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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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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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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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With the new financial year looming, now is a good time to review your Microsoft 365 licenses

CIO Business Intelligence

Having the right licenses for the applications the business needs are critical. Licensing can sometimes be complex to understand, however, which is why SMBs should make sure they’re sourcing their licenses from the right places. Microsoft 365 is the productivity engine at the heart of many SMB businesses across Australia.

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO Business Intelligence

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Meta also has a veto on competitors using Llama for anything too big: The Llama 3.2

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SAP launches collaborative AI agents, adds Knowledge Graph

CIO Business Intelligence

Managing disputes At the conference, SAP introduced two initial collaborative agent use cases for the finance sector: dispute management and financial accounting. A premium-level subscription plus an abstract method of consumption-based licensing leaves this analyst wanting a lot more than SAP’s AI cost calculator to soothe my nerves.”

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Oracle touts AI as major driver of Q3 gains

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. In Q4, Oracle will start delivering its completely new Ambulatory Clinic Cloud Application Suite to these same customers,” he noted.

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