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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

One need only look within Ford’s executive ranks to see the technology talent driving its digital future: Doug Field, Ford’s chief electric vehicle (EV) and digital systems officer, and Rob Bedicheck, executive director of platform architecture, were both recruited from Apple.

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IT as a catalyst for business transformation: Strategies for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

Where the widespread adoption of SaaS previously distributed IT and lines-of-business selected and implemented their own applications, the pendulum is now shifting back with CIOs pursuing large-scale transformations to drive value and re-centralize operations. hyperscale, private cloud).

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The change management Informatica needed to overhaul its business model

CIO Business Intelligence

What is the business transformation currently underway at Informatica? Many of our customers had already started to move their applications and it made sense they would want to transition to data management in the cloud as well. This isn’t just an IT or sales transformation; it’s a complete company transformation.

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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. What could be worse than to plan for an event that requires the scaling of an application’s infrastructure only to have it all fall flat on its face when the time comes?”.

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SAP to buy LeanIX to advance process optimization with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud. Christ also said generative AI is key to the company’s growth.

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The Focus Areas of Information Architecture (IA)

Future of CIO

I Information is one of the most invaluable business assets which can create or multiply the business value and maximize its return on investment. Organizations with fine design and UX competencies are more capable of attracting and delighting customers, and properly implementing and accelerating their digital transformation.

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My API Story: Conformance certified APIs

TM Forum

TM Forum Open APIs, including how they help Comviva save time when designing, developing and delivering applications. Along with maintaining key parameters, one of the key areas we are largely focusing on is reducing time to market, that can be through adoption of the Open Digital Architecture, reducing deployment and integration time.