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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

GeekWire

Helion’s co-founders, left to right: Chris Pihl, chief technology officer; David Kirtley, CEO; and George Votroubek, director of research. Helion Photo) The commercial project will largely be licensed and regulated by the state Department of Health , which previously approved three of Helion’s test devices.

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First glimpse of Amazon’s new robotaxi: Zoox autonomous vehicle spotted during video shoot

GeekWire

They sported the “ZOOX” logo and license plate, and the “push me, pull you” configuration expected to be a signature element of the Zoox design. Analyzing the images on Forbes, transportation writer Brad Templeton observes that the boxy design is similar to vehicles from competitors such as Cruise and EasyMile.

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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. “It

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Examining low-code/no-code popularity across Africa and its range of disruption for CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

In Cameroon, for instance, the land credit authority is banking on an agile platform in low code adapted to the needs of application development, as well as the supply of licenses necessary to implement such a platform, how it’s operated, and the production of reports. We also regularly organize awareness-raising events on the issue.”

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Micro transformation: Driving big business benefit through quick IT wins

CIO Business Intelligence

The CIO of transportation and logistics company Werner Enterprises has spent the bulk of his career doing full-blown transformation projects that often took two or three years to complete and ended up being a “massive, monolithic platform.” When it comes to IT projects, Daragh Mahon likes to think small.

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Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on how to get self-driving taxis to the mall

The Verge

He was the CTO before this role. I think about how you commercialize, deploy the technology, introduce it to communities, and he focuses on building the Waymo Driver. Eventually we will also focus on personal car ownership, which is when you license the technology. You don’t need a driver’s license. I was the COO.

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