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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. And it’s not just applications development where such tools are having an impact. And there’s a labor shortage in those industries so [the focus is on] more automation and more AI.” IDC is forecasting a 5.1%

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Startup survival: How a pandemic pivot helped this photo booth company see a bigger picture

GeekWire

Examples of virtual photo booth images created using Snapshot, a web application created by Snapbar. By June of that year, the web application called Snapshot launched and in the first month it was clear there was interest from organizations and companies conducting gatherings of all kinds online.

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