GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Seattle-based Ada is a tuition-free, software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities. Mike Zinne , former chief customer officer of the Seattle-based sales automation software company, shared news today that after seven years, he’s returning to Quiq as its chief experience officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

in September, 2023, the price pressures facing IT have persisted. According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. in June, 2022, to 3.7%

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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. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud.

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Vox

MAY 11, 2023

Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops. Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 11, 2023 Regardless of who replaces Musk, it’s not clear how much real power the new Twitter CEO could have.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

The startup is a tech company now, embracing software and two core products that bring its photo capabilities to people anywhere in the world. But the company’s single software engineer, originally hired to rebuild Snapbar’s website, was already working on the future — a virtual photo booth. Snapbar CEO Sam Eitzen.

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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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

based mobile marketing company Airship — sells software that uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to analyze data from cameras and sensors at the “edge.” Huang, 54, and Xu, 66, went through various iterations of video-related software products over the past two decades. It entered 2023 with $162.9

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

More recently, the company launched Carbon Pathfinder, an AI-driven sustainability software planning tool that is sold as SaaS or a suite with professional services. “AI The company has also issued guidelines to its software developers and business executives about how to protect client data and define what they can and cannot use.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Elevated in prominence over the past few years , CIOs now an integral part of the C-suite, with salaries and compensation packages now commensurate with that stature. “As Since 2023, compensation for CIOs and CTOs has increased by more than 7% and over 20% since 2019, according to Heller. Stephenson says. The broader the better.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

While 2023 brought on many changes to IT departments around the world, by far the biggest surprise was generative AI. A range of priorities But AI wasn’t the only thing on the minds of CIOs in 2023. Most organizations, including Telenor Sweden, continued to move assets to the cloud in 2023. “We

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As a result, software supply chains and vendor risk management are becoming ever more vital (and frequent) conversations in the C-suite today, as companies seek to reduce their exposure to outages and the business continuity issues of key vendors their businesses depend on. This happened the same evening as the CrowdStrike incident.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

Despite those complications, a huge majority of IT leaders expect their organizations’ IT budgets to increase — at least moderately — in the next fiscal year, with IT talent and software spending leading the way. Talent, software spending lead the way According to Forrester’s guide, personnel accounts for nearly 35% of IT budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

Healthcare seemed like a better place to put his expertise to use “than the slightly ephemeral stuff I was working on at Microsoft,” says Jones, who spent a decade at Microsoft prior to his time at Meta. There’s a world outside big tech and [a belief] that we can solve interesting problems and build cool software,” Baden says.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2023

” (GeekWire File Photo) Editor’s note: This is the first of five profiles of the finalists for Startup CEO of the Year ahead of the 2023 GeekWire Awards. ” Despite trying economic times and Kumar’s personal struggles, Humanly has pivoted and emerged stronger. Prem Kumar needed a break. where Kumar was born.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. Augmented writing startup Textio hired Jackye Clayton as vice president of talent acquisition and DEI. Tech leader and Microsoft Deputy CTO Lila Tretikov to lead Cervest Board of Directors. He was previously a senior software engineer at EMC. —

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2022

CTO Juergen Mueller, SAP’s board member responsible for technology and innovation, has adopted it within his team, while Thomas Saueressig, SAP’s head of product engineering, has also tried it out with the team working on SuccessFactors, said Younosi.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

“That’s when it moved from being opportunistic to very purposeful,” says Meyercord, who after a search for the right fit took over the CEO reins last November at Propel Software, a SaaS provider of engineering and product management software. “I That has served me incredibly well.”

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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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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Y Combinator Photo) Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator’s summer 2023 batch are tackling a wide range of problems — with plenty of help from artificial intelligence. Devs shouldn’t be neck-deep in evaluation pipelines just to test their software, so we solve that complexity for them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. Geographical nuances are also arising. The net result?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For example, it highlighted a 153% rise in global ransomware attacks from September 2022 to September 2023. A 2023 study titled “ Embracing modernization: From technical debt to growth ,” from DXC Leading Edge, sheds some daylight on the creature. Still, he says, it’s a worker’s market for technologists.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2023

link] — Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) January 23, 2023 We’ve asked Microsoft to explain the basis on which it has determined the new investment in OpenAI to be immaterial to its business, allowing the financial details to go without public disclosure under Securities & Exchange Commission rules.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

The year 2023 seems to be no different. on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5% on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5% This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Companies in Europe are required to start scope 3 reporting in 2024 with data from 2023, so collecting that data starts now. Nobody can tell you how much CO2 emission is embedded in some of the more popular software—for example, how much is consumed for one user to run Office 365 for a year. Software vendors don’t know where to start.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

The approach taken by James Phillips, CIO at software maker Rev.io, reflects that trend. That’s up from 85% who said as much in 2023. The tool is expected to make team members more efficient, which will slow the need for new hires as the company grows and sees an anticipated increase in volume of customer service needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 30, 2022

Decision intelligence is one of the top strategic technology trends for 2022 , according to the analyst firm, with more than a third of large organizations expected to be practicing the discipline by 2023. The trend is brewing at a time when organizations need to make decisions faster than ever — and at a scale not yet seen.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That includes the decision to appoint or hire a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). Foundry / AI Priorities Study 2023 The ideal individual to assume this role should have much more than top technology and AI skills, says Colin Reeves, principal data and AI recruiter at ConSol Partners in Los Angeles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Microsoft itself claims half of Fortune 500 companies use its Copilot tools and the number of daily users doubled in Q4 2023, although without saying how widely they’re deployed in those organizations. Microsoft calls this ‘land and expand’ and it’s very different from established Office adoption, or other familiar software costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Juniper, for example, is developing AI-powered software for orchestrating application connections across public clouds, collocation sites, and on-premises data centers, the company claims. Networking vendors and AI startups are also taking aim at interoperability issues associated with multicloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They can code, write poetry, draw in any art style, create PowerPoint slides and website mockups, write marketing copy and emails, and find new vulnerabilities in software and plot holes in unpublished novels. In July, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions. Gen AI took a few months.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

“I like thinking about how to stabilize, secure, and scale the organization at a foundational level, to really implement innovation,” she says, noting that her perspective made her a better fit for the CIO position rather than a CTO role with its focus on products. She is the first woman to lead the company’s technology department.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2024

CSDDD is expected to make the reporting of ESG-related information a full-time job and fundamentally change how companies are structured around this reporting,” says Mentesana. While choosing the right tools from the expanding ESG software marketplace is important, the real work takes place on the back end.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

James Collin, a professional connection who was at that time Delaware State CIO, asked Lane if he would be interested in stepping into the vacant CTO role. Lane became CIO of Delaware State in July 2023, with the governor asking if he’d take on the chief IT role following Collin’s 2020 departure and the tenure of an interim CIO.

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GeekWire

JUNE 12, 2024

F5 Photo) Back in 1999, when F5 recruited Jeff Stockdale to build its hardware business, expanding beyond its core expertise in software, the engineering leader had one condition for the Seattle-based technology company. SecureSave is fully remote, with a workforce of about 35 full-time employees and contractors. in Spokane County. (F5

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