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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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Zoom dives deeper into intelligent customer service with Solvvy acquisition

TechCrunch

As the company wrote in a blog post announcing the new service: Combining contact center functionality with Zoom unified communications solutions, Zoom Contact Center can operate as a standalone customer experience solution or integrate directly into an existing website or application.

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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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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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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. Madhumita Mazumdar, GM of information and communications technology, replaced six different telecom systems, along with its contact center, in favor of cloud-based unified communications platform RingCentral.

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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. She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology. But are more security tools always the answer?

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