CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. The requesting team works only at the application layer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The challenge for IT leaders is clear : With employees quitting faster than they can be replaced, the rush to hire the right talent is on — so too is the need to retain existing IT talent. The applications had been transformed into SaaS and PaaS environment. Nobody wanted to deal with legacy solutions. Nurturing fresh talent in-house.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. The company is hiring engineers in Berlin and Shanghai.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

“After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.” I often ask vendors to walk me through their product quote and explain what each product SKU or line item is, such as the cost for an application with the microservices and containerization,” Phelps says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

But for Rob Clark, president and CTO of AI developer Seekr, such questions are business-critical. Seekr’s main business is building and training AIs that are transparent to enterprise and other users. He recommends enterprises conduct an incident test, or “a little chaos engineering,” before signing a contract. “As

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Consider consumption-based contracts One of the best ways to align IT costs with value-generating outcomes is with consumption-based pricing, although it may seem like a higher-cost option. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

nyike The best way to avoid hidden #cloud costs is to read every word in the contract. Drafting and Negotiating Cloud Computing Agreements’ , so they can understand the many nuances of cloud contracts. for example Healthcare, Legal, Finance) What is your success rate in migrating applications/systems?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

Reducing technical debt Lowering technical debt by decommissioning legacy applications ranks among the most important and toughest aspects of digital transformation as it involves mindset changes. To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring. He also leveraged Heineken’s global contracts. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

And while CIOs are working to train internal candidates within IT and the business units for tough-to-fill tech jobs or are using contractors to fill in staffing gaps , Sengupta says those practices create talent challenges, too. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Security and AI Among the IT leaders taking a cautious approach to AI is Saurabh Gugnani, the global head of cyber defense and application security at Dutch compliance firm TMF Group. For Neeraj Kumar, CTO of Arkreach, the speed with which AI technologies are being developed itself poses a threat.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

Build a strong foundation In part because he was raised in a military family, Adaptavist CIO Neal Riley finds inspiration from historic leaders, such as this quote from Winston Churchill: “We design our surroundings, and then they influence us.” Bad hires happen, and sometimes, promotions don’t work out.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 14, 2023

Faced with a long-running shortage of experienced professional developers, enterprise IT leaders have been exploring fresh ways of unlocking software development talent by training up non-IT staff and deploying tools that enable even business users to build or customize applications to suit their needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022. January 2022.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2022

They range from organizational architects who define business and operating models to projects, platforms, and digital architects. The list is growing and growing,” says Gordon Barnett, principal analyst at Forrester, “moving away from EA that just looks at applications and infrastructure to be truly enterprise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But if there are any stop signs ahead regarding risks and regulations around generative AI, most enterprise CIOs are blowing past them, with plans to deploy an abundance of gen AI applications within the next two years if not already.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Martin-Flickinger, who, before Adobe, was CIO of McAfee and VeriSign, became CTO of Starbucks for many years. Clearly, the leadership team at Starbucks had the foresight to hire a software company CIO. But how are you, in IT, using your products to transform your business? We rarely hire a full-stack engineer off the street.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2024

Cultivating a culture of creators Power Home Remodeling’s business model is centered on remodeling the exterior of homes while its IT organization — what it calls the Business Technology (BT) Group — serves as the creative force behind a build-your-own software platform that operates in service to the business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

Healthcare seemed like a better place to put his expertise to use “than the slightly ephemeral stuff I was working on at Microsoft,” says Jones, who spent a decade at Microsoft prior to his time at Meta. At the same time, he says the level of interest in working in more traditional companies is “much more than I’ve seen in previous years.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. Chan says. “The Geographical nuances are also arising.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2023

AI is quickly becoming an essential part of daily work. It’s already being used to help improve operational processes, strengthen customer service, measure employee experience, and bolster cybersecurity efforts, among other applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Never forget the power of people Despite trendy talk about current and future use cases, as with any technology artificial intelligence is only as powerful as the people developing and working with it, says Satish Jayanthi, co-founder and CTO at Coalesce. Hiring in tech has always been a rollercoaster,” Hruby says. “It

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Making ethical AI a team sport Plexus Worldwide is one organization using AI to identify fraudulent account creation and transactions, says Alan McIntosh, CIO and CTO of the $500 million global health and wellness company. This team establishes the company’s risk tolerance, acceptable use cases and restrictions, and applicable disclosures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2024

A reverse flow from startups to large enterprises Some Indian enterprises may have to hire new people from outside to fill the CAIO position, triggering a reverse flow of talent from startups to large enterprises, according to technology evangelist and former Group CIO of Lupin, Sreeji Gopinathan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

During COVID-19 lockdowns, for example, specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle developed a VPA to provide self-service assistance to over 7,000 employees at home, including a natural language interface with a chat bot, and enough AI to help people interface seamlessly with several business applications at a time.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?

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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

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. For the freight transportation company, business intelligence (BI) is one area where IT can have a top-line impact. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

These consistent increases in our quarterly revenue growth rate typically have been driven by our market leading Fusion and NetSuite cloud applications. But this Q4, we also experienced a major increase in demand in our infrastructure cloud business—which grew 39% in constant currency,” Catz said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As countless organizations race to investigate or adopt artificial intelligence technologies, many are building out an AI skilled workforce. That includes the decision to appoint or hire a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). Ozzie Coto, chief AI officer and CTO at The Cult Branding Co.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

We ensure that we build cybersecurity and data security into every aspect of the application infrastructure solution that we are delivering,” she says. Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees. Cybersecurity tops the list of concerns for Monish Darda, CTO and co-founder at Icertis, a developer of contract management software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2022

CTO Juergen Mueller, SAP’s board member responsible for technology and innovation, has adopted it within his team, while Thomas Saueressig, SAP’s head of product engineering, has also tried it out with the team working on SuccessFactors, said Younosi.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2022

With each new generation of the sophisticated applications companies have come to depend on—applications, such as machine learning and data analytics—compute requirements soar to new heights. Gülay Stelzmüllner, CIO of Allianz Technology, recently hired Rainer Karcher as head of IT sustainability. “My

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Part of ensuring that the data strategy will meet the goals of the enterprise includes having data stewardship, which ensures organized, accessible, high-quality data that’s consistently available to vested parties. Overlooking these data resources is a big mistake. It will not be something they can ignore. Data Governance, Data Management

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