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. CIOs should work with their organizations’ HR departments to offer AI training, Chandrasekaran recommends.

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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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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2014

Prior to starting Applicology, an independent consulting firm specializing in informatics and cyber security issues, Flores spent 31 years at the CIA where he held various positions in the Directorate of Intelligence, Directorate of Support, the National Clandestine Service and the Office of the CIO. Media Contact: Laura Taylor.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

Geiger is a longtime product design and engineering consultant. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. The duo teamed up to figure out how to reduce the time and money required to create machine learning applications. ”

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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

APRIL 29, 2024

And while CIOs are working to train internal candidates within IT and the business units for tough-to-fill tech jobs or are using contractors to fill in staffing gaps , Sengupta says those practices create talent challenges, too. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But for Kapil Mehrotra, group CTO at National Collateral Management Services (NCMS), high turnover presented an opportunity to cut costs of the IT department, streamline its operations, and find a long-term solution to the perpetual skills scarcity problem. The applications had been transformed into SaaS and PaaS environment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Thomas Phelps, CIO and SVP of corporate strategy at Laserfiche, says cloud contracts typically include several “gotchas” that IT leaders and procurement chiefs should be aware of, and he stresses the importance of studying terms of use before signing. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But if there are any stop signs ahead regarding risks and regulations around generative AI, most enterprise CIOs are blowing past them, with plans to deploy an abundance of gen AI applications within the next two years if not already. A recent survey of nearly 1,000 IT decision-makers conducted by Foundry underscores this.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

IT service delivery enables an organization to give end users access to essential IT services by designing, developing, and deploying key technology resources, including applications and data. Adopt a user-centric approach when organizing your development/application delivery teams,” he recommends.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

These complaints, filed by a variety of different copyright holders, allege the companies of training their AIs on copyrighted data—images, code, and text. Data governance In traditional application development, enterprises have to be careful that end users aren’t allowed access to data they don’t have permission to see.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI is now a board-level priority Last year, AI consisted of point solutions and niche applications that used ML to predict behaviors, find patterns, and spot anomalies in carefully curated data sets. With a pre-trained model, you can bring it into HR, finance, IT, customer service—all of us are touched by it.” Then gen AI came out.

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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. We will do this on an intermittent basis, and every new employee who joins will be required to take this training,” he adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2023

Gunkel also cited Google’s Looker and Big Query BI data analysis tools and its Chronicle security operations suite as important for enabling the university to operate a wide variety of applications and research on the cloud. As such, migrating to the cloud alone was not part of Gunkel’s plan. This is a ‘teach us to fish’ model.

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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. Bias can be inadvertently perpetuated when AI is trained on historical data, he notes. Companies need both a practical plan and a transparent communications strategy in their response.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2024

CIOs must remember that it is their workforce who will be using this AI technology, and consider the impact of AI on their workforce, ensuring proper management, training, and integration to make the most of their investment.” No doubt human creativity will be necessary to elevate the quality of application, he says.

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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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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. The Seattle-based application security and delivery company’s revenue was up 10% for the December quarter and recently completed its acquisition of cloud computing startup Volterra. Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric added Umer Sadiq as CTO and Nevin Shetty as CFO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

CIO.com’s 2023 State of the CIO survey recently zeroed in on the technology roles that IT leaders find the most difficult to fill, with cybersecurity, data science and analytics, and AI topping the list. CIOs must up their talent game across the board, including talent management, engagement, training, and retention, in addition to hiring.

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CTOvision

MAY 26, 2015

No law firm, consultancy, proprietary software solution, or cyber-insurance policy has a magic solution that will ensure compliance. The 7012 regulations are a “flowthrough” to the smallest businesses holding Defense contracts, as well as academia. First of all, what is UCTI? What is it not?

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CTOvision

MARCH 27, 2014

Advises executive staff on risk management issues to ensure the appropriate application of controls. Consults with service owners regarding their security risks and responsibility in minimizing those risks. Establishes security awareness and training standards and oversees organization-wide and partner-wide participation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler. This will have a knock-on environmental benefit.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2014

While the usual approach would involve hiring a bunch of consultants or a system integrator to overhaul the existing systems, our customer took a different approach. The CSP could still bring in outside help where needed, but they never lost sight of the goal – delivering services, not implementing technology. CTO innovation NFV SDN'

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I sometimes find SAAS products being managed like traditional COTS applications and enhancements deployed infrequently. In my experience, the best team to operate a portfolio of SAAS applications is primarily composed of Business Analysts (BAs). In addition, PMs own the Vendor Relationship and are responsible for contract negotiation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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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. Data should be both insightful and actionable.

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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. Gartner: After acquiring The Meta Group in 2005, Gartner established best practices for EAP and adapted them into the company’s general consulting practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

For Giridhar Yasa, chief technology officer at Indian online financing company Lendingkart, it starts with reading. “We This happens through reports like those published by the Reserve Bank of India, industry consulting majors, and technology papers among others,” he told CIO.com. “It

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CTOvision

JUNE 15, 2015

You know Spark, the free and open source complement to Apache Hadoop that gives enterprises better ability to field fast, unified applications that combine multiple workloads, including streaming over all your data. They also launched a plan to train over a million data scientists and data engineers on Spark.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

Recent job postings [at TreviPay] have attracted dozens of qualified applicants without using recruiting firms,” Zimmerman says. Delayed decision-making Bhadresh Patel, chief digital officer at global consulting firm RGP, sees organization’s showing more caution than usual.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are plenty of challenges involved in managing software projects, and IT executives who learn how to address these hurdles can help their organizations build better applications to drive business growth and enhance customer experience.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In my consulting and research I help people plan and manage effective and sustainable data and IT management programs. Training and educational programs around data analysis tools and techniques are proliferating and managers in different fields wonder how much analytical expertise is needed. How much analytical expertise is needed?

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 31, 2015

Customers have access to 11 AWS regions around the globe, including two in the EU – Ireland (Dublin) and Germany (Frankfurt) – which are comprised of multiple Availability Zones for customers to build highly secure and available applications. The DPA is now available on request to all customers that require it.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 31, 2015

Customers have access to 11 AWS regions around the globe, including two in the EU – Ireland (Dublin) and Germany (Frankfurt) – which are comprised of multiple Availability Zones for customers to build highly secure and available applications. The DPA is now available on request to all customers that require it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Seth Dobbs, CTO at IT services and consulting firm Bounteous, gives a pretty good thumbnail sketch of what an ideal product manager would look like. On the flipside, many of the experts we spoke to held formal training and education in less esteem. This is absolutely a hybrid role and requires a good mix of skills,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

There’s also the ever-present threat of copyright lawsuits related to AI-generated text and images, accuracy of AI-generated content, and the risk of having sensitive information become training data for the next generation of the AI model — and getting exposed to the world. How transparent are they in their model training process?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

That sense of purpose and yearning to do meaningful work is the ace in the hole for Optum Enterprise CTO Francois Charette, who has hired a number of Silicon Valley technologists in recent months. P&G is applying AI at scale and automating the machine learning deployment process, he says.

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