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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

TM Forum

Consequently, large up-front capex software deals are becoming less frequent, and vendors are adopting shared success financial models for their solutions. Fortunately, the move to 5G standalone architectures will require a great deal less infrastructure investment and more IT spending, which on the whole is less extensive. approaches.

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Generative AI: the Shortcut to Digital Modernisation

CIO Business Intelligence

Research from IBM found that 93 percent of companies still use mainframes for financial management, 73 percent for customer transaction systems, and more than 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies run business-critical applications on mainframes.

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What makes a CIO truly great?

CIO Business Intelligence

The responses included, in alphabetical order: accountable, adaptable, curious, decisive, eloquent, empathetic, financially savvy, focused, hard-working, intelligent, improvisational, interdisciplinary, mindful, motivational, patient, practical, principled, strategic, thick-skinned, trusted, and visionary. Today, it’s all about data.

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4 hidden risks of your enterprise cloud strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprises also often fall short on the financial and efficiency benefits promised by the cloud because they are unwilling to trust the cloud environment’s mechanisms sufficiently — or so argues Rich Isenberg, a partner at consulting firm McKinsey who oversees their cybersecurity strategy practice.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

But as digital transformation efforts have intensified in recent years, CIOs have had fewer opportunities to pause and reevaluate IT’s financial situation. IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. In addition to cloud consumption, there may be drivers at play.

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Top 16 business process management tools

CIO Business Intelligence

Since those early inhouse iterations, BPM systems have evolved into excellent full-fleged platforms for tracking and fine-tuning everything that happens inside an organization, complete with a wide variety of interfaces for working with other standard enterprise systems such as accounting software or assembly line management systems.

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Secrets of business-driven IT orgs

CIO Business Intelligence

Principal Financial Group CIO Kathy Kay takes a similar approach to Lieberman’s. Sathish Muthukrishnan, chief information, data, and digital officer at Ally Financial, has taken a multiprong approach that includes many of the strategies listed by the CIOs in the Foundry survey.

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