CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

It prevents vendor lock-in, gives a lever for strong negotiation, enables business flexibility in strategy execution owing to complicated architecture or regional limitations in terms of security and legal compliance if and when they rise and promotes portability from an application architecture perspective.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The fact is that within enterprises, existing architecture is overly complex, often including new digital systems interconnected with legacy systems. This hybrid architecture is a combination of best and bad practice. For most enterprises stuck in this hybrid state, the way forward is to be more discipline around architecture.

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Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

For businesses running complex AI workloads that require thousands of GPUs working together, this could translate to faster model training, more responsive AI applications, and more efficient use of expensive computing resources. Lightmatters approach could flatten this architecture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

In 2008, SAP developed the SAP HANA architecture in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University with the goal of analyzing large amounts of data in real-time. The entire architecture of S/4HANA is tightly integrated and coordinated from a software perspective. In 2010, SAP introduced the HANA database.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For instance, CIOs in industries like financial services need to monitor how competitors leverage AI for fraud detection or offer personalized services to inform their IT strategies. Now, he focuses on strategic business technology strategy through architectural excellence. Understanding the competitive landscape is also essential.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Migrating to the cloud without fully understanding workload requirements or optimizing database architectures can lead to overprovisioning and resource sprawl, he warns. Optimizing resources based on application needs is essential to avoid setting up oversized resources, he states.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

CIOs feeling the pressure will likely seek more pragmatic AI applications, platform simplifications, and risk management practices that have short-term benefits while becoming force multipliers to longer-term financial returns. Before gen AI, speed to market drove many application architecture decisions.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

This means that they have developed an application that shows an advantage over a classical approach though not necessarily one that is fully rolled out and commercially viable at scale. Error correction ensures the accuracy and reliability of quantum computations, he says, which is particularly important for financial monitoring.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2025

Five Tips for CIOs to emerge as Financial Strategists Sangeeta Shankaran Sumesh, CFO turned business and leadership coach shares on how CIOs and tech leaders should become financial strategists as they transform into integral business advisors beyond technologists.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 7, 2020

A few days ago, I discussed application architecture in banking with a banking software vendor. Starting from there, we had a look at that vendor’s core banking solutions and further back-end systems such as trade finance. The vendor quickly suggested that its solutions align with Forrester’s concept of a lean core.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

At Discover® Financial Services, our customers and their trust are key drivers of our technological decisions. With this in mind, we embarked on a digital transformation that enables us to better meet customer needs now and in the future by adopting a lightweight, microservices architecture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

That’s where EVP and CIO Kathy Kay found herself in coming to Principal Financial Group from PG&E in May 2020 with a desire to lead an aggressive plan to adopt digital technologies, ranging from the cloud to AI. Digital Transformation, Financial Services Industry

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

But with recent financial market turbulence, the rise of AI, and buyer consolidation impacting todays market, some have started asking: Is SaaS dead? 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Our digital transformation has coincided with the strengthening of the B2C online sales activity and, from an architectural point of view, with a strong migration to the cloud,” says Vibram global DTC director Alessandro Pacetti. For example, IT builds an application that allows you to sell a company service or product.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2023

The financial services sector is undergoing rapid change as fintechs develop convenient, consumer-focused services that were once the province of traditional banks. What are the greatest challenges that financial services firms face with their digital transformation initiatives?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For instance, Capital One successfully transitioned from mainframe systems to a cloud-first strategy by gradually migrating critical applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). It adopted a microservices architecture to decouple legacy components, allowing for incremental updates without disrupting the entire system.

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

By moving applications back on premises, or using on-premises or hosted private cloud services, CIOs can avoid multi-tenancy while ensuring data privacy. Thats particularly true for industries that cant tolerate latency, such as in payment processing and financial services, says Vunvulea.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The rise of vertical AI To address that issue, many enterprise AI applications have started to incorporate vertical AI models. This process not only requires technical expertise in designing the most effective AI architecture but also deep domain knowledge to provide context and increase the adoption to deliver superior business outcomes.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

NGINX Plus is F5’s application security suite that includes a software load balancer, content cache, web server, API gateway, and microservices proxy designed to protect distributed web and mobile applications.

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Intel Security Load Balancer CTO 468

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2022

There are many statistics that link business success to application speed and responsiveness. Think of a bank’s requirement to detect and flag suspicious activity in the fleeting moments before real financial damage can happen. Let’s explore what both of these mean to real-time applications and the businesses that build them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2025

Super-apps are versatile mobile or web applications integrating multiple services and functionality into a unified platform experience. Consumers increasingly seek platforms that deliver a seamless experience without switching between multiple tasks and applications. The trend is most pronounced in financial services and payments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

By David Andrzejek, Head of Financial Services, DataStax. While enterprises in all sectors of the economy will compete with data, the effective capture and use of data in information-intensive sectors like online services, banking, and financial services is especially critical and will separate winners from losers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

We really liked [NetSuite’s] architecture and that it’s in the cloud, and it hit the vast majority of our business requirements,” Shannon notes. In 2017, after exploring other ERP systems, whittling down a list of around 80 vendors, and defining its business requirements, Allegis selected NetSuite — and it didn’t go well. “We

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Network World

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Overall, ThreatLabz tracked a rise in financially motivated mobile attacks – with 111% growth in spyware and 29% growth in banking malware – most of which can bypass multifactor authentication (MFA). Top Mobile and IoT/OT trends Rise in financially-motivated mobile threats, including a 111% rise in spyware and 29% growth in banking malware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

That means exploring the strategic options for cloud adoption, understanding the importance of financial operations (FinOps) as it relates to cloud, the difference between a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) versus a Cloud Business Office (CBO) approach and the debate between centralized and federated FinOps. Private cloud. Hybrid cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

To meet that challenge, many are turning to edge computing architectures. Edge computing will play a pivotal role in the deployment of AI applications,” says Dave McCarty, research vice president for cloud and edge services at IDC. convenience store chain, is relying on edge architecture to underpin the company’s forays into AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

To be able to develop future topics such as AI and observability at all, they first need modern architectures and data management platforms. A typical example of this is the combination of a mainframe for business-critical applications and additional cloud-based microservices in which newer applications operate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 2, 2022

Hot technologies for banks also include 5G , natural language processing (NLP) , microservices architecture , and computer vision, according to Forrester’s recent Top Emerging Technologies in Banking In 2022 report. Only 23% of respondents who use AI in financial services use NLP and only 19% use NLU, according to Forrester.

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Network World

AUGUST 27, 2024

Granite Rapids-D is heavily optimized to scale from edge devices to edge nodes using a single-system architecture and integrated AI acceleration. Intel also showed off a client product, code-named Lunar Lake, designed for the next generation of AI PCs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We’ve all heard this mantra: “Secure digital transformation requires a true zero trust architecture.” Its advanced zero trust architecture minimizes the attack surface by hiding applications behind the Zscaler security cloud. But what exactly does that mean? Zero trust has come a long way.

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Network World

AUGUST 23, 2024

The exploitation of vulnerabilities continues to be a prevalent attack vector for ransomware, emphasizing the critical need for measures like prompt patching and unified vulnerability management, reinforced by a zero trust architecture. Top ransomware targets 4.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The results show that while respondents see many potential applications of AI in several areas of the business, they still feel challenged by understanding the best way to balance AI technology with their human workforce. Cloud computing will also help offset concerns around capital investments needed to support AI apps, CompTIA says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 25, 2024

Salesforce subsidiary MuleSoft announced a new AI-powered composability solution on Tuesday aimed at helping organizations build discrete AI services that form the building blocks of more complex systems and applications. “We All that could be built outside of your core customer service application.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Similarly, the financial sector will see continued growth in fintech, digital payments and open banking, with cities like Dubai and Riyadh becoming central fintech hubs in the region. Despite the promising outlook for technology in the Middle East, organizations will face significant challenges as they adopt new technologies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 1, 2025

The financial mantra that market volatility is a good time to invest would be thoroughly tested. He knew that scalability was a big win for a company in aggressive growth mode, but he just needed to be persuaded that the platforms were more robust, and the financials made sense. So far so good. Technology you can buy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2025

As artificial intelligence (AI) services, particularly generative AI (genAI), become increasingly integral to modern enterprises, establishing a robust financial operations (FinOps) strategy is essential. This includes proactive budgeting, regular financial reviews and the implementation of cost allocation policies that ensure accountability.

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