CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Youre under this pressure unless youve given up and relinquished responsibility for formulating the organizations technology vision to a chief digital officer, chief technology officer, or some other titled individual whose job is to make promises you as CIO are supposed to keep. Dont do that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2025

The average large enterprise lost $104 million to digital inefficiencies in 2024, driven by productivity losses connected to employee IT frustrations and hundreds of ghost apps flying under the radar, according to a new study. Meanwhile, many enterprise employees turn to unauthorized apps and software to do their jobs, the study says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2025

Rule 1: Start with an acceptable risk appetite level Once a CIO understands their organizations risk appetite, everything else strategy, innovation, technology selection can align smoothly, says Paola Saibene, principal consultant at enterprise advisory firm Resultant.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2025

As far as many C-suite business and IT executives are concerned, their company data is in great shape, capable of fueling data-driven decision-making and delivering AI-powered solutions. Directors see the backend broken pipelines, inconsistent definitions, alerts missing context.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Poor resource management and optimization Excessive enterprise cloud costs are typically the result of inefficient resource management and a lack of optimization. Many enterprises also overestimate the resources required, leading to larger, more expensive instances being provisioned than necessary, causing overprovisioning.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

Copilot Studio allows enterprises to build autonomous agents, as well as other agents that connect CRM systems, HR systems, and other enterprise platforms to Copilot. Then in November, the company revealed its Azure AI Agent Service, a fully-managed service that lets enterprises build, deploy and scale agents quickly.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Combined with an April IDC survey that found organizations launching an average of 37 AI POCs, the September survey suggests many CIOs have been throwing the proverbial spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, says Daniel Saroff, global vice president for consulting and research services at IDC.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2014

Our site CISOtech.com is a repository of articles and information of interest to enterprise security professionals. Any reporting we do here at CTOvision that has relevance for the CISO is archived at that site, plus evaluations on cyber security technologies of interest. By Bob Gourley. Please sign up for this report here.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. Here’s a quick rundown of seven major trends that will likely reshape your organization’s current data strategy in the days and months ahead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. In a countersuit, CrowdStrike blamed Delta for the airlines problems, saying that other airlines were able to recover much faster, and that the contract between the two companies meant Delta wasnt allowed to sue for damages.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

This presentation is designed to arm architects with the information they need to efficiently modernize and deliver cost-saving, mission-supporting capabilities to their enterprise. This webinar format will enable us to dynamically present and then interact with the architects, program managers and technology executives attending.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Questionable outcomes and a lack of confidence in generative AIs promised benefits are proving to be key barriers to enterprise adoption of the technology. Most enterprises, especially outside of tech, face significant barriers to implementing in-house AI infrastructures that are capable of running highly advanced models, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A business leader may want to adopt AI, but might not understand that AI works best when fueled by large amounts of data. “By It requires them to role-play your job, and they’re not very good at that because it’s never been their job,” explains Rob Collie, founder and CEO of consulting firm P3.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She previously worked at Iron Mountain, where she was Executive Vice President and CTO. She joined Okta as CIO in 2020, and left Okta for her current role at F5 in January 2025, where she is tasked with building a data- and AI-first enterprise. Johnson was named president and CEO of Lumen (formerly CenturyLink) in 2022.Saddled

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

This presentation is designed to arm architects with the information they need to efficiently modernize and deliver cost-saving, mission-supporting capabilities to their enterprise. This webinar format will enable us to dynamically present and then interact with the architects, program managers and technology executives attending.

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CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2014

If you are a technologist you no doubt have thoughts about security and how to improve your approach to enterprise-wide defense. Bob’s first career was as a naval intelligence officer, which included operational tours in Europe and Asia. By Bob Gourley. Manual remediation is costly and requires manpower and time you don’t have.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 31, 2024

As AI technologies evolve, organizations can utilize frameworks to measure short-term ROI from AI initiatives against key performance indicators (KPIs) linked to business objectives, says Soumendra Mohanty, chief strategy officer at data science and AI solutions provider Tredence. Start by focusing on a current project.

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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. Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

HP Enterprise Security Solutions to help 33 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the company a cybersecurity contract worth up to $32.4 Public Sector, HP Enterprise Services. “As More information about HP Enterprise Services’ government business is available at www.hp.com/enterprise/government.

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CTOvision

APRIL 7, 2014

News like the release below shows how virtuous this firm is being in the enterprise IT domain. Their solutions are now enhancing enterprise defenses in every major sector of the economy and at firms of all sizes. Invincea Announces 54 New Enterprise Customers For its Flagship Enterprise Solution, $8.1M – bg.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

“Today’s CIOs inherit highly customized ERPs and struggle to lead change management efforts, especially with systems that [are the] backbone of all the enterprise’s operations,” wrote Isaac Sacolick, founder and president of StarCIO, a digital transformation consultancy, in a recent blog post.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

To ensure every IT initiative directly contributes to measurable business outcomes, CIOs must move from operational managers to strategic partners, collaborating with business leaders to align IT decisions with enterprise goals. Risk management is equally vital, particularly as organizations adopt modern technologies.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

And some large, cutting-edge enterprises are already beginning to spend money on quantum technology. Error correction is vital for enterprise users of quantum computing, says Yoram Avidan, CTO of Citigroups Innovation Lab and global head of Citi Accelerator. billion so far in 2024. Whats the deal with error correction?

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CTOvision

MAY 30, 2014

If you are a technologist you no doubt have thoughts about security and how to improve your approach to enterprise-wide defense. Bob’s first career was as a naval intelligence officer, which included operational tours in Europe and Asia. By Bob Gourley. Manual remediation is costly and requires manpower and time you don’t have.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

“These technologies can produce more content that everyone needs to consume and be aware of,” says Anita Woolley, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. There’s already more low-quality AI content flooding search results, and this can hurt employees looking for information both on the public web and in enterprise knowledge repositories.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 31, 2023

With digital operating models altering business processes and the IT landscape, enterprise architecture (EA) — a rigid stalwart of IT — has shown signs of evolving as well. That’s where the opportunity is for enterprise architects, among others.” The transition from monolith to microservices needs a high level of good governance.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI, the more focused alternative to general-purpose generative AI, is gaining momentum in the enterprise, with Forrester having named it a top emerging technology for 2025 in June. The reason is because enterprises look for some predictability. Vendors could also charge a small price per audio input or output.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Oracle is betting on high demand for data, driven by generative AI -related workloads, to boost revenue in upcoming quarters as enterprises look to adopt generative AI for productivity and efficiency. Generative AI is changing everything.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The early part of 2024 was disappointing when it comes to ROI, says Traci Gusher, data and analytics leader at EY Americas. Once you get Copilot for Office 365, you go through training, and thats driven up our utilization to around 93%. With these paid versions, our data remains secure within our own tenant, he says.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2014 Data Impact award, presented by Cloudera, is a great way of helping the community learn best practices by highlighting mission-focused solutions. 2014 Data Impact Awards. That’s precisely what the annual Data Impact Awards, presented by Cloudera, are for. By Bob Gourley. Presented by Cloudera. SUBMIT YOURS TODAY!

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CTOvision

MAY 11, 2014

Widely known security practitioner Dave Schackleford is presenting a webinar on Thursday 15 may at 2pm Eastern that should be of high interest to any enterprise technologist seeking to understand the dynamics of the modern data breach. The following is from the invitation: You’re a target for data breach.

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CTOvision

APRIL 19, 2014

With this post we provide more context on some of the enterprise security needs addressed by HawkEye-G from Hexis. The following are some key technology considerations from an enterprise technology perspective: Over the years, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and world class best cyber defense professionals have collaborated on the topic of best practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

The AI revolution is driving demand for massive computing power and creating a data center shortage, with data center operators planning to build more facilities. But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2025

Yet, as appealing as it is for employees to be able to use modern technologies, decommissioning and replacing systems is arduous for IT. Its a very long and painful process, notes Don Henderson, CTO at BetaNXT, a wealth management company that provides tech services to clients. IT began with a laser focus on data.

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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. Demand for developers is simply growing at a slower rate than other IT roles.

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