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. There are multiple reports including one from a manager at BCC highlighting the discrepancies at the Council, way back in June 2023.

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Forrester IT

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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But many enterprises stopped their agile transformations at this layer. Some did manage to scale agile and leverage frameworks to create process standards and improve IT practices. Product management addresses the complexities of market research and product strategy definition.

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Network World

APRIL 15, 2025

Enterprise network infrastructures have evolved significantly alongside the rise of cloud computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and AI. To ease the strain on their networks, many enterprises are increasingly incorporating Internet connectivity alongside their private networks as part of a hybrid approach.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

FinOps finally became ubiquitous across the enterprise landscape last year with 75% of Forbes Global 2000 companies now all-in, according to IDC. Were moving FinOps practices into larger scopes of vendors, says Jennifer Hays, SVP and head of engineering excellence and accessibility at Fidelity Investments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They can code, write poetry, draw in any art style, create PowerPoint slides and website mockups, write marketing copy and emails, and find new vulnerabilities in software and plot holes in unpublished novels. AI and change management Change management has long been instrumental to the success of AI projects.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 11, 2025

This could be the year agentic AI hits the big time, with many enterprises looking to find value-added use cases. Business alignment, value, and risk How can an enterprise know whether a business process is ripe for agentic AI? A key question: Which business processes are actually suitable for agentic AI?

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

A challenge for some enterprise adopters, however, is a lack of control, as some SASE technologies rely on a vendor managing data in the cloud. From a software perspective, Sovereign SASE supports the same features that are provided as part of Fortinet’s security service edge ( SSE ) offering, FortiSASE.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

Large software vendors are used to solving the integration problems that enterprises deal with on a daily basis, says Lee McClendon, chief digital and technology officer at software testing company Tricentis. All the major software vendors are putting it into their products, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Weve developed our software such that the LLM open source or proprietary can be swapped in or out via configuration. Llama 3 has a proven use case for providing an understanding of software and how it correlates with other lines of code, he says. Enterprises are better off being model agnostic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

If the CrowdStrike outage underscored anything for CIOs, it’s that modern enterprises are dependent on a growing number of interconnected systems, any one of which can cripple business operations beyond CIOs’ control. Although not implemented yet, we will be making it part of our vendor management and selection processes.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Supplier Value Management platforms is a critical enterprise software category enabling enterprises to implement their source-to-pay processes. Typically, enterprise adoption starts with one or two processes such […]

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That means we need to draw off the car, and feed into the car, lots of data from our enterprise,” he says, so at the intersection of product engineering and enterprise IT, “you’ve got an acute level of synergy in terms of cloud, software engineering standards, integration, and APIs.” It’s been a great success,” says Battle.

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Network World

MAY 23, 2024

While each cloud provider does its best to make networking simple across clouds, all have very nuanced differences and varied best practices for approaching the same problem, says Ed Wood, global enterprise network lead at business advisory firm Accenture. While cloud service providers aim to provide, and continuously improve.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 12, 2021

aims to show how communications service providers (CSPs) can benefit from cross-industry collaboration to innovate their business models and create new services for enterprises. The champions are the CSPs Axiata Enterprise, Dialog, Robi and Smart, which are each providing support for developing the solution architecture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 18, 2023

A fractional CIO is a technology leader hired on a temporary or part-time basis, explains Peter Kirkwood, corporate strategy leader at management consulting and strategy advisory firm Zinnov. It’s not uncommon for a middle-market enterprise to operate without a CIO, Hartman says. What services do fractional CIOs provide?

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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. According to G2’s latest state of software report, AI is the fastest-growing software category in G2 history. And the AI writing assistant category grew by 177%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

Nearly all new software functionality is now deployed as a service (SaaS) that people access from a multitude of locations and devices. No company has the luxury of containing the enterprise IT environment within its four walls anymore. Transitioning to a full SASE environment is a long process for large enterprises.

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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. They’ve found a way to put 25% increases back into the cost of software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2024

Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one. For many companies, an employee’s main interaction with gen AI will come through the enterprise and productivity software they’re already using. Dana-Farber was no exception.

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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. Double down on vendor management. Invest in win-wins.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

But guided by the framework, and the platform-first principle in particular, IT went straight for selecting two new modern platforms and adopting their processes, knowing that software came with good processes and that IT in partnership with the business units could tweak workflows where necessary.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

IT managers are often responsible for not just overseeing an organization’s IT infrastructure but its IT teams as well. To succeed, you need to understand the fundamentals of security, data storage, hardware, software, networking, and IT management frameworks — and how they all work together to deliver business value.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 29, 2024

Still, other organizations look to their software providers for upgrades that include gen AI components. Its software helps consumers find the things they want to buy from the most relevant merchant, and it helps with payments and post-sales support. AI will benefit humanity in many ways,” says Koushik.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2023

Prices are increasing, and negotiation is becoming more difficult,” agrees Melanie Alexander, senior director analyst on Gartner’s sourcing, procurement, and vendor management team. Vendors are not granting the same concessions they have in the past.” This is particularly important for as-a-service contract renewals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Companies may have had highly detailed migration or execution plans, but many failed to develop a point of view on the role of cloud in the enterprise. IT leaders at the 60-year-old fleet management firm determined that cloud could support its rapid growth without the challenges of maintaining data centers.

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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. The lengthy process slowed feedback on solution design, as well as delivery times on changes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2022

After all, many of the software vendors you rely on for point solutions likely offer cross-platform or multiplatform products, linking into your chosen ERP and its main competitors, for example, or to your preferred hyperscaler, as well as other cloud services and components of your IT estate.

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

From disaster recovery, to software development, even to ensuring compliance, SSOT is the pillar supporting the aggregation of data and the generation of real-time business insights. In any enterprise, the incorporation of additional data and intelligence into the systems will always be an ongoing process.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. Equally telling is another statistic from that research: Just 35% of these enterprises have achieved their digital goals or are on track to do so.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

NVIDIA just announced it plans to acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank Group for $40B. The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and thus, Intel and AMD). The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie in […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Previously, he led the design, planning, implementation and delivery of IT managed services, cloud and security services, data centre and disaster recovery services at NTT. He has also worked with Reliance Communications, Global Tele-Systems, Mahindra Consulting, and Microtech Software and Consultants. November 2021.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 13, 2020

Cisco Systems stock fell over 11% today after it delivered its latest quarterly earnings yesterday. Cisco beat street estimates, but it fell based on a 9% YoY decrease in revenue and a weak outlook for coming quarters. Our research indicates a coming drought in infrastructure tech spending, so the next few quarters – likely to […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 8, 2023

Most New Zealand enterprises are not leveraging offshore tech skills to plug gaps, according to a new report from the University of Auckland’s Centre of Digital Enterprise. Universities [in New Zealand] are currently producing around 4,000 engineers per year and there is demand for about 40,000 software engineers across the tech space.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

In this quarter, 74% of large enterprises report having FinOps teams and processes in place, up from 61% in 2022,” he says. Those enterprises reported a 30 to 35% cost savings in the first year after implementing FinOps teams and tools. Jensen says many large organizations already have built these organizations. “In

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