Successful Software

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

I released version 1 of my table seating planning software , PerfectTablePlan, in February 2005. It’s success is due to a lot of hard work, and a certain amount of dumb luck. I looked around for some software to help me. There were a couple of software packages, but I wasn’t impressed. 20 years ago this month.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A 2021 survey from CRM software vendor SugarCRM found that 50% of companies don’t know how to access customer data across their marketing, sales and service systems, while 53% said the administrative burdens of their CRM software causes friction for their sales team. In the worst case, the consequences can be severe.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI is the next leap forward beyond traditional AI to systems that are capable of handling complex, multi-step activities utilizing components called agents. He believes these agentic systems will make that possible, and he thinks 2025 will be the year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. They have no goal.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Leverage any production issue as a reason to “pull the brakes” Introduce very complex processes for code change and common workflows.

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

And yet, three to six months or more of deliberation to finalize a software purchasing decision. No wonder 90% of IT Executives in North America see software sourcing and vendor selection as a pain point. Ready to Transform the Way You Make Software Decisions? See also: How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI. )

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Xebia

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Implementing a version control system for AWS QuickSight can significantly enhance collaboration, streamline development processes, and improve the overall governance of BI projects. The Azure CLI (az command line tool) then creates the pull request and provides a link to the user for review.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Helm.ai, a startup developing software designed for advanced driver assistance systems, autonomous driving and robotics, is one of them. co-founders Tudor Achim and Vlad Voroninski took aim at the software. developed software that can understand sensor data as well as a human — a goal not unlike others in the field.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

CIOs and other executives identified familiar IT roles that will need to evolve to stay relevant, including traditional software development, network and database management, and application testing. And while AI is already developing code, it serves mostly as a productivity enhancer today, Hafez says. But that will change. “As

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CIO

MARCH 17, 2025

At issue is how third-party software is allowed access to data within SAP systems. Celonis accuses SAP of abusing its control over its own ERP system to exclude process mining competitors and other third-party providers from the SAP ecosystem. We are currently reviewing the lawsuit filed, a spokesperson from SAP said.

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The Crazy Programmer

JANUARY 4, 2024

In the fast-paced world of software development, writing clean and maintainable code is not just a good practice; it’s a crucial factor in determining the success of a project. Code Organization Modularization: Breaking down your code into small, manageable modules is akin to organizing a cluttered room.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 5, 2025

Ground truth data in AI refers to data that is known to be factual, representing the expected use case outcome for the system being modeled. By providing an expected outcome to measure against, ground truth data unlocks the ability to deterministically evaluate system quality.

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CIO

JULY 22, 2024

The widespread disruption caused by the recent CrowdStrike software glitch, which led to a global outage of Windows systems, has sent shockwaves through the IT community. Organizations and CISOs must review their cloud strategies, and the automatic updating of patches should be discouraged. Microsoft said around 8.5

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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.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This can involve assessing a companys IT infrastructure, including its computer systems, cybersecurity profile, software performance, and data and analytics operations, to help determine ways a business might better benefit from the technology it uses. IT consultants who are independent contractors might complete some work from home.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For example, developers using GitHub Copilots code-generating capabilities have experienced a 26% increase in completed tasks , according to a report combining the results from studies by Microsoft, Accenture, and a large manufacturing company. These reinvention-ready organizations have 2.5 times higher revenue growth and 2.4

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Agentic AI systems require more sophisticated monitoring, security, and governance mechanisms due to their autonomous nature and complex decision-making processes. Durvasula also notes that the real-time workloads of agentic AI might also suffer from delays due to cloud network latency. IT employees? Not so much.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 7, 2025

Through advanced data analytics, software, scientific research, and deep industry knowledge, Verisk helps build global resilience across individuals, communities, and businesses. Verisk has a governance council that reviews generative AI solutions to make sure that they meet Verisks standards of security, compliance, and data use.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Portlogics , a South Korean digital freight forwarder that offers a robotic process automation-based forwarding management system, wants to help merchants track international shipping logistics and get status updates on shipments, digitizing the process with its software tool. billion in 2030 , up from $2.92

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2025

While a firewall is simply hardware or software that identifies and blocks malicious traffic based on rules, a human firewall is a more versatile, real-time, and intelligent version that learns, identifies, and responds to security threats in a trained manner. In the past few months, infostealer malware has gained ground.

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CIO

MARCH 12, 2024

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Early use cases include code generation and documentation, test case generation and test automation, as well as code optimization and refactoring, among others.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. AI will handle the rest of the software development roles, including security and compliance reviews, he predicts. “At

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

Does [it] have in place thecompliance review and monitoring structure to initially evaluate the risks of the specific agentic AI; monitor and correct where issues arise; measure success; remain up to date on applicable law and regulation? Feaver says.

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CIO

MARCH 11, 2025

The surge in generative AI adoption has driven enterprise software providers, including ServiceNow and Salesforce, to expand their offerings through acquisitions and partnerships to maintain a competitive edge in the rapidly evolving market.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Increasingly, however, CIOs are reviewing and rationalizing those investments. As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. Secure storage, together with data transformation, monitoring, auditing, and a compliance layer, increase the complexity of the system.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With IT systems growing more complex and user demands rising, AI is emerging as a transformative tool for tackling these challenges. While it might not seem a lot, a 3% improvement in an organization with 6,000 software developments is a whole other product you can put up. The irony is hard to ignore.

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot , today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation from Elad Gil, Nat Friedman and Amplify Partners. So what’s its story? But absent a demo, we have only his word to go on.

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CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Guardian Agents’ build on the notions of security monitoring, observability, compliance assurance, ethics, data filtering, log reviews and a host of other mechanisms of AI agents,” Gartner stated. “In Agentic AI will be incorporated into AI assistants and built into software, SaaS platforms, IoT devices and robotics.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This development is due to traditional IT infrastructures being increasingly unable to meet the ever-demanding requirements of AI. Deploy the right use cases : Use cases, such as content and code creation, digital assistant, and digital twins, determine the strategy, technology, and tools businesses would need to deploy their AI initiatives.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Although the future state may involve the AI agent writing the code and connecting to systems by itself, it now consists of a lot of human labor and testing. IT practitioners are cautious due to concerns around accuracy, transparency, security, and integration complexities, says Chahar, echoing Mikhailovs critiques.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Traditional systems often can’t support the demands of real-time processing and AI workloads,” notes Michael Morris, Vice President, Cloud, CloudOps, and Infrastructure, at SAS. These systems are deeply embedded in critical operations, making data migration to the cloud complex and risky,” says Domingues.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

A successful IT modernization journey is about far more than just implementing a new technology into IT systems. To dig deeper into what those challenges are, Rocket Software and Forrester Consulting surveyed 309 IT decision-makers worldwide and asked them about their modernization journeys.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Theres a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. They were succeeded by programmers writing machine instructions as binary code to be input one bit at a time by flipping switches on the front of a computer. Consumer operating systems were also a big part of the story. I dont buy it.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In this post, we explore how to integrate Amazon Bedrock FMs into your code base, enabling you to build powerful AI-driven applications with ease. For this post, we run the code in a Jupyter notebook within VS Code and use Python. This client will serve as the entry point for interacting with Amazon Bedrock FMs.

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Data architecture goals The goal of data architecture is to translate business needs into data and system requirements, and to manage data and its flow through the enterprise. AI and ML are used to automate systems for tasks such as data collection and labeling. An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects.

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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.

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