CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

As organizations roll out AI applications and AI-enabled smartphones and devices, IT leaders may need to sell the benefits to employees or risk those investments falling short of business expectations. Our responsibility as CIOs is certainly to fund and empower work to develop and implement AI tools safely in our workplace.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

Modernize with purpose Before you begin, it’s essential to tie any app modernization project to the business need that is being addressed, says Aparna Sharma, a managing partner for hybrid cloud services at IBM Consulting. Successful application modernization should increase business and IT agility and scalability, Perry says.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The goal of this program is to recognize organizations running CDH for the applications you’ve built using Hadoop, and for the impact your project is having on the organization, business, and/or society at large. During hos two decades as an analyst, Mr. Adrian headed IT Market Strategy, an independent market research consultancy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

Those projects include implementing cloud-based security, anti-ransomware, and user behavior analytics tools, as well as various authentication technologies. IT projects also include deployment of AI-powered security solutions and other technologies that support a zero-trust security model.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 31, 2023

One key indicator of this evolution is the increasing interest in enterprise architecture management (EAM) tools, which transformational enterprise architects and CIOs are turning to in order to jointly digitize the business. The transition from monolith to microservices needs a high level of good governance.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Here they are.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2022

Too often, technology companies pay consulting or analyst firms to create metrics based on the best characteristics of their offerings,” says Judith Hurwitz, CEO of Hurwitz Strategies, an emerging technology consulting firm. Will it be used as a planning tool? Today, many CIOs feel the same way about metrics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2022

At Vault Health, CTO Steve Shi begins enterprise architecture (EA) work with a site survey of the entire IT, application, system, and data infrastructure but restricts it to two weeks with one-hour interviews about each function. At Carrier Global Corp., Steve Shi Vault Health.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

He and other industry observers and IT leaders note, however, that an abundance of tools, managed services, and platforms are giving CIOs greater visibility into cloud costs and that alone is helping to lower the bills. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

Riley describes a company’s surroundings as the tools, platforms, and applications used to get the job done. And, on the flip side, it’s just as important to be mindful of team chemistry and take action when there’s a problem, says Srini Kadiyala, CTO of OvalEdge. Bad hires happen, and sometimes, promotions don’t work out.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. But for other tools where latency isn’t critical, we don’t measure it.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

It’s still the case today, except entrepreneurs and companies are now beginning to adopt tools to create applications and develop services that don’t require coding. These technologies are at the exploratory or low-use stage.” Achieng has now taken up technology as her “divine mission.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. This team establishes the company’s risk tolerance, acceptable use cases and restrictions, and applicable disclosures. Here is a look at how CIOs are addressing ethical AI in their organizations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It also plans to spend $100 million per year to add generative AI technology to its flagship products, and has already built its Thomson Reuters Generative AI Platform, and released its first generative AI assistant for its legal research tool, Westlaw Precision. This is going to be a game-changer for photography. Andres’ advice?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Anything that falls into the category of IT management tools is often cast aside, but these are the workhorses of IT,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas. You don’t think about them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

Long before the advent of customer data platforms (CDPs) , Kohl’s business model centered on collecting and cultivating customer data. We’ve had a homegrown customer data environment for decades,” says Paul Gaffney, CTO and supply chain officer at the $19.4 billion American department store chain. The Milwaukee, Wis.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2024

Jamie Holcombe, CIO of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, is one. “I I consider AI an augmented intelligent tool. I don’t feel you collaborate with a tool — you use it,” Holcombe says. People are using gen AI for efficiency and as a tool for diagnostic problems.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. Embrace cloud-native principles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

A related concept, CloudOps, for “cloud operations,” has emerged as enterprises increasingly move application development and workloads to the cloud, and those cloud outlays become more complex. From there, companies deploy their application either automatically or through continuous integration and continuous delivery,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The use of gen AI in the enterprise was nearly nothing in November 2022, where the only tools commonly available were AI image or early text generators. Plus, when you add in cloud-based gen AI tools like ChatGPT, the percentage of companies using gen AI in one form or another becomes nearly universal. They need stability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. level talent while embracing the latest data mining, data analysis, and analytical tools.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 2, 2023

This move to the cloud lays the foundation for further expansion into other cloud-based applications to deliver deeper insights and better digital services, as well as drive cost savings for the company and the consumer. year-to-date, with on-demand year-to-date growth in excess of 100%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Modern EA strategies now extend this philosophy to the entire business, not just IT, to ensure the business is aligned with digital transformation strategies and technological growth. Enterprise architects often go on to work as a CTO, software engineering or development director, or CIO. Business intelligence.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

Putting aside the fact this is an astronomically high adoption rate for a brand new technology, it’s also an indicator of how risky this space is. An enterprise that bet its future on ChatGPT would be in serious trouble if the tool disappeared and all of OpenAI’s APIs suddenly stopped working. Unless the vendor did something special.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

We ensure that we build cybersecurity and data security into every aspect of the application infrastructure solution that we are delivering,” she says. Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees. He is also exploring AI tools with the goal of providing workers with a self-service platform for supporting decision making.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Rahul Mahna, partner and outsourced IT services leader at management consulting firm Eisner Advisory Group, believes that scenario-playing with teams and management colleagues can spur useful security insights. What would happen, for example, if a key client’s business was shut down by a cyberattack? Planning is critical, Folk says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Gathering and processing data quickly enables organizations to assess options and take action faster, leading to a variety of benefits, said Elitsa Krumova ( @Eli_Krumova ), a digital consultant, thought leader and technology influencer. Nichol ( @PeterBNichol ), Chief Technology Officer at OROCA Innovations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Supply insightful, actionable data IT should supply sales team members with the timely, accurate data they need to become top performers, recommends Michael Tantrum, national sales director at IT consulting firm Resultant. It’s up to IT to spot potential sales-boosting tools and bring them to the sales leader for study and evaluation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The bad news is that many of them are net-new, meaning that the mass of customers still using its legacy ECC system, or running its modern S/4HANA system on-premises, are not migrating as quickly as the company would like to cloud offerings such as Rise with SAP , its subscription package of licensing, hosting, and application management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Readiness is determined by the ability to experiment, and the ability to scale what works — building this capacity is critical to be future-ready,” says Siim Sikkut, former government CIO of Estonia, who’s now managing partner at IT consultancy Digital Nation. And then mainstreaming into your business the stuff that proves valuable.”

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