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.” ” The object detection and recognition technology helps companies address security and operational needs. It entered 2023 with $162.9

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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.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.” One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves.

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

Wood previously worked as chief research officer at NCSolutions, a Nielsen-owned agency that helps consumer packaged goods companies target and measure advertising. Prior to NCSolutions, Wood owned and operated LWR, an industry research consulting firm. She held the position for more than a decade. iSpot ranks No.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

As key officers of their companies, technology leaders have entered a more lucrative compensation bracket,” notes Martha Heller, CEO of Heller Search Associates. 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

JUNE 26, 2023

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case.

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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. Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. The companies include: Talc AI, a service for assessing large language models.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. The year 2023 seems to be no different. on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5%

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. You might have the CIO rolled into a different role, or you might be able to merge the CIO and CTO,” he says.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Generative AI and, more specifically, ChatGPT captivated the corporate world in 2023, with board directors, CEOs, and other executives fawning (and sometimes fearing) the technology. Here are the technologies they find to be among the most underappreciated in IT today. with best-in-class companies “reaping an enviable 13% ROI.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

A question of time Thomas Kiessling, CTO with Siemens Smart Infrastructure, part of the German engineering and technology conglomerate that makes trains, electrical equipment, traffic control systems, and more, understands that time is running out. As with most business challenges, data is instrumental.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

The resulting redefinition of their role is influencing their priorities as they prepare for the 2023 financial year. Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees. At Khatabook, a provider of accounting software for small businesses, VP of Engineering Gaurav Lahoti also ranks information and data security as his top priority.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

According to an IDC Survey, “Ransomware attackers are getting more effective at finding valuable data; half of North American ransomware attacks where data was exfiltrated included the loss of valuable, sensitive, or security data ( Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 11 , IDC 2023).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available. The biggest remaining difference in capabilities between the two platforms is around service management, enabling companies to track and bill for things like subscriptions or contracts for service or maintenance. “We

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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. But once the kinks are ironed out, third-party consultants will be able to put together an accurate picture that traces carbon emissions across supply chains. Software vendors don’t know where to start.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the State of Enterprise Architecture 2023 , only 26% of respondents fully agreed that their enterprise architecture practice delivered strategic benefits, including improved agility, innovation opportunities, improved customer experiences, and faster time to market.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But by May 2023, according to an IDC survey, 65% of companies were using gen AI, and in September, that number rose to 71%, with another 22% planning to implement it in the next 12 months. It quickly adds up in complexity,” says Sheldon Monteiro, EVP at Publicis Sapient, a global digital consultancy. It’s rapidly increasing.”

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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. To top it off, Taylor says many CIOs report having CEOs, C-suite colleagues, and workers throughout their organizations clamoring for the technology and even launching their own pet projects using the tech, further upping the stress.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. Companies often approach this as contract-to-hire strategy,” explains Rowley. “Or CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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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. There are a couple of reasons for this increasing level of interest in ESG among tech execs, says Yang Shim, technology consulting leader with professional services firm EY Americas.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 25, 2024

Instead, Shan Shan Wong, the COO, and Christian Laforte, the CTO, have been designated as temporary joint CEOs, according to a company blog post. Custom models, consulting and more are huge markets and very reasonable business models around this as we enter enterprise adoption over the next year or so, last year was just testing.”

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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 a recent report, he estimated that gen AI software revenues will grow from $3.7 Gen AI took a few months.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

With AI being the talk of 2023, [there were questions on] how do we, as a company, handle its adoption, governance, and education about it to our employees,” he says. Chris Bowers,CIO of Boston Consulting Group, puts it this way: “In 2024, we’re going to go after generative AI very aggressively. We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A 2023 survey of more than 1,300 respondents from around the globe who either influence or manage their organization’s risk and compliance programs found that only 53% rated their programs as mature. Furthermore, the State of Risk & Compliance Report, from GRC software maker NAVEX, found that 20% described their programs as early stage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

Koinig studied user experience and user interface design at the Vienna University of Technology, earning a doctorate. Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I She retired from that position in 2020.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Integrating gen AI in product, employee workflows PhotoRoom is a 54-employee company that makes video editing software, downloaded by more than 100 million people, but it has two main challenges related to generative AI. Completing gen AI 101 Wipro Technologies is a technology and consulting firm with 245,000 employees.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2024

La IA generativa puede escribir código de software básico, permitiendo a los programadores humanos centrarse en tareas más complicadas. La IA generativa es especialmente útil para el desarrollo web, añade Natalie Lambert, fundadora y socia directora de GenEdge Consulting , una consultora de IA.

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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

MARCH 1, 2023

They also expect to benefit from the expertise of cloud providers—expertise that isn’t easy for companies to develop and maintain in house, unless your company happens to be a technology provider. Similarly, large data aggregators feel the need for control because they don’t want to leave their core business in the hands of a cloud provider.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

That sense of purpose and yearning to do meaningful work is the ace in the hole for Optum Enterprise CTO Francois Charette, who has hired a number of Silicon Valley technologists in recent months. 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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, the demand for qualified individuals has soared,” Chan says. CIO.com’s 2023 State of the CIO survey recently zeroed in on the technology roles that IT leaders find the most difficult to fill, with cybersecurity, data science and analytics, and AI topping the list.

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