CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

But strategically important digital transformations should be protected “because they set you up over time and create more flexibility and adaptability,” says Andrew Blau, MD and US leader, eminence and insights, at Deloitte Consulting. They ended up bringing most of those people back, at consulting rates, for six months.”

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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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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After being in cloud and leveraging it better, we are able to manage compute and storage better ourselves,” said the CIO, who notes that vendors are not cutting costs on licenses or capacity but are offering more guidance and tools. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

Modernize with purpose Before you begin, it’s essential to tie any app modernization project to the business need that is being addressed, says Aparna Sharma, a managing partner for hybrid cloud services at IBM Consulting. Picking the right approach requires carefully studying all of the available options before making a final selection.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

For Gangavarapu, technology procurement specialists and modern software product experts are also hard to find. Where tech is moving from on premise to software as a service, the licensing, procurement and contractual models have changed and keep evolving, which requires expert procurement professionals who are hard to come by,” he says. “A

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The world has flipped since 2022,” says David McCurdy, chief enterprise architect and CTO at Insight. You now have the ability to jump over processes that have existed for years, sometimes decades, because of generative technology.” Then, in July, Meta’s Llama 2 came out, and this time, it was licensed for commercial use.

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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. Nichol (@PeterBNichol) , chief technology officer at OROCA Innovations.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

After the Free Usage Tier, you can run Amazon RDS for SQL Server under two different licensing models - "License Included" and Microsoft License Mobility. Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses. License Includedâ?? CTO - Amazon.com.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

You need to know where the data’s coming from, how it’s transformed, and what the outputs are,” says Nick Amabile, CEO at DAS42, a data consulting firm. As companies mature in their understanding and use of gen AI, they’ll have to put safeguards in place, says Juan Orlandini, CTO, North America at Insight, a Tempe-based solution integrator.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

It is my contention that when the total cost of using all your data exceeds what you are able to spend using purpose-built technologies, it is time to consider using a general purpose solution like Hadoop for process offloading. About the author: Jeremy Glesner is the Chief Technology Officer of Berico Technologies.

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CTOvision

MARCH 2, 2016

You’ll find who owns the data in documents such as end-user license agreements. Businesses, including farms, are for example signing contracts with drone companies. Data may be repurposed to someone else, so is it the original collector or the new data holder who is responsible for breaches? One is disclosure.

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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.

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CTOvision

JULY 21, 2015

Governments such as that of India are pushing for the adoption and use of open source software capable of cutting licensing costs from giant companies such as Oracle, IBM and Cisco. Alex Espenson is a technology writer with a passion for home automation, tech security and wearable smart devices. Related articles.

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Cloud Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2013

He lead the strategic planning for Microsoft’s NMCI proposal, winning over $400 Million in new government sales, and also renegotiated a $25 Million, multi-year license agreement for over 30,000 servers with OSD, NII. He is the founder of Martingale Consulting, in Potomac, Md.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Group14 Technologies Chief Technology Officer Rick Costantino (left) and CEO Rick Luebbe inside of the company’s commercial-scale manufacturing factory in Woodinville. Group14 Technologies , the Woodinville, Wash. It has offices in Tualatin, Ore. and SK Innovation, along with other unnamed investors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

The ambiguity of what’s working today and which users will benefit is driving some CIOs to ask whether adding Copilot licenses to Microsoft 365 is worth the price. Microsoft is heavily investing in AI capabilities and workflow integrations, so CIOs should expect and plan for improved capabilities.

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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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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This week Chief Technology Officer Bill Schrier has a LOT for which to be thankful. First are some of our technology vendors, a few of whom have ever increasing appetites for money. But a few public sector unions have held out for their contracted raises , which are far larger than inflation.

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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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Trends in the Living Networks

MAY 23, 2007

Richard Giles and Graeme Sutherland of Scouta.com and Phil Morle, CTO of Omnidrive, are also members, with other notable members globally including Mitch Ratcliffe of Buzzlogic and Jon Cianciullo of the very interesting Cluztr.com , which I wrote about recently. framework (which will be released next week) and chair the event.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

The first step would be to release a photo ID application on iOS and Android built in partnership with HMRC and using facial recognition to verify the identity through smartphone and driving license. The technology industry is excited by this ambitious strategy and is ready to support its delivery and implementation.”.

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Trends in the Living Networks

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

He is Founding Chairman of four companies: professional services and venture firm Advanced Human Technologies , future and strategy consulting group Future Exploration Network , leading events firm The Insight Exchange , and influence ratings start-up Repyoot. Enterprise 2.0 Permalink | View blog reactions Categories : Enterprise 2.0

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Trends in the Living Networks

JUNE 7, 2007

David Backley, Chief Technology Officer of Australian banking giant Westpac, said that risk aversion in corporations means both that they are less likely to try new technologies, and to by them from smaller vendors rather than the software giants. Another key theme was the application of Web 2.0 in the enterprise.

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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. Thriving amid uncertainty means staying flexible, he argues. .

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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. Features used.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

What should you be aware of before licensing a BPM tool? If we considered the corporate workflow as a symphony orchestra and the business processes within it as the musicians, BPM would be the conductor coordinating them,” explains Ivan Kot, Solution Consultant at Itransition. How do you know which option is right for your business?

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Microsoft has expanded its ongoing partnership with San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research company OpenAI with a new exclusive license on the AI firm’s groundbreaking GPT-3 language model , an auto-generating text program that’s emerged as the most sophisticated of its kind in the industry.

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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. trained model arrived, licensed for research and commercial use.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

JANUARY 27, 2010

As a CTO, I’m so immersed in technology that I’m not sure “broadband” means anything to the average American (if an “average” American exists). A significant fraction of people know about broadband and what it means. Admiral Barnett’s remarks centered on wireless spectrum for use by first responders.

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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

Rebellion has also won several million dollars of military contracts from the Pentagon, the start of what some observers think will be a gusher of government dollars. The startup proclaimed to rebel against the entrenched government bureaucracy and, by extension, the military-industrial complex, in order to advance new technologies.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 28, 2023

Commercially licensed. The Leaked Google Memo On May 4th, SemiAnalysis, a boutique semiconductor research and consulting firm, published a leaked internal document authored by a Google researcher. On March 10th, Meta did a limited release of their LLaMA model, to researchers only, and with non-commercial-use license.

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