Three years ago, Bill Martin stepped into the CIO role at AEG Worldwide, a sports and live entertainment company, inheriting what he saw as an outdated IT model that lacked alignment with AEG’s vision. After consulting with senior leadership about its business needs, Martin received approval for a new, multiyear IT strategy featuring a revamped IT model that directly supports AEG’s essential IT and business functions.
A key part of AEG’s IT transformation was migrating all business applications — even a proprietary event management application — to the cloud and effectively eliminating the data center. Now, the technology and operations group is focused on integration and cloud architecture. “It’s actually freed up resources to be more committed to delivering those digital services to the business, versus being focused on keeping things running,” Martin says.
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