The stigma of cloud lift-and-shift The “lift and shift” is one of many approaches for migrating workloads to a cloud service provider such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Specifically, the lift and shift moves the legacy workload and data to the cloud in a relatively unchanged fashion. In

The team decentralization dilemma  Today, practically every business unit has a significant technology footprint. From HR to finance, a mountain of technology must be managed and enhanced over time. Consequently, IT leaders are often confronted with the dilemma of consolidating technical functions, or instead, decentralizing said functions. Each approach has

Running an IT department is like running a business. CIOs need key performance indicators and a process for measuring them. Here are five key metrics every CIO should possess. Five CIO metrics 1. Business capability heat map CIOs long for their IT organization to be viewed as a business partner. That

Centralized data management teams focus on managing reusable corporate ESBs, centralized iPaaS solutions, and corporate APIs across the organization. While these teams may not be going away overnight, the paradoxical question of centralization remains: have our our attempts to reduce redundancy and centralize expertise become an intolerable bottleneck for expanding

Software Asset Management Overview Software asset management, or “SAM,” is a toolset used to discover and quantify software usage within an organization. Although license management solutions have been around for years, SAM isn’t solely focused on license compliance. In the age of SaaS, where enterprises leverage hundreds of cloud applications,

1. Poor Data Quality In a fast-changing API-driven world, a lot can go wrong. Fast.  Take for example the third-party data feeds you may use for firmographic, technographic, or news feeds. The structure and/or schema can change overnight, the API itself may be updated, and all sorts of strange nuances

IT and engineering leaders often grapple with the decision to centralize functions, or permit a degree of controlled redundancy within the company to facilitate agility. Striking a balance can be challenging, but here are some pointers to guide the way. 

As 2020 comes to an end, I wanted to write a quick article on five digital marketing techniques which I feel can be improved for 2021 and beyond.

M&A may be inherently complex, but that’s not to say it cannot benefit from repeatable processes. Moving M&A from a decision shrouded in secrecy to a transparent and systematized process may be the key to decreasing both risk and complexity.