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CIO & CTO Strategic Concerns: June 2025

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As summer 2025 approaches tech execs and boards are discussing strategic initiatives for 2026 and beyond. As CIOs and CTOs navigate the complex strategic concerns of 2025 it is shaping the changes needed for Q3 and Q4 of this year and subsequent quarters to follow. The rapid technological change, economic pressure, regulatory scrutiny, and growing demands for agility and innovation are only increasing the optics on technical strategic initiatives.   We’ve created a detailed summary of the concerns we are finding in our research as well as what our Advisory Division clients are...

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This is Your Legacy: Integrate new technology with your existing software 

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In the fast-paced world of tech, the appeal of replacing legacy software systems with sleek, modern alternatives can be compelling. Buzzwords like “digital transformation” and “cloud-native” are dominating boardroom conversations, and vendors are encouraging businesses to take an ‘out with the old and in with the new’ approach. However, this mindset often overlooks a critical truth: integrating new technology while maintaining and optimizing legacy systems can often be a more strategically sound choice and a fiscally responsible one, for many organizations.  Legacy Systems: The...

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Time to Stability™ – It’s all about how quickly you stop worrying

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Time to Stability™  is how we measure success at STEP.  It’s our gold standard promise to our clients, it’s how quickly you stop worrying. Others may use a cheeky marketing term, offer bloated promises or fake metrics, but at STEP we use the tools that lead to success. For over 20 years CIO’s, CTO’s and IT leaders have reached out to us when they are in a state of chaos. Issues like a COBOL system not integrating with newer software, or a team about to blow a timeline on a critical software project. They call us with their frustrations around operational inefficiencies and problems with...

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Reflecting on 2024 and the Year Ahead

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Last year our end of year message highlighted tech trends that we’d been keeping an eye on; this year we continue to keep track of what’s important in our industry. It’s been a year of many repeated trends as well as several very exciting newcomers. Let’s have look at what we’ve been monitoring: AI continues to be the biggest trend as business leaders embrace its power to increase productivity, customer experience and profitability. Cybersecurity and the rising frequency of cyberattacks highlighted the need for stronger preventative measures and more innovative ways of...

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What the fox is going on at STEP Software? 

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We know what you’re thinking: it’s a bunch of marketing nonsense. But this couldn’t be further from the truth.  Back in 2019, we embarked on a mission to rebrand our company, which included launching our sassy mascot, Quinn.  We embraced his fox-like qualities of being clever, bold, and creative in every decision we made, every client we collaborated with, and every project we became part of.  We developed a plan that included a new website, the launch of an exciting new product, and a round of hiring to formalise our HR, Sales, and Marketing efforts. But, like many...

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Luna-25 and Chandrayaan-3 tell two very different stories for developers

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UNDERSTANDING THE WHY It could be months before investigators figure out what happened to Russia’s robotic probe in the critical moments as it maneuvered above the lunar surface. Yuri Borisov, Director General of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, blamed a botched engine burn for the disaster. He said a planned 84-second engine burn that was supposed to put the probe into a “pre-landing orbit”, instead ran for 127 seconds.  The mission was Russia’s first since 1976, when the Soviet Union lofted Luna-24 toward Earth’s nearest neighbour. Borisov said failure...

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Apple’s new device fingerprinting rules send clear privacy message to developers

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NOT A ONE-TIME CHANGE Apple is no stranger to the privacy game, as this move is only the latest in a series of policy updates designed to strengthen data access and usage policies across its platforms and devices. The most significant of these changes was the introduction of App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14.5 in 2021. That update required apps to request end-user permission to track activity across other apps and websites. Opting in allowed developers to use Apple’s IDFA identifier to share activity with third party data brokers and marketing agencies. Opting...

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Developers are already using ChatGPT to write code and save time. Should you?

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JACK OF ALL TRADES, MASTER OF… In the months since ChatGPT was released to the public, millions of users worldwide have rolled up their sleeves to see what it can do. In addition to writing articles and term papers, it can compose music and poetry, play trivia games, update your resume, generate recipes, tweak your fitness plan, solve math problems, and even plan a birthday party. It can also generate code. Or tweak existing code. Or debug it. Which understandably makes software developers nervous. After all, if anyone can ask a bot to write code, what happens to the...

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Building a mobile-friendly website? Do these 8 critical things first.

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Note: This article continues our look at mobile-friendly websites, and why it has become essential for all businesses to have a mobile-first web presence. For guidance on making the business case within your own organization, check out our earlier article – Your business needs a mobile-friendly website. Here’s why. THE WORLD LEADS WITH MOBILE There is no longer any doubt that we live in a mobile world. Data from Statista confirms we’ve already passed something of a tipping point, and there’s no going back. According to this research firm, just over 59% of global...

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Your business needs a mobile-friendly website. Here’s why.

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THE SMARTPHONE AGE Chances are that your business has already done a great job shifting into the digital space. You’ve probably got a decent website, reasonably active social accounts, and a pretty good range of ways for customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders to contact you. But it’s not enough. While you’ve been busy doing all the things necessary to build your brand, the world has changed around us. The desktop PC is no longer the dominant piece of hardware –at home or in the office. We live in a mobile world now, We can work wherever there’s connectivity – meaning...

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