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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

CIO Business Intelligence

Among the recent trends impacting IT are the heavy shift into the cloud, the emergence of hybrid work, increased reliance on mobility, growing use of artificial intelligence, and ongoing efforts to build digital businesses. As a result, making the shift to IT consulting can be a lucrative path to a fulfilling IT career.

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8 reasons your cloud costs are too high

CIO Business Intelligence

Nobody wants to waste money on cloud services. But by failing to fully address a handful of basic issues, many IT leaders squander funds on cloud services that could be used to support other important projects and initiatives especially as AI comes along to alter the cloud economics equation.

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What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

CIO Business Intelligence

Consulting firm McKinsey Digital notes that many organizations fall short of their digital and AI transformation goals due to process complexity rather than technical complexity. Shared data assets, such as product catalogs, fiscal calendar dimensions, and KPI definitions, require a common vocabulary to help avoid disputes during analysis.

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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

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Examples include scanning invoices, extracting basic contract information, or capturing information from PDF forms. Michael Beckley, CTO and founder of Appian, says document processing is a boring gen AI use case with significant business potential. Why should CIOs bet on unifying their data and AI practices?

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

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Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. In a November report by HR consultancy Randstad, based on a survey of 12,000 people and 3 million job profiles, demand for AI skills has increased five-fold between 2023 and 2024. Other surveys found a similar gap.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. What happened In CrowdStrikes own root cause analysis, the cybersecurity companys Falcon system deploys a sensor to user machines to monitor potential dangers. Our legal team knows exactly what to ask for when negotiating contracts.

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TBM helps CIOs translate tech spending to business outcomes

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IT environments are constantly growing more complex, with organizations rolling out AI agents and LLMs, operating in multiple clouds, and anticipating breakthroughs like quantum computing. The US Office of Management and Budget has also pushed agencies to use TBM practices since 2017.

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