CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2024

Maturity means, on one hand, that users have not only gained experience with individual dedicated cloud services, but in many cases are now also modernizing and outsourcing core applications. More than half, however, are committed to a cloud-first approach, or the preferred use of cloud services over on-premises hosted applications.

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Forrester IT

JULY 29, 2019

This year we emphasized New market segmentation by Vendor-Managed vs. Client-Managed platforms, which roughly equated to on-premise vs. cloud based platforms, but not quite. Forrester has just published 2019 refresh of out Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) Platforms Waves ™. Since […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Mitre had to create its own system, Clancy added, because most of the existing tools use vendor-managed cloud infrastructure for the AI inference part. Youd start seeing off-the-shelf applications both open source and proprietary that made it easier to build them, says Daniel Avancini, the companys CDO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

A lot of companies that did outsourcing have found themselves in a situation where they have a lot of vendor managers versus technologists. They werent just demos or prototypes they were working applications, because now with AI, they were able to build them fully as a robust application.

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Network World

MAY 23, 2024

Coping with complexity Several factors contribute to making multicloud network management a complex and, at times, frustrating task. Additionally, payment processes can differ for each cloud provider, making it difficult to manage costs.” He also recommends deploying processes that target cybersecurity and compliance requirements. “In

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience. As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

Companies who have a lot of legacy applications may find themselves on an AI journey they didnt ask for. Test every vendors knowledge of AI The large enterprise application vendors are not AI companies, Helmer says. If they havent done so already, itll be bundled in their next release, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes. We also plan on expanding our ERM [enterprise risk management] evaluations to include a more comprehensive SaaS vendor’s DR to determine which platforms we need to ensure have a mitigation strategy.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

Even more alarming was when frustrated users disconnected from the VPN entirely to log in to their SaaS applications, thus bypassing any of the security controls and increasing the overall threat surface. But during massive lockdowns, VPNs at many companies were overwhelmed by surges in demand that slowed traffic to a crawl.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This may include who owns the workload; its dependencies on other applications; who authored it or what vendors are involved; security, governance, compliance, and data requirements; and special integration or location requirements. Importantly, you should also indicate the goal for the workload (e.g.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In one case, it was a supplier of an application that managed a crucial activity with hospitals, which maintained support until we managed to migrate to another platform. The importance of good planning This work prior to any debacle is essential when it comes to managing it with greater success.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 28, 2020

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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Patrick Thompson, former CIO and digital transformation officer at Albemarle Albemarle But in a few short months, generative AI is beginning to take traditional AI to another level for applications like predictive maintenance. The first challenge is the lack of skills both in-house and among vendors that sell traditional applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

Recent research found that application modernization took an average of 16 months. And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. It’s important to recognize that motion is not always progress.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2024

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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

Thats a particular problem because, just as with CrowdStrike, theres a growing dependence on a small number of vendors. OpenAIs ChatGPT, Anthropics Claude, Googles Gemini, and Metas Llama are the foundation of nearly all enterprise AI applications, says Chuck Herrin, field CISO at security firm F5.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

Sometimes, though, it sneaks in through the back door as a result of ad-hoc individual or departmental initiatives — or even through the front door, bundled by the vendors of enterprise applications already in widespread use. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Generative AI, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

The vice president of IT is responsible for overseeing specific aspects of the organization’s IT operations, whether it’s infrastructure, security, data management, or applications. Meanwhile, the CTO focuses on technology research and development efforts, often working closely with the CIO to develop a strong IT strategy.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 22, 2021

Forrester published today a report on how Modern Smart Applications Are Transforming Supplier Value Management (available to Forrester clients). I cite several examples, both from large SVM software suite vendors and from […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. The requesting team works only at the application layer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2024

Its SaaS-based Shrink Analyzer application uses a combination of RFID tags, computer vision linked to in-store CCTV, and analytics to help retailers identify causes of loss. Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Strategy, Microsoft, Predictive Analytics, Retail Industry, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 26, 2023

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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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Forrester IT

MAY 19, 2020

The old playbook for how CIOs can manage tech budgets through tough times will not work for today’s pandemic. While CIOs and their business partners are under intense pressure to cut tech budgets, technology plays a vital role in business survival and success during this recession.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Nevertheless, Koushik and many other technologists argue that AI’s benefits far outweigh its ever-growing carbon footprint, which may not be the case for other energy-hungry applications, such as cryptocurrencies. It’s important for CIOs to have metrics on the CO2 emission for a given application,” says Sundberg.

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It can be used for many purposes, like managing customer data, tracking changes in the enterprise applications, customer billing, digital transformation projects, inventory movements, vendor management, coordinating with stakeholders, etc. The aim is to create a common point of reference for relevant data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2024

The fact that the site or application is technically performing adequately isn’t enough because despite the good performance of the site, sales or the result of a promotion aren’t as expected,” says Deligia. The vendor provides the platforms to manage the web channel and applications, as well as the developers,” says Ridulfo.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2023

These are bottom-up standards crafted in partnership with agile teams, have applicability to how other teams operate, and ensure that best practices continuously evolve. When working with teams, they should simplify vendor management and reporting, including financial and other KPIs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO’s responsibilities typically include IT team management, budget development and supervision, specifying technology investments, and providing guidance on IT systems and governance, he says. What types of organizations hire fractional CIOs? What services do fractional CIOs provide?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

There’s a natural pull to look at CIOs now not just for running data centers and applications, but to be a transformative catalyst for the business.” “There’s greater appreciation from business leaders that technology is what’s driving efficiencies, disrupting products, and underpinning new revenue models.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Given the current rate of client conversion, fewer than 50% of SAP ECC customers will have completed their transformation to S/4 by 2027. Furthermore, about 13,000 ECC customers are on EHPs 0–5, with support only up to 2025 and calling for an even more urgent decision on the future of their ERP. Moreover, 90% of […]

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What to ask The question CIOs need to ask themselves is not who will buy Nutanix, but what to do if a key vendor is acquired or otherwise changes direction — a fundamental facet of any vendor management plan. “If If your software vendor is independent then the immediate question is: Is the company buying this one that I’m using?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

The certification is offered through the American Management Association and covers professional effectiveness, relationship management, business acumen, and analytical intelligence.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI is now a board-level priority Last year, AI consisted of point solutions and niche applications that used ML to predict behaviors, find patterns, and spot anomalies in carefully curated data sets. Making existing applications better with embedded AI is awesome,” says Greenstein. billion to the global economy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

For enterprises that consume foundation models directly, they can build their systems so the API layer is isolated from the rest of the application. Some platform vendors, like Google, are building their own application layer,” he says. CIO, Data Privacy, Generative AI, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers

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