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With Planning, the Cloud brings Agility and Portability

Eric D. Brown

When I speak to organizations about the cloud, I find the majority of them are using the cloud in some form or fashion today. Many have opted to build a private cloud to allow cloud-based systems while maintaining total control over the applications and security of the cloud. What happens to your systems if one provider goes down?

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UK commits over $125 million to address AI challenges

CIO Business Intelligence

By taking an agile, sector-specific approach, we have begun to grip the risks immediately, which in turn is paving the way for the UK to become one of the first countries in the world to reap the benefits of AI safely.” However, even with “old-fashioned” AI, the country needs to balance the risks with the opportunities. “It

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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO Business Intelligence

There are plenty of challenges involved in managing software projects, and IT executives who learn how to address these hurdles can help their organizations build better applications to drive business growth and enhance customer experience. One possible solution is to embrace the agile methodology of software development.

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Transforming IT for digital success

CIO Business Intelligence

This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Over the years CIOs often went with a lift-and-shift strategy, moving their legacy applications from on-premises servers to the cloud without reengineering them for optimal performance in the new environment, Jain explains.

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How to Future-Proof Your Technology With No-Code/Low-Code Solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

In today’s increasingly competitive business environment, enterprises can no longer operate in this slow, inflexible fashion. Instead, enterprises must be agile when it comes to change so they can best serve customers and compete. The change ends up being a major drain on the enterprise’s finite resources.

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CIOs set their agendas to achieve IT’s ultimate balancing act

CIO Business Intelligence

Operational excellence for Mate means ensuring a new employee has the right equipment and applications on day one and every day thereafter. A business-aligned technology strategy is built on architecture and agility, the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of better alignment,’’ he explains. But that’s not a good enough reason not to.

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Sysco’s recipe for growth centers on IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Having been very acquisitive over the years, Sysco found itself burdened with a lot of on-premise data centers and legacy applications. Like most companies, Sysco traditionally ran its B2B e-commerce business in a bulk reordering fashion.

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