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Key Takeaways AI is no longer a future-facing ambition for payment institutions. It is already present in boardroom priorities, transformation roadmaps, vendor propositions, and risk discussions. The evidence is moving beyond adoption. The World Economic

Key Takeaways Speed is a system property, not a sprint: Hitting a launch date by working harder almost always pushes the cost into the next quarter as slower releases, more incidents, and team attrition. Durable acceleration comes from changes to the oper

Key Takeaways The best architecture at scale is rarely a pure monolith or a pure microservices estate. It is usually a portfolio of choices matched to the workload, team structure, failure tolerance, and release cadence of each part of the business. A mod

Key Takeaways Hidden cost: Technical debt represents 20% to 40% of the value of the average enterprise technology estate, and 10% to 20% of every dollar earmarked for new product work is redirected to servicing it. Productivity, not tickets: The damage ra

Key Takeaways Agile is a tool, not a cure-all: Following Agile ceremonies like daily stand-ups doesn't automatically guarantee on-time delivery. Most projects still struggle with budget and time because the underlying issues are often overlooked. Problems

Key Takeaways Understand legacy systems before you touch them Modern-looking code doesn't mean a modern platform Shared system knowledge reduces reliance on specialists Legacy modernisation should be continuous, not one-off A 20-year-old software company

Key Takeaways The 95% problem: Most enterprise AI initiatives (95%) fail to deliver measurable financial impact, with a rising trend of companies abandoning projects before production. It's a people problem, not a model problem: AI failures are driven pri

Key Takeaways Mind the Impact Gap: Enterprise AI adoption has crossed 80%, yet only 6% of organizations report material EBIT impact. The gap is about operating models, not technology. Proven Task Efficiency: Controlled studies show real productivity gains

Ciklum partners with ClickHouse to speed enterprise migrations to real-time analytics - SiliconANGLE

Key Takeaways Autonomy is Not a Single Concept: The phrase "no human in the loop" describes three different things at once: narrow task autonomy, workflow autonomy inside a bounded system, and open-ended agency. Only the first two are operating reliably a