CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

Recent research found that application modernization took an average of 16 months. And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

In the case of Asana, capitalizing on these will require a commitment to being cost conscious, with an eye toward achieving efficiencies wherever possible, and then strategically deploying the savings that come from reevaluating the company’s operations. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. And the costs recur monthly or quarterly,” Upchurch says. There are other risks, too.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

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. Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It stifled innovation internally and within ecosystems, slowing time to market and hampering business agility. The communications service provider (CSP) wanted to modernize its order management systems and processes to avoid vendor lock-in, shorten release cycles, and get products and services to market faster, in a more agile way.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Tanzu Vanguards, which includes leaders, engineers, and developers from DATEV, Dell, GAIG, and TeraSky, provided their perspectives on analyst predictions and industry data that point to larger trends impacting cloud computing, application development, and technology decisions. I have heard this for 10 or more years.

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TM Forum

APRIL 29, 2022

Gartner, for example, points out that CIOs are investing in acquiring the agility and flexibility to cope with geopolitical disruption, inflation, currency fluctuations and supply chain challenges, with key areas of investment including analytics, cloud computing, seamless customer experiences and security. Source: Gartner).

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Gartner recently lowered their expectations for IT budgets to increase by just 2.2% Here are tips for making the most of your IT budget in a recession. Developers can deploy applications, and it’s automatically hosted and delivered as appropriate without having to manage servers. It’s costing companies $2.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In banking and financial services applications, for example, GenAI solutions are being developed to analyze customer data, market data, economic trends, and more to help support highly personalized insights and guidance. GenAI has now reached a level of maturity where investments made are being judged against the results generated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 9, 2023

When Diminishing Returns Become Budget Busters For years enterprises scrambled to build applications in public cloud environments; there was legitimate business value in rapid innovation, deployment and scalability, as well as unfettered access to more geographical regions. Smart Workload Placement is Key Meill is right.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A majority of companies are confident in a future built around hybrid cloud, according to a recent poll conducted by The Harris Poll and IBM. What they are less decisive about is how to map the right cloud modernization journey, one that is efficient and secure while delivering business agility and competitive advantage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s easy to view these as competing priorities vying for CIO attention and budget that are unfairly dwarfed by boardroom interest in the new and shiny opportunities promised by gen AI. When you think about all the blocking and tackling a CIO needs to do for regular applications, that especially applies to AI.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. Embrace cloud-native principles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Business analysts need a “strong understanding of regulatory and reporting requirements as well as plenty of experience in forecasting, budgeting, and financial analysis combined with understanding of key performance indicators,” according to Robert Half Technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2022

From infrastructure costs to finding the right talent, it seems that digital experiences are always requiring more attention and more budget. According to a consumer survey conducted by the company in May , online interactions play an outsized role in driving engagement between brands and customers. Enterprise Applications, SaaS

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Future of CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Effective budgeting management, can flex to changing business needs. However, from a recently released IW survey report, IT budgeting process in many organizations still stuck in the past, half think their company’s budget process isn’t consistently flexible enough for changing business needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Why Cloud Platforms Matter to Marketing Leaders According to IDC, 89% of marketing campaign management applications in Europe are now cloud based rather than on premises. Marketing is becoming digitally transformed through the adoption of new cloud-based marketing applications.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Behind all the industry buzz around digitization, customer experience transformation and 5G monetization, there’s still a lingering issue at the core of CSPs’ everyday business that needs attention: Up to 80% of CSPs’ IT budgets are still being spent on system integration and customization1. Lasting Benefits.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

based IT directors and vice presidents in companies with more than 1,000 employees and found that due to the economic landscape, 62% of IT leaders have a much greater focus on efficiency today than ever before. Web and mobile developers typically follow agile practices, and many focus on continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Enterprise storage can be used to improve your company’s cybersecurity, accelerate digital transformation, and reduce costs, while improving application and workload service levels. Nonetheless, companies need to ensure that valuable corporate data is always available. That’s going to get attention in the board room.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

Tight budgets and labor shortages have remained an ongoing challenge for IT leaders in 2023. Many of these companies that have been around for decades are eager to continue digitizing workflows and harnessing real-time data to deliver business outcomes. Modern enterprises, on average, have more than 1,000 SaaS applications in use.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

IT leaders need to adapt by adopting a holistic approach that focuses on resilience, agility, diversification, and collaboration,” Srivastava says. “In Ensure there’s an agreed-upon value associated with each of your applications and services.” Lead your organization with an innovator’s mindset,” Olson says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 18, 2024

And nearly every company seems poised to adopt artificial intelligence in some fashion. They want someone that can do both — keep a solid foundation to run operations, plus have an eye toward the future in order to build and transform the company. Most midsize and large organizations are spending significantly on cloud capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2022

Currently, she is working with two governments to shore up cybersecurity of several NATO power grids and, at the same time, transforming the company into an “intelligent connected utility.”. You can imagine what the Infrastructure Act and the Go Green [initiatives] has meant for my budget. It’s gone up 30% to 40%,” she says. “I

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2022

Unfortunately, this puts their clients, their companies, and partners at risk. Riccardo Galbiati, cyber advisor, Office of the CSO at Palo Alto Networks, says the biggest advantage fintechs and noebanks have over traditional, larger financial services firms in the sector is their agility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

Year Up’s pandemic experience highlighted many companies’ struggle to be agile when saddled with technical debt during a period when moving quickly can make or break the business. The problem is even more acute at large shops where roughly 40% of the enterprise IT budget is earmarked for technical debt–related spend.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2023

The ongoing tight IT job market has companies doing whatever they can to attract top tech talent. But 86% of technology managers also said that it’s challenging to find skilled professionals in software and applications development, technology process automation, and cloud architecture and operations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. It’s also essential to find the right partners who share an agile mindset and commitment to sustainable change.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

The Business Application Research Center (BARC) warns that data governance is a highly complex, ongoing program, not a “big bang initiative,” and it runs the risk of participants losing trust and interest over time. Lack of resources: Data governance initiatives can struggle for lack of investment in budget or staff.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2023

It can do it the simple way — allocate the IT budget to cost-center managers based on some easy-to-understand metric, like percent of the corporation’s total headcount, or the percent of the total corporate budget the cost-center manager controls. That’s because IT has two ways to compute its chargebacks. Give it up.

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Future of CIO

AUGUST 21, 2013

Being agile means anticipating likely change and addressing it deftly, keeping business on course and customers satisfied. Maturity is the agility and focuses on continuous improvement. Agility is the dynamic capability that allows organizations to adapt their substantive capabilities to business dynamic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Despite massive investments, the data landscape within enterprises is still overly complex, spread across multiple clouds, applications, locations, environments, and vendors,” Nirmal says. A key data observability attribute is that it acts on metadata, providing a safe way to monitor data directly within applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Pre-COVID, agility became an aspiration and rallying cry for organizations seeking to embrace emerging technologies and pursue technology-enabled innovation, often to stave off digital disruption in their industries. This goes beyond implementing agile methodology. Balance control with agility. Think a step ahead.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Summary: Over the past couple of years, CIOs and IT leaders have faced a pop quiz of sorts: How quickly can your company adapt to unexpected challenges? Overall, I feel like the last couple of years have illustrated one important point: The importance of agility. We’ve heard about the need for agility for years now.

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