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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

In a damning audit report , Grant Thornton has exposed how the project implementation turned into a cautionary tale of project mismanagement, highlighting critical failures in governance, technical oversight, and vendor management that continue to impact the councils core operations.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either. Weve also seen the emergence of agentic AI, multi-modal AI, reasoning AI, and open-source AI projects that rival those of the biggest commercial vendors.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

In October, Microsoft announced that 100,000 organizations including Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters, Virgin Money, and Zurich Insurance are using Copilot Studio, double the number just months earlier. The technology is relatively new, but all the major players are already on board. We cant do that for security reasons, he says.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO Business Intelligence

Several hospitals canceled surgeries as well, and banks, airports, public transit systems, 911 centers, and multiple government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security also suffered outages. A total of 8.5 million computers were affected. The overall cost was estimated at $5.4

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Bubba AI, Inc. is launching Comp AI to help 100,000 startups get SOC 2 compliant by 2032

CIO Business Intelligence

This experience led Carhart to develop Comp AI as an open source alternative that could help organizations of all sizes achieve SOC 2 compliance without breaking the bank or getting locked into proprietary systems. I wanted to create an open source platform that democratizes access to compliance automation, Lewis Carhart commented.

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57,000 Bank of America Customers' Data Compromised in Breach

SecureWorld News

Bank of America is notifying customers that their personal information was compromised in a data breach impacting Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS), a third-party vendor. At least 57,028 Bank of America customers were directly impacted. The breach reportedly occurred after IMS was hacked in November 2023.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the many vendors whose cloud applications make up the new tech backbone for most enterprises today, in conjunction with customized in-house apps and niche offerings across public clouds. “It