premises infrastructure.
Simultaneously, the monolithic IT organization was deconstructed into subgroups providing PC, cloud, infrastructure, security, and data services to the larger enterprise with associated solution leaders closely aligned to core business functions. They see a product from beginning to end and it’s pretty rewarding.”
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These alliances also help Kyndryl build more capabilities for its open integration platform — Kyndryl Bridge — which was developed to connect to an enterprise’s present IT infrastructure and asses it to help CIOs solve issues in the entire IT system. For new customers, Kyndryl Consult may go through the transformation advisory group.
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data, security, development, architecture) as well. At a previous company with a cost-effective corporate data center and infrastructure environment, Upchurch found that simply moving enterprise applications to the cloud would have decimated the budget. CIOs should make sure they have changemanagement expertise on board, too. “It
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She has modernized operations and internal application infrastructure to ensure her tech team can be responsive to business and customer-facing needs. She views IT’s agenda and the business agenda as one and the same. Such moves have yielded success for Lieberman and her IT department.
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With that, we adopted an onshore model and created a center of excellence in Madrid where we manage all operations and lead all implementation projects worldwide. But it’s comprised not only of IT professionals but people in purchasing, HR, finance, architecture, and revenue management, for example.
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