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Marc Andreessen on the future of technology and the nature of government services

CTOvision

Consider the many services that states are already moving online, like driver licenses and car registration. For other hints, we can find parallels to how the smartphone enabled youth of today interact with financial services. By 2030 every citizen will primarily interact with financial services without visiting a facility.

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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Marc Andreessen on the future of technology and implications for interactions between government and citizens

CTOvision

We can say the same with auto insurance and crop insurance, financial services, loan risk scoring – all of which can be done far more accurately now than historically. Also consider the application of AI and automation to constructs like the drivers license. Consider AI that can tell if a person is driving poorly.

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Scenario planning: strategy for the future of global financial services

Trends in the Living Networks

For my keynote at the Vision 2020 Financial Services conference last month in Mumbai I prepared some 'quick and dirty' scenarios for the global financial services industry landscape in 2020 from a technology perspective. Below are the scenarios in detail: Driving Forces: Global Financial Services. Economic shift. Integration.

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Principal Financial unifies IT to lay foundation for growth

CIO Business Intelligence

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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SAP SE revamps application security scanning using simulation and automation

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP’s award-winning FioriDAST project mimics user and attacker behavior to safeguard its web applications. While hackers target companies of all sizes, a tech giant like SAP may have a bigger bull’s eye on its back because of the sensitive data it manages and the critical role its ERP applications play in global businesses.

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What will be hot for Cisco in 2019?

Network World

That seems to be the mantra for Cisco in 2019 as the company pushes software-defined WANs, cloud partnerships, improved application programs and its over-arching drive to sell more subscription-based software licenses. billion.

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