“Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build, and test”
Ray Ozzie, former CTO, Microsoft
As an ISV leader, you’re juggling demands from all directions – launching new products, creating quality code, meeting legal and security requirements – while also keeping up with fierce competition and customer expectations. The pressure is intense.
According to Gartner, 80% of software executives believe platform engineering is the key to bringing order to this chaos. But an ill-managed solution becomes its own problem, requiring significant amounts of your team’s time to implement, manage and triage.
So, how can you leverage platform engineering to simplify your development cycle rather than complicate it?
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BCG on AI
BCG says that 54% of board members expect AI to drive down costs in 2025 – is this realistic?
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Gartner on workloads
Gartner predicts that 95% of new digital workloads will be cloud-native. Are tech foundations in place for this?
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BCG on IT budgets
BCG predicts a 40% rise in the proportion of IT budgets allocated to GenAI – is the risk appetite there to dive in?
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Attendees
CTOs, CDOs, CIOs and their teams
Chief Technology, Data, Information, and Product Officers, and Decision Makers with a focus on data, technology and information across the ISV sectors. This discussion will be valuable to you if you’re looking to learn how to effectively leverage platform engineering.
Attendance is capped to ensure every participant is able to contribute. The meeting is only open to invited participants or those who have been referred by a colleague or our partner, Rackspace.
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