Speak to any CIO nowadays, and one of their top initiatives and commitments to the business will be moving to the cloud. Independent of your sector, be it banking, telecoms, retail or government, the desire to get there quickly, and without incident, is paramount, as once delivered, your IT organization, “amongst other things*”, will be […]
Preamble Following on from our previous blog on Enterprise Release Management benchmarking, Christian talks about the “sister disciple” of deployment management and, more specifically, the top 5 metrics one could use to better understand and optimize their operations and streamline application lead times and project delivery. Introduction It’s time to talk about the top five […]
Every aspect of our daily lives involves the use of data. Be it our social media, banking account, or even when using an e-commerce site, we use data everywhere. This data may range from our names and contact information to our banking and credit card details. The personal data of a user is quite sensitive. […]
In today’s post, we’ll discuss data literacy and its relevance in the context of GDPR. We start by defining data literacy and giving a brief overview of GDPR. Then we proceed to explain some of the challenges organizations might face when trying to find risk spots in their data. Finally, we give advice on how […]
Enterprises depend on realistic data for development, testing, training, and analytics. The challenge is that production data often contains names, account numbers, financial information, and other sensitive details that should not move freely into non-production environments. IBM Optim Data Privacy addresses that problem by masking sensitive values while preserving enough of the original data’s structure […]
Release managers have to track a lot at once: changes, teams, systems, environment readiness, dependencies, and whether a release is ready for go-live. In large enterprises, that information can be spread across dozens of projects, tools, tickets, and dashboards. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help teams make sense of it faster by summarizing release information, surfacing […]