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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

Examples include scanning invoices, extracting basic contract information, or capturing information from PDF forms. Even simple use cases had exceptions requiring business process outsourcing (BPO) or internal data processing teams to manage. Why should CIOs bet on unifying their data and AI practices?

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What is an IT consultant? Roles, types, salaries, and how to become one

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprise infrastructures have expanded far beyond the traditional ones focused on company-owned and -operated data centers. IT consultants are often hired to provide companies guidance on what technologies they should use to achieve their aims, according to career website Indeed.

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CIOs’ lack of success metrics dooms many AI projects

CIO Business Intelligence

The IDC survey results are “alarming,” both that nearly a third of CIOs don’t understand the success metrics and that 90% or more of POCs are failing , adds David Curtis, CTO at RobobAI, a fintech using AI to help companies manage supply chains. We could hire five people.’”

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Cost concerns put CIOs’ AI strategies on edge

CIO Business Intelligence

Pay-as-you-go pricing is a way to reduce financial risk by not locking into long-term contracts. Costs that fluctuate in ways even a CFO using advanced data-driven strategy cant fully forecast, thats a massive threat to solvency and can derail the core competencies these executives must protect, he says.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO Business Intelligence

“After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.” I strike this language from all my contracts.” A self-hosted infrastructure is time-intensive, demands specialized expertise, and comes with significant expenses.”

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More Good News In Federal IT from GSA (you will never see this on the front page of the Washington Post)

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They continue to make progress on the very hard task of data center consolidation and are helping save money, enhance agility and improve support to citizens while doing so. From the press release : GSA Closes Data Centers and Streamlines IT Organization to Boost Cost Savings, Improve Services. Data Center Consolidation.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

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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