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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Examples include scanning invoices, extracting basic contract information, or capturing information from PDF forms. Michael Beckley, CTO and founder of Appian, says document processing is a boring gen AI use case with significant business potential. Why should CIOs bet on unifying their data and AI practices?

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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 29, 2024

When addressed properly , application and platform modernization drives immense value and positions organizations ahead of their competition, says Anindeep Kar, a consultant with technology research and advisory firm ISG. The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments.

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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 SAP had only just renewed Mueller’s contract, announcing in April that it was extending it by three years to the end of 2027. I want to address an incident at a past company event where my behavior was inappropriate.

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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

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 Until employees are trained, companies should consult with external AI experts as they launch projects, he says.

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CTOvision

MARCH 19, 2018

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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. “A lot of the problem with AI-generated code is not necessarily that it doesn’t work right, but that we already do this a certain way.”

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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. But while Citigroup waits for that to happen, its already experimenting with the technology thats available. Full cloud deployment is also possible per customer request.

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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 Today’s announcement is a continuation of IBM’s deep focus and investment in hybrid cloud and AI, the two most transformational technologies for clients today.”

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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

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

MARCH 10, 2025

Erik Gfesser, an IT consultant and former director at Deloitte, says hes seen enterprises running hundreds of unauthorized apps and software libraries when he engages with them. It rarely ends well for either the business team, the ghost IT team, or the central technology organization, he adds.

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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

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

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

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Once you get Copilot for Office 365, you go through training, and thats driven up our utilization to around 93%. According to the survey by Google Cloud and National Research Group, 28% of leaders report positive ROI for gen AI in developer productivity and engineering, with another 34% expecting to see ROI within a year.

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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

JULY 15, 2022

We had five different forecast engines running in the company through various acquisitions,” says Lars Ewe, who inherited the thorny IT environment when he joined as CTO in February 2020. He had other requirements as well, including that the system should run in the cloud.

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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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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 21, 2024

CIOs must take an active role in educating their C-suite counterparts about the strategic applications of technologies like, for example, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain, and cloud computing. Vipin Jain, founder and chief architect of Transformation Enablers Inc. federal agencies.

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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

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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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

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. Sellers that fail to adopt AI concierges will probably suffer, and bigly, adds Lars Nyman, CMO of CUDO Compute, a cloud GPU platform.

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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. billion. “And

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Conversations and subscriptions A per-conversation model seems to be an emerging approach, says Sesh Iyer, managing director, senior partner, and North America regional chair at BCG X, Boston Consulting Groups IT building and designing group. Vendors could also charge a small price per audio input or output.

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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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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Bridge is one of Kyndryl’s major services offerings, which include consulting, hybrid cloud, security, and applications services. AI networking is definitely in its early days, but we have been in a few consulting engagements about that,” Shagoury said. “A AI networking is another area Kyndryl is targeting. “AI

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of innovation. It is also extending maintenance to seven years, from five today.

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CTOvision

APRIL 7, 2014

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Moving into the digital 2020s, enterprises are contemplating the adoption of a new generation of collaborative, composable, and cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) technologies, motivated by a stubborn pandemic, insecure supply chains, transient workforces, and other factors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

To fully capitalize on the cloud’s scalability and flexibility, most enterprises go beyond a simple lift-and-shift approach, instead injecting them with cloud-native capabilities — a strategy that sounds simple but can quickly prove complex. After all, as with many seemingly easy tasks, the devil is in the details.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

Fundaments, A VMware Cloud Verified partner operating from seven data centers located throughout the Netherlands, and a team of more than 50 vetted and experienced experts – all of whom are Dutch nationals – is growing rapidly. Both factors directed organizations to Fundaments. “By

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