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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Smart home startup Wyze Labs named Francis Lee as its first chief financial officer. Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . Beason was previously a VP at HITT Contracting Inc.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

“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 provided with the right tools, team leaders can act decisively to align people and financial resources to maximize value.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

CIOs must redirect resources when technologies as revolutionary as generative AI come to market or risk falling behind or becoming obsolete — in which case, hitting other strategic goals won’t matter much. Ryan Downing, CIO of enterprise business solutions at Principal Financial Group, saw how this challenge impacted his organization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. But as digital transformation efforts have intensified in recent years, CIOs have had fewer opportunities to pause and reevaluate IT’s financial situation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If anything, 2023 has proved to be a year of reckoning for businesses, and IT leaders in particular, as they attempt to come to grips with the disruptive potential of this technology — just as debates over the best path forward for AI have accelerated and regulatory uncertainty has cast a longer shadow over its outlook in the wake of these events.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Implementing an Enterprise Data Hub — Technical perspectives for implementing enterprise data hub architectures, converged analytics for workflow optimization, and the essential role of open standards and frameworks to ensure continuous innovation. Senior Director of Technology Solutions, Cloudera. Technology Insights Keynote.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2021

He was previously a financial executive at public software companies Digital River and Lawson Software. Grocery tech platform ShelfEngine announced Kane McCord as its new president and chief revenue officer. Parkey succeeds former head of product Emily Kruger, who is now VP of operations and product at software consultancy Loka.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

With the accelerated pace of digital transformation, coupled with the unprecedented arrival of the pandemic pushing enterprises towards a hybrid work culture, IT leaders have played a key part in keeping business afloat these last two years. Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Implementing an Enterprise Data Hub — Technical perspectives for implementing enterprise data hub architectures, converged analytics for workflow optimization, and the essential role of open standards and frameworks to ensure continuous innovation. Senior Director of Technology Solutions, Cloudera. Technology Insights Keynote.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

A chief digital officer (CDO) is a leader who combines business acumen with digital expertise to help organizations drive digital transformation via an enterprise-wise digital vision and strategy. At many companies, the chief digital officer is a customer-facing role that signals a commitment to a digital future.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

How enterprises gather, store, cleanse, access, and secure their data can be a major factor in their ability to meet corporate goals. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully. Overlooking these data resources is a big mistake.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

He is joined by other hospitality and property tech vets: CTO Greg Mushen held the position of Director of Product Management at Expedia, and also served as VP of Product Management at Seattle-based sales startup Outreach. He is also the Founder and CEO of ClearClose, a startup that automates real estate contract compliance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2022

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) is often criticized for forcing technology choices on business users or producing software analyses no one uses. Forrester Research has identified more than 20 types of enterprise architecture roles being used by its clients. You need an ecosystem of subject-matter experts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

While AI has steadily worked its way into the enterprise and business vernacular over many years, gen AI has not only become an abrupt and immediate force unto itself, but also an overarching AI accelerant. In July, for example, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

An effective enterprise AI team is a diverse group that encompasses far more than a handful of data scientists and engineers. To help you assemble your ideal AI team, here is a look at 10 key roles found in well-run enterprise AI teams today. Data scientist. Data scientists are the core of any AI team.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 29, 2016

They used financial, international, technical, etc. Source selection (contracting) methodologies: Government needs to figure out what they are willing to pay more for; it’s not just about lowest price technically acceptable. Army needs to find ways to protect against obsolescent parts due to intellectual property issues.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Joining me on the show were: Jim Sweeney, author of the book Get Your Head in the Cloud: Unlocking the Mystery for Public Sector and President and CTO of V3 Systems. Global: by nature cloud is a global enterprise. How do you change the policies on IT contracts? The conversation was both lively and informative. Emily Jarvis.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When the biggest anti-virus vendors, folks who want to perpetuate anti-virus myths for financial reasons, admit anti-virus is dead, it is time to realize anti-virus is a failed approach. New file-less intrusions are increasingly common in enterprise environments. Enterprises need a comprehensive approach to endpoint security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 5, 2023

Whether you’re a CIO, CTO, chief digital officer, a data leader, cyber — the opportunity for these leaders is unparalleled when you consider the impact that they can make on their enterprises and on their industries. And the temperament and the patience on the part of many stakeholders has contracted.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Enterprises have regulatory and business requirements to retain everything from email to customersâ?? s the expensive support contracts and donâ??t This can be extremely painful for most organizations, as much of these expenditures in financial and intellectual capital do not contribute to the operational success of the business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

Putting aside the fact this is an astronomically high adoption rate for a brand new technology, it’s also an indicator of how risky this space is. An enterprise that bet its future on ChatGPT would be in serious trouble if the tool disappeared and all of OpenAI’s APIs suddenly stopped working.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We came to the conclusion that the way we do things in IT is outdated,” says Arooni, now executive vice president and CIO at Discover Financial Services. “If Amir Arooni, executive vice president and CIO, Discover Financial Services. Establishing technology and business owners also drives collaboration.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

AI’s impact on robotics development: “To help reduce the need to hire more senior developers,” Okoye said. “You can [hire] a modular developer and have the AI co-pilot be a guiding hand.” Founders: Mandhir Singh was director of business development at digital consultancy company Content Bloom.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

His list of sensitive areas is similar to Microsoft’s guidelines: “High-stakes decision-making, where errors could have significant legal, financial, or health-related consequences, might not be appropriate for AI.” Take for instance processes and workflows where algorithmic bias could become a factor such as in HR and hiring.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

Right when the Napster movement, anti Napster pro Napster movement was going on, named him says he went and defaced a bunch of websites and, and that was one of the first cases I was hired from, you know, a corporate corporation that had been defaced asking if I could analyze, you know what happened there. That was really fun.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2022

At Vault Health, CTO Steve Shi begins enterprise architecture (EA) work with a site survey of the entire IT, application, system, and data infrastructure but restricts it to two weeks with one-hour interviews about each function. At Carrier Global Corp.,

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