CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

Accenture reports that the top three sources of technical debt are enterprise applications, AI, and enterprise architecture. What CIOs can do: The security practices in DevSecOps lagged CI/CD automations, and businesses were fast implementing citizen data science, leaving many data governance practices as to-dos.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

What do the chief digital officer, chief technology officer, chief information security officer, chief transformation officer, chief data officer, and so on, have in common? Most enterprises would argue they need all these roles to operate and drive their change agendas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2025

Chief data officers (CDOs), chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs), and chief artificial intelligence officers (CAIO) together made up 91% of survey respondents; 4% held the title of CIO or CTO, and 3% were C-suite execuitves. Most (85%) were in North America.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

“There are multiple examples of organizations driving home a first-mover advantage by adopting and embracing technology modernization when the opportunity presents itself early.” On the other hand, there are also many cases of enterprises hanging onto obsolete systems that have long-since exceeded their original ROI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Copilot Studio allows enterprises to build autonomous agents, as well as other agents that connect CRM systems, HR systems, and other enterprise platforms to Copilot. Then in November, the company revealed its Azure AI Agent Service, a fully-managed service that lets enterprises build, deploy and scale agents quickly.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

We may look back at 2024 as the year when LLMs became mainstream, every enterprise SaaS added copilot or virtual assistant capabilities, and many organizations got their first taste of agentic AI. AI at Wharton reports enterprises increased their gen AI investments in 2024 by 2.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Its an offshoot of enterprise architecture that comprises the models, policies, rules, and standards that govern the collection, storage, arrangement, integration, and use of data in organizations. Limit the times data must be moved to reduce cost, increase data freshness, and optimize enterprise agility. DAMA-DMBOK 2.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards.

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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. When it comes to container-related technologies, only 30% are using OSS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As more AI innovations come to market, financial institutions can leverage the technology for enhanced services, increased efficiency, and new ways to deliver and manage products. Ed McLaughlin is the president and chief technology officer of Mastercard and a member of the company’s management committee.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

SAP CTO Juergen Mueller will step down from SAP’s executive board at the end of September. “I I want to address an incident at a past company event where my behavior was inappropriate. I regret being inconsiderate and sincerely apologize to everyone affected. I recognize my behavior at that moment did not reflect our values at SAP.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

AI, once viewed as a novel innovation, is now mainstream, impacting just about facet of the enterprise. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

SAP introduced a new CTO and two new chief revenue officers. Philipp Herzig will take on the role of global CTO at SAP, in addition to his current position as chief AI officer. In his new position, Herzig will oversee SAPs technology strategy, innovation, research, and corporate development.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Poor resource management and optimization Excessive enterprise cloud costs are typically the result of inefficient resource management and a lack of optimization. Many enterprises also overestimate the resources required, leading to larger, more expensive instances being provisioned than necessary, causing overprovisioning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Beware silos — and be proactive about adding value Business leaders are often concerned that IT may not be fully aligned with enterprise needs and challenges, observes Brian Bronson, EVP at IT services firm Capgemini Americas. Become a motivator Most business leaders expect IT to be the engine that propels enterprise success.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2025

Questionable outcomes and a lack of confidence in generative AIs promised benefits are proving to be key barriers to enterprise adoption of the technology. Most enterprises, especially outside of tech, face significant barriers to implementing in-house AI infrastructures that are capable of running highly advanced models, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2025

A recent criticism of blockchain comes from Jim Fowler, CTO at insurance carrier Nationwide. While insurance carriers were an early example of potential users , Fowler talks about blockchain as an example of how to avoid getting distracted by shiny, new technologies. Many organizations havent found other uses for blockchain, he says.

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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 15, 2024

Driven by the development community’s desire for more capabilities and controls when deploying applications, DevOps gained momentum in 2011 in the enterprise with a positive outlook from Gartner and in 2015 when the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) incorporated DevOps. It may surprise you, but DevOps has been around for nearly two decades.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But many enterprises stopped their agile transformations at this layer. But the work to get business leaders, stakeholders, and end-users to shift to agile mindsets mostly got stuck. Most enterprise IT departments need program managers but need to restate their responsibilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. EA, and its goals, however, are constantly evolving.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

El CTO de SAP, Juergen Mueller, dejará su puesto en la junta ejecutiva de SAP a finales de septiembre. Quiero referirme a un incidente ocurrido en un evento de la compañía en el que mi comportamiento fue inapropiado. Lamento haber sido desconsiderado y pido sinceras disculpas a todos los afectados.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Guan believes that having the ability to harness data is non-negotiable in today’s business environment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Your communication strategy is lacking Leaders often overlook the importance of building strong communication links between management and team members, says Pavlo Tkhir, CTO at software development firm Euristiq. But Bilow observes that enterprises sometimes bypass early stakeholder groups and jump straight to business user needs.

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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. The reason is because enterprises look for some predictability. It is all dependent upon the features and usage volume, she adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

To ensure every IT initiative directly contributes to measurable business outcomes, CIOs must move from operational managers to strategic partners, collaborating with business leaders to align IT decisions with enterprise goals. Now, he focuses on strategic business technology strategy through architectural excellence.

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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. As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. A cloud-first enterprise applications strategy helps make data more accessible to distributed users and workflows, he says.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Enterprise infrastructures have expanded far beyond the traditional ones focused on company-owned and -operated data centers. As a result, for IT consultants, keeping the pulse of the technology market is essential. The IT function within organizations has become far more complex in recent years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2024

Japanese cloud service and data intelligence firm, Fujjitsu, has formed a strategic alliance with Cohere, a Toronto and San Francisco-based enterprise AI company known for its focus on security and data privacy, to develop and provide secure, cutting-edge generative AI solutions for Japanese enterprises.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Generative AI has seen faster and more widespread adoption than any other technology today, with many companies already seeing ROI and scaling up use cases into wide adoption. Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either.

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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.

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