CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Consulting firm McKinsey Digital notes that many organizations fall short of their digital and AI transformation goals due to process complexity rather than technical complexity. Data architecture components A modern data architecture consists of the following components, according to IT consulting firm BMC : Data pipelines.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

of the Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs. In an AP survey of S&P 500 companies, only 25 of 341 CEOs were women. That disparity extends into the technology sector. The Women in Tech organization reports that 17% of tech companies have a woman CEO, and only 25% of all C-suite jobs are held by women. Only 10.4%

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Whereas robotic process automation (RPA) aims to automate tasks and improve process orchestration, AI agents backed by the companys proprietary data may rewire workflows, scale operations, and improve contextually specific decision-making.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Then in November, the company revealed its Azure AI Agent Service, a fully-managed service that lets enterprises build, deploy and scale agents quickly. According to a Capgemini survey released in mid 2024, 60% of executives at large companies say that AI agents will handle most of the coding in enterprises within three to five years.

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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

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 take full responsibility and believe stepping down is best for the company. It’s not the first reshuffling of SAP’s executive board this year.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Error correction is vital for enterprise users of quantum computing, says Yoram Avidan, CTO of Citigroups Innovation Lab and global head of Citi Accelerator. Citi is using Amazon Braket, a cloud-based service, to see how well quantum computers could handle portfolio optimization tasks. Whats the deal with error correction?

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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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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

With the deal, which was 10 months in the making , IBM plans to further integrate HashiCorps automation technology into its Red Hat, watsonx, data security, IT automation, and consulting businesses. IBM uses Hashicorp technology in its cloud offerings already.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Some companies are already on the bandwagon. Caylent, an AWS cloud consulting partner, uses AI to write most of its code in specific cases, says Clayton Davis, director of cloud-native development there. The key to using AI to write code, he says, is to have a good validation process that finds errors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

If 2023 was the year of experimentation with gen AI, 2024 was when companies zeroed in on use cases and started putting pilot projects into production. Only 14% say theyre losing money, and 66% of companies plan to increase their AI investments compared to 5% that plan to decrease it. And then there are guardrail considerations.

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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. And were likely to see an increase of tech providers keeping large enterprises top of mind when developing the on-device technologies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

In a move that significantly bolsters its position in the cloud services market, IBM has announced it is acquiring HashiCorp , a multicloud infrastructure automation company, for $6.4

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Dave McCarthy, research vice president at IDC and one the surveys authors, points out that CIOs are still dealing with how best to manage unexpected costs in the cloud and have learned that estimating costs for new workloads is challenging without historical data. But it doesnt have to be that way.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

Last summer, a faulty CrowdStrike software update took down millions of computers, caused billions in damages, and underscored that companies are still not able to manage third-party risks, or respond quickly and efficiently to disruptions. It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

Jason Hishmeh, cofounder and CTO at IT services provider Varyence, sees such AI innovations infiltrate every level of the customer journey in the next five years. Companies selling most types of products can no longer afford to ignore AI, Sharma says. AI is going to be a part of the decisioning and evaluation criteria in their future.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In Italy specifically, more than 52% of companies, and CIOs in particular, continue to struggle finding the technical professionals they need, according to data by Unioncamere, the Italian Union of Chambers of Commerce, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies. Smart working is sometimes a must,” he says. “I

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

The cloud has changed the IT and business worlds forever, and generally for the better. But when misused or abused the cloud can backfire, leading to a serious business setback or, in a worst-case situation, long-term competitive damage. Ensuing proper cloud use is essential in today’s high-stakes, fast-paced business environment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Cloud costs remain a key concern for IT leaders, who find themselves nearing a crossroads where expenditures for core workloads will need containment to free up spend for innovation. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud. Cloud costs continue to be a top concern for CIOs,” says Dave McCarthy, analyst at IDC.

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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. But with a growing number of customers and the increasing size of AI models, Clark and company recognized the need to shift to a cloud provider that could scale to its needs. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Encouraging business leaders to understand emerging technologies While aligning IT strategies with business goals is vital, it is equally essential for business leaders to develop a clear understanding of emerging technologies. Vipin Jain, founder and chief architect of Transformation Enablers Inc. federal agencies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As organizations of all stripes continue their migration to the cloud, they are coming face to face with sometimes perplexing cost issues, forcing them to think hard about how best to optimize workloads, what to migrate, and who exactly is responsible for what. It’s an issue that’s coming to the fore with the steady migration to the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2025

Job titles like data engineer, machine learning engineer, and AI product manager have supplanted traditional software developers near the top of the heap as companies rush to adopt AI and cybersecurity professionals remain in high demand. Many companies are still hiring developers, but not at the same rate as five years ago.

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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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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. Companies that not only survived but thrived amidst the myriad business challenges show why cloud-first application deployment is a critical component of a retooled IT strategy.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Bridge is one of Kyndryl’s major services offerings, which include consulting, hybrid cloud, security, and applications services. Through Kyndryl Bridge, the company has introduced more than 190 new services in the past couple of years. Kyndryl also partners with several cloud vendors for its mainframe modernization services.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Migrating infrastructure and applications to the cloud is never straightforward, and managing ongoing costs can be equally complicated. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. We need hard metrics because we’re running 800 instances of cloud computers.

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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. We’ve changed on-prem technologies to cloud-based technologies.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As of today, AI development companies have signed contracts to purchase more than $4 billion of AI training capacity in Oracle’s Generation 2 cloud. The growth in total revenue was driven by the momentum in the company’s total cloud sales (IaaS and SaaS combined), which grew 30% year-on-year to $4.6 billion.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. March 2022. March 2022.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The company is focused on use-based pricing, with only one customer seat required to administer it, he adds. Outcome- and cost-based pricing, with variations for specific use cases, are likely to catch on, says Rogers Jeffrey Leo John, co-founder and CTO of DataChat, a no-code, gen AI platform for instant analytics.

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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 11, 2024

Travel and expense management company Emburse saw multiple opportunities where it could benefit from gen AI. To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models. Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

A related concept, CloudOps, for “cloud operations,” has emerged as enterprises increasingly move application development and workloads to the cloud, and those cloud outlays become more complex. CloudOps: A multilayered framework for cloud operations.

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