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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

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CIOs were given significant budgets to improve productivity, cost savings, and competitive advantages with gen AI. Examples include scanning invoices, extracting basic contract information, or capturing information from PDF forms. AI at Wharton reports enterprises increased their gen AI investments in 2024 by 2.3

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Cost concerns put CIOs’ AI strategies on edge

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Since AI is new for most companies, this creates a budgeting challenge for their AI initiatives. That uncertainty creates a challenge for risk-averse companies that must work within budget constraints. Pay-as-you-go pricing is a way to reduce financial risk by not locking into long-term contracts.

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Beyond the hype: 4 use cases that show what’s actually working with gen AI

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Baker says productivity is one of the main areas of gen AI deployment for the company, which is now available through Office 365, and allows employees to do such tasks as summarize emails, or help with PowerPoint and Excel documents. We have a ton of documents we can talk about.

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Is the gen AI bubble due to burst? CIOs face rethink ahead

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million to roll out, with a recurring annual budget hit of $8,000 to $11,000 per user. A virtual assistant may save employees time when searching for old documents or composing emails, but most organizations have no idea how much time those tasks have taken historically, having never tracked such metrics before, she says.

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Can the CIO role prevail over AI?

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“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. It can also help make sense of large documents, enabling faster decision-making. “I

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10 things keeping IT leaders up at night

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“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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Why enterprise CIOs need to plan for Microsoft gen AI

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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott compared the company’s Copilot stack to the LAMP stack of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, enabling organizations to build at scale on the internet, and there’s clear enterprise interest in building solutions with these services. People need to consider this when building their applications. This isn’t a new issue.

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