Gokulnath J.

🔎 When is the right time to start an Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice? After 25+ years in IT and 15+ years in EA, this question has surfaced repeatedly across industries, company sizes, and company age. 🚀 From consulting with Fortune 500 clients—either augmenting mature EA teams or helping establish new practices—to leading transformations in Fortune 50 companies, I’ve seen challenges emerge at every stage. Strategic alignment, executive buy-in, and stakeholder engagement often determine success more than revenue or company age. 🏢 In large enterprises, competing business units and time-to-market pressures can make standardization difficult. 🌍 Global markets present their own hurdles, particularly when corporate teams attempt alignment. 💡 Even in a $1T software company, shifting from an engineering mindset to long-term architectural thinking required deliberate effort. 📈 Today, at a company of $900M+ in revenue, we’re building an EA practice with direct access to business leaders and technology teams—a key advantage at this scale. However, as organizations grow, imposing structure from a central EA function becomes increasingly complex. 🤔 A colleague recently suggested that EA should begin the moment a company performs any M&A activity—not waiting for a milestone like revenue or headcount. 💬 What do you think? When does EA become essential? #enterprisearchitecture #EA #whentostartEA ~image by Copilot

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CGI has signed an agreement to acquire management and technology consulting firm Stratfield Consulting, further strengthening CGI’s position in Atlanta, a key U.S. growth market. Stratfield Consulting specializes in digital engineering and product development, technology strategy and enablement, and change management to help retailers and financial services clients achieve business outcomes. Read more in the press release

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Coding assist platforms in addition to chatbots are the top two break-out applications of AI. The ramifications of moving from a world of code scarcity to code abundance are profound. At Cognizant we are industrializing the process of writing code alongside machines and creating a grassroots movement in our developer communities. Reema Tendulkar Cognizant Prasad Sankaran Jatin Dalal

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“Gen AI is evolving from a tool for automation to a catalyst for autonomy.” That’s the shift we’re embracing at Cognizant - where #AgenticAI is becoming the invisible engine behind enterprise transformation. The real disruption is only just beginning, which means moving beyond automation to systems that can perceive, decide, and act independently.   In my recent interview with Express Computer, I shared how we’re operationalizing #GenAI through our frameworks like Agent Foundry, embedding intelligence into the very fabric of work - from IT operations to cybersecurity and beyond. It isn’t any more about deploying a tool. It’s about reimagining how we work, decide, and deliver outcomes at scale.   Read the interview here: https://lnkd.in/gRWZs-nT Ravi Kumar S Rajesh V. Surya Gummadi Thea Hayden Naveen Sharma Poornima Sathy Amiteshwar Seth Vibha Rustagi Sriramkumar Kumaresan Manish Garg Anuj Bhalla Abhijit Datar Jeff DeMarrais Vipin Nair Nishanth Ramesh Hema Swamy Deepika Sapra  

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Enterprise Architects: Be Careful – Do not develop new “silos.” In this video, we discuss what Enterprise Architectures Mistakes to avoid, and how to start developing a Holistic Enterprise Architecture. If Enterprise Architects do not have a seat at the Decision-Making Table – ask the CEO/President/CXO what is required to make this happen. Perhaps it is because Enterprise Architects “inadvertently” created new Silos that were as much of a concern as the previous Silos. The Enterprise Architecture Objective: Business Impact. Let us make sure that Enterprise Architects, and their resulting architectures, are not producing a “new” version of Silos. Have questions about getting measurable and impactful business outcomes as a result of your Enterprise Architecture? Schedule a call with us using this link- https://lnkd.in/da22wCzQ #RealTalkWithSamHolcman #TipsFromSam #EACOE #BACOE #EnterpriseArchitecture #BusinessArchitecture

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TechTarget talked to Pega CTO Don Schuerman on the new vibe coding capabilities in Pega Blueprint and how any user can design apps rooted in enterprise rules and policies. This is a tremendous initiative that injects the innovation of vibe with the strength, governance and assurance of a secure enterprise platform. https://lnkd.in/g6MZtB7C

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Pegasystems unveiled expanded Pega Blueprint features powered by agentic AI to accelerate enterprise modernization. Organizations can now ingest legacy assets—documentation, source code, UI screenshots, and demo videos—and instantly generate cloud-native application blueprints, slashing what used to take months into weeks pega.com . With 88 % of IT leaders citing technical debt as a barrier to innovation, Pega’s gen AI workflow design agent is transforming digital transformation initiatives pega.com . Discover how to turn tech debt into agile, AI-native systems: https://lnkd.in/g4jgNzpg #AgenticAI #DigitalTransformation

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Explore how AWS and Oracle Database@AWS combine their strengths to accelerate digital transformation for healthcare providers, payers, and life sciences organizations in this #AWSreInvent session. https://lnkd.in/gT_BxN3W

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