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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization

CIO Business Intelligence

In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth. Further, most software license agreements include annual processes to reset maintenance costs when consumption patterns change.

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New round of layoffs at Hasbro impacts Wizards of the Coast — read CEO’s memo to staff

GeekWire

Conversely, soft toy sales, several expired licenses, and this summer’s Writers’ and Screen Actors’ Guild strikes contributed to significant shortfalls in Hasbro’s Consumer Products and Entertainment segments. In 2024, its earnings report says the plan is “refocusing our company on what has traditionally made us great, the business of play.”

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8 strategic imperatives for SAP transformation success

CIO Business Intelligence

The rise of business transformation initiatives has IT leaders rethinking the way they evaluate, select, and negotiate technology and IT services deals today. At the same time, CIOs are working to reshape the business of IT, driving their organizations to the cloud and to new delivery and operating models. .

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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

TM Forum

The thinking behind this is to avoid the old attitude of “if you build it, they will come”, which is capital inefficient, technology-centric and not focused on business objectives, nuanced customer requirements or commercial flexibility. The contribution of process automation is the largest contributing factor to opex reduction.

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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO Business Intelligence

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. In addition to the financial cost of the ransom payment, businesses can also lose revenue and productivity due to downtime and the need to recover from the attack. Déjà vu can suck sometimes.

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What is an automation engineer? A growing role to address IT automation

CIO Business Intelligence

Regardless of how people feel about automation, it’s here to stay, and companies are embracing automation technologies to streamline IT, business, development, and service processes. Sometimes this will include hardware or software, but other times you might be asked to automate service or business processes.