CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

CIOs and other executives identified familiar IT roles that will need to evolve to stay relevant, including traditional software development, network and database management, and application testing. And while AI is already developing code, it serves mostly as a productivity enhancer today, Hafez says. But that will change. “As

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A lack of AI expertise is a problem, however, when other company leaders often turn to CIOs and other IT leaders as the “go-to people” for solving AI problems, says Pavlo Tkhir, CTO at Euristiq, a digital transformation company. “A The technology is too novel and evolving,” he says. “As

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Understanding the company’s competitive position allows IT leaders to mindfully act to implement technology for competitive advantage. If competitors are using advanced data analytics to gain deeper customer insights, IT would prioritize developing similar or better capabilities. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. Gen AI-related job listings were particularly common in roles such as data scientists and data engineers, and in software development. Were continually finding ways to leverage it, Beerman says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

For many organizations, preparing their data for AI is the first time they’ve looked at data in a cross-cutting way that shows the discrepancies between systems, says Eren Yahav, co-founder and CTO of AI coding assistant Tabnine. For AI, there’s no universal standard for when data is ‘clean enough.’

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With C-suite leaders under increasing pressure to align technology with strategic objectives, many experience that roles — whether CEO, CFO or even CTO — lack the deep technical insight needed to bridge the gap between business and technology. The CEO sets the vision and ensures business success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

SalesforceIQ, a software development company he co-founded in 2015, was acquired by Salesforce in 2018, while his next venture, low-code platform vendor Airkit, was swallowed up by Salesforce in October 2023. Evans has been in and out of Salesforce too.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This increased complexity means more companies will be relying on IT consultants to help navigate the changes and develop short-term and long-term strategies. An IT consultant is a technology professional who advises and supports business clients in designing, developing, and executing technology projects in service of business goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Even simple use cases had exceptions requiring business process outsourcing (BPO) or internal data processing teams to manage. Michael Beckley, CTO and founder of Appian, says document processing is a boring gen AI use case with significant business potential. Why should CIOs bet on unifying their data and AI practices?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A business leader may want to adopt AI, but might not understand that AI works best when fueled by large amounts of data. “By To build strong ties, IT leaders must also listen to and learn from their business counterparts. It delivers visibility to inform data-driven decisions to improve cost savings and risk management,” he notes. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 20, 2024

As SVP and CTO for the Boston Red Sox, Brian Shield is responsible for the strategic direction of technology, fan engagement, day-to-day IT operations, and cybersecurity in support of the team, their fans, and Fenway Sports Management. Fundamental to each player’s success is a development plan that is unique to that individual player.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Product management is crucial for businesses looking to drive innovation and leverage technology as a differentiator, shared Roman Dumiak, executive-in-residence at the DePaul University Innovation Development Lab, at a recent Coffee With Digital Trailblazers event I hosted on the topic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You wouldnt hire someone who doesnt know how to write code to develop your software, so why would you expect a project manager or business analyst to drive change management? Change management is a specialized discipline, just like business analysis, user experience development, or business analysis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2025

IT leaders should be under-hypers rather than over-hypers, and promote technology only in the context of business cases. According to Ron Guerrier, CTO of Save the Children Foundation, one way of helping business leaders learn whats really possible is to recommend books to read on AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Unanticipated AI expenses One of the newest and biggest cloud cost challenges is learning how to properly develop and manage AI models and agents in the cloud. Enterprises must stay proactive and continually optimize their cloud infrastructure, while vendors must keep improving the tools and support they provide.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The head of data and analytics at a large enterprise recently told Jeremiah Stone, CTO of integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) provider SnapLogic, that its data was in no condition to be useful to AI because of poor management of its applications in past years. Other IT leaders see the same challenges that legacy apps create for AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Case in point was the high turnover rate at road and highway maintenance company AVR Group, and the solutions enacted by its CTO Pierangelo Perdomi to remedy it. Instead, for those who work in development, we’ll continue to provide up to three days a week of remote work.” This helps us screen about applications 5,000 per hour.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

And finally, says Vishal Gupta, the companys global CTO, CIO, and SVP of connected technology, the IT department wont touch a project that doesnt have commitment from business users. Gupta applies the same common sense he applies to other technology projects, with a few adjustments to account for the novelty of gen AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By providing worthwhile tools, the IT department allows the business to respond to opportunities quickly, while at the same time mitigating risk.” New business opportunities arise at any time, and people have to be able to quickly purchase tools to get the job done,” he says. You can’t ignore what’s going on in the world,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I know every answer, agrees Dave Curtis, CTO at RobobAI. But no one especially in technology knows everything. Sort decisions by their complexity and impact There are two things you have to consider: the urgency and the importance of the decision, says Efrain Ruh, field CTO for Continental Europe at Digitate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2023

By Leonard Kleinman, Field Chief Technology Officer (CTO) ) Cortex for Palo Alto Networks JAPAC Many things challenge how we practice cybersecurity these days.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

src="[link] alt="dave chen" loading="lazy" width="400px"> Dave Chen Head of Information Technology (Hong Kong Trade Development Council) AI Integration the focus will be on the business value AI brings, emphasising its practical applications. Exciting developments ahead! Exciting times ahead!

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

While that is true, your development teams may not be ready to implement yet. Development teams starting small and building up, learning, testing and figuring out the realities from the hype will be the ones to succeed. Therefore, the developers/testers that use that code need to make sure they understand the code that is generated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2023

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. This enables enterprise development teams to innovate quickly. Learn more about SUSE here.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As competition heats up among cloud service providers, especially on the generative AI front, Oracle is focusing its energies on providing IT infrastructure that can help developers and enterprises take advantage of generative AI in their operations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Data architecture principles According to David Mariani , founder and CTO of semantic layer platform AtScale, six principles form the foundation of modern data architecture: View data as a shared asset. TOGAF is an enterprise architecture methodology that offers a high-level framework for enterprise software development.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

CIOs and business executives must collaborate to develop and communicate a unified vision aligning technology investments with the organization’s broader goals. Too often, companies adopt innovative technologies based on market hype without fully understanding how they contribute to their business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. Weve developed our software such that the LLM open source or proprietary can be swapped in or out via configuration. Kong, which surveyed developers about their API use, found a similar balance, with OpenAI at 27%, Llama at 8%, and Mistral at 4%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

James Cham, a partner at Bloomberg Beta , will offer a venture fund perspective on changes to watch in software development, deriving value from big data, and a view into where AI fits in. Cham will also lead a live discussion on cloud, and other technology investments, can be used as catalysts for building business value.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For example, developers using GitHub Copilots code-generating capabilities have experienced a 26% increase in completed tasks , according to a report combining the results from studies by Microsoft, Accenture, and a large manufacturing company. These reinvention-ready organizations have 2.5 times higher revenue growth and 2.4

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

AI concierges will follow the buyer, instead of being linked to a specific seller, enabling them to learn and develop a deep understanding of the customers preferences and lifestyle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

Large enterprises have long used knowledge graphs to better understand underlying relationships between data points, but these graphs are difficult to build and maintain, requiring effort on the part of developers, data engineers, and subject matter experts who know what the data actually means.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2024

Of course, this kind of step change in the way new solutions are developed and legacy workflows are digitized represents a major shift in the traditional, top-down, tech-led approach that has been the status quo in big businesses for decades.

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