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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 tips for future-proofing your applications

  21-08-2018 17:23
  Today’s enterprises are under pressure to keep pace with digital transformation initiatives to fend off the increasing number of businesses vying for market share. From big data and IoT to serverless, organizations are increasingly turning to application modernization to outpace and out innovate competitors. Still, most organizations are forced to spend far too much time “keeping the lights on” to support legacy applications and outdated infrastructure rather than being able t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How zero-based principles can align your organization around the tech capabilities that matter

  21-08-2018 13:15
  Pressures to deliver first-in-class IT capabilities are mounting. But many companies have been hard-pressed to determine how to fund such initiatives – as well as how to truly measure whether the significant amounts dedicated to technology investments are really working.Enter a budgeting technique called zero-based budgeting (ZBB), through which companies set budgets to zero each year to cut unnecessary costs, rather than base them on what happened the previous year. But today, zero-based
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: CEO and CIO cyber disconnect: Fixing the communications breakdown

  21-08-2018 13:08
  Teamwork makes the dream work. Unfortunately, when it comes to cyber security issues, CEOs and their CIOs aren’t always on the same page, and the dream can turn into a nightmare.This communications breakdown is highlighted by two recent surveys showing that CEOs view their companies’ cyber security readiness very differently than their CIOs. The KPMG U.S. CEO Outlook 2018 found that 77 percent of CEOs believe their organizations are either “very well” or “well&rdqu
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 7 compelling qualities of business and enterprise architects

  21-08-2018 13:00
  I have met a lot of business and enterprise architects over the time. Some know their business industry inside out. Others know information technology extremely well. The ones that I prefer are very good at handling both the business and the technology side of their organization. They listen very well and can explain simply complicated situations and understands both the business side and the technical complexities of their organization. Indispensable architects understand the need of linking b
  
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• Moving agile beyond IT: The secret to successful software delivery

  21-08-2018 12:00
  Ed Toner expects his IT workers to embrace agile principles, but he also wants his business-side colleagues to do the same.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Anthem taps RPA, AI in digital transformation push

  21-08-2018 12:00
  Robotic process automation (RPA) has become a popular go-to technology for insurance companies looking to automate data entry and replace paper shuffling. One insurance provider is embracing RPA in a different fashion: Automating computing infrastructure to free up engineers to focus on more strategic tasks.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Monetizing data at scale

  21-08-2018 11:58
  Many CIOs are being challenged to take on a new role in the enterprise: money spinner. As businesses digitally transform products, services, customer experiences and operations, they’re generating new types and sources of data that, with effort, can be used to create monetizable data-driven products, services and experiences to external customers. Eighty-two percent of respondents to a recent IDC survey reported that data as a service will be required to compete effectively in their indust
  
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