FINAL WORD
The five essential tools for the corporate technology stack
David Coffey , Chief Product Officer , NS1 , an IBM Company , outlines some of the key technologies he thinks provide the perfect foundation for a unified tech stack .
Corporate IT departments have found themselves out of the loop when it comes to maintaining control of their company ’ s tech stack . The rapid march towards digitalisation , the need for agile and robust infrastructure to underpin remote and hybrid work practices and the ever-increasing demand for performance in every aspect of consumers ’ online lives has brought about a shift in how technology has been specified and integrated .
The urgent need to respond to the changes wrought by the pandemic meant individual lines of business took it upon themselves to purchase new technology solutions . This not only changed the well-honed practice of streamlining all tech purchases through corporate IT but also meant companies were left with disjointed tech stacks . Where the corporate IT team might have selected Microsoft Azure across the entire business , they may now find themselves with one line using a cloud service from AWS instead .
Apart from creating multiple security challenges , these actions are also unnecessarily costly for companies , which is why CTOs , CFOs and CISOs are now encouraging their IT teams to seize back control of the tech stack .
Putting right the disjointed decision-making of recent years , however , is not without its challenges . No company wants to put at risk the ability of its application teams to provide high-performing solutions to customers because it needs to unify its
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