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Challenges to streamlining IT

Challenges to streamlining IT

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Challenges to streamlining IT

- If you work for a company that's been in business more than 10 years it's likely that you have significant legacy technology. Perhaps members of your team built it. Perhaps it's run on your own data centers rather than in the cloud. Perhaps it required a variety of modifications in order to get it to integrate with other interdependent systems of one sort or another. This is true of most companies that have been in business longer than a decade and it's likely to be more complex if the business is also a multi billion dollar enterprise and/or a global company. It used to be that the value that IT provided wasn't creating new technology. The leaders of other functions did not understand how the geeks in IT did what they did, but they would place orders for manual processes to automate and IT would make it happen. The foreignness of IT was a source of some power in the organization. Now vendors have created standard…

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