01 May, 2026
As we enter a new year, I’ve been reflecting on a question nearly every CEO, CIO, and CTO is grappling with today: Over the past two years, enterprises have invested…

App Retirement Isn’t Just Switch-Off — It’s Strategy + The Right Solution

Despite the growing shift toward cloud-first strategies — with 85% of organizations expected to embrace the approach (Gartner) — legacy systems still dominate IT landscapes. According to Gartner (2023), about 65% of enterprise applications are now legacy systems, with many organizations dedicating 60–80% of their IT budgets to maintaining them rather than investing in innovation. […]

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Application Retirement vs Application Decommissioning

Organizations across industries are grappling with an alarming reality: 77.7% of IT budgets are consumed by operations and maintenance of legacy systems, with some agencies spending up to 96% of their IT budget on maintaining outdated applications. Understanding the distinction between application retirement and application decommissioning is crucial for optimizing IT resources, enhancing data security, […]

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How Global Businesses Can Prepare for India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act

Data privacy and compliance norms worldwide are becoming increasingly complex. With regulations like the GDPR (EU), CCPA (California, US), and LGPD (Brazil) already in place, regulatory authorities are prioritizing strict action backed by policy to regulate how data is collected, stored, and shared. On July 26, 2025, India’s PIB issued a press briefing discussing how […]

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Better AI with Less Data: How Domain-Specific Data Can Outperform Large Datasets

Only 15% of all AI projects succeed in production, while surveys show that the average ROI of AI implementations within the enterprise is a meagre 1.3%[1]. While these stats are as sobering as they get, they beg the question of why so many organizations continue to pour resources–money, work hours, and compute—into data collection and […]

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