Relaying the foundation
When Pradip Sitaram became CIO of US-based non-profit social housing concern Enterprise Community Partners last year, he inherited an IT estate that needed to be entirely modernised – from the desktop to the data centre.
The organisation’s application stack was in an especially bad way, Sitaram recalls. “One of the first things I did was an assessment of all the applications we had,” he says. “We discovered over 80 applications and databases, which is a lot for a company with 550 employees.
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