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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

Better Late Than Never: There’s Still Time To Improve Your Pandemic Plans Companies are showing renewed interest in business continuity and revising their pandemic plans in response to the coronavirus outbreak. And, a review of the risk sections of the annual reports for the Fortune 50 showed that about half […].

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2025 Middle East tech trends: How CIOs will drive innovation with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

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. The Internet of Things will also play a transformative role in shaping the regions smart city and infrastructure projects.

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Rising cloud costs leave CIOs seeking ways to cope

CIO Business Intelligence

“As companies embrace multicloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in and ensure business continuity, they often face challenges in managing and optimizing costs across different platforms,” he adds. Sunrise Banks, which operates community banks and a fintech service, has also seen cloud costs increase recently, says CIO Jon Sandoval.

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How resilient CIOs future-proof to mitigate risks

CIO Business Intelligence

And while 99% of packages have updated versions available, 80% of application dependencies remain un-upgraded for over a year. According to Loura, one key area is ensuring multi-factor and multi-person validation of material changes to certain sensitive records, like bank accounts or addresses.

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25 enterprise tech predictions and goals for 2025, from APAC CIOs

CIO Business Intelligence

src="[link] alt="alex tan" loading="lazy" width="400px"> Alex Tan Group Chief Information Officer (Yinson) As 2025 unfolds, we foresee a shift in the technology landscape: The generative AI (genAI) frenzy will give way to pragmatic applications, commencing with bespoke in-house chatbots that streamline operations.

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Generative AI strategy dilemma: Buy, build, or partner?

CIO Business Intelligence

To that end, you IT leaders are grappling with some critical questions as they pursue GenAI application development. Can you deliver your applications on time and on budget? The answers will vary per business, of course. What model(s) do you choose? What infrastructure do you run it on and where?

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CrowdStrike incident has CIOs rethinking their cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

Saurabh Gugnani, Director and Head of CyberDefence, IAM, and Application Security at Netherlands-headquartered TMF Group, added that a diversified approach to cloud strategies could mitigate such risks. However, our in-house developed application remained unaffected due to GoDaddy’s use of its own hosting infrastructure,” said Borade. “We

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