Hello. This is Michael Dornan with what’s important in the IT and business services industry this week.

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Applications and Cloud

IT leaders and the business leaders they support often differ on their preferred approaches to cloud migration. Business decision-makers want speed and are less keen to re-architect or rewrite applications, which are IT’s favored approaches [see Data Watch].

Data Watch

Background

Cloud migration continues at pace as enterprises look to optimize their application portfolio costs while, at the same time, accelerate investments in AI. Whether the priority is fast migration, cost savings or enabling the longer-term business benefits of being cloud-native, trade-offs of each impact business and IT differently.

The Details

What’s Next

In the past few years, we’ve seen a change in the role of the CIO, with business leaders often driving application decisions and, more recently, AI decisions. But, for cloud strategy and decision-making, our research shows the CIO is still primarily in control.

However, given the increasing influence business leaders have in technology decisions, CIOs will need to sell their preferred migration approach to the business in terms of the value it generates for the bottom line.

This will change how – and why – CIOs partner with the IT and business services ecosystem. Cloud migrations with a focus on re-architecting or re-writing applications will call for strong ADM capabilities, creating further opportunities for service providers.

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