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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. That’s just as well, as SAP is only promising mainstream support ECC through the end of 2027.

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Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO

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Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. Freeman is the author of “DevOps for Dummies” and “97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know.” Yamamoto previously worked at Adobe, F5, SAP, Microsoft and BlackLine in marketing leadership roles.

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9 tips for recruiting high-end IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they can hire them,” said Mbula Schoen, senior director analyst at Gartner, in a recent Q&A. “IT CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s Brad Anderson jumps to Qualtrics in wave of pre-IPO hires; Elena Donio joins Databricks board; Hiya, Esper add startup vets

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He is is one of several new executives announced by Qualtrics as the company prepares to spin out from enterprise tech giant SAP through an initial public offering. ” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. She was most recently a VP at VMware.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. We’ve seen 10 to 15% increases across the board for two years in a row,” says CTO and chief transformation officer Richard Wiedenbeck.

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10 ways to improve IT performance (without killing morale)

CIO Business Intelligence

“Leadership is responsible for boosting morale and countering stressful times with periods of recovery, rest, and self-care, resulting in increased retention while reducing burnout.” When approaching your team about performance improvements, present the specific challenge areas and propose solutions to drive the desired results,” he advises.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s general counsel joins Cisco; Outreach adds execs; Avalara expands board

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He was previously an engineering executive at Oracle and SAP. Amrhein worked at Ariba and then SAP, following its acquisition of the business commerce network. Outreach has not yet opened its physical office in Atlanta but is already hiring there. The new additions expands Avalara’s board to 11 members. Damon Corey.