CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Diamond founded 11:11 Systems to meet that need – and 11:11 hasn’t stopped growing since. They also know that the attack surface is increasing and that they need help protecting core systems.

Systems Review 158

Systems Review System Enterprise Disaster Recovery 158

CIO

APRIL 16, 2025

In todays rapidly evolving business landscape, the role of the enterprise architect has become more crucial than ever, beyond the usual bridge between business and IT. In a world where business, strategy and technology must be tightly interconnected, the enterprise architect must take on multiple personas to address a wide range of concerns.

Technical Review 99

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

What is technical debt? Technical debt is the cost accrued over time from technology implementation decisions that emphasize expediency over long-term quality and maintenance. Why is technical debt important? So, is technical debt bad? The question misses the point of its importance.

Technical Advisors 109

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 4, 2025

As systems scale, conducting thorough AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFRs) becomes even more crucial, offering deeper insights and strategic value to help organizations optimize their growing cloud environments. In this post, we explore a generative AI solution leveraging Amazon Bedrock to streamline the WAFR process.

Generative AI 92

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

Thats why tech leaders need solutions now, not months from now. Thats an eternity in tech terms ; by the time a deal is signed, market conditions may have changed, new competitors emerged, or the solution itself evolved. See also: How AI is empowering tech leaders and transforming procurement. )

Technical Review 191

Technical Review Weak Development Team B2B Software Review 191

CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The UK government has introduced an AI assurance platform, offering British businesses a centralized resource for guidance on identifying and managing potential risks associated with AI, as part of efforts to build trust in AI systems. This tool aims to help companies make informed decisions as they develop and implement AI technologies.

Systems Review 195

Systems Review Technical Review Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence 195

CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A successful IT modernization journey is about far more than just implementing a new technology into IT systems. Specifically, it requires technologies that align with each other, the environment they’re in, and intended business outcomes. Modernization is a complex process that requires the right strategy to be successful.

Enterprise 172

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Enterprise infrastructures have expanded far beyond the traditional ones focused on company-owned and -operated data centers. An IT consultant is a technology professional who advises and supports business clients in designing, developing, and executing technology projects in service of business goals. What is an IT consultant?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

From customer service chatbots to marketing teams analyzing call center data, the majority of enterprises—about 90% according to recent data —have begun exploring AI. Today, enterprises are leveraging various types of AI to achieve their goals. To succeed, Operational AI requires a modern data architecture.

Architecture 193

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

operator of 28 hotel and casino properties across the US, was negotiating a fresh enterprise agreement with VMware prior to its acquisition, reported The Register. Vendor allegiance – once critical for many organizations due both to convenience and loyalty – has become a company liability for many.

Technical Review 187

Technical Review Systems Review Azure Games 187

CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

CEOs and CIOs appear to have conflicting views of the readiness of their organizations’ IT systems, with a large majority of chief executives worried about them being outdated, according to a report from IT services provider Kyndryl. But in conflict with CEO fears, 90% of IT leaders are confident their IT infrastructure is best in class.

Infrastructure 199

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

Regardless of the driver of transformation, your companys culture, leadership, and operating practices must continuously improve to meet the demands of a globally competitive, faster-paced, and technology-enabled world with increasing security and other operational risks.

Technical Cofounder 215

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Its an offshoot of enterprise architecture that comprises the models, policies, rules, and standards that govern the collection, storage, arrangement, integration, and use of data in organizations. Limit the times data must be moved to reduce cost, increase data freshness, and optimize enterprise agility. Data streaming.

Architecture 183

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. Increasingly, however, CIOs are reviewing and rationalizing those investments. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs? We see this more as a trend, he says.

Cloud 209

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

But along with siloed data and compliance concerns , poor data quality is holding back enterprise AI projects. For many organizations, preparing their data for AI is the first time they’ve looked at data in a cross-cutting way that shows the discrepancies between systems, says Eren Yahav, co-founder and CTO of AI coding assistant Tabnine.

Data 211

Data Enterprise Weak Development Team Software Review 211

CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

We’re in publishing, but it’s the accompanying services that differentiate us on the market; the technology component is what gives value to our business.” Much of this growth is driven by investments in AI technologies, and IDC also expects cloud infrastructure spend to increase 26% compared to 2023.

Cloud 179

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Standard maintenance for ECC is due to end on December 31, 2027, while the extended maintenance for on-premises SAP ERP systems is set to expire at the end of 2030. Systems that are relevant for the SAP ERP, private edition, transition option, need to be moved to SAP ERP, private edition prior to the end of 2030.

Organization 183

Organization Technical Review Systems Review Cloud 183

CIO

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Focused on digitization and innovation and closely aligned with lines of business, some 40% of IT leaders surveyed in CIO.com’s State of the CIO Study 2024 characterize themselves as transformational, while a quarter (23%) consider themselves functional: still optimizing, modernizing, and securing existing technology infrastructure.

Technical Review 197

Technical Review Innovation Survey Systems Review 197

CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. It allows businesses to be the best technologically enabled version of themselves,” Upchurch says. Here are 11 effective ways to reach that goal.

Technical Advisors 213

Technical Advisors Technical Review Fractional CTO Strategy 213

CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Customer relationship management ( CRM ) software provider Salesforce has updated its agentic AI platform, Agentforce , to make it easier for enterprises to build more efficient agents faster and deploy them across a variety of systems or workflows. Christened Agentforce 2.0, New agent skills in Agentforce 2.0

Enterprise 148

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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. Is our AI strategy enterprise-wide?

Strategy 211

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Most CIOs and CTOs are bullish on agentic AI, believing the emerging technology will soon become essential to their enterprises, but lower-level IT pros who will be tasked with implementing agents have serious doubts.

Technical Review 187

Technical Review Software Review Survey Quality Assurance 187

CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI), a term once relegated to science fiction, is now driving an unprecedented revolution in business technology. research firm Vanson Bourne to survey 650 global IT, DevOps, and Platform Engineering decision-makers on their enterprise AI strategy. Nutanix commissioned U.K.

Infrastructure 193

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Allegis had been using a legacy on-premises ERP system called Eclipse for about 15 years, which Shannon says met the business needs well but had limitations. Allegis had been using Eclipse for 10 years, when the system was acquired by Epicor, and Allegis began exploring migrating to a cloud-based ERP system.

Systems Review 197

Systems Review Technical Review System Analytics 197

CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From obscurity to ubiquity, the rise of large language models (LLMs) is a testament to rapid technological advancement. Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. In 2024, a new trend called agentic AI emerged. LLMs by themselves are not agents.

Case Study 203

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CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By 2028, 40% of large enterprises will deploy AI to manipulate and measure employee mood and behaviors, all in the name of profit. “AI By 2027, 70% of healthcare providers will include emotional-AI-related terms and conditions in technology contracts or risk billions in financial harm.

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Energy Healthcare Technical Review 203

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. A second area is improving data quality and integrating systems for marketing departments, then tracking how these changes impact marketing metrics.

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Weak Development Team Metrics Software Review Technical Review 215

CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

With AI agents poised to take over significant portions of enterprise workflows, IT leaders will be faced with an increasingly complex challenge: managing them. If I am a large enterprise, I probably will not build all of my agents in one place and be vendor-locked, but I probably dont want 30 platforms.

Software Review 179

Software Review Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Government 179

CIO

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The economy simply isn’t in a recession,” which had been a fear among many enterprise CIOs, Pyle claimed. Amy Loomis, an IDC research VP, is more circumspect about predicting what IT hiring in 2025 will look like due to differences across various verticals. “I The rate of new technologies is rapidly accelerating.

Technical Review 193

Technical Review Survey Budget Systems Review 193

CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. Forrester said most technology executives expect their IT budgets to increase in 2025. Others won’t — and will come up against the limits of quick fixes.”

Company 191

Company Software Review Technical Review Generative AI 191

CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

We’re also digitalizing the entire process so customers can see data specs and technical sheets, order intake and samples, and track. Some are large, spread over more than two square miles, and they run on manual processes that require significant time on data entry and data collection across several non-integrated systems.

Technical Review 177

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CIO

MARCH 31, 2025

Sovereign AI refers to a national or regional effort to develop and control artificial intelligence (AI) systems, independent of the large non-EU foreign private tech platforms that currently dominate the field. This allows countries to maintain leadership in emerging technologies and create economic opportunities.

Technical Review 117

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Compliance Open Source 117

CIO

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

AI enables the democratization of innovation by allowing people across all business functions to apply technology in new ways and find creative solutions to intractable challenges. Gen AI must be driven by people who want to implement the technology,” he says. However, emerging technology must be used carefully.

Artificial Inteligence 200

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CIO

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? Agentic AI needs a mission.

How To 191

How To Systems Review Technical Review Software Review 191

CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Organizations look at digital transformation as an opportunity to radically improve operations and increase the value of a product or service to the customer by embedding technology into the decision-making fabric and building automation into its functions.

Culture 167

Culture Innovation Technical Review Leadership 167

CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Credit: The Business Impact of Downtime Across Operational Segments , IDC, September 2024; IDC IT/OT Convergence Survey, August 2024, n = 1,041 When ransomware strikes (a disaster almost all technology leaders will experience), the disruption can last for days or even weeks. Download the AI Risk Management Enterprise Spotlight.)

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Disaster Recovery Technical Review Systems Review Development Team Review 97

AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 7, 2025

Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK) is a leading strategic data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry, empowering clients to strengthen operating efficiency, improve underwriting and claims outcomes, combat fraud, and make informed decisions about global risks.

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