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Mergers and acquisitions are a vital way for businesses to grow and maintain their competitive advantage. Carefully chosen and managed acquisitions provide organizations with new technology, talent, skills, and knowledge that they wouldn’t hav…
Protecting mission‑critical information requires disciplined asset classification, clear ownership and governance, targeted controls, and a security culture that makes protection part of business as usual. By Steve Durbin, Chief Executive, Information …
With the continuous maturity of deep learning technologies, the accumulation of big data resources, and the explosive growth of computational performance, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gradually stepped into the “new frontier̶…
Reflections on publishing, conversations, and what comes after finishing a book
By Rafael Núñez Infante The conversation around Artificial Intelligence has drifted in the wrong direction. While some argue about whether it will replace humans, others are already using it to learn faster than ever before. […]
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This framework for AI-driven, real-time models illustrates MIT CISR’s prediction that business models in the AI era will become increasingly outcome oriented and enabled by autonomous AI.
Publication date: 2025-10-16
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Avolution has been recognized by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools, published on October 6, 2025, by analysts Austin Steinmetz, Andrei Razvan Sachelarescu, Fred Ganter, and Andrew Gianni. This marks …
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MIT CISR anticipates that rapid advancements in AI will drive business model evolution over the next decade, and we propose that business models in the AI era will become increasingly outcome oriented and enabled by autonomous AI. In this br…
By Paul Preiss There’s a point in almost every architecture meeting where everyone nods as if we all agree… and then proceeds to argue for an hour about completely different things. Someone shows a diagram. […]
Remember when Enterprise Architecture (EA) was mostly about static diagrams and thick binders? It was a world of manual data entry, where Enterprise Architects painstakingly mapped out the IT landscape using spreadsheets and Visio. This tradit…
Enterprise Architects can have a tough time proving their value to the business. That’s not to say their work is a waste of time, but the typical achievements of an EA department can be hard to translate into outcomes that are meaningful for t…
By Rajeev Prashar (Editor’s Note: This article represents part four of an ongoing series. Part one, appeared on August 18, entitled “The Unavoidable ‘SCREAM’: Why Enterprise Architecture Must Transform for the Organization of Tomorrow“, introduced […..