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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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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

For companies who had been using CrowdStrike, switching vendors might seem like an obvious solution. Ditching them isnt the answer if theyre the best product on the market. Thats a loss of over $30 billion or more than a third of its total market capitalization. Clancy asks.

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How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI

CIO

This could be the year agentic AI hits the big time, with many enterprises looking to find value-added use cases. Some market observers see an alternative deterministic automation continuing to dominate automation in production this year. A key question: Which business processes are actually suitable for agentic AI?

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO

Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either. Weve also seen the emergence of agentic AI, multi-modal AI, reasoning AI, and open-source AI projects that rival those of the biggest commercial vendors. Say a vendor releases a new software product.

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

CIO

With the AI revolution underway which has kicked the wave of digital transformation into high gear it is imperative for enterprises to have their cloud infrastructure built on firm foundations that can enable them to scale AI/ML solutions effectively and efficiently.

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CIOs still grapple with what gen AI can do for the enterprise

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But many are finding that the technology on the market doesn’t yet live up to the hype. AI is being used in other ways in the enterprise as well, to do things like improve the efficiency of the supply chain, facilitate customer interactions, and help employees perform office tasks. But in its current state, it’s just a toolbox.”