CIO

AUGUST 22, 2024

Despite those complications, a huge majority of IT leaders expect their organizations’ IT budgets to increase — at least moderately — in the next fiscal year, with IT talent and software spending leading the way. Talent, software spending lead the way According to Forrester’s guide, personnel accounts for nearly 35% of IT budgets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Cloud spending is going up and budgets are tightening, so theyre asking whats going on and how do we right this ship. As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. Between 80 and 85% of the companys IT operations are in the cloud, and he expects it to stay that way.

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2025

When we go into most companies, their backlog of gen AI use cases [is substantial], specifically in the hundreds, he says. Spending still increasing Even with mixed results in the past year, many companies are planning to increase their gen AI spending in 2025 and beyond.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The company is focused on use-based pricing, with only one customer seat required to administer it, he adds. By pricing based on the underlying costs of compute, latency, and throughput, this model provides clarity on how charges are determined and allows for more precise budgeting, Leo John says.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Budget constraints Barrier: IT modernization requires substantial investment, and budget constraints are a common hurdle. Solution: To address budget constraints, organizations should adopt a strategic approach to funding IT modernization. the world’s leading tech media, data, and marketing services company.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

To counter this, Zain employs ethical hackers to scour the dark web for threats targeting the company or its customers. The talent crisis and leadership divide While Middle Eastern organizations plan to boost cybersecurity budgets by 11% in 2025, Setareh stresses that technology alone isnt enough.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2023

I also have some notes on why your company may want to be like Figma, and how the investing side of the market is adjusting to down rounds being the new normal. It was based on a report data point showing that automation had risen among enterprise budget priorities. Enterprise companies and generative AI: Just looking?

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Reframe the conversation Thats when its time for you as CIO to have a tough conversation with the Powers That Be about the IT budget. To fix the challenges we face well need a bigger budget. What will make the conversation so tough? Script it and youll see: You: The IT organization I lead isnt as effective as it needs to be.

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CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

I am skeptical that the majority of companies will choose to upskill these people” because IT executives “are beholden to the bottom line,” Smith said. The shift is in the way companies are hiring, not how much they are hiring,” Wehniainen said. The rate of new technologies is rapidly accelerating.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We have companies trying to build out the data centers that will run gen AI and trying to train AI,” he says. The tech companies are still having to run flat out.” Free the AI At the same time, most organizations will spend a small percentage of their IT budgets on gen AI software deployments, Lovelock says.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

According to AI at Wartons report on navigating gen AIs early years, 72% of enterprises predict gen AI budget growth over the next 12 months but slower increases over the next two to five years. But if all gen AI does is improve productivity, CIOs may be challenged long term to justify budget increases and experiments with new capabilities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

On-demand shuttle service and transit tech company Via has raised another $110 million, bringing the company’s total funding to around $1 billion. billion at the same price per share as the company’s previous financing in November of 2021. The company has already scaled to 600 communities and more than 35 countries.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Public SaaS companies have seen their valuations compress, with small-cap SaaS significantly underperforming broader market indices in 2024. Forward-thinking SaaS companies are already integrating AI capabilities into their offerings, enhancing their value proposition rather than becoming obsolete.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

By Andy Ellis In 2023, the outlook for cybersecurity companies seemed dire. For cybersecurity companies, this is often troubling news. While a quarter of CISOs are still reporting decreased budgets, 2 in 5 are now seeing budget increases. Image source: CISO Circuit 9, August 2023, YL Ventures.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

To some consumers and businesses, alike it may appear companies are exaggerating the significance of this emerging technology. Those companies that either adopt or expand use of AI will be able to identify and understand every device their customers are using, and the interactions of every channel.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A lack of AI expertise is a problem, however, when other company leaders often turn to CIOs and other IT leaders as the “go-to people” for solving AI problems, says Pavlo Tkhir, CTO at Euristiq, a digital transformation company. “A Blank says.

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Capgemini

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Reflections from Climate Week 2024: Why workplace services deserve a bigger slice of sustainability budgets Alan Connolly 10 Oct 2024 Facebook Twitter Linkedin As sustainability budgets grow, many companies are making significant investments in decarbonization, renewable energy, and broader environmental initiatives.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Large US companies with annual sales of over $1 billion invest 1.45% of their sales in technology and IT. In Europe, large companies invest 10% less in IT, at 1.29% of total sales, according to a report from Capgemini , which interviewed 2,500 decision-makers and business leaders across the globe.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Ongoing layoffs in the tech industry and rising demand for AI skills are contributing to a growing mismatch in the IT talent market, which continues to show mixed signals as economic factors and the rise of AI impact budgets and the long-term outlook for IT skills. What is driving tech layoffs?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Media in particular could prove to be lucrative; Gartner predicts that by 2023, 80% of advertisers with media budgets of $1 billion or more will use data clean rooms. ” Samooha launches with tech that lets companies securely share data by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Consider 76 percent of IT leaders believe that generative AI (GenAI) will significantly impact their organizations, with 76 percent increasing their budgets to pursue AI. Moreover, this can cause companies to fall short of regulatory compliance, with these data potentially being misused. IT leaders are placing faith in AI.

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CIO

DECEMBER 22, 2023

To tackle that, businesses are turning their budgets toward the cloud, with two out of every three IT decision-makers planning to increase cloud budgets in 2024, and nearly a third (31%) reporting that 31% of their IT budget is earmarked for cloud computing, according to the 2023 Cloud Computing Study from CIO.com parent company Foundry.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In Italy specifically, more than 52% of companies, and CIOs in particular, continue to struggle finding the technical professionals they need, according to data by Unioncamere, the Italian Union of Chambers of Commerce, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies. This program has its own planning and also a dedicated budget.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

An IDC study found that usage of generative AI jumped from 55% of surveyed companies in 2023 to 75% in 2024. According to a recent IDC study, companies using AI are reporting an average of $3.70 Pharma and agriculture companies now leverage AI and gene-editing (e.g., Some companies just dont know where to begin.

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CIO

MARCH 3, 2025

But I remind tech leaders that one of the biggest line items in any organization is the IT budget. Old rule: Advance by becoming CIO at a bigger company New rule: Aim to become COO or CEO Since the earliest days of the role, CIOs who wanted to advance their careers as IT execs moved to the CIO post at bigger companies.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

If 2023 was the year of experimentation with gen AI, 2024 was when companies zeroed in on use cases and started putting pilot projects into production. Only 14% say theyre losing money, and 66% of companies plan to increase their AI investments compared to 5% that plan to decrease it. And then there are guardrail considerations.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

growth in ICT budgets specific to Italy, mostly in line with recent trends. Managing change and transformation Paolo Sicca, group CIO of manufacturing company Industria Grafica Eurostampa, is an example of how his role is evolving. The products for digitalization are the same that many other companies adopt, including BI.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

To manage their generative AI spend judiciously, organizations can use services like AWS Budgets to set tag-based budgets and alarms to monitor usage, and receive alerts for anomalies or predefined thresholds. This tagging structure categorizes costs and allows assessment of usage against budgets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Despite this nebulous, disconnected reality, companies are paying more attention to various channels as remote work and digital communication powers our days. As the “aha” moment of community continues , Commsor is a solution to help community managers prove that they’re not wasting the budget, and outcomes. Sign up here.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It’s going to change the relationship customers have with the company because Broadcom’s focus is on running as efficiently as possible,” said Rajiv Ramaswami, president and CEO of Nutanix, in an April 2024 episode of Bloomberg’s Tech Disruptors podcast. Nearly half indicated that implementing hybrid IT is a top priority for their CIO.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In March 2020, the company made headlines for laying off nearly 300 employees in the face of a slowdown in business related to the pandemic. We realized quickly that we needed to meet the needs of our customers to manage not only travel spend, but all employee spend of company money,” Cohen told TechCrunch. “We billion valuation.

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CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Kellie Romack, chief digital information officer of ServiceNow, is also shortening her horizon to align with the two- or three-year timeframe that is the norm for her company. Doing so keeps her focused on supporting the companys overall future strategy but with enough flexibility to adjust along the journey.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Companies are seeking ways to enhance reporting, meet regulatory requirements, and optimize IT operations. As budgets tighten, AI will soon face the same financial scrutiny as other IT investments. Sustainability and ESG are not off the AI table ESG is now a critical business imperative.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2024

While the PE industry is not as active as it has been in previous years, what goes down typically comes back up, so CIOs are likely to get calls from recruiters about joining a PE portfolio company sometime soon. So, why is leading IT in a PE portfolio company different? When PE buys a company, it’s focused on speed to market.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When the company raised the first part of its Series B, it raised $112 million at a $570 million valuation. The company wants to replace multiple services in the B2B payment stack with a single, unified platform. The startup lets you set up rules, budgets and an approval workflow.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Rhys Spence is head of research at Brighteye Ventures, a European edtech-focused fund, where he works with portfolio companies to help address priorities, with a focus on internationalization. One of the most common themes Brighteye sees in young companies is an emphasis on international expansion for growth. Rhys Spence. Contributor.

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