CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

In February, CEO Marc Benioff told CNBCs Squawk Box that 2025 will be the first year in the companys 25-year history that it will not add more software engineers. 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

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Global IT spending is expected to soar in 2025, gaining 9% according to recent estimates. The implications for cloud adoption are profound, as businesses increasingly rely on these technologies to drive digital transformation, optimize operations and gain competitive advantages.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2024

Gartner also recently predicted that 30% of current gen AI projects will be abandoned after proof-of-concept by 2025. Operating profit gains from AI doubled to nearly 5% between 2022 and 2023, with the figure expected to reach 10% by 2025, she adds. What comes up must come down.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

In Khanolkar’s case, he ran a cloud consulting business and saw how fast companies like Datadog and Snowflake were coming to market and dealing with Amazon Web Services. Software billing startup Octane announced Tuesday that it raised $2 million on a post-money valuation of $10 million to advance its pay-as-you-go billing software.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Analyst firm Forrester named AI agents as one of its top 10 emerging technologies this year, but it has a warning for companies focused on adopting them: Don’t go it alone. Three-quarters of the organizations that try to build AI agents in house will fail, according to Forrester’s 2025 predictions for AI. Kumar adds.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

Employee training on AI is essential, says Sam Ferrise, CTO at Trinetix, a tech consulting firm. CIOs and CTOs must also set the rules of the road for using AI and navigate or mitigate potential risk and ethics issues, he says.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

CIO packages often include stock options, relocation expenses, and hiring bonuses, says Victor Janulaitis, CEO of consulting firm Janco. The strategic importance of technology leadership has never been greater, especially as organizations attempt to tackle information security, artificial intelligence, cloud transformations, etc.,”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The core problem the company addresses is the fact that an estimated 3,000 new public charging points are needed every week across Europe to keep pace for the continent’s target of a million charge points by 2025. ” The current fundraise was led by Energize, and takes the total investment into Monta to more than $50 million.

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CIO

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In the US, on the other hand, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a rule proposal in March 2022 calling for companies to start gathering scope 3 emission data as early as in 2024 for reporting in 2025. The big consulting firms already have their eyes on what this can do for their businesses.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2023

“The anticipation and fear of the impact of generative AI in particular, and its relationship to artificial general intelligence (AGI), makes it overhyped,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president and CTO for the PCs and smart devices division at Lenovo. The number of use cases and utility values are limited, impacting the potential.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2024

It makes sense that development is the top agentic AI use case, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant. By Q1 of 2025, we should have some real contenders in protecting AI that are more than just existing DLP and code review enhancements layered in front of or on top of LLMs.” Most of us in AI are software engineers,” he says.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is a transcript of my keynote presentation for the Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo conference on January 8th, 2025. In 2025, we cant talk about development costs without also talking about AI. The reason I can get away with not providing them is that the CEO, CTO, and Chief Product Officer are on my side.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Be mindful of ethical considerations when embracing GenAI Larry Fitzpatrick, Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial , asks executives to understand the ethical considerations of deploying GenAI. We expect this trend to hold in 2025. Smart CIOs know this and thats why they are leveraging outside consultants.

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Mobilunity

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Consultants with niche-specific skills will accelerate legal processes and ensure compliance with industry regulations. Company’s CTO Our partnership with Mobilunity-BPO has not only met our expectations but exceeded them. Quality Assurance. We aligned with the client’s requirements and established data quality assurance.

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CIO

AUGUST 14, 2024

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott compared the company’s Copilot stack to the LAMP stack of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, enabling organizations to build at scale on the internet, and there’s clear enterprise interest in building solutions with these services. It’s also creating tools to help customers pick from a wide range of models, Wong adds.

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Capgemini

JULY 23, 2021

By Zhiwei Jiang , CEO, Insights & Data, Capgemini and Ron Tolido , CTO, Insights & Data, Capgemini. The next generation of data sharing platforms are evolving/have evolved that enable data collaboration with even the toughest competitors, without ever giving up even a fraction of data privacy, security, and ownership.

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Mobilunity

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

” This phrase describes problems like the absence of a CTO from the beginning, a lack of co-founders, or a team of inexperienced freelancers. Moreover, with offshore hiring, you can equip your startup with a CTO — the must-have role according to ex-founders of failed tech companies. Will it be a web app?

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

The 2024 Enterprise AI Readiness Radar report from Infosys , a digital services and consulting firm, found that only 2% of companies were fully prepared to implement AI at scale and that, despite the hype , AI is three to five years away from becoming a reality for most firms. Theyre foundational pieces that an organization has to get right.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Consulting giant Deloitte says 70% of business leaders have moved 30% or fewer of their experiments into production. Meanwhile, Gartner predicts at least 30% of gen AI projects will be abandoned after the proof-of-concept stage by 2025. These issues mean many gen AI projects remain stuck at the prototyping stage.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Analyst estimates of IT and tech spend outside of the CIO/CTO budgets range from 40-45 -to 60%. With 2025 IT spend forecast to cross $6 trillion , there is much for both business and technology to plan for. Digital twins are getting built and born in the enterprise without any CIO facilitation.

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CIO

JANUARY 29, 2025

SAP is starting the 2025 financial year with a new executive board.The German software company announced that 39-year-old Sebastian Steinhuser will be promoted to the executive board. Before joining SAP, Steinhuser worked at Boston Consulting Group. SAP introduced a new CTO and two new chief revenue officers.

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CIO

JANUARY 20, 2025

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Agentic AI, which Forrester named a top emerging technology for 2025 in June , takes generative AI a step further by emphasizing operational decision-making rather than content generation. AI agents, unlike some past automation technologies, can make decisions in real-time, making process automation a primary use case. “AI

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Capgemini

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Data Fabric Unlocking all of datas superpowers Sjoukje Zaal February 19, 2025 Facebook Linkedin Data fabric helps organizations overcome the challenge of managing overwhelming data by unifying and streamlining disparate sources. Find all previous Waves here. She is the regional head of the architecture community in the Netherlands.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 25, 2025

are declaring 2025 the year of the rebound for M&A dealmaking. Fortunately, todays technology allows organizations to conduct these risk assessments promptly and easily often without the need for costly outside consultants. Snehal Antani of Horizon3.ai Cybersecurity risk management must be proactive, not reactive.

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