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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). Related: 6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget Budgeting, IT Leadership, IT Strategy

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5 Hot network-automation startups to watch

Network World

With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical talent, it’s becoming imperative for enterprise network pros to embrace automation of processes and the way infrastructure responds to changing network traffic.

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Veteran CIO Neal Sample: All architecture is wrong

CIO Business Intelligence

What would you say is the one call most people would change when it comes to their architecture? All architecture is wrong, because everything we’ve done has changed and grown over time. I think back to the first big architecture I worked on, and boy, you would not do that today. We just don’t know it yet.

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AI, predictive analytics top list of hot technologies for banks

CIO Business Intelligence

Hot technologies for banks also include 5G , natural language processing (NLP) , microservices architecture , and computer vision, according to Forrester’s recent Top Emerging Technologies in Banking In 2022 report. AI enhances operational efficiency. 5G aids customer service.

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Innovating Services for a Digital, Intelligent Future

CIO Business Intelligence

At the same time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming recognised as a keystone for future growth. Tackling the challenges of intelligent transformation However, many organisations continue to struggle with tight budgets, resistance to change, and perennial shortages of skill sets and staff.

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CIO exit interview: Michael Ciavarella, swimming against the tide

CIO Business Intelligence

8 in the 2021 CIO50, had what many would consider the unenviable task of bringing a federated, not-for-profit organisation—founded in 1909—into the digital age, through a mindset shift and a scalable architecture, including the deployment and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that enshrined data as king.

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What you don’t know about data management could kill your business

CIO Business Intelligence

This means excelling in the under-the-radar disciplines of data architecture and data governance. Estimates vary widely, with data spend being pegged at anywhere between 10% and 57% of total IT budgets. The Next New Thing — artificial intelligence — will not work at scale without clean, consistent, and accurate data.

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