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

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Enterprise infrastructures have expanded far beyond the traditional ones focused on company-owned and -operated data centers. This increased complexity means more companies will be relying on IT consultants to help navigate the changes and develop short-term and long-term strategies. What is an IT consultant?

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RIP (finally) to the blockchain hype

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A recent criticism of blockchain comes from Jim Fowler, CTO at insurance carrier Nationwide. While insurance carriers were an early example of potential users , Fowler talks about blockchain as an example of how to avoid getting distracted by shiny, new technologies.

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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

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We may look back at 2024 as the year when LLMs became mainstream, every enterprise SaaS added copilot or virtual assistant capabilities, and many organizations got their first taste of agentic AI. AI at Wharton reports enterprises increased their gen AI investments in 2024 by 2.3

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. billion for Fortune 500 firms alone, according to an analysis by Parametrix, and total economic damages could run into tens of billions, Nir Perry, CEO of cyber insurance risk platform Cyberwrite, told Reuters.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

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In October, Microsoft announced that 100,000 organizations including Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters, Virgin Money, and Zurich Insurance are using Copilot Studio, double the number just months earlier. Major enterprise software vendors are also getting into the agent game. followed a couple months later. And thats just the beginning.

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3 key areas where AI is transforming insurance today

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The insurance industry has been one of the first industries to fully embrace AI and quickly start finding ways to capitalize on its ability to parse vast databases of structured and unstructured data to surface meaningful information. Meanwhile, processing times keep getting longer, putting a strain on customers and adding costs for insurers.

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11 ways to ensure IT-business alignment

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“By explaining the concepts behind AI in a clear manner, the business leader can be introduced to the building blocks for AI, and the IT leader can develop an acceptable strategy,” advises Nidal Haddad, principal at business advisory firm Deloitte Consulting. Yet these topics are often foreign to most business leaders. “It