CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Guan believes that having the ability to harness data is non-negotiable in today’s business environment.

Strategy 145

Strategy Trends Enterprise Enterprise 145

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

To create a more efficient and streamlined enterprise, businesses often find themselves tempted to bring in brand new systems that promise major improvements over the status quo. This blog will examine how enterprises can take stock of their systems, and offer best practices for IT teams with small budgets looking to re-tool.

Tools 110

Tools Enterprise Enterprise Backup 110

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

While a new forecast released Monday by Spiceworks/Ziff Davis said that overall IT spending will be largely unhampered by recessionary trends in the economic outlook, much of that spending will be driven by large enterprises, leaving the picture much murkier for small and medium-size businesses. Budget, Technology Industry

Budget 97

Budget Company Conference Research 97

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

Innovation is crucial to the continuing success of any business, especially well-established enterprises. Here are five questions for well-established enterprises navigating innovation: What is innovation? Gears need to shift, processes need to be reformed, and budget needs to be allocated. What are you afraid of?

Enterprise 103

Enterprise Enterprise Budget Analysis 103

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 2, 2023

With tight IT budgets getting tighter, many Oracle licensees with Unlimited Licensing Agreements (ULAs) are tempted to consider an exit plan to avoid the pinch of rising support costs. Most enterprises want to avoid expending unnecessary time, effort, and resources on licensing issues, so they can focus on maximizing value and results.

Oracle 90

Oracle Licensing Enterprise Enterprise 90

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

At Red Hat Summit 2024 in Denver today, the company announced plans to extend its Red Hat Lightspeed generative AI capabilities across all its platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). OpenShift is Red Hat’s enterprise Kubernetes container platform for deploying applications at scale.

Linux 112

Linux IBM Data Center Budget 112

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 7, 2023

IDC forecasts the growth rate of enterprise applications software sales will pick up in 2024, and remain steady through 2027, despite a dip this year as a result of CIOs continuing to pull back on spending due to economic headwinds. Cloud is taking an ever-larger proportion of IT departments’ budgets, and the picture is no different here.

Applications 52

Applications Enterprise Enterprise Study 52

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 30, 2022

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is an enterprise architecture methodology that offers a high-level framework for enterprise software development. By creating a common language that bridges gaps between IT and the business side, it helps bring clarity to everyone involved.

Architecture 102

Architecture Enterprise Enterprise Groups 102

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 27, 2023

As we closed out 2022 and began 2023, VMware’s Research and Insights organization interviewed more than 450 technology executives to get their candid views on the topics that present enterprises with the greatest opportunities and challenges. And it underscores the complexity involved in subsequent efforts to future-proof enterprises.

Enterprise 85

Enterprise Enterprise Vmware Cloud 85

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

There are myriad systems kept on life support in every enterprise because companies delay replacing them, resulting in downtime and the continual need for time-consuming fixes, which consume resources and continue to build technical debt. Budget, Business IT Alignment, Infrastructure Management, IT Leadership, IT Strategy, Risk Management

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Budget Financial Examples Strategy 126

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2024

In other words, CIOs are likely to be apportioning more budget toward speculative initiatives less likely to pan out. Everybody is still pretty much at the starting line from an enterprise perspective.” Enterprises are coming back three years later and saying, ‘Now it’s time to start refreshing the devices again.’” drop in 2023.

Data Center 130

Data Center Artificial Intelligence Budget Software 130

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Despite national news about increased costs, economic uncertainty, and more reports of technology firm layoffs, respondents indicated that they were planning to spend more IT budget in 2023, not less. One contributing factor to managed services’ ongoing growth as a percentage of IT budgets is finding and keeping the right IT talent.

Budget 96

Budget Trends Security Survey 96

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Most of Petco’s core business systems run on four InfiniBox® storage systems in multiple data centers. For the evolution of its enterprise storage infrastructure, Petco had stringent requirements to significantly improve speed, performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Infinidat rose to the challenge.

Case Study 83

Case Study Storage Study Enterprise 83

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

NetSuite, an Oracle subsidiary, is a SaaS -based ERP provider offering a suite of applications that work together, reside on a common database, and are designed to automate core enterprise business processes. The company has added a new set of capabilities under the umbrella of NetSuite Enterprise Performance Management (EPM).

Oracle 131

Oracle Enterprise Enterprise Financial 131

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

CIOs were least likely to identify as AI-ready business areas such as new product lines (22% of respondents), corporate policy on ethical AI use (24%), or their supply chain (26%) as the least AI-ready, while 49% rated their IT departments’ own technical skills as AI-ready. Artificial Intelligence

Survey 129

Survey CTO Hire Resources Security 129

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

The dynamic nature of the cloud — and the need for continually optimize operations — often drives requirements unique to a CIO’s enterprise, meaning that even some popular third-party cloud cost optimization tools may no longer fit an enterprise’s specific requirements. Budgeting, Cloud Computing

Tools 117

Tools Cloud Resources Financial 117

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. The negative financial and competitive consequences … will be difficult to escape,” he says.

Fractional CTO 145

Fractional CTO Budget Enterprise Enterprise 145

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

So vendor negotiations and contracts must be a collaboration between IT and the General Counsel, with IT’s Business Office taking the lead. Overseeing the IT budgeting process: Each IT manager has a budget to manage to. This can be hard to reconcile with Accounting’s requirements for budget development.

Budget 119

Budget Enterprise Enterprise Licensing 119

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Customers are unlikely to go elsewhere, though, as AI workloads are often fueled by large amounts of enterprise data from applications running in the same cloud. The sheer cost and complexity of the migration process would discourage existing enterprise customers from moving to another cloud provider over short-term capacity issues.

Microsoft 101

Microsoft Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 101

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.

Strategy 134

Strategy Cloud CTO Hire Fractional CTO 134

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

AI’s honeymoon with the enterprise is coming to an end. It’s time to get to business. That’s one of the main themes from IDC’s recent predictions report, “IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Artificial Intelligence and Automation 2024 Top 10 Predictions”. Hardware spending will drive up the cost of AI adoption,” said Fleming. “So

Artificial Intelligence 112

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Enterprise Enterprise 112

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2023

While data management has become a common term for the discipline, it is sometimes referred to as data resource management or enterprise information management (EIM). Several of the overall benefits of data management can only be realized after the enterprise has established systematic data governance.

Government 142

Government Data Programming SAP 142

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

For enterprise executives in 2024, that means right-sizing those expectations and getting to work: justifying the right use cases, forming teams, and tracking progress and ROI. Especially in IT organizations—where budgets came under more scrutiny in 2023—CIOs need to show they’re not using AI for AI’s sake.

Artificial Intelligence 103

Artificial Intelligence Budget Tools Survey 103

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Achieving that seamlessness between business functions and across geographies requires a new approach by CIOs. In fact, there are five key areas CIOs need to consider when developing an enterprise GenAI strategy, all of which become much more achievable with the right partnerships in place. This is a challenge for many CIOs.

Artificial Intelligence 134

Artificial Intelligence Strategy Cloud Data 134

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2024

But getting from potential to profitability does not come without risks, such as assuming that your established processes for deploying mainstream enterprise IT infrastructure will work in the new era of complex AI superclusters. Generative AI has captured everyone’s attention — and for good reason.

Artificial Intelligence 107

Artificial Intelligence Network System Data Center 107

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the many vendors whose cloud applications make up the new tech backbone for most enterprises today, in conjunction with customized in-house apps and niche offerings across public clouds. “It But even so, it seems no enterprise is free of this burden.

Vendor Management 134

Vendor Management Cloud Enterprise Enterprise 134

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research.

Fractional CTO 129

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Software 129

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Costs management: Estimate costs, determine budgets. Project scope During the planning phase, all project details must be solidified , including goals, deliverables, assumptions, roles, tasks, timeline, budget, resources, quality aspects, terms, and so on. Budget for surprises. Quality management: Identify quality requirements.

Project Management 133

Project Management Tools Program Management Budget 133

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

While investing in technology is key—and becoming more so—this doesn’t mean that CIO budgets won’t come under pressure, both for capital spend as well as for operations and maintenance (O&M). Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.

Licensing 138

Licensing Budget Cloud Artificial Intelligence 138

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2024

A new breed of AI assistant has set its sights on the enterprise user in recent months, with Microsoft and other vendors promising huge productivity gains that offset the cost. The enterprise version of Gemini, Google’s AI assistant, is similarly priced. But Microsoft still has work to do on its value proposition.

Microsoft 138

Microsoft Survey Enterprise Enterprise 138

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Finally, we were two months away from submitting this year’s budget, which is always a challenge because of the legwork that goes into a budget cycle. But I also needed to focus on strategy to make sure we had capacity in the budget for new initiatives. Budgeting, CIO, IT Leadership, IT Strategy It’s about value creation.

Budget 102

Budget Strategy Insurance Company 102

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Most CIOs at one time or another have found themselves working at an enterprise that has seriously altered course, lost its focus, neglected competitiveness, or changed in some other significantly detrimental way. Deep, unreasonable budget cuts. When that happens, it’s probably time to wave goodbye. “It It’s time to wake up.

Budget 98

Budget Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 98

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

However, according to Slaga, the next phase of growth for Kyndryl Consult will continue to come from regular projects, such as modernizing IT, modernizing applications, moving to a new data center, and moving to a cloud-native architecture, as the practice leader believes that enterprises are still far away from implementing generative AI.

IBM 128

IBM Enterprise Enterprise Healthcare 128

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases.

Budget 135

Budget Research Cloud Security 135

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Zero-based budgeting can be a good approach for discretionary spending.

Fractional CTO 137

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Licensing 137

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The need for efficient software development has taken on greater importance as enterprises introduce more and more digital services and add automation capabilities to enhance business processes. On time and on budget are much easier to judge with the finger on the pulse of expectations of both the users and the developers.”

Project Management 122

Project Management Software Software How To 122

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

Cost-effective GenAI, on premises Of course, here’s something that may not be mysterious for IT leaders: building, training, and augmenting AI stacks can consume large chunks of budget. 1 Inferencing on-premises with Dell Technologies can be 75% more cost-effective than public clouds, Enterprise Strategy Group, April 2024.

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Dell Storage Engineering Training 131