Thriving in the cloud: Business leaders share lessons learned
Tales from the frontline on thriving in the cloud era.
Tales from the frontline on thriving in the cloud era.
In a fast changing and competitive global marketplace, the need for enterprises to act with adaptability and agility is more important than ever.
Similar to leading companies ING, Spotify, Google and Netflix, Property Exchange Australia (PEXA) has embarked on an agile transformation - but what does this really mean for the PEXA team?
Just as accepted definitions of what DevOps entails have morphed and grown over the years, so too have the toolsets and management approaches employed to build and manage a DevOps culture within the organisation.
“Agile’s work at ACC and NZTA ticked the boxes for our ability to work in large highly-sensitive environments."
"Agile software implementations can undoubtedly deliver an end product that is much closer to the business requirements."
So your CIO thinks that cloud, BYOD and big data are all passé and now has declared The Next Big Thing in the IT department will be DevOps — and hey, even worse, he or she used the Google and has seen that Big Vendor X and Big Vendor Y offer 'DevOps-ready products' so all that it's going to take is picking up a bunch of overpriced automation tools.
CIOs overwhelmed by the prospect of building digital leadership while renovating core IT infrastructure and capability for the digital future, reports Gartner.
Digital organisations such as Tabcorp and REA Group are extending their ITSM practices and techniques beyond the traditional and entrenched ITIL framework.
IT leaders are struggling to meet the demands of their business leaders for more strategic and faster delivery of software, according to a Forrester Consulting survey.
Lonely Planet had to quickly adapt to a digital world to stay relevant as a publisher of travel guides. Known for physical books, the company overhauled its Web presence and publishing processes to meet consumer demand for real-time and mobile tourist information, according to Lonely Planet online platform manager, Darragh Kennedy.
Laurence Chiu, the acting CIO for the Electricity Authority, has become a firm believer in a locally-developed methodology for developing corporate applications after trying it out on a low-risk project. “It is like Agile programming on steroids,” he says.
Communications specialist Agile has disestablished a small number of roles, as it repositions for growth after changes to its vendor partner Avaya’s local distribution model.
New Zealand communications software developer Agile has established operations in Sydney, Australia, targeting IP telephony, call centre and unified communications business.
Organisations that are looking to process improvement methods in the current economic environment are too late, as the economic tide might turn before such moves deliver cost benefits, says research firm Ovum.