CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Travel and expense management company Emburse saw multiple opportunities where it could benefit from gen AI. To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models. Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Workday announced this afternoon that it intends to acquire VNDLY , a Mason, OH startup that helps companies manage external workforce personnel for $510 million. Pete Schlampp, chief strategy officer at Workday, says as the face of work changes, companies need a way to manage contractors and VNDLY gives them that.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2025

Ecosystem warrior: Enterprise architects manage the larger ecosystem, addressing challenges like sustainability, vendor management, compliance and risk mitigation. They encourage seamless communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization and in some cases playing mediator.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Otherwise, companies will struggle to realize business value with AI/ML capabilities left to endure high cloud cost expenses, as it has been for many companies in 2024 for AI solutions. You would be surprised, but a lot of companies still just start without having a plan. How difficult can it be, after all?

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CIO

MARCH 3, 2025

With the growing importance of security compliance for startups, more companies are seeking to achieve and maintain compliance with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001 & GDPR. 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

MARCH 27, 2025

Identity resolution is central to all three, yet many organizations struggle with fragmented data, vendor management, and scalable identity solutions. Companies collect on average 100+ data points per consumer, with at least 22% becoming obsolete each year. Build an actionable and measurable view of customers. Learn more here.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2024

But the majority of companies in Germany, in particular, rely on the cloud in its various facets, and have now achieved a certain level of maturity when it comes to migrating workloads. The fundamental attitude of companies to the question of cloud or on-premises is also important.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In March, the company was one of the 10 African startups participating in Y Combinator’s winter batch. A f ew months past graduation, the startup, combining both worlds of banking and business management tools for micro and small businesses, has closed a $3.8 million pre-seed round. Image Credits: Prospa.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In the ever-changing tech landscape, service interruptions and company disappearances are more common than CIOs would like. According to capital management solutions firm Carta, in Q1 this year, startup bankruptcies increased by 58% compared to the same time in 2023. Other times, it’s a specific service that changes.

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Kaseya

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Outsourced IT is the concept of hiring external service vendors to handle certain IT functions. Companies outsource infrastructure management, application services, utility services, cloud-enabled outsourcing, software-as-a-service and more. When Should a Company Outsource Its IT Services? Nearshoring. Want to know how?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Venture history purists could argue that Ramp’s new raise was the company’s Series B — the second priced round after its seed — or that it is really a Series C, as the startup’s seed round was as big as a 2000s-era A and was also a priced event. Ramp did not need the funds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The goal of the startup’s SaaS tool is to bridge this gap via its centralized platform and to allow property management companies to streamline and organize vendor data and operations. “VendorPM is modernizing the way property managers and vendors work together,” Bril said.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The “Cyber Risk Mitigation & Collaboration Panel” highlighted the urgent need for businesses to adopt a company-wide approach to cybersecurity, integrating protection measures into every layer of their operations. These areas, often neglected or poorly managed, can expose businesses to serious vulnerabilities.

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

The “underlying current that’s really driving some of the anxiety around SaaS sprawl is around getting data out of the SaaS applications and fit for consumption,” says Campbell, whose company relies on a tangle of roughly 75 SaaS applications core to the business and another 135 SaaS solutions spread across various business units.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased. There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Battle joined JLR as group chief digital and information officer in February 2022, after a long career managing IT for a succession of oil companies. There are plenty of software vendors willing to help with that — perhaps too many. It’s been a great success,” says Battle.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As a result, software supply chains and vendor risk management are becoming ever more vital (and frequent) conversations in the C-suite today, as companies seek to reduce their exposure to outages and the business continuity issues of key vendors their businesses depend on.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

One of the first use cases of artificial intelligence in many companies, including both Michelin and Albemarle, was predictive maintenance, which at its most basic level is an algorithm trained on data collected by sensors. To fill the gap, many companies complement the real data with synthetic data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Flow’s founder is Adam Neumann, the former WeWork co-founder who resigned and gave up majority voting control after the company pulled its IPO filing in September 2019. In reality, most IT teams aren’t prepared (or even interested) in managing a recurring schedule of software renewals, let alone tracking costs or efficacy.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

TechCrunch understands that the New Delhi-based company has axed dozens of jobs both at its headquarters in Gurugram as well as branch offices across the country, cutting into its ranks in sales, product, testing, R&D and logistics, and the rest of the business. The initial journey of the company relied on low-cost feature phones.

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

Jonnala stepped in as CIO at network infrastructure provider CommScope two years ago after more than a dozen years spent at the company in various roles leading business and technology transformation. Imagine a CIO of a Fortune 10 company talking to investment analysts — they should, but they don’t,” she explains. “I

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Yet, despite years of investment in varied solutions, many companies still need help to enable their people and partners to connect disparate data sources and effectively collaborate in fully compliant spaces, let alone incorporate AI. Thankfully, the challenges are being met, and companies are now offering options. billion by 2030.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

Traditional company processes can be implemented to get access to more lower-end skills, but those skillsets truly in demand require looking at your entire ecosystem and creating new kinds of engagements with trusted partners,” he says. Double down on vendor management.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

While there is little doubt that companies have been cutting back on expenses generally in response to economic uncertainty, startups in particular have been feeling the pain of contracting budgets and reluctant investors. Personally, I am against consolidation, however in the company the board is also opting for consolidation of suppliers.

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CIO

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.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Facing the possibility of an economic recession, one of the world’s leading professional services companies felt the urgency to improve its grasp on spend management – the practice of fully understanding and managing supplier relations and company purchasing. With 738,000 employees and $3.8 With 738,000 employees and $3.8

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Forward-thinking companies are increasingly clear that they need to be hiring not for skills but for aptitudes,” says Sanjay Srivastava, chief digital strategist at Genpact. Effective change management enables businesses to overcome resistance, streamline processes, and minimize negative impacts during the transition.”

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CIO

APRIL 18, 2023

Often, companies in that space have an IT manager or IT director, but lack someone who sits in the executive suite and reports directly to the CEO.” Fractional and interim CIOs are particularly effective solutions for companies that are undergoing rapid change, or those that have an unexpected leadership gap” Ryan explains. “We

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

Companies that do well have turned modernization into a process instead of an event. Create a framework to guide decisions Michael Bradshaw, who has held the CIO position at Kyndryl since the IT service management company spun off from IBM in 2021, developed a framework around five core guiding principles to facilitate key IT decisions.

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CIO

JULY 11, 2024

Effective cost management in the cloud is, therefore, becoming increasingly important. Yet many companies still find it difficult to keep an eye on the costs of their cloud deployment and to continuously optimize them. This is a key finding of a survey commissioned by Boomi from Forrester Research.

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CIO

JANUARY 3, 2024

In mid-November, OpenAI’s board fired the CEO of the company, Sam Altman, the guy who put ChatGPT on the map and ushered in a new era of corporate AI deployments. Within the next three days, nearly all of the company’s employees said they’d walk out the door, and the fate of OpenAI looked extremely uncertain.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. The phrase “existential risk” is now everywhere—not in the sense the AI would destroy humanity, but that it would make business functions, or even entire companies, obsolete. At Black Hat, there were at least a hundred companies I saw,” he says.

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CIO

APRIL 27, 2023

The past year was rough for the tech industry, with several companies reporting layoffs and the looming threat of a recession. Companies can’t ignore digital transformation as technology continues to dominate nearly every aspect of business and daily-life. as of January. Average salary: US$145,416 Increase from 2021: 3.4%

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CIO

AUGUST 13, 2024

With massive data centers and AI projects likely to consume huge amounts of energy in the coming years, CIOs are paying attention to the carbon footprint of their IT operations, says Bob Bailkoski, CEO of Logicalis, an IT reseller and managed service provider.

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CIO

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. Organizations also need nontechnical skills such as cloud financial management and cloud optimization, Nathan says. In fact, some EU regulators now require that companies do this.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

But when it comes to actual business, George Al Koura, CISO of online dating company Ruby Life, has built a career on how long-term success depends on building team cohesion within the organization, and elevating the relationship with partners outside it. We’re effectively a software company, but we have to humanize one another,” he says.

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CIO

AUGUST 15, 2023

It can connect the data to a variety of LLMs, open source, or proprietary, the company said. One feature of its Commerce GPT almost ready to go is a tool to fill in missing catalog data called Dynamic Product Descriptions, which will be available from July, the company said.

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