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SAP is starting the 2025 financial year with a new executive board.The German software company announced that 39-year-old Sebastian Steinhuser will be promoted to the executive board. Before joining SAP, Steinhuser worked at Boston Consulting Group. SAP introduced a new CTO and two new chief revenue officers.
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Weve developed our own agentic AI for code management, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. The key challenge in our area is there are hundreds of tasks that might not be particularly well automated, says CTO Paul Gaskell. You hire us to evaluate some vendor you bring on board, says Sinclair Schuller, principal at EY.
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As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. Thats particularly true for industries that cant tolerate latency, such as in payment processing and financial services, says Vunvulea. Either way you have control over where your data resides.
Stephen Kowski, Field CTO at SlashNext, highlighted the concerning trend of cybercrime evolving into a service-based industry, saying: "The takedown of HeartSender reveals how cybercrime has evolved into a sophisticated service industry, where even non-technical criminals can easily purchase and deploy advanced phishing tools to target businesses.
And speaking at the Barclays Global Financial Services conference in September, he said gen AI will have a big impact in improving processes and efficiencies. It can give me the top six oil and gas companies in a particular metro region, and the CEO, CFO, and CTO of each organization, and their background,” he says.
For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative.
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Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. Despite the fact that we are opening new and expanding existing cloud data centers very, very rapidly.”
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“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.”
IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. But as digital transformation efforts have intensified in recent years, CIOs have had fewer opportunities to pause and reevaluate IT’s financial situation.
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Financial security company Apex is employing Genpact’s riskCanvas software, which has been integrated with Amazon’s Bedrock gen AI technology, initially for document summarization but eventually it will be used to help prevent financial crimes, says Justin Morgan, Apex’s head of financial crimes compliance.
CIO packages often include stock options, relocation expenses, and hiring bonuses, says Victor Janulaitis, CEO of consulting firm Janco. Typically, [CIOs] have 401ks and as part of the negotiation process, they’ll negotiate a lump sum that will offset the cost of that loss” from leaving their current job. Stephenson says.
Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they can hire them,” said Mbula Schoen, senior director analyst at Gartner, in a recent Q&A. “IT CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.
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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.
With the accelerated pace of digital transformation, coupled with the unprecedented arrival of the pandemic pushing enterprises towards a hybrid work culture, IT leaders have played a key part in keeping business afloat these last two years. Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees. Talent retention.
“Leadership is responsible for boosting morale and countering stressful times with periods of recovery, rest, and self-care, resulting in increased retention while reducing burnout.” When provided with the right tools, team leaders can act decisively to align people and financial resources to maximize value.”
Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractionalCTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-timeCTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.
The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said. based Behavox as its first chief product officer.
The best chief digital officers can envision a company’s digital future and bring other executives and users on board with that vision. Evangelism comes more and more under the digital role,” says Justin Cerilli, who leads the financial services technology and data and analytics practices at consultancy Russell Reynolds Associates.
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CIOs must redirect resources when technologies as revolutionary as generative AI come to market or risk falling behind or becoming obsolete — in which case, hitting other strategic goals won’t matter much. Ryan Downing, CIO of enterprise business solutions at Principal Financial Group, saw how this challenge impacted his organization.
We came to the conclusion that the way we do things in IT is outdated,” says Arooni, now executive vice president and CIO at Discover Financial Services. “If Amir Arooni, executive vice president and CIO, Discover Financial Services. Establishing technology and business owners also drives collaboration.
The good news is that, for managers, the best time to attract and retain talent is during economic downturns. Hiring and retaining the best people with the right skills is always the best strategy to improve overall performance.” “We need to improve overall performance while we adapt to the changing business environment,” Liu says.
We have a very diversified portfolio,” says Morin, who oversees roughly 1,000 IT employees within the company’s technology arm but estimates that between 2,000 and 3,000 employees in total are developing, selling or servicing JLL’s software. Generative AI and LLMs are changing all that.
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