Information Week

JANUARY 13, 2025

To capitalize on AI, organizations must fortify cloud environments with robust data management, zero-trust policies, enterprise governance, FinOps and organizational change management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

AI and cloud are driving double-digit CAGR, but digital transformation isnt limited to technology investments. Training, communication, and change management are the real enablers. The change management was complex, as it always is, says Sicca. But the difference lies in its accompaniment to innovation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

When we were taken private in 2015, we were a traditional software vendor, but the market was starting to embrace the cloud. Many of our customers had already started to move their applications and it made sense they would want to transition to data management in the cloud as well. The architecture was a means to get there.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This is true whether it’s an outdated system that’s no longer vendor-supported or infrastructure that doesn’t align with a cloud-first strategy, says Carrie Rasmussen, CIO at human resources software and services firm Dayforce. A first step, Rasmussen says, is ensuring that existing tools are delivering maximum value.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 14, 2023

What is the main purpose of change management? In modern IT, change management has many different guises. Project managers view change management as the process used to obtain approval for changes to the scope, timeline, or budget of a project. What are the benefits of change management?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

Become reinvention-ready CIOs must invest in becoming reinvention-ready, allowing their enterprise to adopt and adapt to rapid technological and market changes, says Andy Tay, global lead of Accenture Cloud First. They achieved these results through a culture that embraces change and a strong digital foundation, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For instance, Capital One successfully transitioned from mainframe systems to a cloud-first strategy by gradually migrating critical applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Additionally, leveraging cloud-based solutions reduced the burden of maintaining on-premises infrastructure. Also, reexamine current practices and processes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2024

But the majority of companies in Germany, in particular, rely on the cloud in its various facets, and have now achieved a certain level of maturity when it comes to migrating workloads. The pressure to modernize IT and business processes has now clearly led to most cloud transformation projects being planned and implemented.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

For CIOs, the event serves as a stark reminder of the inherent risks associated with over-reliance on a single vendor, particularly in the cloud. The incident, which saw IT systems crashing and displaying the infamous “ blue screen of death (BSOD) ,” exposed the vulnerabilities of heavily cloud-dependent infrastructures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The power of AI operations (AIOps) and ServiceOps, including BMC Helix Discovery , can transform how you optimize IT operations (ITOps), change management, and service delivery. The companys more recent adoption of BMC ServiceOps has transformed change management processes and IT services management (ITSM) success for his organization.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Mitre had to create its own system, Clancy added, because most of the existing tools use vendor-managed cloud infrastructure for the AI inference part. Theres also a separate research project thats looking at 50-year-old mainframe code, and using AI to extract the business logic and rewrite it for a cloud-native framework, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

Martin Bayer: At the moment, user companies are still hesitant to adopt cloud computing, but also SAP’s RISE and GROW programs, especially in Germany. Last year’s message that certain core innovations would only be offered in the cloud has also caused some resentment among users. But we have a strong cloud result.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. 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.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

Network as a service (NaaS) is a cloud service model thats designed to let enterprise IT professionals order network infrastructure components from a menu of options, have them configured to fit their business needs, and have the whole thing delivered, running and managed in a matter of hours instead of weeks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

After all, change management is a vital component of digital transformation success. Evangelizing for that change — from the very beginning — can make all the difference. Why be an evangelist? 1 for CIOs to do the selling. It’s also important to note that evangelism isn’t a onetime effort of educating and building enthusiasm.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

What CIOs can do: To make transitions to new AI capabilities less costly, invest in regression testing and change management practices around AI-enabled large-scale workflows. It also anonymizes all PII so the cloud-hosted chatbot cant be fed private information.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 22, 2023

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. Following are the roles companies are most likely to have added to support their cloud investments, according to Foundry’s research.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2025

When change is no longer needed Many CDOs see their roles primarily as change management gurus focused on helping organizations embrace data-first strategies and adopt good data practices, says Bean, co-author of the survey. Its about orchestrating the entire data supply chain in this new Data 4.0

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Among the recent trends impacting IT are the heavy shift into the cloud, the emergence of hybrid work, increased reliance on mobility, growing use of artificial intelligence, and ongoing efforts to build digital businesses. Not surprisingly, some of the most in-demand certifications today are related to cloud services and cybersecurity.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

“InsightsAI eliminates the tedious process of building manual CMDB queries and reports while accelerating and streamlining various [IT service management] workflows,” says Raj Jalan, CEO and founder of Device42. IT managers can generate reports from the Device42 dashboard.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

The startup, which ranked 13th on the Forbes Cloud 100 list in August 2024 with a valuation of $13 billion , closely integrated its process mining software with the SAP universe. The strategy would incorporate business process analysis, design, and improvement, as well as process change management.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This includes access to talent, quality of data, integration with legacy systems, change management, and ethical and regulatory concerns. This is further made complex by the widespread use of legacy systems, which are unable to cope with AIs demands. From an AI context, their challenges are similar to other sectors.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

NaaS can help address the shortage of networking and security talent by offloading some management tasks to the service provider, according to Shamus McGillicuddy, vice president of research for network infrastructure and operations at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Cloud networking (AWS. cited by 44.0%

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud. Change management deserves elevation to a primary project workstream. The system, intended to streamline payments and HR processes, is now unlikely to function correctly before 2026 four years after its 2022 launch.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

A human-centric approach helps with the change management efforts around using agentic AI while evaluating the benefits and risks. CIO should bet on change management programs and evangelizing high-quality agents with whom employees collaborate to deliver value beyond productivity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

Cloud-based enterprise resource planning solutions are transforming and enhancing business operations. Yet despite the organisational benefits, businesses are slow to modernise IT, citing challenges in integrating legacy systems due to change management and user adoption issues.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

It searched for a cloud-based ITSM solution and found one in Freshservice, the ITSM suite by Freshworks. The IT team in Eastern Washington University was tasked with ensuring the on-time availability of its technological facilities and services across all the campuses.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

This change also demands a new business strategy in order to enable the flexibility and agility needed to meet the demands of increasingly tech-savvy and time-sensitive customers. For many insurers, this means investing in cloud. CIO Africa: We’re keen to find out more about your cloud journey. And what trends are you watching?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2022

Moving from advisor to CTO, Nallani’s task was monumental, as there were many technology gaps to fill, including an antiquated ecommerce platform that needed to be replaced and a migration to the cloud, of course. The 3C roadmap: CDP, CMS, cloud. Of course, none of this would be complete without a shift to the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Simultaneously, the monolithic IT organization was deconstructed into subgroups providing PC, cloud, infrastructure, security, and data services to the larger enterprise with associated solution leaders closely aligned to core business functions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

Autonomous change management AI agents that, ServiceNow said, act like a seasoned change manager, instantly generating custom implementation, test, and backout plans by analyzing impact, historical data, and similar changes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2022

Many of these next-generation projects are on track due to the organization’s decision to go all-in to the public cloud well before the pandemic hit. The PGA’s cloud push. There were some things we just didn’t need anymore, and we would end-of-life it and do the necessary change management to kill the whole thing.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

For example, my change management motto is, “Humans prefer the familiar to the comfortable and the comfortable to the better.” During my career I have developed a few mottos. Thus, to help humans embrace the better, I need to make the better both familiar and comfortable.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Allegis had been using Eclipse for 10 years, when the system was acquired by Epicor, and Allegis began exploring migrating to a cloud-based ERP system. We really liked [NetSuite’s] architecture and that it’s in the cloud, and it hit the vast majority of our business requirements,” Shannon notes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 27, 2022

Later he joined SAP Labs in the US where he was immersed in product management for cloud technology. In a big group like Dangote, how challenging is it to manage IT in all parts of the company? It was a modest start but today we spend almost 10 times more than in 2014 on the Azure Cloud subscriptions.

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Network World

MAY 20, 2024

In particular, a network team was more likely to swap tool vendors if it was struggling to monitor the health and performance of the cloud points of presence where SASE vendors host their security functionality. Network Management Software, Network Security

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Fountainhead

APRIL 24, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Clouds Transformation: The Softer Side. Implication: change management, goal changes, departmental funding changes. Implication: need for change management and new organizational design. Cloud Computing. (55).

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