CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Taking the programmer out of software development, low-code provides tools that enable people with minimal training and coding skills to create and adapt applications themselves using prebuilt templates and program modules. Empowering Citizen Developers.

Applications 141

Applications Training Development Software Development 141

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Easily said—but let’s throw in a curveball, something that happens in business all the time: a merger or acquisition (M&A). How does a company approach data integration and management when in the throes of an M&A? This is especially true for quality assurance (QA) testing of companies’ applications.

Data 128

Data How To Software Development Quality Assurance 128

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2024

As a result, AI skills are now among the most sought-after skills, even as companies retrench via layoffs. These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer.

Open Source 124

Open Source Web Developers Web Development Programming 124

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased. There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience.

Project Management 139

Project Management Engineering Devops Systems Administration 139

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2024

Siemens Mobility has been on a robotic process automation (RPA) journey for years, growing from five automated processes in 2017 to more than 700 now, transforming the company in the process. By the end of 2017, we already decided to have a global rollout for the whole company.”

Mobile 101

Mobile SAP Training Development 101

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In the early 2000s, companies like Amazon, eBay, and Salesforce drove a trend toward standardizing interfaces among web applications. The result was a complete overhaul of how applications were developed and integrated, thanks to a growing network of open web APIs that anyone could consume.

Strategy 137

Strategy Software Development Software Software 137

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

As more companies deploy artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives to help transform their businesses, key areas where projects can go off the rails are becoming clear. Many problems can be avoided with some advanced planning, but several hidden obstacles exist that companies don’t often see until it’s too late.

Company 95

Company Artificial Intelligence Training Data Center 95

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2024

Oliver Banks, Retail Consultant and Author Oliver Banks But according to Banks, one of the most impressive cases he’s seen in retail involves a company and source he can’t disclose. A chief commercial officer of a clothing company learned to use Midjourney to create images of new clothing products.

Enterprise 122

Enterprise Enterprise Banking Software Development 122

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

No matter the industry, organizations are increasingly looking for ways to optimize mission-critical software development processes. Businesses are under constant pressure to adopt new processes and platforms to achieve the goals set out by business leaders. What’s the state of DevSecOps today?

Devops 117

Devops Security Software Development Survey 117

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 6, 2023

Organizations face new challenges associated with protecting distributed assets against cyberattack in the hybrid IT model that most companies will deploy for the foreseeable future. DDoS attacks that target networks, applications, and APIs can seemingly come out of nowhere. Lori MacVittie, F5 Distinguished Engineer, explains.

Security 95

Security SDLC Survey Software Development 95

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

SAP has unveiled new tools to build AI into business applications across its software platform, including new development tools, database functionality, AI services, and enhancements to its Business Technology Platform, BTP. These large models require a lot of training data.

SAP 132

SAP Tools Enterprise Enterprise 132

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The need for efficient software development has taken on greater importance as enterprises introduce more and more digital services and add automation capabilities to enhance business processes. Managing software projects might not be at the top of CIOs’ priority lists , but it is something that IT leaders will have to master.

Project Management 122

Project Management Software Software How To 122

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Few companies operate at the scale that LinkedIn does or have access to similar troves of data. For the business- and employment-focused social media platform, connecting qualified candidates with potential employers to help fill job openings is core business. That is a problem that an LLM can’t fix.

Engineering 139

Engineering Examples Applications Data 139

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

I spent a sizable fraction of my time in 2021 reviewing about 10,000 applicants for software engineering positions at my company, 7Factor, in order to eventually hire about 30. Along the way, I had to confront and attempt to solve for some of the most persistent systemic impediments to greater diversity in software engineering.

Company 98

Company Engineering Software Software 98

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2024

In the report, Gartner says Oracle differentiates itself from other providers through its enhanced support for Oracle Applications, aggressive IaaS pricing, multicloud services, and variety of distributed and sovereign cloud options. Oracle is helped by the fact that it has two offerings for enterprise applications, says Thompson.

Oracle 124

Oracle Enterprise Enterprise Cloud 124

Flexagon

MARCH 1, 2022

Before we look ahead, let’s reflect on Flexagon’s original mission as it continues to drive our product roadmap and company investments. The six founders of Flexagon worked for years in the trenches of enterprise software platforms. Enterprises continue to shift to more agile and continuous software development and delivery.

Oracle 78

Oracle Devops Business Intelligence Tools 78

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.

Devops 143

Devops How To Engineering Systems Administration 143

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 2, 2022

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software. Businesses today have faced greater levels of uncertainty than ever before. As employees and customers demand higher-quality digital experiences, companies must ensure their DevOps processes are modern and capable of keeping up with the complexities of today’s business.

Devops 120

Devops Software Development IBM Software 120

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2023

Technology innovation is happening at breakneck speed, creating new opportunities and threats for companies of all sizes and industries. At the same time, ever-evolving macroeconomic conditions are pressuring leaders to drive business outcomes against tighter margins. Strong knowledge of open source technologies.

Agile 102

Agile Software Software Open Source 102

Flexagon

JUNE 21, 2022

Oracle eBusiness Suite customers are taking various approaches to their application journeys, including: 1) staying the course with EBS on premises, 2) moving EBS to run on a cloud infrastructure and 3) running hybrid EBS with Oracle SaaS Fusion Applications. Oracle SaaS Fusion Applications a big focus.

Oracle 78

Oracle SOA Devops Applications 78

Flexagon

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Oracle SaaS Fusion Applications such as ERP, HCM, and SCM . Oracle SaaS CX Applications like Commerce, CPQ, and Sales . Applications, Business Intelligence (BI), Database, Middleware . Cloud-native application development . 4 Adoption Paths to Oracle Cloud and Fusion Applications .

Oracle 78

Oracle Devops SOA Cloud 78

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. It’s important to recognize that motion is not always progress.

Strategy 140

Strategy Applications Agile Software 140

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Software development is a challenging discipline built on millions of parameters, variables, libraries, and more that all must be exactly right. Still, it’s impossible to list the endless innovations that software alone has made possible. Over the years software teams have figured out a few rules for getting the job done.

Software Development 133

Software Development Software Software Development 133

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2024

Melby pushed machine learning models into production very early at Dairyland, improving the cooperative’s weather forecasting capabilities and creating load management applications that “bent the curve” to best manage the company’s power load on peak days, the CIO says.

Microsoft 97

Microsoft Applications Artificial Intelligence Energy 97

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Rate of change “The most important metric for IT success is rate of change,” says Nicolas Avila, CTO for North America at IT and software development company Globant. Most companies think of failure as something they want to avoid, but really fast-changing organizations understand failures as a step towards success.”

Fractional CTO 139

Fractional CTO Survey Project Management CTO 139

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Foundry’s 2023 AI Priorities study found interest in a broad range of gen AI use cases, including chatbots and virtual assistants (56%), content generation (55%), industry-specific applications (48%), data augmentation (46%), and personalized recommendations (39%).

Pharmaceuticals 103

Pharmaceuticals Resources Study Tools 103

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

For instance, I see low-code articles comparing website builders with enterprise application development tools. For sake of this article, we’ll focus on enterprise low-code application development software. These are multi-purpose tools that create data-driven web applications over a database.

Applications 98

Applications Tools Budget Development 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2023

One common resolution to this challenge is for companies to seek outside support to ensure success. Rapid talent aggregation One of the most challenging aspects of software engineering in today’s environment is assembling quality talent. However, I advise businesses considering software development outsourcing to think long-term.

Quality Assurance 86

Quality Assurance Software Development Development Architecture 86

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. You’ve become (or will become) what is, essentially, a software company CIO. Clearly, the leadership team at Starbucks had the foresight to hire a software company CIO. I get all that.

Software 131

Software Software Adobe Engineering 131

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2022

The suite’s production-grade, low-code automation and artificial intelligence tools aim to automate testing for enterprises, while still allowing companies to manage testing in their own way. Test Manager includes traceability and visual logging tools that let companies rapidly triage any defects. It’s a significant time saving.

Enterprise 88

Enterprise Enterprise SAP Devops 88

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

ServiceNow has developed its own domain-specific large language model, Now LLM, to assist with these enterprise workflows, although enterprises can also hook up the new assistants with other commercially available models, or even their own. As you navigate through applications on the platform, that layer of help stays with you,” Lokey said.

Industry 111

Industry Enterprise Enterprise Software 111

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 17, 2022

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software. Agile development has served its purpose over the years, but many forward-thinking companies believe its value in their businesses is lessening. CI/CD enables organizations to better attract and retain developer talent amid the ongoing and widespread skills shortages.

Devops 94

Devops How To Software Development Applications 94

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Companies are now recognizing the work ahead of them to get their data, people, and processes ready to capitalize on gen AI’s potential. AI, together with data, has become a key component of a robust digital core —the main source of competitive advantage for companies today. How can we industrialize gen AI app development?

Enterprise 135

Enterprise Enterprise Strategy Industry 135

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2023

Being able to identify which of many loans have been made to the same person or company is also important for banks to manage their risk exposure. The problem is not unique to banks, as a wide range of companies can benefit from better understanding their exposure to individual suppliers or customers.

Banking 124

Banking Data Financial Software Development 124

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 16, 2023

Every software developer is looking at how to incorporate generative AI in its products, even SAP. The ERP vendor, which turned 50 last year , is developing a companion app for its software, to be called SAP Digital Assistant, which will use generative AI to help SAP users provide a better experience to their customers.

SAP 102

SAP Industry Tools Retail 102

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 1, 2022

That effort included modernizing applications following the 12-factor methodology, “moving them into Docker containers, and then streamlining that process by running them in Kubernetes on Google’s GKE Edge.”. Another challenge] is a lot of the cloud development that we have been doing is made of 12-factor and Kubernetes.

CTO 94

CTO Development Software Development Cloud 94

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The frenzy created by the public release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has triggered an arms race among hyperscalers to differentiate themselves by developing their own large language models (LLMs), building platforms that enable enterprises to create generative AI applications, and integrating generative AI throughout their portfolios of service offerings.

Trends 144

Trends Cloud Oracle Enterprise 144