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

CIO

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

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. Digital Transformation My advice: Be proactive.

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TOGAF: An Insight into the Enterprise Architecture Framework

Apiumhub

To thrive in this environment, enterprises require a structured approach to align their business strategies, processes, and IT systems. This is where TOGAF (the Open Group Architecture Framework) comes into play. It helps architects organize and document the architecture effectively. Source: [link] Key Components 1.

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Why You Need an Enterprise Architecture

Ivanti

Having an Enterprise Architecture practice is critical for three key reasons. Every business function needs data and often requires the same data, such as customer, transaction (history) device, end/touch point & employee. Business Transformation. How do you shift the conversation to business capabilities?

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The change management Informatica needed to overhaul its business model

CIO

What is the business transformation currently underway at Informatica? The business transformation we’ve led for the last several years has many parts; all our products have been re-built as cloud products and we continue our heritage of being neutral about data, supporting cloud, on premise, and hybrid workloads.

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SAP to buy LeanIX to advance process optimization with AI

CIO

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. SAP has made a number of moves since then to help enterprises make the move.

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From portfolio analysis to serverless architectures: How to turn cloud migration into a business-transformation opportunity

Capgemini

Companies can derive many advantages from migrating their applications to the cloud, and platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) have made that relatively easy for businesses of all sizes. But often, I see businesses – even enterprise-class companies – simply do what’s called a “lift and shift.”