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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

CIO Business Intelligence

“What’s Next for GenAI in Business” panel at last week’s Big.AI@MIT Unfortunately, despite hard-earned lessons around what works and what doesn’t, pressure-tested reference architectures for gen AI — what IT executives want most — remain few and far between, she said.

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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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How to prioritize AI initiatives: A strategic framework for maximizing ROI

CIO Business Intelligence

The CAFs purpose is to test, challenge and support the art and science of Business Technology Architecture and its evolution over time as well as grow the influence and leadership of chief architects both inside and outside the profession. This article was made possible by our partnership with the IASA Chief Architect Forum.

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The rise of the data lakehouse: A new era of data value

CIO Business Intelligence

The giant pharmaceutical chain had put its lakehouse in place to address just such challenges in its quest, to, as Guadagno puts it, “To get the right product in the right place for the right patient.”. Using Apache Ignite technology from GridGain, Wiesenfeld created an in-memory computing architecture.

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UK movers and shakers: New CIO and IT executive appointments

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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society announced that it has appointed Avril Chester as its new Chief Technology Officer. In her new role, Avril will have “responsibility for executive leadership of all the technology functions, including technical architecture, software development, operations and product delivery.” March 2022.

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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

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The data architect also “provides a standard common business vocabulary, expresses strategic requirements, outlines high-level integrated designs to meet those requirements, and aligns with enterprise strategy and related business architecture,” according to DAMA International’s Data Management Body of Knowledge.

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A CIO’s first rule for automation: Have a clear business case

CIO Business Intelligence

One of the biggest things I’ve learned is you can’t do automation to the business; you have to do it with the business.” In general, it’s been straight forward to quantify the business impact of automation initiatives, given they typically have clear before and after business metrics.