GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). Later, he became a senior advisor at TPG, leading its portfolio company Wind River as CEO and overseeing its $3.5 Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. billion acquisition by Aptiv in 2022.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Anyone who has interviewed job applicants by winging it knows the routine: questions in a free-form document, notes on the back of a resume, and an overabundance of gut instinct and selective memory in the process. Price describes the company’s focus as intelligent talent selection. The company is self-funded by Price so far.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI is now a board-level priority Last year, AI consisted of point solutions and niche applications that used ML to predict behaviors, find patterns, and spot anomalies in carefully curated data sets. But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. billion to the global economy.

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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. We were looking for like-minded, leading-edge, AI-focused hardware at the same time.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2023

acquired San Francisco-based immigration consulting company Bridge. Founded in 2011, Bridge has helped more than 1,000 companies hire international talent and implement immigration strategies through its software platform and legal expertise. He’s joined by CTO and co-founder Forrest Blount , a former Google engineer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they can hire them,” said Mbula Schoen, senior director analyst at Gartner, in a recent Q&A. “IT CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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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. For example, retail sites typically have times when very few people shop.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

The digital transformation journey for any enterprise is protracted and complex. For such initiatives to conclude successfully, enterprise technology decision makers must overcome inertia, build momentum, and bring about changes across their large organizations. To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring.

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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. CarMax CITO Shamim Mohammed confirms his company was using OpenAI’s GPT-3.x

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2024

Indian enterprises are more likely to see Chief Digital Officers CDOs) and data science heads fill the upcoming position of Chief AI Officer (CAIOs), analysts and experts have said. “The role of a Chief AI Officer might be combined with other existing roles, such as a Chief Digital Officer or a head of data science.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The answers reflected the need for companies to properly prepare for cloud migrations. The “unanticipated” costs of not doing the prep work are legion: egress charges, (semi-) failed moves, moving the wrong things/combinations at the wrong times, failure to capture service costs pre-move for comparison, and so many more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2022

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) is often criticized for forcing technology choices on business users or producing software analyses no one uses. Forrester Research has identified more than 20 types of enterprise architecture roles being used by its clients. You need an ecosystem of subject-matter experts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

According to a separate study on the AI readiness of Indian enterprises conducted by EY and Indian IT industry body Nasscom, enterprises are also holding back the deployment of AI due to concerns about data security, privacy, brand reputation, and the safety and security of people and equipment.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The companies include: Talc AI, a service for assessing large language models. Neum AI, a platform designed to assist companies in maintaining the relevancy of their AI applications with the latest data. YC received more than 24,000 applications for this year’s summer batch. Talc AI Talc.ai

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . The company both competes and partners with cloud giants Amazon and Microsoft. Beason was previously a VP at HITT Contracting Inc. Lisa Nelson.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“While it’s critical to control costs continuously, it becomes even more imperative during times of economic pressure,” says Jon Pratt, CIO at security managed services provider 11:11 Systems. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 10, 2015

I was first introduced to SaaS (then ASP) in January 2000 when I joined Brassring, a rollup of 9 small companies in the Recruitment space, as its first CTO. Our flagship product, HireSystems, was the leading Applicant Tracking System delivered as a service to our large enterprise customers. Why do I like SAAS?

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

New funding: Magnify , an enterprise software startup which will have operations in Seattle and Bend, Ore., The company is developing tools to help companies engage with software customers, and has backing from a high-powered array of Pacific Northwest tech executives. Magnify CEO Joshua Crossman. Brooke Fitts Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Write to us if you have news to share.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Ryan Downing, CIO of enterprise business solutions at Principal Financial Group, saw how this challenge impacted his organization. Sengupta acknowledges that layoffs at the tech giants in the past year or so eased the talent crunch a bit — but only for other big companies who could offer highly-competitive salaries to those laid-off workers.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

After selling a startup and traveling around the world with his family, Aaron Bird set out to build the next great Seattle tech company. He had a lot of promising enterprise software-related ideas, given his previous experience at business marketing startup Bizible. But he plans to stay involved with each company for several 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

MARCH 13, 2023

For Andreea Bodnari and Chris Jones, both of whom left Silicon Valley tech companies to work at healthcare organization Optum, the lure was not concern over mass layoffs in big tech, but the prospect of solving real-world problems and the opportunity to work on technologies that make a difference in people’s lives.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Once an enterprise has decided to go down the path of building native mobile apps, there is one critical decision involved –whether to build these apps in-house or to outsource development. An organization should do whatever is required to deploy mobile apps to users in the fastest possible time period. The Project Plan for the CTO.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). “I’d

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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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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important range of challenges: workplace equity; machine learning and AI creation; identification and tracking; immigration application processes; and fending off bots. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

How enterprises gather, store, cleanse, access, and secure their data can be a major factor in their ability to meet corporate goals. Neglecting the enterprise mission Creating a data strategy without taking into account the organization’s overall business goals is a recipe for failure. It will not be something they can ignore.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

While AI has steadily worked its way into the enterprise and business vernacular over many years, gen AI has not only become an abrupt and immediate force unto itself, but also an overarching AI accelerant. It can also expose companies to future legislation. Not without warning signs, however. Then there are the lawsuits.

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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. But I ended up going anyway.”

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GeekWire

JUNE 2, 2020

Chef CEO Barry Crist delivered the opening ChefConf keynote address on video from his Seattle home on Tuesday morning, with a registered audience of nearly 4,000 people, about four times as many as attended the event in person last year. PREVIOUSLY: Chef names new CTO to succeed its co-founder, eyes broader market for enterprise automation.

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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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