TM Forum

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Behind all the industry buzz around digitization, customer experience transformation and 5G monetization, there’s still a lingering issue at the core of CSPs’ everyday business that needs attention: Up to 80% of CSPs’ IT budgets are still being spent on system integration and customization1. Lasting Benefits.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. data, security, development, architecture) as well. There are other risks, too.

Strategy 141

Strategy Cloud Applications Agile 141

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s easy to view these as competing priorities vying for CIO attention and budget that are unfairly dwarfed by boardroom interest in the new and shiny opportunities promised by gen AI. But in other areas, IT teams will look to increase budgets and spending.

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Hardware Budget Data Security 142

TM Forum

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Open APIs are an essential IT Architecture element when designing technology solutions such as BSS and OSS. What TM Forum Open API is most valuable to your company? The benefits are tangible, mainly a noticeable acceleration in our R&D progress, especially in the areas of moving towards a microservices architecture significantly.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2022

From infrastructure costs to finding the right talent, it seems that digital experiences are always requiring more attention and more budget. According to a consumer survey conducted by the company in May , online interactions play an outsized role in driving engagement between brands and customers.

Cloud 85

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2023

“During the pandemic we needed to have people make as many local decisions as possible,” which she says was essential to keep operations moving across the 100 countries in which the company operates. More importantly, the company’s push toward digital transformation required that IT speed up its decision-making processes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2022

The constantly changing risk environment requires companies to be agile in how they adapt and address cyber risks. Moving off legacy platforms into more agile technology environments such as? Visibility, speed and agility . Internet of Things (IoT). CIOs should: . Resilience as a foundation .

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Security Agile Architecture Enterprise 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2022

Currently, she is working with two governments to shore up cybersecurity of several NATO power grids and, at the same time, transforming the company into an “intelligent connected utility.”. You can imagine what the Infrastructure Act and the Go Green [initiatives] has meant for my budget. Modernizing a utility’s data architecture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Building out cost models is key for how you can build a budget.”.

Cloud 144

Cloud Strategy Fractional CTO Data Center 144

The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 19, 2023

Now that computers have spread throughout the company, perhaps a new approach to IT is called for. Despite our mission, which often talks about driving company wide innovation and digital transformation, CIOs, as heads of these departments, are frequently reduced to running what could be called an island. Why is this?

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This is the reality futurist Mike Walsh shared during his keynote speech at ST Engineering’s InnoTech Conference 2023 : that 21st-century companies will be defined by their mastery of technologies such as AI, automation, and algorithms, driven by the rapid pace of change. This is a challenge AGIL ® Vision seeks to solve.

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Engineering Applications Video Security 116

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

By leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS along with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and VMware Carbon Black to enable a zero trust approach across the board, Softchoice made the customer’s architecture highly resilient and secure. “We After moving to the new environment, Softchoice’s customer was more agile, scalable, and secure. Multi Cloud

Strategy 78

Strategy Cloud Vmware Disaster Recovery 78

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

Tight budgets and labor shortages have remained an ongoing challenge for IT leaders in 2023. Many of these companies that have been around for decades are eager to continue digitizing workflows and harnessing real-time data to deliver business outcomes. Of course, this means we also need to remain nimble, agile, and open-minded.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 5, 2022

According to 2022 State of the CIO study , 85% of CIOs are focusing on transformational initiatives with pre-pandemic levels of technology budget growth. To enhance and stabilize continuous business operations despite future disruptions seeing how the pandemic has highlighted the importance of business resiliency and agility.

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TM Forum

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During 2021, TM Forum saw the most rapid increase to date in the number of companies certifying. The Indian telco is using Open APIs to help build an agile development environment for 5G services. “This has then led to reduced risk and budget/investment dependency by 75% in service partnering projects.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

To counter that, BARC recommends starting with a manageable or application-specific prototype project and then expanding across the company based on lessons learned. Doing so can help companies remain responsive, especially as they grow to a size in which it is no longer efficient for individuals to perform cross-functional tasks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A majority of companies are confident in a future built around hybrid cloud, according to a recent poll conducted by The Harris Poll and IBM. What they are less decisive about is how to map the right cloud modernization journey, one that is efficient and secure while delivering business agility and competitive advantage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Pre-COVID, agility became an aspiration and rallying cry for organizations seeking to embrace emerging technologies and pursue technology-enabled innovation, often to stave off digital disruption in their industries. This goes beyond implementing agile methodology. Balance control with agility. Think a step ahead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2023

While new features that accelerate business agility are highly attractive, our experience suggests that the decision to refresh a network often has more to do with a customer’s desire to transition depreciated assets off their books rather than to replace products that are no longer usable. That’s over $1.1

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

Year Up’s pandemic experience highlighted many companies’ struggle to be agile when saddled with technical debt during a period when moving quickly can make or break the business. The problem is even more acute at large shops where roughly 40% of the enterprise IT budget is earmarked for technical debt–related spend.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Many enterprises still utilize legacy solutions, old and new technologies, inherited policies, processes, procedures, or approaches, but wrestle with having to blend it all within a new architecture that enables more agility and speed,” says Paola Saibene, principal consultant at IT advisory firm Resultant.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 27, 2014

These are some of the hot technology stories we are following… The Mysterious Company That Has Tech Giants Dropping 2 Million. Every company wants to see its business grow and flourish. Enterprise security company, Palo Alto Networks has announced the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). DDN Insider.

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Dell Big Data Firewall Storage 258

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Gilbane is one of the largest privately-held real estate development and construction companies in the US. billion company has been family owned from its inception in 1870, with sixth-generation employees currently in the business. We need our architecture to help deliver on that intent.”

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Architecture Construction Real Estate Virtualization 99

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2022

This growing demand, she says, is an outgrowth of all the digitalization work companies undertook over the past two years in response to the pandemic. They can do that, for example, by adopting true agile principles where business and developers work collaboratively and iteratively side by side. Fierce competition for talent.

Cloud 144

Cloud Data Strategy Enterprise 144

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. They also received $7 billion in pandemic aid and performed $5.6 billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

For all its advances, enterprise architecture remains a new world filled with tasks and responsibilities no one has completely figured out. Some companies have tried setting data retention policies to destroy everything as soon as regulations allow. But trusting the key parts of an enterprise to an outside company has plenty of risks.

Architecture 118

Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Trends 118

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 1, 2022

Steve Miller, vice president and CTO of Steelcase, which manufactures furniture, interior architecture, and tech products, makes no bones about the fact that IT needed a makeover a few years back. We made a really significant shift in our operating model to move to agile full-stack,’’ Forbes says. “We Mapping out tensions.

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Agile Enterprise Enterprise Groups 124

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

The ongoing tight IT job market has companies doing whatever they can to attract top tech talent. But 86% of technology managers also said that it’s challenging to find skilled professionals in software and applications development, technology process automation, and cloud architecture and operations.

Devops 143

Devops How To Engineering Systems Administration 143

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

Despite numerous stories about companies restricting generative AI use in the workplace, employees don’t seem to be using it any less. Business units eager to move quickly took discretionary departmental budgets and plowed them into as-a-Service offerings that meant they no longer needed to wait on IT. It looks like I’m not alone.

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Dell Cloud Data Government 86

Future of CIO

AUGUST 22, 2013

There's always going to be natural tensions between enterprise architecture and solutions/project architecture , there's possibility EA needs to be more interactive in PPM & PM level when necessary. Companies with a static EA get left behind. Doing PA and then reviewing the final PA in regards to the EA.

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Future of CIO

JANUARY 13, 2013

towards "How can we use IT to improve innovation, competitive advantage, agility, etc.?" Do they feel like they're part of the company? Using a waterfall in an organization where the business has an agile mentality leads to failure. Using Agile without a full sense of the overall plan/roadmap leads to failure.

Budget 45

Budget Agile Government SDLC 45

Future of CIO

JULY 21, 2013

Agility is the Key Traditional IT values, such as standardization etc., do not sit easily with the marketing requirement to be agile in order to leverage new initiatives. Virtually many CIOs have described their major weakness being "agility " as it pertains to cutting edge marketing technology. Sustainability meets flexibility.

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Are they technological or are they actually business challenges – Agility, Risk, Cost (ROI/TCO) etc? The CIO needs to be the visionary derives the most value out of the technology investments by translating the promise of technology to strategic and competitive advantage for the company.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

However, with perceived benefits of agility and cost savings, modern CIOs are under more internal pressure than ever to shift to the cloud. Application architecture becomes even more important in this cloud-driven world. Juggling the budget for the present and the future. The problem is, not everything belongs in the cloud.

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Budget Cloud IBM Security 63