CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either. Weve also seen the emergence of agentic AI, multi-modal AI, reasoning AI, and open-source AI projects that rival those of the biggest commercial vendors. Say a vendor releases a new software product.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

FinOps finally became ubiquitous across the enterprise landscape last year with 75% of Forbes Global 2000 companies now all-in, according to IDC. Were moving FinOps practices into larger scopes of vendors, says Jennifer Hays, SVP and head of engineering excellence and accessibility at Fidelity Investments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

With the AI revolution underway which has kicked the wave of digital transformation into high gear it is imperative for enterprises to have their cloud infrastructure built on firm foundations that can enable them to scale AI/ML solutions effectively and efficiently.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

AI is being used in other ways in the enterprise as well, to do things like improve the efficiency of the supply chain, facilitate customer interactions, and help employees perform office tasks. The first challenge is the lack of skills both in-house and among vendors that sell traditional applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 11, 2025

This could be the year agentic AI hits the big time, with many enterprises looking to find value-added use cases. A key question: Which business processes are actually suitable for agentic AI? Business alignment, value, and risk How can an enterprise know whether a business process is ripe for agentic AI?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gen AI is that amplification and the world’s reaction to it is like enterprises and society reacting to the introduction of a foreign body. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

But CIOs are cautiously evaluating how to safely deploy generative AI in the enterprise, and what guard-rails to put around it. To help IT leaders keep tabs on their exposure to generative AI, CIO.com offers this round-up of the latest generative AI announcements from some of the major enterprise software vendors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

Cloud cost management tools are an answer. Budgeting, Cloud Management, Enterprise Buyer’s Guides, IT Management, Vendor Management Developer teams are learning that the pennies add up, sometimes faster than expected, and it’s time for some discipline.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2025

[i] CIOs face mounting pressure to optimize their data strategy, manage vendors effectively, and accelerate digital transformation. Identity resolution is central to all three, yet many organizations struggle with fragmented data, vendor management, and scalable identity solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the many vendors whose cloud applications make up the new tech backbone for most enterprises today, in conjunction with customized in-house apps and niche offerings across public clouds. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

Large software vendors are used to solving the integration problems that enterprises deal with on a daily basis, says Lee McClendon, chief digital and technology officer at software testing company Tricentis. Test every vendors knowledge of AI The large enterprise application vendors are not AI companies, Helmer says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Enterprises are better off being model agnostic. In the end, were likely headed for a hybrid future, says Sreekanth Menon, global head of AI at Genpact. Both open and closed-source models have their place, despite the popular sentiment of open source takeover, he says.

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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. Now, as part of the enterprise executive leadership team, I can represent my team on a larger stage. Thats a big focus for me. Previously, the CIO reported to the CFO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

If the CrowdStrike outage underscored anything for CIOs, it’s that modern enterprises are dependent on a growing number of interconnected systems, any one of which can cripple business operations beyond CIOs’ control. Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 3, 2025

The company is positioning itself to address the compliance needs of organizations ranging from early-stage startups to established enterprises. Bubba AI, Inc.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. Double down on vendor management. Invest in win-wins.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is a technology leader hired on a temporary or part-time basis, explains Peter Kirkwood, corporate strategy leader at management consulting and strategy advisory firm Zinnov. A fractional CIO thinks beyond technical needs and considers the needs of the organization from a strategic business perspective.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2024

What happens when a supplier goes under The disappearance of a company that supplies technological assets to your enterprise can present huge challenges, especially if it has supplied a significant part of the infrastructure. So too are robust vendor management practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

An enterprise that bet its future on ChatGPT would be in serious trouble if the tool disappeared and all of OpenAI’s APIs suddenly stopped working. So enterprises looking for generative AI vendors have a lot of options to choose from. And it’s not just start-ups that can expose an enterprise to AI-related third-party risk.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That means we need to draw off the car, and feed into the car, lots of data from our enterprise,” he says, so at the intersection of product engineering and enterprise IT, “you’ve got an acute level of synergy in terms of cloud, software engineering standards, integration, and APIs.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

No company has the luxury of containing the enterprise IT environment within its four walls anymore. Gartner predicts that more than 40% of enterprises will have SASE in place or progress by 2024, up from fewer than 1% at the end of 2018. Transitioning to a full SASE environment is a long process for large enterprises.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

But whether you’re on the management track or have your eye on an IT management career, any one of these 20 IT management certifications should help give you a leg up in the industry. The framework is specifically focused on enterprise architecture and aligning IT goals with business goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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. A cloud strategy should be built on business outcomes the organization is seeking to achieve, which may then align with some of those potential benefits.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2024

Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one. For many companies, an employee’s main interaction with gen AI will come through the enterprise and productivity software they’re already using. Dana-Farber was no exception.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2023

Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

Be ready to use generative AI to add speed Research and advisory firm Gartner has predicted that “by 2027, gen AI tools will be used to explain legacy business applications and create appropriate replacements, reducing modernization costs by 70%.” Digital Transformation, Enterprise Applications, IT Strategy, Software Development

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

And from the point of view of my own enterprise, if one of the benefits of AI is it saves me from sending somebody on a flight from New York to London, I’ve offset the consumption.” Ultimately enterprises will have to measure energy consumption — and that might be on a per-query basis, where the smaller models do much better.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

With technology now a pervasive enabler of all aspects of the business, CIOs have the end-to-end visibility and cross-functional insights that other executives lack, not to mention oversight of key enterprise assets such as data and analytics. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Yet, Accenture had a dependable, long-term partner in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software pioneer SAP, first adopting the company’s solutions in 2004. The lengthy process slowed feedback on solution design, as well as delivery times on changes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2024

Overspend in cloud deployment Money wasted on an untargeted cloud strategy has serious consequences to the enterprise. According to IT managers, there are deficits in how these tools are handled, and as a result, complaints increase that the tools can’t sufficiently illuminate cause-and-effect mechanisms regarding cloud spend.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. And you have to partner with your vendors.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

She’s also been involved in supply chain consulting, vendor management, and, most recently, driving large infrastructure and cybersecurity transformation projects. In this interview with CIO India, Katiyar talks about her management philosophy, and how she has directed her career.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

“Having a dedicated team responsible for tracking and optimizing cloud spend allows CIOs to understand how cost deviations align with overall business and revenue objectives.” In this quarter, 74% of large enterprises report having FinOps teams and processes in place, up from 61% in 2022,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 8, 2023

Most New Zealand enterprises are not leveraging offshore tech skills to plug gaps, according to a new report from the University of Auckland’s Centre of Digital Enterprise. Other areas he is encouraging Kiwi enterprises to consider are AI-enabled services and data analytics. New Zealand companies do not use advisory.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

In his new role, Ramamoorthy will lead technology and digital transformation for the bank, as well as be responsible for modern technologies such as APIs, AI and machine learning, and business intelligence. Goyal has 16 years’ experience in IT Innovation, activation, operation, project management, and systems management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What’s going to happen, then, if that point solution is acquired by another vendor — perhaps not your preferred supplier — and integrated into its stack? We’ve already seen what happened when HPE bought hyperconverged infrastructure vendor SimpliVity back in January 2017. Mergers and Acquisitions, Risk Management, Vendor Management.

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