Remove Retail Remove Technical Advisors Remove Technical Review
article thumbnail

11 ways to ensure IT-business alignment

CIO

What really matters is determining how to fit every function together to achieve unified goals — chiefly IT and its business counterparts, given the importance technology has organizationwide. It allows businesses to be the best technologically enabled version of themselves,” Upchurch says.

article thumbnail

After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a dozen investors we talked to in the country. Subscribe to access all of our investor surveys, company profiles and other inside tech coverage for startups everywhere. Tech investors must make sure that Israel is part of their portfolio.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The rise of the data lakehouse: A new era of data value

CIO

To find out, he queried Walgreens’ data lakehouse, implemented with Databricks technology on Microsoft Azure. “We For Guadagno, the need to match vaccine availability with patient demand came at the right moment, technologically speaking. We leveraged the lakehouse to understand the moment,” the CIO says. Enter the data lakehouse.

Data 210
article thumbnail

10 digital transformation questions every CIO must answer

CIO

To that end, CIO.com asked a half-dozen longtime IT leaders — current and former CIOs as well as consultants and executive advisers — to share the questions they think CIOs should ask themselves to determine whether they’re sailing to success or about to dash onto the rocks. Is my strategy organized around problems to solve, or technologies?

article thumbnail

5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

Cloud 187
article thumbnail

Extra Crunch roundup: Pre-pitch tactics, Warby Parker S-1, Israel’s fintech ecosystem

TechCrunch

Morton, who has also reviewed thousands of YC applications, shares his thoughts on when to submit an application, what to do if you miss the deadline and whether you’ll need to relocate if accepted. Technical jargon is one of the most annoying aspects of technology marketing. Are B2B SaaS marketers getting it wrong?

Fintech 216
article thumbnail

Hackathons simplified

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

It involves finding someone of similar skill sets, and then taking turns building and advising on the project. Alexa, the voice service behind Amazon Echo, is changing how a consumer interacts with technology. You learn to partition tasks, share a codebase, and get along the process through good and bad as a team. Work under pressure.