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Microsoft offers Dynamics users fresh incentives to move to the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft unveiled a new incentive program on Tuesday to help enterprises still running its Dynamics ERP and CRM software on premises to move to the cloud. Our customers and partners have been telling us that generative AI is giving them a new reason to move to the cloud.

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DS Smith sets a single-cloud agenda for sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

British multinational packaging giant DS Smith has committed itself to ambitious sustainability goals, and its IT strategy to standardize on a single cloud will be a key enabler. Historically, we’ve been more multicloud or hybrid cloud, with private services as well,” says Claire Dickson, DS Smith’s CIO.

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Clean Harbors’ CIO: Hybrid approach to the cloud is a win-win

CIO Business Intelligence

For many organizations, the recent rush to the cloud has also given pause to strategic considerations around what best to leave in house. Cautious, methodical approach to the cloud. Moving aggressively to the cloud is not a high priority for Clean Harbors.

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Inspired by her family’s business in India, Seattle founder leads AI startup that helps manufacturers

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Bagaria teamed up with Chief Product Officer Kevin Hannegan , who founded the automated business intelligence platform Presalytics.io , and Chief Data Officer Anirban Konar , who previously held AI leadership roles at IT giant Cognizant. She launched Loopr in the summer of 2021.

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IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

CIO Business Intelligence

Some even implemented their own virtual personal assistants (VPAs), which included at least natural language processing—and sometimes more intelligence than that. Cloud was also high on CIO agendas. But cloud was still an enabler that allowed IT managers to shift their focus toward more strategic actions.

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How IT does business at Eastman

CIO Business Intelligence

When Aldo Noseda became CIO at chemical manufacturer Eastman five years ago, he immediately began working with other leaders in the company to bring a new category of services to the market that complemented its physical products. Before Eastman, I worked for Monsanto, where I had a similar journey,” he says.

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Dow makes production more efficient through IT-OT collaboration

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s over five years since Dow Chemical merged with DuPont to form DowDuPont — and three since they split up again to form a new agricultural supplies company, Corteva; a specialist chemicals manufacturer, Dupont; and a supplier of commodity chemicals, Dow. Melanie Kalmar was Dow’s CIO through all of that. “It