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Principal Financial unifies IT to lay foundation for growth

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s where EVP and CIO Kathy Kay found herself in coming to Principal Financial Group from PG&E in May 2020 with a desire to lead an aggressive plan to adopt digital technologies, ranging from the cloud to AI. To enable more AI, Principal’s engineers are using GitHub Copilot for generating code, Kay adds.

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

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The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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With the new financial year looming, now is a good time to review your Microsoft 365 licenses

CIO Business Intelligence

Having the right licenses for the applications the business needs are critical. Licensing can sometimes be complex to understand, however, which is why SMBs should make sure they’re sourcing their licenses from the right places. Microsoft 365 is the productivity engine at the heart of many SMB businesses across Australia.

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The extraordinary synergy of wi-fi and 5G in enterprise networks

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This same principle can help enterprises remain operational and connected during all kinds of internal and external “storms.” Network reliability and availability are among the many reasons why enterprises are augmenting Wi-Fi networks with 5G. In enterprises, Deloitte calls 5G a novel “force multiplier” to Wi-Fi technology.

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Oracle touts AI as major driver of Q3 gains

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Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. In Q4, Oracle will start delivering its completely new Ambulatory Clinic Cloud Application Suite to these same customers,” he noted.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue.

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SAP 2024 outlook: 5 predictions for customers

CIO Business Intelligence

A host of new product and feature launches, questions about SAP’s plans for managing commitments to legacy platform customers, and the acceleration of generative AI in popular products such as SAP RISE are just a few of the major issues enterprise SAP customers will need to keep on top of in the year ahead.

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