CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Introducing business intelligence required a great deal of change management work, because from a data use that wasnt very sophisticated and organized, and very do-it-yourself, we moved to a consistent and verified data warehouse, he says.

Change Management 294

Change Management Training Security Insurance 294

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2025

IT departments ran proofs-of-concept (PoCs), but some business leaders outside IT with P&L to manage also ran their own experiments without necessarily informing IT when they did so. Nearly all tech surprises last year were related to gen AI, which was so hyped in 2023 that every organization had to try it in one or more projects in 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Microsoft Power BI users will soon face hefty price increases of anywhere from 25% to 40%. While the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant has attempted to justify these larger price tags by saying they are reflective of its ongoing investment in innovation, analysts call it a strategic move and Microsoft isnt the only BI vendor charging more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Agentic AI was the big breakthrough technology for gen AI last year, and this year, enterprises will deploy these systems at scale. According to a January KPMG survey of 100 senior executives at large enterprises, 12% of companies are already deploying AI agents, 37% are in pilot stages, and 51% are exploring their use.

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Enterprise Enterprise System Data 354

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

That’s great, because a strong IT environment is necessary to take advantage of the latest innovations and business opportunities. Technology continues to advance at a furious pace. The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments.

System 349

System Fractional CTO Strategy Enterprise 349

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Over the course of 2024, researchers from security firm CrowdStrike observed a 150% average increase in intrusions by Chinese threat actors worldwide, with some sectors experiencing two- to three-fold surges.

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Industry Malware Groups Telecommunications 330

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the role of the CIO has transcended simply managing IT infrastructure to becoming a pivotal player in enabling business strategy.

Strategy 334

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. Increasingly, however, CIOs are reviewing and rationalizing those investments. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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Cloud Budget Data Oracle 349

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Developers unimpressed by the early returns of generative AI for coding take note: Software development is headed toward a new era, when most code will be written by AI agents and reviewed by experienced developers, Gartner predicts.

Engineering 354

Engineering Software Software Development 354

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

To keep ahead of the curve, CIOs should continuously evaluate their business and technology strategies, adjusting them as necessary to address rapidly evolving technology, business, and economic practices. As 2025 dawns, CIOs face an IT landscape that differs significantly from just a year ago.

Strategy 351

Strategy Agile Disaster Recovery Enterprise 351

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

They want to expand their use of artificial intelligence, deliver more value from those AI investments, further boost employee productivity, drive more efficiencies, improve resiliency, expand their transformation efforts, and more. CIOs are an ambitious lot.

Artificial Intelligence 351

Artificial Intelligence Meeting Security Training 351

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

For its Generative AI Readiness Report, IT services company Avanade surveyed over 3,000 business and IT executives in 10 countries from companies with at least $500 million in annual revenue.

Government 325

Government Programming Data Survey 325

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Whether it’s a financial services firm looking to build a personalized virtual assistant or an insurance company in need of ML models capable of identifying potential fraud, artificial intelligence (AI) is primed to transform nearly every industry.

Enterprise 349

Enterprise Enterprise Architecture Survey 349

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In 2018, I wrote an article asking, “Will your company be valued by its price-to-data ratio?” The premise was that enterprises needed to secure their critical data more stringently in the wake of data hacks and emerging AI processes.

Enterprise 336

Enterprise Enterprise Data Artificial Intelligence 336

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Its up to IT leaders to ensure the changes their digital initiatives bring to business workflows are absorbed and acted upon by the users impacted by them. In the digital transformation era, organizational change is constant.

Change Management 348

Change Management CTO Hire Strategy Fractional CTO 348

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

As organizations rush to spin up AI projects, many IT professionals aren’t sold on the value of these early efforts.

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Education Company Survey Data 347

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2025

Generative AI playtime may be over, as organizations cut down on experimentation and pivot toward achieving business value, with a focus on fewer, more targeted use cases.

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Survey Budget Data IBM 361

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Despite AI’s potential to transform businesses, many senior technology leaders find themselves wrestling with unpredictable expenses, uneven productivity gains, and growing risks as AI adoption scales, Gartner said.

Enterprise 353

Enterprise Enterprise Government Survey 353

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Artificial Intelligence continues to dominate this week’s Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, as well as the research firm’s annual predictions list. “It It is clear that no matter where we go, we cannot avoid the impact of AI,” Daryl Plummer, distinguished vice president analyst, chief of research and Gartner Fellow told attendees. “AI

Energy 338

Energy Healthcare Enterprise Enterprise 338

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Most IT departments are under-resourced and left to debate what capabilities, improvements, and fixes to prioritize. Past shifts to agile methodologies helped as teams now had a product owne r to prioritize backlogs and adopted agile principles that empowered them to commit to a realistic amount of work.

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Project Management Agile Program Management Programming 315

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Business leaders may be confident that their organizations data is ready for AI, but IT workers tell a much different story, with most spending hours each day massaging the data into shape.

Data 336

Data Survey CTO Education 336

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The past year was filled with big IT news: The hype surrounding AI and its widespread adoption, huge numbers of tech industry layoffs , major cyberattacks , and major mergers. Like most years, 2024 also saw its share of IT disasters.

Financial 340

Financial Malware Microsoft Airlines 340

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The road ahead for IT leaders in turning the promise of generative AI into business value remains steep and daunting, but the key components of the gen AI roadmap — data, platform, and skills — are evolving and becoming better defined. That was the key takeaway from the “What’s Next for GenAI in Business” panel at last week’s Big.AI@MIT

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Airlines LAN Travel Financial 340

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Ongoing layoffs in the tech industry and rising demand for AI skills are contributing to a growing mismatch in the IT talent market, which continues to show mixed signals as economic factors and the rise of AI impact budgets and the long-term outlook for IT skills.

Dell 325

Dell Artificial Intelligence Training Data 325

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2025

The blockchain hype starting in the late 2010s has nearly died, replaced by intense interest in AI and hurt by sketchy cryptocurrency and NFT schemes, some experts say.

Fractional CTO 328

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Real Estate CTO 328

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Under pressure to deploy AI within their organizations, most CIOs fear they don’t have the knowledge they need about the fast-changing technology. More than three in five CIOs surveyed by Salesforce say they’re expected to know more about AI than they do, potentially leading to massive and costly deployment mistakes.

Strategy 331

Strategy Fractional CTO Training CTO 331

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

If 2023 was the year of experimentation with gen AI, 2024 was when companies zeroed in on use cases and started putting pilot projects into production. In a survey of 2,300 IT decision makers that IBM released in December, 47% say theyre already seeing ROI from their AI investments, and 33% say theyre breaking even on AI.

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Survey Software Development Development Research 344

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The world must reshape its technology infrastructure to ensure artificial intelligence makes good on its potential as a transformative moment in digital innovation. New technologies, such as generative AI, need huge amounts of processing power that will put electricity grids under tremendous stress and raise sustainability questions.

Artificial Intelligence 329

Artificial Intelligence Disaster Recovery Network Data Center 329

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Allegis had been using a legacy on-premises ERP system called Eclipse for about 15 years, which Shannon says met the business needs well but had limitations. When it embarked on an ERP modernization project, the second time proved to be the charm for Allegis Corp., which performed two ERP deployments in seven years.

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Oracle System Data Applications 328

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI, the more focused alternative to general-purpose generative AI, is gaining momentum in the enterprise, with Forrester having named it a top emerging technology for 2025 in June. Since then, several organizations have begun using the technology , and major vendors such as Salesforce and ServiceNow have offered AI agents to customers.

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