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Making your enterprise architecture framework work for you

CIO

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

CIO

It requires retail enterprises to be connected, mobile, IoT- and AI-enabled, secure, transparent, and trustworthy. International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the technology markets. Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. Hot: Low-code/no code For most business teams, the time it takes to go to market with product updates is key to success and the quicker they can do it, the better, Seetharaman says.

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Unified Collaboration: How Social Business and Other Forms of Digital Engagement are Intertwining

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

It consists of a varied set of practices — depending on whose model you are following — that typically consists of business processes redesigned around new social tools such as enterprise social networks , content/document management platforms, online communities , or even enterprise microblogging services.

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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. International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the technology markets.

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This Year’s Ten Digital Strategies for the Next-Generation Enterprise

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Add in the fact that anyone, anywhere can now innovate on top of the current technology curve and distribute their efforts to the world at practically zero cost, and you have a near-perfect recipe for disruption of the traditional status quo for IT in the enterprise. First though, what’s a next generation enterprise ?