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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

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More organizations than ever have adopted some sort of enterprise architecture framework, which provides important rules and structure that connect technology and the business. The results of this company’s enterprise architecture journey are detailed in IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (September 2024).

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Can you have too many security tools?

CIO

It’s simple fact that threats are evolving and changing, requiring enterprises to pivot quickly in how they protect their organizations and respond to threats. Schwartz is an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), focusing on IT business, digital business, disaster recovery, and data management.

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The transformation of shared services

CIO

As explained in IDC’s recent Growth and Transformation of Global Business Services (September 2024), while shared services typically pertain to a single function that can serve multiple business units, GBS can serve every unit or person in an enterprise and can execute the processes for any function anywhere in the world centrally and at scale.

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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

CIO

Enterprises today require the robust networks and infrastructure required to effectively manage and protect an ever-increasing volume of data. Industry-leading SLAs also guarantee that applications and the data within and used by them – the very lifeblood of the enterprise – is always accessible and protected.

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Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing

CIO

The hardware required alone ranges from very basic to enterprise-class rack-based systems that consist of standalone, converged, or hyperconverged infrastructure. Schwartz is an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), focusing on IT business, digital business, disaster recovery, and data management.

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Sustainability: Real progress but also thorny challenges ahead

CIO

In the European Union, for example, three-quarters of organizations are in the early stages of doing so (IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 3, April 2023). Schwartz is an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), focusing on IT business, digital business, disaster recovery, and data management.

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Competition is stiff, but retailers know what it takes to compete

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It requires retail enterprises to be connected, mobile, IoT- and AI-enabled, secure, transparent, and trustworthy. Schwartz is an adjunct research advisor with IDC’s IT Executive Programs (IEP), focusing on IT business, digital business, disaster recovery, and data management. Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA.

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