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Baldor’s first-ever CIO sets the transformation agenda

CIO Business Intelligence

“What’s also going to change this farm-to-table business is how we exploit the internet of things,” Parameswaran says, adding that he is considering employing blockchain technology to digitize Baldor’s supply chain. Still, Parameswaran says Baldor doesn’t want to be “in the business of designing models.”

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IT leaders look beyond LLMs for gen AI needs

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Putting new models to work Labor-scheduling SaaS MakeShift is another organization looking beyond the LLM to help perform complex predictive scheduling for its healthcare, retail, and manufacturing clients. “We One of our retail customers is starting to talk about pulling in weather data. It’s fabulous.”

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO Business Intelligence

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change.

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SAP to add generative AI, industry smarts to CX tools

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP is also looking to improve its customer experience tools in other ways, providing industry-specific accelerators to help some enterprises roll the software out faster, and helping online retailers reduce waste by offering tools to support the resale of refurbished or returned products.

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You’ve Got the Data. Why Can’t Your Developers Build with it?

CIO Business Intelligence

With an open data stack that just works. It is based on open source technologies, allows developers to use the tools of their choice, and converges “data at rest” and “data in motion.”. Open source fosters innovation. So how can we simplify and accelerate the way developers build real-time apps?

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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

I’m a banking technologist,” says the CIO for retail, business, and digital banking at M&T Bank. The second is to host mobile applications, containers, and artificial intelligence (AI) applications — what Sonnenstein calls “acting as a full-fledged member of the modern universe.”. Z upgrades and open source.

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Private 5G networks are sparking innovation at the edge

CIO Business Intelligence

Retailers are looking to private 5G-enhanced video ingest and analytics to better understand flow analysis in the retail environment to better manage inventories, improve store design, improve workforce productivity, and boost customer satisfaction.

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