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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

FinOps is part of the equation, but from a CIO perspective, you need a top-down view that starts with the strategy before you talk about the components of it,” McMasters says. Understand your licensing schemes and usage policies, which can be very complicated,” says McMasters. Then there’s housekeeping. That helps me plan.”

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

CIO Business Intelligence

Danielle Phaneuf, partner, Cloud & Digital Strategy at PwC, says that inflation will probably be the leading threat to business for at least the next six months — an assertion 40% of CEOs agreed with in PwC’s 2023 CEO Survey. It might cost us $1,000 per day per developer to outsource,” he says. Here’s how.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. But in February, Meta released Llama, an open-source LLM licensed for non-commercial use, which quickly became the base for many projects.

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Three Aspects of Digital IT Assessment

Future of CIO

A CIO must be able to develop and optimize IT operational function within itself. It is important to have IT resources, assets, and talent aligned with business strategies and objectives to improve IT effectiveness. Think of it as an IT checkup.

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Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT

Cloud Musings

applications and platform for development of disaster-specific apps. Jackson, NJVC Vice President and General Manager, Cloud. Services is a leading voice in federal and commercial cloud strategy. people helping people, not managing technology.”. The 2010 earthquake demonstrated that development will never be.

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