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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Birmingham City Councils (BCC) troubled enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, built on Oracle software, has become a case study of how large-scale IT projects can go awry. The project involved replacing the city councils long-standing SAP system with Oracle Cloud.

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Forrester 2019 Enterprise BI Platform Waves ™ Research Update

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JULY 29, 2019

Forrester has just published 2019 refresh of out Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) Platforms Waves ™. This year we emphasized New market segmentation by Vendor-Managed vs. Client-Managed platforms, which roughly equated to on-premise vs. cloud based platforms, but not quite.

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What enterprise software vendors are doing with generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2023

But CIOs are cautiously evaluating how to safely deploy generative AI in the enterprise, and what guard-rails to put around it. To help IT leaders keep tabs on their exposure to generative AI, CIO.com offers this round-up of the latest generative AI announcements from some of the major enterprise software vendors.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

With the AI revolution underway which has kicked the wave of digital transformation into high gear it is imperative for enterprises to have their cloud infrastructure built on firm foundations that can enable them to scale AI/ML solutions effectively and efficiently.

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How Kimberly-Clark’s Zack Hicks heeds the call for innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

A lot of companies that did outsourcing have found themselves in a situation where they have a lot of vendor managers versus technologists. Now, as part of the enterprise executive leadership team, I can represent my team on a larger stage. Thats a big focus for me. Previously, the CIO reported to the CFO.

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How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Yet, Accenture had a dependable, long-term partner in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software pioneer SAP, first adopting the company’s solutions in 2004. Suppliers noted the ease of transitioning to SAP Fieldglass, and the pace at which entire companies were able to adopt the platform. Digital Transformation

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 3, 2024

An enterprise that bet its future on ChatGPT would be in serious trouble if the tool disappeared and all of OpenAI’s APIs suddenly stopped working. So enterprises looking for generative AI vendors have a lot of options to choose from. Beyond that, most vendors are still falling short.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

This allowed us to move at such an accelerated pace,” Bradshaw says, noting that IT implemented and rolled out both Workday and SAP across 67 countries and some 90,000 workers much more quickly than it would have taken with the more conventional approach. Digital Transformation, Enterprise Applications, IT Strategy, Software Development

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CIO profile: Cyient’s Pallavi Katiyar on why it’s important to bet on people

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

Over the past 22 years, Katiyar has worked in different domains, technologies, and industries, and that has opened up a lot of avenues for her, from coding and product design to running large RFPs and SAP implementations. In this interview with CIO India, Katiyar talks about her management philosophy, and how she has directed her career.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. And you have to partner with your vendors.”

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Nutanix acquisition rumors highlight need for managing vendor risk

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What’s going to happen, then, if that point solution is acquired by another vendor — perhaps not your preferred supplier — and integrated into its stack? We’ve already seen what happened when HPE bought hyperconverged infrastructure vendor SimpliVity back in January 2017. Mergers and Acquisitions, Risk Management, Vendor Management.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Goyal has 16 years’ experience in IT Innovation, activation, operation, project management, and systems management. Prior to joining Apollo Tyres, he spent 13 years at Unilever, where he managed the IT infrastructure of Unilever’s largest shared support centre and enterprise and technology solutions outsourcing facility in Bangalore.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It’s time to shelve unused data Vendor management is another important aspect of AP automation. Many solutions include vendor management capabilities that enable organizations to maintain accurate and up-to-date records of their vendors. This helps speed up the approval process and reduces bottlenecks.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 12, 2022

Even though Nvidia’s $40 billion bid to shake up enterprise computing by acquiring chip designer ARM has fallen apart, the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom of 2021 looks set to continue in 2022, perhaps matching the peaks of 2015, according to a report from risk management advisor Willis Towers Watson.

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How Birmingham’s $48M Oracle ERP project turned into an epic failure

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

How Kimberly-Clark’s Zack Hicks heeds the call for innovation

How Accenture’s solution erases the blind spots of services spend management

Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO profile: Cyient’s Pallavi Katiyar on why it’s important to bet on people

Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

Nutanix acquisition rumors highlight need for managing vendor risk

New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

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