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IBM to buy Apptio for $4.6B to help companies optimize IT spend

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billion to help enterprises optimize their IT expenditure, particularly cloud costs, as they try to navigate uncertain macroeconomic conditions. Apptio, which has over 1,500 enterprise customers, also integrates with technology from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Salesforce, Google Cloud, Oracle, Salesforce and SAP.

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How to Create an Agile Software Factory in the Enterprise

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Enterprise solution delivery: Cooperation and alignment of processes. Lean portfolio management: Applying Lean-Agile thinking to the way projects are planned, funded and executed. It takes time, effort and training to get the entire organization on the same page, and to focus leaders and management on working on the system, not in it.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson.