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7 signs it’s time to modernize your IT systems

CIO

Kar advises taking a measured approach to system modernization. Technical debt impacts the bottom line A red flag that it’s time to modernize IT systems is when technical debt begins piling up. Often, technical leaders don’t devote sufficient time to communication, change management, and stakeholder management,” he observes.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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What is ERP? Enterprise resource planning systems explained

CIO

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a system of integrated software applications that manages day-to-day business processes and operations across finance, human resources, procurement, distribution, supply chain, and other functions. ERP definition. Some ERP systems split the physical database to improve performance.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

CIO

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. Yet after onboarding at HR SaaS provider Gusto in a customer experience (CX) role, exposure to coding sparked McGrath’s interest in shifting professional tracks.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Optimizing cloud investments requires close collaboration with the rest of the business to understand current and future needs, building effective FinOps teams, partnering with providers, and ongoing monitoring of key performance metrics. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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Sustainable Software Engineering Through the Lens of Environmental

Xebia

Did you know that sustainable software engineering is a topic we frequently discuss and engage with? However, our conversations predominantly revolve around the economic dimension, such as optimizing costs in cloud computing, or the technical dimension, particularly when addressing code maintainability. The best part?