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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. LGA will continue to invest in custom-built low code/no code systems to enable the company to deliver changes without hand-crafting code and time-consuming deployments, he says. IDC is forecasting a 5.1%

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO Business Intelligence

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Of course, making this distinction can be challenging, and is a skill that can take time to develop, says Mittal, whose company is taking a tech-first, cloud-native approach to transforming loan servicing.

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Startup survival: How a pandemic pivot helped this photo booth company see a bigger picture

GeekWire

(Snapbar Image) Nearly three years after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down live events and put Sam Eitzen’s physical photo booth business in serious jeopardy, the co-founder and CEO of Snapbar now has a developing picture of what survival and success looks like. The tourism board of France was a customer.”

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