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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud. According to the report, the implementation has fundamentally impacted the Councils financial management and its operations, forcing the council into a costly re-implementation phase that has more than doubled the projects original budget.

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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. Mitre has also tested dozens of commercial AI models in a secure Mitre-managed cloud environment with AWS Bedrock. We cant do that for security reasons, he says.

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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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Forrester IT

JULY 29, 2019

This year we emphasized New market segmentation by Vendor-Managed vs. Client-Managed platforms, which roughly equated to on-premise vs. cloud based platforms, but not quite. Forrester has just published 2019 refresh of out Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) Platforms Waves ™. Since […].

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Network World

MAY 23, 2024

Managing a multicloud network is a highly demanding task, says Robert Orshaw, a managing director at Deloitte Consulting. Additionally, payment processes can differ for each cloud provider, making it difficult to manage costs.” Many of these vendors have mature feature sets.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

A challenge for some enterprise adopters, however, is a lack of control, as some SASE technologies rely on a vendor managing data in the cloud. The network security vendor unveiled a sovereign SASE technology that it says will provide organizations with more control than a typical SASE deployment.

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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. Forrester Research. McKinsey & Co.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

When the monthly cloud bill arrives, CFOs are hitting the roof. Cloud cost management tools are an answer. Budgeting, Cloud Management, Enterprise Buyer’s Guides, IT Management, Vendor Management

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Its still early days for AI agents, says Carmen Fontana, IEEE member, and cloud and emerging tech practice lead at Augment Therapy, a digital health company. A number of CIOs Ive spoken with recently are thinking about the old ERP days of vendor lock, says Brett Barton, global AI practice leader at Unisys.

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Fountainhead

APRIL 24, 2011

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Clouds Transformation: The Softer Side. CIO roles will shift to governance & vendor management (perhaps even modeling supply-chain management). cloud architect) will become the norm. Cloud Computing. (55). Fountainhead.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

effectiveness of the cloud in disaster responses in 2013. responsive future: implementation of cloud computing as a technology for relief—a call for help answered before the roar had stopped. Alabama to a tsunami in Banda Aceh, cloud computing is a technology that makes achievable the desire to help in a way inconceivable a decade.

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Forrester IT

MAY 19, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, the majority of global software decision-makers were dissatisfied with their existing Human Capital Management (HCM) products and were evaluating other products. With COVID-19, this dissatisfaction is now acute and digital workforce transformation has accelerated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Open source isnt completely free as there are still infrastructure and management costs. In our case, we run it on AWS within our own private cloud, he says. With open source, you have control over where youre using it and when itll go away, he says. Finally, theres the price. So were still paying for usage.

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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. With all the things you can do with AI, data, and the cloud, how do you get your team to focus in on the areas that impact the bottom line? This is just the beginning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

For technologists with the right skills and expertise, the demand for talent remains and businesses continue to invest in technical skills such as data analytics, security, and cloud. Companies can’t ignore digital transformation as technology continues to dominate nearly every aspect of business and daily-life.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes. We also plan on expanding our ERM [enterprise risk management] evaluations to include a more comprehensive SaaS vendor’s DR to determine which platforms we need to ensure have a mitigation strategy.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

Three years ago, Gartner coined the term Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to describe an architecture that combines software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) with a portfolio of cloud-based security tools —including secure web gateway (SWG) cloud access security brokers (CASB), and zero-trust network access (ZTNA).

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2024

IBM, for example, decided in 2022 to get rid of its Watson Health unit , which integrated AI in healthcare, to focus on the cloud and its core AI technology. The importance of good planning This work prior to any debacle is essential when it comes to managing it with greater success. So too are robust vendor management practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2024

To do so, they developed a cloud-based customer data platform (CDP) that allows them to bring in and analyze third-party data and combine it with their own data so they can flag unused balances. The decision to host the platform in the cloud, in particular on AWS, was a question of efficiency, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2024

Instead, GPT4DFCI, based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo and hosted within the institute’s private cloud on Azure so no data is leaked back to OpenAI, is more of an improved search engine to help people better understand something. “But we’re not sanctioning it or encouraging it yet across the board as a way to code faster.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

And, again, its not enough to take the vendors word for it that theyre safe. Akamai, for example, uses tools that audit the configuration of cloud software solutions, as well as run other security checks. Another approach that enterprises are increasingly using is asking vendors to provide a software bill of materials (SBOM).

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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.” It’s an incredible proposition for any tech professional.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

August 2023 Salesforce sets out to train generative AI models with Einstein Studio With Einstein Studio , Salesforce offers to help enterprises train and run generative AI models on their customer data stored in its Data Cloud. It can connect the data to a variety of LLMs, open source, or proprietary, the company said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience. Relevant skills for DevOps Engineers include automation, software development, system administration skills, and cloud computing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2024

“Lifecycle managing servers removing all manual steps would save tens of thousands of hours, and we can spend that time on other things. Investigating cloud migration Just like many other authorities, the STA hasn’t moved to the cloud, with most of it existing locally. So it has a big impact and a very good ROI on it.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 1, 2024

“That vendor is looking after the long-term interests of the organization, and not just looking to get the next contract.” Anthony Moisant, CIO and chief security officer at Indeed, a job matching and hiring platform, brings that perspective to his vendor management practices. “In

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2022

Here, experts say, are steps CIOs can take to streamline IT vendor onboarding. Automation is the most effective weapon that IT can leverage to onboard new IT technology vendors,” says David Linthicum, chief cloud strategy officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP. Vendor Management Leverage automation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2024

It’s using AI to simplify stock replenishment and order management in physical and online stores. Such capabilities are part of its Industry Cloud family of products, and can be integrated with any ERP system, not just SAP’s.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2023

Intelligent Infrastructure With the ongoing migration to the cloud, organisations are realising significant improvements to the efficiency and productivity of their working environment. Having IT solutions that are structured around cloud computing as the default is essential.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 13, 2024

In 2023, the cloud, security, and networking service provider announced it will transition its data centers and offices in Michigan to renewable energy sources, Jandron says. This includes optimizing data centers for energy efficiency, adopting cloud solutions that prioritize sustainability, and implementing green IT practices.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Chris Herringshaw, global CIO, Janus Henderson Janus Henderson For the short term, subscribing to cloud-based models is less expensive than building in-house — and that may even hold true over the long term. Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, IT Leadership, IT Skills, IT Strategy, Predictive Analytics, Supply Chain, Vendor Management

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. They just pass on all those increases in areas such as layers of licensing, management of the software stack, and their infrastructure services.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The global standard at lightning speed Based in Dublin, Ireland, Accenture specializes in digital, cloud, and security technology strategies, consulting, and operations, serving more than 40 industries in more than 120 countries.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

Such partnerships include long-standing ones such as business consultancies to advise on transformation efforts, software vendors with expertise in vertical or horizontal solutions, system integrators to help design and implement multi-vendor tech stacks, and managed service providers to run and optimize targeted IT domains.

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Tech Republic Cloud

JULY 31, 2022

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is playing a larger role in the cloud platform services market for IaaS+PaaS solutions. Sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders should use this research to support cloud leaders as they decide which platform is best for their workloads. Download now to get the full report.

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