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• IDG Contributor Network: The often-overlooked value of moving to the cloud

  12-06-2018 21:20
  Talk about the cloud’s benefits with most businesses and you'll quickly realize there's a chasm between their reality and today's hype. "Utilize this new service to scale faster!" "Leverage more microservices!" "Reduce your tech debt by migrating to the cloud!" These are true advantages, but for now, most are unattainable for these businesses. If I were to advocate for one goal with leveraging the cloud it would be the move to a modern, interoperable reference architecture.Before I go fur
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The retail CIO’s storybook

  12-06-2018 19:06
  What shape will the retail industry be in this time next year? The only thing we can say for sure is that it will be leaner, especially when it comes to frontline staff. And, as the C-suite works to build strategies which will ensure business longevity and profitability both online and in-store, it seems like a good time to revisit fables from the past which still have a message for the CIOs and strategists of today.The ugly duckling
  Hans Christian Andersen’s perennial tale about judging
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Form follows function

  12-06-2018 18:41
  Sometimes I get the feeling that there is an unresolved tension between business architects (BA) and enterprise architects (EA).  The various discussions regarding the scope of each role, the business-focus to IT-focus ratio for EA and BA, and other lines of demarcation between this architecture duo intrigue me.Should we even care about the “enterprise” and “business” architecture labels?  I say no.  It is more important that architecture leaders, executiv
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Career advice for the Class of 2018: Set your organization up for growth and success

  12-06-2018 17:59
  It’s been more than half a century since The Graduate rocked the box offices and famously coined career advice in one word: “plastics.” Times have certainly changed and the graduates of 2018 have a plethora of career choices to search for on their smartphones.In my business, telecom expense management (TEM), the number of career paths has expanded in very recent years as organizations of every stripe seek to control costs and effectively deploy and utilize the ever-more-sophis
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Turn on the lights! The key challenges for businesses transformation

  12-06-2018 15:03
  Imagine yourself at a party where everyone is having great time. Suddenly someone turns on the lights, and everyone looks around. What do they see? One huge mess – which up till this point had not been visible. In terms of business transformation be it Lean, Agile or Adaptive, this ‘putting on of lights’ represents the key challenge. It is about letting all in the organisation see, in the clear light of day, the mess or waste that their company is continuing to create.The bigg
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Oman develops technology fund to invest in global entrepreneurs

  12-06-2018 14:51
  Recently, Oman created a $200M+ venture capital fund to spark innovation in Oman and the MENA region. I interviewed the CEO of the Oman Technology Fund – Yousuf Al Harthy – and a member of the Board of Directors – Hanan Askalan. Yousuf and Hanan have extensive technology, government, and business experience. Yousuf was an entrepreneur for 10 years after working for the Oman Ministry of Defense and has played an integral role developing the country’s information security
  
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• The pros and cons of outsourcing data analytics

  12-06-2018 12:00
  Companies outsource all kinds of IT and business functions to service providers, including some that are quite strategic. Increasingly, that includes data analytics, one of the more competitively advantageous areas of the technology spectrum.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• How virtual reality is helping Embry-Riddle transform air crash education

  12-06-2018 12:00
  In the past several years, commercially available headsets such as Facebook's Oculus VR and the HTC Vive have enabled virtual reality (VR) to emerge from the realm of cyberpunk science fiction to become a business opportunity. While VR is often considered through the lens of entertainment and gaming, forward-thinkers in the education sector are focusing on the technology's potential to transform and scale their operations.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• BrandPost: Extracting Value from SaaS with Data Centric Architecture

  12-06-2018 01:52
  Today, organizations can do more with their data than ever before. Advances in networking over the past decade and the evolution of storage and compute over the last several years have unlocked an entirely new universe of possibilities and outcomes. But new, unique challenges have emerged alongside these opportunities. Organizations require a means of simplification and holistic insight to build a truly strategic infrastructure. For many, that journey begins with having Software-as-a-Service (S
  
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