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

CIO Business Intelligence

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 system, intended to streamline payments and HR processes, is now unlikely to function correctly before 2026 four years after its 2022 launch.

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5 top business use cases for AI agents

CIO Business Intelligence

AI agents are powered by the same AI systems as chatbots, but can take independent action, collaborate to achieve bigger objectives, and take over entire business workflows. Copilot Studio allows enterprises to build autonomous agents, as well as other agents that connect CRM systems, HR systems, and other enterprise platforms to Copilot.

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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

enterprise architects ensure systems are performing at their best, with mechanisms (e.g. Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Smaller models, on the other hand, are more tailored, allowing businesses to create AI systems that are precise, efficient, robust, and built around their unique needs, he adds. Reasoning also helps us use AI as more of a decision support system, he adds. Multi-agent systems Sure, AI agents are interesting.

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Vendor management for telecoms networks

Spearline Testing

For such networks, vendor management is a crucial aspect of maintaining successful operations. Vendor management. However, when an issue arises and an organization submits a ticket, this enters a queue system before it is handled. Spearline puts the power into the hands of their customers. Why Spearline?

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO Business Intelligence

What happened In CrowdStrikes own root cause analysis, the cybersecurity companys Falcon system deploys a sensor to user machines to monitor potential dangers. Akamai was not itself a CrowdStrike customer, but does use similar services from outside vendors to help protect its systems. Clancy asks.

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How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Without this actionable framework, even the most advanced AI systems will struggle to provide meaningful value, Srivastava says. For Asana, agentic AI plays a pivotal role in the companys efforts to transform work management internally and for its customers.

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