Category: Brass Tacks

A time to laugh, a time to cry For many, autumn signals a time of relaxation. As the year enters […]

Our tendency to customize As an IT and engineering consultant, I spend the majority of my time aligning technology with […]

The stigma of cloud lift-and-shift The “lift and shift” is one of many approaches for migrating workloads to a cloud […]

The team decentralization dilemma  Today, practically every business unit has a significant technology footprint. From HR to finance, a mountain […]

Running an IT department is like running a business. CIOs need key performance indicators and a process for measuring them. Here […]

Centralized data management teams focus on managing reusable corporate ESBs, centralized iPaaS solutions, and corporate APIs across the organization. While […]

Software Asset Management Overview Software asset management, or “SAM,” is a toolset used to discover and quantify software usage within […]

1. Poor Data Quality In a fast-changing API-driven world, a lot can go wrong. Fast.  Take for example the third-party […]

IT and engineering leaders often grapple with the decision to centralize functions, or permit a degree of controlled redundancy within […]

As 2020 comes to an end, I wanted to write a quick article on five digital marketing techniques which I […]