The System Made Sense When We Built It
By Paul Preiss, of Iasa Global The system made sense when we built it. Three years later it is the thing we most dread working on. The database tables stopped reflecting how the business thinks […]
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The Hidden Currency of AI: Why Tokens Make or Break Enterprise Systems
By Chiranjib Ghatak, Senior Enterprise Architect, Wipro | Dubai, UAE Last year, a financial services team I worked with built an AI-powered document assistant for their operations staff. It worked beautifully in testing. Then they […]
Designing an Enterprise-ready Framework for Retail Loss Monitoring
By Pranit Prakash Overview Retail surveillance has evolved significantly over the past few years. What was once largely a CCTV-led, reactive monitoring capability, is now becoming a broader operational intelligence ecosystem. Cameras remain a […]
Key Considerations When Allowing a Vendor to Train Its AI Models on Customer Data
By Katrina Slack and Vito Petretti Most services agreements for vendor-provided technology services contain standard provisions allowing vendors to use customer data and data generated through the provision of services to improve and enhance service […]
What Corporate Leaders Misunderstand About Cybersecurity Frameworks
By Steve Durbin, Chief Executive, Information Security Forum Cybersecurity frameworks help, but a framework turned in for a score feels more like a report card than an improvement path. On paper it can look well […]
The Adaptive Extension Framework: Modernizing Core ERP Foundations
By Dmitry Borisov Introduction: The Architectural Dilemma and the Limits of Existing Paradigms In the practice of designing and developing large distributed enterprises, modernizing user interfaces and integrating cognitive AI computing have become the…
The Alignment Gap: Why It Exists, and How Enterprise Architecture Closes It
By Santi Chakrabarti Strategic programmes rarely fail at the start. They fail gradually, quietly, despite compelling business cases, enthusiastic sponsors, and significant investment. Technology initiatives start on time and within budget, and still fa…
Teradata Consolidates Data, AI and Technology Functions Under Josh Fecteau
Teradata has expanded the responsibilities of Chief Data and AI Officer Josh Fecteau, naming him chief information officer and placing the company’s data, artificial intelligence and technology operations under a single executive leader. The appo…
Dennis Mulder: Bridging Strategy and Execution Through Architecture
By Holt Hackney Dennis Mulder is a pragmatic IT architect and chief architect who helps business and technology leaders turn strategy into practical architecture. His areas of focus include cloud, data, security, governance, and the […]
The Substrate Your Diagram Doesn’t Show
Why AI architects need a posture, not just a deployment pattern. By Sam Rogers, Founder, PAICE.work PBC, and Markus Bernhardt, Ph.D., Principal, Endeavor Intelligence AI architects are producing deployment diagrams the organization will be asked […]
Quality as Business Technology Architecture: A New Model for Digital Enterprises
By Dr. Monalisa J. Gandhi, DBA, ASQ-CQA; Director, Quality-NORAM, Corporate Service; Sodexo Corporate Services Over the past several years, I’ve worked with organizations investing heavily in digital transformation—cloud platforms, AI-driven analytics,…
I Built Two Agentic AI Tools Using Claude AI and MCP — No Backend, No Infrastructure
By Chiranjib Ghatak This is a hands-on technical walkthrough of how I built two real, working agentic AI tools — a Gmail Cleanup Agent and a Local File Organiser — using Claude AI, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Claude […]