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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

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In a damning audit report , Grant Thornton has exposed how the project implementation turned into a cautionary tale of project mismanagement, highlighting critical failures in governance, technical oversight, and vendor management that continue to impact the councils core operations.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

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This demand for skilled IT workers is reflected in the rising average salaries of certain job titles as companies compete for top talent, according to data from the 2023 Dice Tech Salary Report. Here are the 10 IT roles that have earned the biggest bumps in pay for 2023, according to salary data from Dice.

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3 keys to maximizing data strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

[i] CIOs face mounting pressure to optimize their data strategy, manage vendors effectively, and accelerate digital transformation. Identity resolution is central to all three, yet many organizations struggle with fragmented data, vendor management, and scalable identity solutions. Forrester Research. McKinsey & Co.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

Then in November, the company revealed its Azure AI Agent Service, a fully-managed service that lets enterprises build, deploy and scale agents quickly. And on AWS, Amazon Bedrock Agents have been available since 2023, but in December, Amazon added multi-agent collaboration capabilities. followed a couple months later.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Gartner, in fact, predicts that 40% of gen AI solutions will be multi-modal by 2027, up from 1% in 2023. Multi-modal AI can be more accurate and more resilient to noise and missing data, and can enhance human-computer interaction. Different AI models are better at different things, and some are cheaper than others, or have lower latency.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

As a result, SaaS management has become a top priority for many enterprises. For Bryan Muehlberger, CIO at Vuori, the rise of SaaS use has also led to a corresponding rise in vendor management challenges. “We APIs, Application Integration, Cloud Computing, IT Strategy, SaaS, Vendor Management

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What to do when your IT provider vanishes

CIO Business Intelligence

According to capital management solutions firm Carta, in Q1 this year, startup bankruptcies increased by 58% compared to the same time in 2023. The importance of good planning This work prior to any debacle is essential when it comes to managing it with greater success. So too are robust vendor management practices.