CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Theres no denying that AI will be a disruptive force, potentially inverting unit economics for the application layer and catalyzing a shift toward AI-powered services and embedded AI. This approach allows businesses to build custom applications by assembling pre-built, modular components.

Industry 290

Industry Software Software Budget 290

Forrester IT

JUNE 12, 2017

This year I'm excited to have my team colleague Amanda joining me in the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps.

Agile 332

Agile Survey SCRUM Devops 332

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Pre-COVID, agility became an aspiration and rallying cry for organizations seeking to embrace emerging technologies and pursue technology-enabled innovation, often to stave off digital disruption in their industries. This goes beyond implementing agile methodology. Balance control with agility. Think a step ahead.

Agile 364

Agile CTO Hire Architecture Applications 364

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Facing increasing demand and complexity CIOs manage a complex portfolio spanning data centers, enterprise applications, edge computing, and mobile solutions, resulting in a surge of apps generating data that requires analysis. Despite these challenges, businesses and IT must remain agile and responsive to changing demands.

Data Center 223

Data Center Cloud Applications Resources 223

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Budget planning during uncertain economic times is never CIOs’ favorite activity. For the most part, budgets are holding steady or growing in the single digits, with continued investments in security, analytics, and the cloud, among other areas. But the next eighteen months aren’t shaping up to be as challenging as some may fear.

Budget 331

Budget Cloud Insurance Survey 331

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2023

Organizations have been transitioning away from legacy, monolithic platforms as these decades-old IT systems bog down management, flexibility, and agility with their tightly entangled components. Independently developing, testing, deploying, and scaling your infrastructure requires expertise, agility, and a shift in team responsibilities.

Applications 299

Applications Agile Devops Tools 299

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. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% The year 2023 seems to be no different. We obviously won’t cut investments here.

Budget 345

Budget Fractional CTO Cloud CTO Hire 345

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 27, 2024

The imperative for APMR According to IDC’s Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 1 (January 2024), 23% of organizations are shifting budgets toward GenAI projects, potentially overlooking the crucial role of application portfolio modernization and rationalization (APMR). Employ AI and ML to assist in processes.

Applications 275

Applications Agile Strategy Research 275

Forrester IT

JUNE 13, 2017

This year I'm excited to be teaming up with Diego Lo Giudice on the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps.

Agile 268

Agile Survey Devops .Net 268

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In the event of eliminating or reducing agile work, 68% of Italians would remain where they are but would start looking for a new job, and 7% would leave immediately even without an alternative, according to recruiting company Hays Italia and law firm Daverio & Florio. This program has its own planning and also a dedicated budget.

CTO Hire 317

CTO Hire Training Resources Fractional CTO 317

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

For decades, businesses have relied on MPLS and SD-WAN to connect branch offices and remote workers to critical applications. Paying a premium to backhaul traffic to a central data center made sense when that was where all applications lived. That worked when everything lived in the corporate data center. Ready to rethink your network?

Network 252

Network WAN Architecture Security 252

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

of IT budgets by 2027. The challenge is reminiscent of the 1990s when CIOs reigned in application silos by moving to ERP systems, and in the 2010s when CIOs had to contain mobile devices through BYOD policies. It has to be Five 9s capable and agile for a still defining AI world. Todays challenge is perhaps far greater.

Government 256

Government Policies Open Source Agile 256

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For organizations with stringent security and compliance requirements, private cloud offers a dedicated environment that provides greater control over data and applications. Budgeting and forecasting. Setting budgets and forecasting future cloud expenses helps organizations plan their spending and avoid unexpected costs.

Cloud 223

Cloud Strategy Government Resources 223

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This means adapting to the needs of consumers, businesses, and governments—as well as changing market conditions—by becoming more efficient, agile, and smart. This is a challenge AGIL ® Vision seeks to solve. These would be applications that have wide-ranging use cases, and can transform how we live, work, and play,” concluded Low.

Engineering 317

Engineering Applications Video Agile 317

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2022

When businesses migrate to public cloud, they expect to enjoy greater agility, resiliency, scalability, security, and cost-efficiency. This determines the approach best suited to an organization’s specific applications.” Cost-efficiency and expectations of agility should be integral to a properly orchestrated cloud-migration program.

Agile 246

Agile Cloud Survey Resources 246

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2025

Evaluate ROI and substantiate it with relevance, optimization and impact Utilize your tech investments to deliver financial and operational agility. Agility and cost-effectiveness are major factors for Nikhil Prabhakar in the vendor selection process. Any solution or product comes with an expiration date.

Financial 259

Financial Study Real Estate Strategy 259

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Technology must be agile, easy, and secure so people can extract the greatest value from it, he says. deploy these tools, increasing investment in IT is necessary.The budget has grown at the same rate as the company has, he says.

SAP 227

SAP Artificial Intelligence Resources Industry 227

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 3, 2024

From budget allocations to model preferences and testing methodologies, the survey unearths the areas that matter most to large, medium, and small companies, respectively. GenAI budget increases were significant, with 12% of respondents reporting an increase of more than 300% compared to the previous year.

Healthcare 324

Healthcare Budget Survey Resources 324

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2025

They couldnt hire people from outside either, because they hadnt anticipated the need early enough to put it in their budgets. Prepare for general use of AI Vendors are integrating AI into their most popular applications. AI-empowered enterprise applications will change the way people work. Everything happened very fast.

CTO Hire 320

CTO Hire Meeting Data Education 320

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There are plenty of challenges involved in managing software projects, and IT executives who learn how to address these hurdles can help their organizations build better applications to drive business growth and enhance customer experience. One possible solution is to embrace the agile methodology of software development.

Project Management 306

Project Management Software Software How To 306

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

The collaboration enabled Wipro, recently recognised in the 2024 Gartner Competitive Landscape: SAP S/4HANA Application Service Providers report , to offer clients a strategic roadmap and best practices to fully harness the potential of RISE with SAP. Its vision?

SAP 195

SAP Microsoft Cloud System 195

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

1) GenAI budgets are growing exponentially Adoption of GenAI varies significantly across roles and company sizes. Technical leaders are at the forefront, demonstrating higher adoption rates and driving budget increases. While 34% of all respondents reported a 10-50% budget increase for GenAI, 22% witnessed a 50-100% rise.

Healthcare 313

Healthcare Budget Survey Industry 313

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth. Optimize cloud spend It’s a good time for CIOs to conduct a financial health check on their technology budget. Not necessarily.

Licensing 345

Licensing Budget Cloud Agile 345

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

An Agile and product management mindset is also necessary to foster an experimentation approach, and to move away from the desire to control data. This is why Agile and product mindset matter. When transforming, its difficult to put hard value-improvement metrics in moving from Waterfall to Agile. Thats a critical piece.

Data 162

Data Enterprise Enterprise Education 162

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In a recent global survey , 86% of participants said their organizations had dedicated budget to generative AI, but three-quarters admitted to significant concerns about data privacy and security. AI faces a fundamental trust challenge due to uncertainty over safety, reliability, transparency, bias, and ethics.

Government 147

Government Artificial Intelligence Energy CTO 147

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

If an application is critical to a business, it’s not something that can be treated as a one-and-done project. Teams don’t just deploy the application and move on. They need to continue to not just support but improve the application, and these enhancements will be integral in fueling ongoing business success.

Agile 307

Agile Virtualization Applications Exercises 307

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Ceridian SVP and CIO Carrie Rasmussen got a 7% bump in her IT budget for 2022, with her company’s growth, its ongoing digitalization drive, and security mindfulness driving the boost. This comes after years of transformational initiatives being cited as the top reason driving budget increases. Top 10 business needs driving IT spend.

Budget 338

Budget Research Cloud Security 338

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

In today’s IT landscape, organizations are confronted with the daunting task of managing complex and isolated multicloud infrastructures while being mindful of budget constraints and the need for rapid deployment—all against a backdrop of economic uncertainty and skills shortages.

Storage 278

Storage Dell Cloud Agile 278

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. They did not plan for scalability.

Fractional CTO 344

Fractional CTO Agile Cloud Strategy 344

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” The need to reorient IT’s budget toward future opportunities is one big reason CIOs are reviewing their IT portfolios now.

Fractional CTO 347

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Budget Licensing 347

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. Embrace cloud-native principles.

Cloud 363

Cloud Strategy Fractional CTO Data Center 363

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Cloud costs will often — and rapidly — become large line items on budgets. If you ask someone, they’ll often recite a list of a dozen potential benefits of cloud — lower costs, better security, greater agility, and so on,” says Smith. How will we balance security, agility, and usability? There are other risks, too.

Strategy 363

Strategy Cloud Applications Agile 363

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Increasingly, innovation relies on the key tenets of agility and speed. But CIOs grapple to reconcile advancing agility and speed with the complexities of managing multicloud and sprawling edge environments built on disparate standards and formats. As a result, islands of applications and data are formed.

Storage 245

Storage Agile Dell Applications 245

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Attempting advanced applications without digitizing foundational processes first leads to disappointments, too.

Industry 295

Industry Strategy Artificial Intelligence Research 295

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

Cloud 325

Cloud Company Devops Disaster Recovery 325

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile.

Applications 359

Applications Training Development Software Development 359

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2024

BSH’s previous infrastructure and operations teams, which supported the European appliance manufacturer’s application development groups, simply acted as suppliers of infrastructure services for the software development organizations. If we have a particular type of outage, our observability tool can also restart the application.”

Engineering 347

Engineering Software Development Development Software 347