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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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Forrester 2019 Enterprise BI Platform Waves ™ Research Update

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This year we emphasized New market segmentation by Vendor-Managed vs. Client-Managed platforms, which roughly equated to on-premise vs. cloud based platforms, but not quite. Forrester has just published 2019 refresh of out Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) Platforms Waves ™. Since […].

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What enterprise software vendors are doing with generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Sometimes, though, it sneaks in through the back door as a result of ad-hoc individual or departmental initiatives — or even through the front door, bundled by the vendors of enterprise applications already in widespread use. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Generative AI, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Jai Menon has joined Skylo, a narrow-band satellite communications provider that targets IoT applications, as CIO. He will run the company’s ERP and order management systems, and manage IT support, business and operations support systems, networking, and security. Realty, relocation, and cash management specialist Writer Corp.

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Nutanix acquisition rumors highlight need for managing vendor risk

CIO Business Intelligence

What to ask The question CIOs need to ask themselves is not who will buy Nutanix, but what to do if a key vendor is acquired or otherwise changes direction — a fundamental facet of any vendor management plan. “If If your software vendor is independent then the immediate question is: Is the company buying this one that I’m using?

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

For enterprises that consume foundation models directly, they can build their systems so the API layer is isolated from the rest of the application. It may start with Salesforce and end up in Oracle, but it needs to start with the user experience, and the end-to-end use case will drive how you tie those things together.”

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson. M&A volume climbed from $3.26