CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

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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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 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 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. Recognize IT and business are inseparable IT and business strategies are now fully intertwined, observes Jay Upchurch, EVP and CIO at analytics vendor SAS.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Its an offshoot of enterprise architecture that comprises the models, policies, rules, and standards that govern the collection, storage, arrangement, integration, and use of data in organizations. Limit the times data must be moved to reduce cost, increase data freshness, and optimize enterprise agility. DAMA-DMBOK 2.

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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

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

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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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. Not many security vendors from the 1980s are still around, but Trend Micro is a survivor.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. Companies that not only survived but thrived amidst the myriad business challenges show why cloud-first application deployment is a critical component of a retooled IT strategy.

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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. The concept of automated remediation will be examined with new insight, along with suggestions on how to implement a machine-guided, advanced remediation strategy. By Bob Gourley. Register here.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2025

Early response from customers has been guarded, as representatives of the German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) at this years Technology Days likened the new SAP strategy to a new game of call, raise, or fold. Moreover, several points of SAPs strategy still need to be clarified. DSAG SAP wants to accommodate its customers.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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 Computing, Data Center, Edge Computing, Hybrid Cloud, IT Strategy, Multi Cloud

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The following is from: DISA CTO Retirement . Chief technology officer to retire after 31 years of government service. David Mihelcic, DISA’s chief technology officer (CTO), served 19 years at the agency and his legacy endures through the programs the Office of the CTO was responsible for.

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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

APRIL 1, 2025

Peak demand for developers from early 2019 to early 2020 was driven in part by hype cycles catered to their strengths, as many companies gobbled up programmers to work on applications in support of clouding computing, mobile, and IoT strategies. The job will evolve as most jobs have evolved.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. How enterprises gather, store, cleanse, access, and secure their data can be a major factor in their ability to meet corporate goals. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 25, 2024

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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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. The concept of automated remediation will be examined with new insight, along with suggestions on how to implement a machine-guided, advanced remediation strategy. By Bob Gourley. Register here.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2025

Our company is about 176 years old, so weve got a lot of legacy systems that are older than me, says Mehta, executive vice president and chief information and strategy officer at National Life Group. Its allowed for seamless expansion of distribution centers and new tax strategies, preparing us for continued success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Consulting giant Deloitte says 70% of business leaders have moved 30% or fewer of their experiments into production. As senior product owner for the Performance Hub at satellite firm Eutelsat Group Miguel Morgado says, the right strategy is crucial to effectively seize opportunities to innovate.

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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

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 12, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies.

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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

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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. February 2022. January 2022. December 2021.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2022

At Vault Health, CTO Steve Shi begins enterprise architecture (EA) work with a site survey of the entire IT, application, system, and data infrastructure but restricts it to two weeks with one-hour interviews about each function. At Carrier Global Corp.,

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 17, 2013

By Bob Gourley Federal Computer Weekly, Government Computing News and SoftwareAG have crafted an event I believe every enterprise technologist in government should be tracking. It is the 21 November 2013 Efficient IT Modernization Strategies Summit , which will be held at the Grand Hyatt Washington. Using Technology to Detect.

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