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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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

Contracts, audits, and SBOMs Beyond protecting enterprise architecture from dangerous updates, and dangerous software in general, there are other steps companies can take to safeguard their software supply chain, starting with selecting the vendor and signing the contract.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

AI is being used in other ways in the enterprise as well, to do things like improve the efficiency of the supply chain, facilitate customer interactions, and help employees perform office tasks. The first challenge is the lack of skills both in-house and among vendors that sell traditional applications.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either. Weve also seen the emergence of agentic AI, multi-modal AI, reasoning AI, and open-source AI projects that rival those of the biggest commercial vendors. Say a vendor releases a new software product.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gen AI is that amplification and the world’s reaction to it is like enterprises and society reacting to the introduction of a foreign body. “We

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Forrester IT

MAY 2, 2017

Enterprise Risk Management. vendor management. If you do an impact analysis, you see that it has a medium reputational risk, a low financial risk and no regulatory risk. With that kind of risk analysis, you don't pay a ransom. Read more Categories: Brand Risk. Governance Risk and Compliance. Ransomware. third party data.

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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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Network World

MAY 2, 2017

Last week, I wrote about the move toward cybersecurity vendor and technology consolidation, along with a growing emphasis on technology integration in the enterprise. Here’s some additional data that reinforces those conclusions. Once again, the data reflects that best-of-breed functionality and integration capabilities are critical.

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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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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

MAY 15, 2024

Cloud cost management tools are an answer. Budgeting, Cloud Management, Enterprise Buyer’s Guides, IT Management, Vendor Management Developer teams are learning that the pennies add up, sometimes faster than expected, and it’s time for some discipline.

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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. The concept of the secure access service edge ( SASE ) is one that many organizations have embraced in recent years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 27, 2025

[i] CIOs face mounting pressure to optimize their data strategy, manage vendors effectively, and accelerate digital transformation. Identity resolution is central to all three, yet many organizations struggle with fragmented data, vendor management, and scalable identity solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2024

Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the many vendors whose cloud applications make up the new tech backbone for most enterprises today, in conjunction with customized in-house apps and niche offerings across public clouds. “It

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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. Test every vendors knowledge of AI The large enterprise application vendors are not AI companies, Helmer says.

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Forrester IT

MAY 30, 2024

Large organizations easily spend millions of dollars on their enterprise software. Naturally, customers are concerned with ensuring that they are getting the best deal possible, but they should also remain realistic in the deals they can expect. Forrester can help clients walk this fine line in their contract negotiations.

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 3, 2025

The company is positioning itself to address the compliance needs of organizations ranging from early-stage startups to established enterprises. Bubba AI, Inc.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Enterprises are better off being model agnostic. In the end, were likely headed for a hybrid future, says Sreekanth Menon, global head of AI at Genpact. Both open and closed-source models have their place, despite the popular sentiment of open source takeover, he says.

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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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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

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 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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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Supplier Value Management platforms is a critical enterprise software category enabling enterprises to implement their source-to-pay processes. Enterprises seeking a system of record for all supplier spend and supplier information are busy unbundling ERP and other “procurement” tools such as Excel, and embracing SVM platforms.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2024

What happens when a supplier goes under The disappearance of a company that supplies technological assets to your enterprise can present huge challenges, especially if it has supplied a significant part of the infrastructure. So too are robust vendor management practices.

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Forrester IT

MAY 11, 2021

Dell revolutionized the PC market, made its way into the enterprise data center business, and created the largest tech company of its time. Since its inception, Dell Technologies has had many achievements, of which it should be proud.

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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. So enterprises looking for generative AI vendors have a lot of options to choose from. And it’s not just start-ups that can expose an enterprise to AI-related third-party risk.

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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.”

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Forrester IT

APRIL 29, 2019

And startups bring speed and agility and can help enterprises experiment with emerging technologies and business models. Large corporates and startups seems like a match made in heaven. The former have the customer base, budget, and scale that the latter crave.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2022

No company has the luxury of containing the enterprise IT environment within its four walls anymore. Gartner predicts that more than 40% of enterprises will have SASE in place or progress by 2024, up from fewer than 1% at the end of 2018. Transitioning to a full SASE environment is a long process for large enterprises.

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Forrester IT

JANUARY 13, 2020

How can enterprise buyers gauge if their vendor partner has a robust internal strategy and thus […]. These questions are as fundamental for every organization as it is for every individual personally. Trusting a company is even more critical from a buyer perspective.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 20, 2020

My colleague Joe Stanhope and I have previously written about how The Future Of Enterprise Marketing Technology hinges on marketing alignment with customer experience (CX) strategies. To be successful, marketers must orchestrate personalized experiences that deliver value in their customers’ moments of need.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 25, 2024

But whether you’re on the management track or have your eye on an IT management career, any one of these 20 IT management certifications should help give you a leg up in the industry. The framework is specifically focused on enterprise architecture and aligning IT goals with business goals.

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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

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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