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How Smelly Are Your IT Environments?

January 27, 2026 By Enov8

How smelly are your IT environments? Kent beck, the inventor of XP extreme programming, once wrote about the concept of “Smelly Code”. Given IT Environments seem to be a significant challenge for so many organizations, it got us thinking: What might “Smelly IT Environments” smell of? In a nutshell, here is our top 8 list […]

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Outsourcing Carousel and the need for Enterprise IT Intelligence

The Outsourcing Carousel & Enterprise IT Intelligence

January 26, 2026 By Enov8

A key responsibility of any CIO is to find the correct technology partners to deliver IT services. Ideally services delivered will be: A process that involves RFPs, Presentations, Strategy Workshops, Vendor Short Listing & eventual Selection. And it might be added, a process that invariably involves a whole bunch of very smart SMEs (Technology Gods) […]

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IT Environment Blind Spots

IT Environment Blind Spots

January 13, 2026 By Enov8

It is hard to believe most enterprises are still managing their Development & Test Environment assets and activities with non-scalable and non-Intergratable methods like spreadsheets, word documents and emails.  A process that results in major blind spots and inefficiencies from both an operations perspective and a financial perspective. Enov8’s Ecosystem EM solution has been purposely […]

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Environment Management Maturity Index

Test Environment Management Maturity Index – (TEMMi)

January 11, 2026 By Enov8

With 45%+ Infrastructure & License Spend being for Non Production & with IT Projects losing up to 20% in Productivity due to IT Environment issues. It is now clear that Test Environment Management can’t be ignored. It was in recognition of these problems that enov8 decided to create the TEMMi.  The TEMMi (Test Environment Management […]

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Pepperoni Test Environment Pizza

The Test Environment Pizza

January 9, 2026 By Enov8

I had an “interesting” chat with a potential client this week. The conversation started normally with myself and my colleague going through the benefits of our Test Environment & Release Management solution, and then continuing to a “show and tell”.  However, I could tell the client was somewhat distracted and had something “greater” on their […]

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