Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Thats nearly twice the total of 2023 and significantly higher than the previous record, set in 2022, of $963 million. And some large, cutting-edge enterprises are already beginning to spend money on quantum technology. The improvements come from both hardware and software advances. So do investors. billion so far in 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

million in 2023, and is expected to grow by 5% in 2025, equal to 3.75 Case in point was the high turnover rate at road and highway maintenance company AVR Group, and the solutions enacted by its CTO Pierangelo Perdomi to remedy it. million compared to about 3.6 This helps us screen about applications 5,000 per hour.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

If 2023 was the year of experimentation with gen AI, 2024 was when companies zeroed in on use cases and started putting pilot projects into production. According to experts and other survey findings, in addition to sales and marketing, other top use cases include productivity, software development, and customer service.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2025

Yet, as appealing as it is for employees to be able to use modern technologies, decommissioning and replacing systems is arduous for IT. Its a very long and painful process, notes Don Henderson, CTO at BetaNXT, a wealth management company that provides tech services to clients.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

in September, 2023, the price pressures facing IT have persisted. The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1%

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue. 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.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Michael Sherman, SVP of Zillow Rentals, and Cynthia Taylor, Zillow VP of agent software and advertising. Cynthia Taylor has taken the title of SVP of agent software and advertising. software development company in 2023. Mullin previously worked in staff and consulting roles for elected leaders including U.S.

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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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 30, 2024

Digital assistants can also be specialized for specific needs, says Nick Rioux, co-founder and CTO of Labviva, provider of an AI-assisted purchasing solution. Gen AI can write basic software code, allowing human programmers to focus on more complicated tasks.

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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

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

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

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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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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2025

Todd Persen, co-founder of Era Software. Era Software Photo) — Era Software co-founder and CEO Todd Persen has left ServiceNow , which acquired his startup in 2022 for an undisclosed sum. Persen launched Seattle’s Era Software in 2019 alongside Robert Winslow.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The implications of this convergence are many and there are already hundreds of instances in business, software, devops, agentic processes and many more sectors with similar stories and use cases. Analyst estimates of IT and tech spend outside of the CIO/CTO budgets range from 40-45 -to 60%.

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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 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

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

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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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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APRIL 4, 2023

The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important range of challenges: workplace equity; machine learning and AI creation; identification and tracking; immigration application processes; and fending off bots. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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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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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

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Meanwhile, Foundry found in its 2024 State of the CIO Study that 88% of CIOs said their role has become more digital and innovation focused, up from 85% in 2023. Fundamentally people don’t understand how their business activities — the processes, services, and customer journeys — are tied to the technologies,” Carandang says.

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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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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2023

(Adaptive Photo) — Mark Adams is stepping down as chief operating officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies , the company said today in a regulatory filing. The filing stated that “his service is being terminated by May 2023.” He was first hired by Adaptive as chief technology officer.

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