CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 15, 2022

DTN is more than just a weather forecaster: It also offers decision-support services to companies in agriculture, energy, commodities, and the finance industry. The forecasting systems DTN had acquired were developed by different companies, on different technology stacks, with different storage, alerting systems, and visualization layers.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Reflecting on his own journey from cyber security professional to aspiring Chief Technology Officer, Kumar remarked, “As a cyber security professional, the journey to become a Chief Technology Officer was not apparent to me. James further elucidated the key components CEOs look for in CVs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

Since the introduction of ChatGPT, the healthcare industry has been fascinated by the potential of AI models to generate new content. However, the effort to build, train, and evaluate this modeling is only a small fraction of what is needed to reap the vast benefits of generative AI technology. Consider the iceberg analogy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Safeguard contracts: Include clauses in vendor contracts that address service-level agreements (SLAs), response times, and penalties for prolonged outages. Continuous improvement and review Stay informed: Keep abreast of industry trends and incidents like the CrowdStrike outage to learn from the experiences of others.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The 2014 Data Impact Awards highlight achievements in the following areas: BUSINESS IMPACT. Driving tangible results to an organization, company or industry by empowering new capabilities that generate top-line growth and/or increased competitive advantage, or improving operational efficiencies that result in quantifiable bottom-line savings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

The report for Q3 of fiscal 2024, released yesterday, said that Oracle had signed multiple large-scale cloud infrastructure contracts in the previous three months, with no end in sight, as CEO Safra Catz touted the company’s bright prospects in cloud. “We Enterprise Applications, Oracle, Technology Industry

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

CIO.com: How has your career evolved to becoming an IT director/CIO/CTO? I was initially an IT consultant working across the UK, in industries covering legal, health, manufacturing, education, and oil and gas. Healthcare Industry, Innovation, IT Leadership

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

HashiCorp is known for its Terraform product, an infrastructure automation tool, which is considered an industry standard for infrastructure provisioning in hybrid and multicloud environments. Notably, HashiCorp’s multicloud focus aligns with the market’s increasing demand for flexibility, said CMR’s Ram backing the move. “By

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Other speakers will present lessons learned from across industry, including lessons on topics like data provenance, encryption, as well as user authorization and auditing. Engaging the Hadoop Developer — Deep-dive with industry experts into the key projects, technology, and emerging trends driving the enterprise adoption of Hadoop.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

“The executive’s organization created a senior-level working group to guide its gen AI initiatives, tapping diverse sources like hackathons and external consultants to surface stakeholder ideas for GenAI solutions.” It is important to remember that the underlying technology is the same,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“By explaining the concepts behind AI in a clear manner, the business leader can be introduced to the building blocks for AI, and the IT leader can develop an acceptable strategy,” advises Nidal Haddad, principal at business advisory firm Deloitte Consulting. Yet these topics are often foreign to most business leaders. “It

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JANUARY 18, 2015

Engaging the Hadoop Developer — Deep-dive with industry experts into the key projects, technology, and emerging trends driving the enterprise adoption of Hadoop. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Eddie Garcia.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Companies that fail to build their own AI agents will turn to outside AI consulting firms to build custom agents for them, or they will use agents embedded in software from their current vendors, write Forrester analysts Jayesh Chaurasia and Sudha Maheshwari. Kumar adds. Start with one [AI model], and you can start tailoring its behavior.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

global inflation rate, an ongoing talent squeeze, and persistent supply issues as a triple threat to CIOs’ ability to realize time to value for their tech investments this year, according to its 2023 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey , which gathered data from 2,203 CIOs in 81 countries and all major industries.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic. nyike The best way to avoid hidden #cloud costs is to read every word in the contract. Drafting and Negotiating Cloud Computing Agreements’ , so they can understand the many nuances of cloud contracts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

“Compensation is certainly increasing, and as CIOs continue to achieve more and more responsibilities, we fully anticipate that these levels continue to increase,” agrees Craig Stephenson, managing director of the North America technology and digital officers practice at Korn Ferry. Stephenson says.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

“The inflated expectations were so inflated from the early days and have kept on, and I think this is going to be a pretty deep trough of disillusionment,” says Chris Stephenson, managing director of intelligent automation, AI, and digital services at IT consulting firm alliantgroup, affirming Gartner’s hype cycle.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2024

Vendors and consultants are always eager to share insights into innovations and trends, but exchanging ideas and opinions with colleagues and fellow IT leaders can often be invaluable. The CEC offers a variety of benefits, including access to peers, insights from industry leaders, and curated resources for honing IT leadership skills.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2024

Some enterprises struggle with executing a critical step in their AI journeys: developing and establishing AI guardrails and ethical policies within their organization, according to the Texas-based non-profit, whose members include Amazon Web Services, Boston Consulting Group, ATB Financial, and Shell.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

With that in mind, we asked tech leaders in various roles and industries to list what technologies they think are overhyped and to put a more realistic spin on each one’s potential. He says generative AI’s “potential is great; it will transform many industries. Here’s what they say on the topic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

Loura deliberately pursued opportunities in different industries and ones that presented new challenges. For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.” NTT i 3 ), a research and development center; and CIO and CTO of Magellan Health. Second, be intentional.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

“Business leaders are figuring out how to weather a post-pandemic soft economy, looming recession, and inflation,” Mukkamala says. How do you future-proof your business in the face of so much uncertainty? But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2024

Additionally, he’s working on his company’s annual attestation of compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Research from PwC had similar findings, with 47% of CIOs saying they’re “prioritizing the transformation of their data platforms to drive business growth.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

But for Rob Clark, president and CTO of AI developer Seekr, such questions are business-critical. Seekr’s main business is building and training AIs that are transparent to enterprise and other users. He recommends enterprises conduct an incident test, or “a little chaos engineering,” before signing a contract. “As

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

Long before the advent of customer data platforms (CDPs) , Kohl’s business model centered on collecting and cultivating customer data. We’ve had a homegrown customer data environment for decades,” says Paul Gaffney, CTO and supply chain officer at the $19.4 Data Science, Google Cloud Platform, Retail Industry

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Steve Ross, director of cybersecurity for the Americas at S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting, says gen AI can reduce a day’s worth of research to a single hour, but not without a catch. “It But adopting the technology is helping the company move forward, she says. The AI can go deeper than a Google search.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

He and other industry observers and IT leaders note, however, that an abundance of tools, managed services, and platforms are giving CIOs greater visibility into cloud costs and that alone is helping to lower the bills. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

“Technology such as AI is redefining business models, requiring organizations to make the seismic shift from a novice technology organization to a mature and trusted leader,’’ says Raj Sharma, consulting vice chair at EY Americas. “As This work is critical and feeds directly into how the company uses AI.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“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. I like driving the business forward.” But their role isn’t going away.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

And in regulated industries, vendors must also comply with specific regulations, such as HIPAA or PCI. Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If That might work for a general business user, but not for someone in a very specific and technical domain.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

We do a lot of paperwork in leasing and contracts, pages and pages of legal documents in multiple languages,” which has thus far been challenging to incorporate, the CTO says. Someone has to change the toilet paper and make sure there are enough snacks and coffee for people in the office.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We asked the CIO Experts Network, a community of IT professionals, industry analysts, and other influencers, why real-time data is so important for today’s business and how data helps organizations make better, faster decisions. Nichol ( @PeterBNichol ), Chief Technology Officer at OROCA Innovations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

More companies in every industry are adopting artificial intelligence to transform business processes. But the success of their AI initiatives depends on more than just data and technology — it’s also about having the right people on board. The domain expert has in-depth knowledge of a particular industry or subject area.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The most important action is to ensure that IT staff are kept current with new and critical technologies. Their views follow: Question: Are any IT jobs in particular jeopardy in light of rapid advances in technology? Dennis Klemenz, CTO, Jovia Financial Credit Union : “I see technology jobs only increasing at companies.

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