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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

Similarly, Kapil Pal, CTO at iEnergizer, a global BPO solutions provider, had to take some tough calls while heading IT at United Breweries (UB), one of India’s best known liquor companies. He also leveraged Heineken’s global contracts. “We We leveraged lower cost licensing because of our global contracts,” he adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI is now a board-level priority Last year, AI consisted of point solutions and niche applications that used ML to predict behaviors, find patterns, and spot anomalies in carefully curated data sets. Traditional ML requires a lot of data, experienced data scientists, as well as training and tuning. It’s incredible,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

Gen AI has the potential to magnify existing risks around data privacy laws that govern how sensitive data is collected, used, shared, and stored. These complaints, filed by a variety of different copyright holders, allege the companies of training their AIs on copyrighted data—images, code, and text.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. A cloud-first enterprise applications strategy helps make data more accessible to distributed users and workflows, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

global inflation rate, an ongoing talent squeeze, and persistent supply issues as a triple threat to CIOs’ ability to realize time to value for their tech investments this year, according to its 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey , which gathered data from 2,203 CIOs in 81 countries and all major industries.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

Some of the hardest roles to fill include security, and development and data professionals. For Gangavarapu, technology procurement specialists and modern software product experts are also hard to find. This often leads to non-compliance and millions of dollars in penalties, or people getting stuck in contracts with no exit.

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CTOvision

MARCH 2, 2016

These days, just about everything and every organization collects data. From cars to medical devices, personal data is everywhere. The problem is, it is easier than ever for manufacturers to integrate data storage, but oftentimes the privacy and legal repercussions of the Internet of Things (IoT) are not considered.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Know what you're getting in the cloud: "One of the biggest challenges with cloud vendors is that very often someone is signing up for cloud services without bothering to go through a contract review. He can take his own credit card and buy some licenses and connect online. And that's just good, regular backups of data.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

Open source communities spread across the globe are producing the kind of technologies businesses require to remain competitive in a century that is so data rich that is making most tech giants to simply embrace open source. Currently acting a freelance consultant, Alex is free to write about the topics he's so enthralled by.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2013

DBT-DATA provides reliable, flexible, and cost-effective data center solutions to federal, enterprise, and internet customers. Ideally suited to establish relationships between their clients, commercial data center providers, and the federal integrator community, this " GovCloud Dream Team " is now in place.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

GitHub released data on its copilot’s impact, with 88% of surveyed developers stating improved productivity, 74% focusing on more satisfying work, and over 87% saying they complete tasks faster. But there are some limitations in Copilot for Microsoft Excel, as the data must be in a table for it to work.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

That study focused on CIO and CTO satisfaction with their existing IT support and services models for enterprise software. CIOs and CTOs are frustrated at the many inconveniences of managing multiple vendors. In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Funding was down more than 50% in the second half of 2022 compared to the same time period in 2021, according to data from GeekWire’s fundings list. Group14 Technologies Chief Technology Officer Rick Costantino (left) and CEO Rick Luebbe inside of the company’s commercial-scale manufacturing factory in Woodinville.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

The UK Central Data and Digital Office (CDDO) has unveiled the Transforming for a Digital Future strategy, which sets out a collective cross-government roadmap and vision for 2025. Better data to power decision making. Digital skills at scale. An “ambitious statement of intent”.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This week Chief Technology Officer Bill Schrier has a LOT for which to be thankful. For these two hundred dedicated people working in the City of Seattle’s technology department, I give thanks. (My First are some of our technology vendors, a few of whom have ever increasing appetites for money.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Rahul Mahna, partner and outsourced IT services leader at management consulting firm Eisner Advisory Group, believes that scenario-playing with teams and management colleagues can spur useful security insights. Do we address cyber scenarios to the extent that we should? Planning is critical, Folk says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2022

Signs of inflation, labor market instability, and geopolitical strife are among the many reasons CIOs may be feeling some anxiety about the future, says Steve Shoemake, managing partner and global technology practice leader at consulting and staffing firm Vaco. Embrace data, and share it. Budgets may need adjusting,” he says.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

What should you be aware of before licensing a BPM tool? Here are a few warning signs: Employees manually enter (or re-enter) data into your system(s). Contracting tasks like this out to other suppliers is far less expensive in terms of direct expenses and resources.”. How do you know which option is right for your business?

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Know the long-term licensing costs. Before you dive into low-code, understand that comparing licensing fees on an apples-to-apples basis is nearly impossible. Licensing structures and costs vary wildly by vendor. But, it’s important to know the base licensing model and what factors might lead to more fees.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 31, 2016

The owned aspect refers to the contracts, that is, the pieces of paper received from each vendor that tells you how much you bought and how much you paid for it. The version you bought as part of MS Office. Then there is the version you bought as part of an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA), which has a totally different SKU.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

If you’re the CEO and not deeply technical, having a CTO or fractional CTO that can understand emerging AI and then translate that raw material into “most potentially impactful for us” is a great option, and can flow smoothly to the next point. RedPajama ‘a Data-1T LLM training set.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 28, 2023

Here’s how Mosaic describes themselves on their homepage : Generative AI for All Easily train and deploy generative AI models on your data, in your secure environment. Commercially licensed. MPT-30B and 7B are fully open source, ready-to use LLMs—pre-trained, fine-tunable, inference-ready, open training data, the works.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Actors and leaders of incubators and educational movements are doing what they can for the sake of those in both technological and non-technological sectors. Many become coaches or consultants of low-code/no-code for companies while others within incubators or movements lead awareness and training on these technologies.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The startup has claimed its tools could sort through heaps of sensitive data to help officials make decisions, and that it will ultimately build software capable of making battlefield decisions. In September, after his stint at the White House, Recordon returned to Rebellion as chief technology officer.

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