Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

This year, I led my first custom survey research for Forrester, the 2020 State of Modern Technology Operations survey. We selected a random panel of 268 digital and IT professionals with day to day responsibility for operating digital systems. (We We did *not* rule out developers, as long as they also had runtime responsibilities).

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

At a time when technology innovation cycles are getting shorter, we will struggle to keep pace if we have to navigate around legacy systems that act as barriers to speed and agility. Over time the speed and agility barriers associated with the ERP spread to other systems as they, in turn, formed an expanding wave of technical debt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

Nine of 10 CIOs surveyed by Gartner late last year expressed concerns that managing AI costs was limiting their ability to get value from AI. The divestiture trend is most pronounced in the IT sector, Brundage says, because of the need for funding while companies build the technology, infrastructure, and applications to enable AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

According to recent data from IDC’s CIO Sentiment Survey (Figure 1), only 38% of organizations have reached a high level of maturity in their digital transformation efforts (with only about 13% claiming full transformation). And yet, these types of metrics are the limpets of IT measurement — encrusted, intractable, and creating drag.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Hes seeing the need for professionals who can not only navigate the technology itself, but also manage increasing complexities around its surrounding architectures, data sets, infrastructure, applications, and overall security. Other surveys found a similar gap. Weve been innovating with AI, ML, and LLMs for years, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

According to IT decision-makers surveyed, the service management areas where organizations are least effective are integrating IT silos with systems and applications (cited by only 8% as very effective) and using AI to improve the delivery of ITSM (7% citing it as very effective). The irony is hard to ignore.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Facing increasing demand and complexity CIOs manage a complex portfolio spanning data centers, enterprise applications, edge computing, and mobile solutions, resulting in a surge of apps generating data that requires analysis. Despite these challenges, businesses and IT must remain agile and responsive to changing demands.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

Delivering high-quality applications predictability and securely is far simpler when you cut back on variety for variety’s sake. Application platforms can do just that, inject standardization and repeatability into the app development and delivery process. And things can heat up quickly. Many platforms?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 3, 2025

Unlike previous hardware refresh cycles, AI PCs represent a foundational shift in how businesses operateleveraging AI to create smarter, more efficient, and agile organization. According to a recent IDC survey, AI PC adoption is surging, with 82% of ITDMs surveyed expected to acquire AI PCs before the end of 2025.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

The imperative for APMR According to IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 1 (January 2024), 23% of organizations are shifting budgets toward GenAI projects, potentially overlooking the crucial role of application portfolio modernization and rationalization (APMR). Employ AI and ML to assist in processes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2023

Organizations have been transitioning away from legacy, monolithic platforms as these decades-old IT systems bog down management, flexibility, and agility with their tightly entangled components. Independently developing, testing, deploying, and scaling your infrastructure requires expertise, agility, and a shift in team responsibilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

But only 40% feel fully prepared to manage and integrate these technologies, as PwCs recent Pulse survey suggests.Each team and team member will create new agents to perform tasks, autonomously and intelligently, he says.At It has to be Five 9s capable and agile for a still defining AI world. the same time, people are experimenting.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In the event of eliminating or reducing agile work, 68% of Italians would remain where they are but would start looking for a new job, and 7% would leave immediately even without an alternative, according to recruiting company Hays Italia and law firm Daverio & Florio. This helps us screen about applications 5,000 per hour.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

According to a Bank of America survey of global research analysts and strategists released in September, 2024 was the year of ROI determination, and 2025 will be the year of enterprise AI adoption. And its top of mind for many as they look at their application portfolio, specifically as it relates to cloud and AI capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. Indeed, 39% surveyed cited concerns about controlling costs. This determines the approach best suited to an organization’s specific applications.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2025

Evaluate ROI and substantiate it with relevance, optimization and impact Utilize your tech investments to deliver financial and operational agility. Appraising Talent The 2024 CIO Tech Priorities survey revealed that over 60% of CIOs believe in upskilling or reskilling talent, while 40% believe in hiring new talent.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Among other things, NTT’s survey suggests a strong correlation between a willingness to invest in modernizing networks and high levels of commercial performance. At the other end of the spectrum, NTT’s survey confirms many enterprise networks suffer from long-term underinvestment and increasing levels of technical debt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A recently conducted survey by Gradient Flow explores the state of GenAI in healthcare, an industry that’s been on the pulse of the technology since inception. From budget allocations to model preferences and testing methodologies, the survey unearths the areas that matter most to large, medium, and small companies, respectively.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In IDCs April 2024 CIO Poll Survey of 105 senior IT professionals and CIOs, developing better IT governance and enterprise architecture emerged as one of the top priorities for 2024, ranking fourth. Centralized governance often results in slower decision-making processes, as decisions are concentrated at the top levels, stifling agility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

An overwhelming 94% of organizations worldwide are embracing a next-generation ERP strategy that involves migrating to cloud platforms and adopting high-end analytics such as artificial intelligence to overcome the limitations of legacy applications and modernize their businesses, according to a survey of 1,675 IT executives by Boomi. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

For IT organizations that constantly operate in a reactive mode, infrastructure and application management can feel like sailing upwind, dragging an anchor behind the boat while you attend to urgent issues. Without the disruption of downtime, end users can rely on applications and infrastructure to support the speed of the business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In a recent global survey , 86% of participants said their organizations had dedicated budget to generative AI, but three-quarters admitted to significant concerns about data privacy and security. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is hot property when it comes to investment, but there’s a pronounced hesitancy around adoption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software In today’s fast-paced digital business world, organizations have become highly adaptive and agile to keep up with the ever-evolving demands of consumers and the market. However, cloud applications are less secure than mainframe environments and increase vulnerabilities to data breaches.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2023

Surveys can be useful, but when it comes to setting IT’s priorities they’re more rearview mirror than windshield. It’s an application architecture. The second mistake will be expecting Agile to scale up — that the same techniques that worked for small-scale projects will successfully manage large-scale strategic programs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

This approach enhances the agility of cloud computing across private and public locations—and gives organizations greater control over their applications and data. Cloud complexity creates unexpected risks Many organizations use both public and private cloud environments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This is evident in how they are seemingly ahead of larger enterprises in implementing the technology, according to a recent survey. Not only do these lack the scalability and functionality of modern applications, they are also expensive to upkeep and update.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

EA helps organizations structure IT projects and policies to achieve desired business results, to stay agile and resilient in the face of rapid change, and to stay on top of industry trends and disruptions using architecture principles and practices, a process also known as enterprise architectural planning (EAP).

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Since then, Barioni has taken control of the situation, putting into action a multi-year plan to move over half of Reale Group’s core applications and services to just two public clouds in a quest for cost optimization and innovation. Our core applications all run on Oracle databases,” he said. Only 2% had a single cloud provider.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In the last decade, the technology industry experienced a massive shift toward the cloud where every company no matter the industry developed and deployed cloud-native applications. According to a recent survey, more than 75% of organizations are deploying new or updated code to production weekly, and almost 40% are committing new code daily.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Tech debt can take many forms — old applications, bloated code, and aging hardware among them — and while the issue often takes a back seat to innovation and new technology, it is on the minds of a lot of CIOs. A lot of it gets into even modernization as you’re building new applications and new software,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

The 2024 Generative AI in Healthcare Survey , however, does a better job at that. Highlighting both the successes and challenges of GenAI in healthcare, the survey uncovers some interesting trends. The survey reveals that cost is the least important factor, suggesting a willingness to invest in high-quality, reliable models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Rocket Software’s State of Mainframe Security survey of 250 global IT directors and vice presidents in companies with more than 1,000 employees sheds some light on the topic. By leveraging a DevOps orchestration solution, DevOps teams can easily achieve end-to-end automation of processes across business applications and multiple platforms.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 20, 2023

Look at Enterprise Infrastructure An IDC survey [1] of more than 2,000 business leaders found a growing realization that AI needs to reside on purpose-built infrastructure to be able to deliver real value. An organization’s data, applications and critical systems must be protected.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile. Taking the programmer out of software development, low-code provides tools that enable people with minimal training and coding skills to create and adapt applications themselves using prebuilt templates and program modules.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Tanzu Vanguards, which includes leaders, engineers, and developers from DATEV, Dell, GAIG, and TeraSky, provided their perspectives on analyst predictions and industry data that point to larger trends impacting cloud computing, application development, and technology decisions. I have heard this for 10 or more years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 3, 2024

“There has to be a marriage between the AI skill sets that somebody can bring and the practical application of what that means at the company level,” she says. You can come in with the best expertise in the domain, but you really don’t know how the company, the applications are not as effective.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2022

From a technology perspective, this means having an agile and flexible IT environment,” said Paul Chik, Hong Kong Solution Leader at Kyndryl. Through app discovery and dependency mapping, we can compile the overall modernisation strategy and decide whether any particular application should be lift-and-shift, re-platformed, or re-architected.

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