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Tech Moves: Portland’s Act-On adds two new execs; Tanium adds public sector SVP; and more

GeekWire

Gregg Ames, left, and Syed Ahmed, two recent hires at Act-On. Ahmed previously was CTO and vice president of engineering at Contiq. She previously was with Cisco, Ellucian and Adobe. — Sears joined HNTB, an engineering and architecture firm earlier this year as a Western Region sales officer. Act-On Photos). —

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Backcountry modernizes for the cloud era

CIO Business Intelligence

At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s digital presence. Undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of a dusty enterprise stack can feel a bit like scaling a mountain. But tech was in the total doldrums.”.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

When assessing vendors, Rich Products looks at their technology, architecture, business value, and pragmatic perspective. Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If Doing this fine-tuning in-house would take a lot of time, he adds, since the speed to market is very important.