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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

And while the maturity of those practices varies, large organizations at the forefront of FinOps are scaling up and out, driving the cloud optimization practice into new areas of IT, including as a way to get a handle on spiraling AI costs. And its FinOps principles arent limited to public cloud or SaaS.

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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 15, 2022

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud. According to the report, the implementation has fundamentally impacted the Councils financial management and its operations, forcing the council into a costly re-implementation phase that has more than doubled the projects original budget.

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Seek solutions now to remedy surging cloud costs

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2024

The complexity within IT infrastructures is increasing, as is the pressure on IT budgets to use available funds as smartly and efficiently as possible. Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. In this context, more than a quarter expect cloud costs to rise by 20% or more.

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10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget.

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Download our cloud cost management enterprise buyer’s guide

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

When the monthly cloud bill arrives, CFOs are hitting the roof. Cloud cost management tools are an answer. Budgeting, Cloud Management, Enterprise Buyer’s Guides, IT Management, Vendor Management

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. in June, 2022, to 3.7%

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud. They’re required to work closely with upper management, executives, and key stakeholders to identify business needs and requirements.

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How Kimberly-Clark’s Zack Hicks heeds the call for innovation

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. With all the things you can do with AI, data, and the cloud, how do you get your team to focus in on the areas that impact the bottom line? You can vote with your budget.

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Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

effectiveness of the cloud in disaster responses in 2013. responsive future: implementation of cloud computing as a technology for relief—a call for help answered before the roar had stopped. Alabama to a tsunami in Banda Aceh, cloud computing is a technology that makes achievable the desire to help in a way inconceivable a decade.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

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. Project manager The role of project manager is important for planning, executing, and completing IT projects on time and on budget.

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Vendor consolidation a hot-button topic for CIOs as they try to manage the tensions between innovation and efficiency

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2023

One of the key steps in achieving all of the above will be vendor consolidation, and there will be a strong trend towards this in the year ahead. For example, one key piece of advice for CIOs looking at constrained budgets and inflationary pressures in the year ahead is to be open with suppliers regarding those budget constraints.

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CIOs go green, vet IT investments for sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 13, 2024

In 2023, the cloud, security, and networking service provider announced it will transition its data centers and offices in Michigan to renewable energy sources, Jandron says. This includes optimizing data centers for energy efficiency, adopting cloud solutions that prioritize sustainability, and implementing green IT practices.”

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

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. Those principles are data centric, platform first, cloud based, automation led, and zero trust (so that everything is secure from the start).

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

The certification covers high-level topics such as organizational structure, budgeting, managing risk, monitoring and assigning deliverables, communicating with remote teams and executives, and managing complex large-scope projects.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

In his new role, Pujari will steer development of the company’s technology capabilities in India, including expansion of cloud solutions, platform integration, capability and capacity building, and streamlining partners. He has held senior management positions at Google, TiVo, and Motorola. He joined Publicis Media in 2019.

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Why CIOs must lead the charge on ESG – and why enterprise architecture is the key

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Just as with existing practices such as application rationalization, technology modernization and cloud migration, sustainability and green IT principles must be integrated into solution evaluations. Assesses adherence to technology standards, including cloud migration, integration with legacy systems and enterprise-wide IT solutions.

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7 common transformation mistakes and how to avoid them

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 3, 2025

You might evaluatewhich type of cloud to choose or whether anAIapplication is useful, but the real issue is management and process, and how to effectively address challenges by putting the focus on people. Many CIOs, even if they use cloud software and services, tend to bring some strategic skills back in-house.

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Downer’s digital journey to deliver consistency to customers

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2025

Ultimately, when we say what the value is to the customers on that, we can help them optimize their operating and capital budgets by getting more tailored programs that suit their businesses. On CIO aspirations: It all depends on where you start your career. Its also about mindset: having a can-do attitude and asking the right questions.

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

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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How Kimberly-Clark’s Zack Hicks heeds the call for innovation

Cloud Shines Brightly as Future of Disaster Response IT

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Vendor consolidation a hot-button topic for CIOs as they try to manage the tensions between innovation and efficiency

CIOs go green, vet IT investments for sustainability

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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