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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Agents will begin replacing services Software has evolved from big, monolithic systems running on mainframes, to desktop apps, to distributed, service-based architectures, web applications, and mobile apps. It wont happen overnight, of course, and companies will need to be careful that these agentic systems dont go off the rails.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

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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What IT executives are saying about vendor consolidation

CIO Business Intelligence

While I expected this exercise to confirm that consolidation is real, I was pleasantly surprised with the degree to which the CIO Tech Talk Community confirmed it – and how they are taking steps to realign their procurement and vendor management strategies. Of course, some startups will also shutdown. What’s next?

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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

The certification is offered through the American Management Association and covers professional effectiveness, relationship management, business acumen, and analytical intelligence. GAQM offers an e-course that takes 30 to 35 hours on average to complete that you can take prior to taking the exam.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

CIO Business Intelligence

But to ensure information safety, the application was built within the institution’s Azure perimeter, and security practices included dedicated IP addresses, VPN routing, service-to-service authentication, and HTTPS enforcement. “We But the institute was able to focus its resources on other applications, such as research and operations.

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Spooky, Scary Tales of Vendor Management

SecureWorld News

Five little vendors access your data. The first one said, "For this company, vendor management doesn't seem to matta." The fourth one said, "Regulation requires vendor control." In honor of Halloween, it seems appropriate to address one of the scariest issues facing organizations today: vendor or supplier management.

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Why CIOs should embrace the potential of data and analytics enablement platforms for a brighter future

CIO Business Intelligence

Analytics applications may individually be state-of-the-art, but they’re commonly disconnected — all of which inhibits ready access, stymies collaboration, limits the customer picture and, worst of all, increases time to insights and marketplace impact. What’s missing is the ability to unlock their total, end-to-end values easily.

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