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

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In todays rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of the enterprise architect has become more crucial than ever, beyond the usual bridge between business and IT. In a world where business, strategy and technology must be tightly interconnected, the enterprise architect must take on multiple personas to address a wide range of concerns.

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What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

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Data architecture definition Data architecture describes the structure of an organizations logical and physical data assets, and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects. Ensure security and access controls.

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Are enterprises ready to adopt AI at scale?

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To overcome those challenges and successfully scale AI enterprise-wide, organizations must create a modern data architecture leveraging a mix of technologies, capabilities, and approaches including data lakehouses, data fabric, and data mesh. Another challenge here stems from the existing architecture within these organizations.

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The key to operational AI: Modern data architecture

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From customer service chatbots to marketing teams analyzing call center data, the majority of enterprises—about 90% according to recent data —have begun exploring AI. Today, enterprises are leveraging various types of AI to achieve their goals. To succeed, Operational AI requires a modern data architecture.

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Top Considerations for Building an Open Cloud Data Lake

Data fuels the modern enterprise — today more than ever, businesses compete on their ability to turn big data into essential business insights. Increasingly, enterprises are leveraging cloud data lakes as the platform used to store data for analytics, combined with various compute engines for processing that data.

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From project to product: Architecting the future of enterprise technology

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For CIOs leading enterprise transformations, portfolio health isnt just an operational indicator its a real-time pulse on time-to-market and resilience in a digital-first economy. In todays digital-first economy, enterprise architecture must also evolve from a control function to an enablement platform.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

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He brings more than 30 years of experience across some of the largest enterprise customers, helping them understand and utilize AI ranging from initial concepts to specific application architectures, design, development and delivery. This article was made possible by our partnership with the IASA Chief Architect Forum.

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Partner Webinar: A Framework for Building Data Mesh Architecture

Speaker: Jeremiah Morrow, Nicolò Bidotti, and Achille Barbieri

Data teams in large enterprise organizations are facing greater demand for data to satisfy a wide range of analytic use cases. Yet they are continually challenged with providing access to all of their data across business units, regions, and cloud environments.

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The Forrester Wave™: AI/ML Platforms: Vendor Strategy, Market Presence, and Capabilities Overview

As enterprises evolve their AI from pilot programs to an integral part of their tech strategy, the scope of AI expands from core data science teams to business, software development, enterprise architecture, and IT ops teams.

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Microservices: The Dark Side

Speaker: Prem Chandrasekaran

In his best-selling book Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Martin Fowler famously coined the first law of distributed computing—"Don’t distribute your objects"—implying that working with this style of architecture can be challenging.