CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“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.

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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

APRIL 1, 2025

Just as company executives are now trend jumping to hire AI experts, the same thing happened with software developers in 2019 and 2020, she says. Prashanth Ram, CTO at IT training and engineer placement firm Smoothstack, agrees AI wont eliminate the need for developers. The job will evolve as most jobs have evolved.

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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. We see this more as a trend, he says.

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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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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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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

By Bob Gourley We have been tracking this since Marc Andreessen called the trend out in 2011 (see “ Why Software is Eating the World “) and are especially interested in how the trend will impact the world of the enterprise. Penetration of the trend into other industries will threaten many business models.

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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. Another main priority with EA is agility and ensuring that your EA strategy has a strong focus on agility and agile adoption.

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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. Then IT performed a data migration.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

That study focused on CIO and CTO satisfaction with their existing IT support and services models for enterprise software. CIOs and CTOs are frustrated at the many inconveniences of managing multiple vendors. In April of 2023, Censuswide conducted a survey of 608 US respondents from companies with $250m+ revenue.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 30, 2024

Some industries such as biotech are finding ways to use gen AI, but many enterprises experimenting with the technology have found a limited number of use cases so far, says Kjell Carlsson, head of AI strategy at Domino Data Lab, provider of an enterprise AI platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2024

Vendors and consultants are always eager to share insights into innovations and trends, but exchanging ideas and opinions with colleagues and fellow IT leaders can often be invaluable. As tech leaders advance their careers, many discover it’s lonely at the top.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

Chuck Brooks ( @ChuckDBrooks ), President of Brooks Consulting International and Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University, concurred. “In Nichol ( @PeterBNichol ), Chief Technology Officer at Oroca Innovations.” Second, enterprise apps run across multiple geographically diverse cloud environments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

Data centers are running at near capacity in many areas of the world, according to the Global Data Center Trends 2024 report from CBRE, a real estate services firm. That’s the race that seems to be going on in enterprises: ‘How do I go make room and power to do AI?’” Many hardware users are prioritizing replacement.

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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

MARCH 24, 2022

A chief digital officer (CDO) is a leader who combines business acumen with digital expertise to help organizations drive digital transformation via an enterprise-wise digital vision and strategy. At many companies, the chief digital officer is a customer-facing role that signals a commitment to a digital future.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In 2024, a new trend called agentic AI emerged. Even at fractions of a penny per token, this ends up being tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Stephen Kaufman serves as a chief architect in the Microsoft Customer Success Unit Office of the CTO focusing on AI and cloud computing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Safeguard contracts: Include clauses in vendor contracts that address service-level agreements (SLAs), response times, and penalties for prolonged outages. Continuous improvement and review Stay informed: Keep abreast of industry trends and incidents like the CrowdStrike outage to learn from the experiences of others.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

“Technology such as AI is redefining business models, requiring organizations to make the seismic shift from a novice technology organization to a mature and trusted leader,’’ says Raj Sharma, consulting vice chair at EY Americas. “As 1 priority … and we want to build that out across the entire enterprise,’’ Boudreau says.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2014

Know the megatrends of enterprise IT. The same big trends that Mary Meeker helps the community track are impacting all in government too. There are consultancies here in the beltway that will charge you up to $50k per month and offer little more than what you will learn by following those ten steps. CTO Gov2.0'

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Since 2023, compensation for CIOs and CTOs has increased by more than 7% and over 20% since 2019, according to Heller. CIO packages often include stock options, relocation expenses, and hiring bonuses, says Victor Janulaitis, CEO of consulting firm Janco. This growth is evident in both base salaries and equity packages,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

There are several important metrics that can be used to achieve IT success, says Jonathan Nikols, senior vice president of global enterprise sales for the Americas at Verizon. “To Each micro-service must be able to be delivered as the enterprise architect designed.” Here they are.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 4, 2023

And if you’re presenting, it’s best to study older board packages and consult with colleagues about how the directors discuss, debate, and finalize key decisions. If you don’t join board meetings often, preparation is paramount, starting with learning about the directors’ backgrounds and reviewing minutes from previous meetings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

How enterprises gather, store, cleanse, access, and secure their data can be a major factor in their ability to meet corporate goals. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully. Overlooking these data resources is a big mistake.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Implementing an Enterprise Data Hub — Technical perspectives for implementing enterprise data hub architectures, converged analytics for workflow optimization, and the essential role of open standards and frameworks to ensure continuous innovation. Senior Director of Technology Solutions, Cloudera. Technology Insights Keynote.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO. She also adds that data must be clean, accurate, and unbiased to maximize its potential.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Digital twins are getting built and born in the enterprise without any CIO facilitation. Analyst estimates of IT and tech spend outside of the CIO/CTO budgets range from 40-45 -to 60%. The questions these raise require collective enterprise and policy might. How will augmented and non-augmented employees work together?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2022

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) is often criticized for forcing technology choices on business users or producing software analyses no one uses. Forrester Research has identified more than 20 types of enterprise architecture roles being used by its clients. You need an ecosystem of subject-matter experts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2022

Major IT trends, including security and privacy protection, cloud computing, machine learning, and remote workforces, as well as complying with an avalanche of regulatory mandates, have elevated the CIO post to a level of importance equal to, or even exceeding, that of fellow C-level executives. Focus on outcomes, not technologies.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Implementing an Enterprise Data Hub — Technical perspectives for implementing enterprise data hub architectures, converged analytics for workflow optimization, and the essential role of open standards and frameworks to ensure continuous innovation. Senior Director of Technology Solutions, Cloudera. Technology Insights Keynote.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Maddison was previously at California-based computer and network security company Fortinet for more than 12 years, leaving the role of chief marketing officer. Other past jobs include management positions lasting nearly a decade at Trend Micro and Nokia. F5 plans to hire a new CTO. He holds multiple advisory board seats.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

Enterprise CIOs have always been at a disadvantage competing with tech firms for skilled IT pros, but accelerated transformation efforts and an AI gold rush have significantly intensified the talent war, prompting CIOs to increasingly turn to outside firms for help. Last June, for example, Dun & Bradstreet launched D&B.AI

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

Recent research from IDC report Enterprise Automation to Mitigate the Digital Skills Shortage found that up to 80% of organizations in the APAC region, excluding Japan, find it difficult or extremely difficult to fill vacancies in IT roles. Some of the hardest roles to fill include security, and development and data professionals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2023

Here’s a look at how IT workforces will operate and collaborate in the near-future enterprise. Mike Bechtel, chief futurist for Deloitte Consulting, cautions that adoption of AI for enhancing IT operations and employee productivity will require a new level of trust in the technology. “An

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CTOvision

MARCH 21, 2016

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