CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

Welcome to 2023. Responding to both old and new challenges, IT leaders must reassess their business and technology strategies and, when necessary, realign them to address rapidly evolving business and economic concerns. How well teams execute will be key.” The following eight priorities are gaining the most attention.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 21, 2025

Despite all the interest in artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI), ISGs Buyers Guide for Data Platforms serves as a reminder of the ongoing importance of product experience functionality to address adaptability, manageability, reliability and usability. This is especially true for mission-critical workloads.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2025

In our previous post Backtesting index rebalancing arbitrage with Amazon EMR and Apache Iceberg , we showed how to use Apache Iceberg in the context of strategy backtesting. Data management is the foundation of quantitative research. As mentioned earlier, 80% of quantitative research work is attributed to data management tasks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

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. Here are the 10 IT roles that have earned the biggest bumps in pay for 2023, according to salary data from Dice. percent since 2021, according to Dice.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

2023: Greater flexibility, challenging decisions In 2023, the cloud services space — including hosting and managed and migration services — continued to experience impressive growth, eclipsing $564B in total spend. Here is a closer look at recent and forecasted developments in the cloud market that CIOs should be aware of.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Rather than wait for a storm to hit, IT professionals map out options and build strategies to ensure business continuity. Following Broadcom’s late 2023 acquisition of VMware, numerous changes prompted customers and partners to reassess their strategies. A few years ago, Gregg Lowe the CIO of Boyd Gaming Corp.,

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service offered by AWS that enables you to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch domains effortlessly. Disaster recovery is vital for organizations, offering a proactive strategy to mitigate the impact of unforeseen events like system failures, natural disasters, or cyberattacks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

To understand how organizations may be approaching their cloud strategies and tech investments in 2023, members of VMware’s Tanzu Vanguard community shared their insights on what trends will take shape. According to Forrester , forty percent of firms will take a cloud-native first strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Back in 2023, at the CIO 100 awards ceremony, we were about nine months into exploring generative artificial intelligence (genAI). The key areas we see are having an enterprise AI strategy, a unified governance model and managing the technology costs associated with genAI to present a compelling business case to the executive team.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Over the last eighteen months or so, a motley group of teenagers under the banner of Lapsus$ managed to hack into “unbreachable” fortresses at tech giants such as Okta, T-Mobile, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Globant using unsophisticated but creative and persistent techniques. It is impossible to know your adversaries. Cybercrime, Security

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Infor offers applications for enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer relationship management and human capital management, among others. Use cases are proliferating, including tasks or managing details that outwardly seem trivial but result in a substantial gain in productivity and improved performance.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 10, 2024

According to a 2023 survey from Access Partnership and Amazon Web Services (AWS) , 92% of employers expect to be using AI-related solutions by 2028 and 93% expect to use generative AI within the upcoming five years. IT leaders need talent that knows how to enable and manage AI capabilities being built into enterprise applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2023

Furthermore, the firm had predicted that the number of hybrid workers would continue to increase, hitting 55% as we enter 2023. Those principles, along with lessons learned during recent years, have helped Pfeiffer sharpen her tech strategy for supporting hybrid work in 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

IDC’s Sustainability Readiness Survey (July/August 2023) also found that organizations worldwide have improved in their environmental sustainability efforts over the past few years. An operationalized carbon-neutral strategy requires end-to-end visibility on climate data. Contact us today to learn more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We’ve gathered eight instances of big tech failures that struck companies and other organizations in 2023. Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

He worked with one insurance company that in 2023 made such a move, driven specifically by the desire to have a firm hold on its regulated data, for example. Moreover, these repatriations show how CIOs have a shrewder, more fluid cloud strategy today to ensure they don’t settle for less than what they want.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024. Any organization of size, dealing with diverse technology, is doing their company a disservice if a public cloud–only strategy is their ultimate end goal,” says Brian Shields, SVP and CTO of Boston Red Sox and Fenway Sports Management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Jay Ferro, executive vice president and chief information, technology, and product officer at Clario, a maker of clinical trial management software, acknowledges that this mantra is not new to most CIOs. To deal with that, Evins decided the best strategy was to take a very intentional approach for utilizing the technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cloud strategies are undergoing a sea change of late, with CIOs becoming more intentional about making the most of multiple clouds. A lot of ‘multicloud’ strategies were not actually multicloud. Today’s strategies are increasingly multicloud by intention,” she adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When I joined Graded IT to drive digital transformation, management was convinced of the centrality of change,” says Gennaro Ardolino, head of digital innovation and CISO of the Neapolitan energy saving company. Managers speak their own language and don’t always make the effort to understand the language of IT.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. And it’s never too late for CIOs to reassess their cloud strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023. 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI are putting more pressure on analytics and IT leaders to get their houses in order when it comes to data strategy and data management. Salesforce’s findings gibe with IDC’s Worldwide C-Suite Survey 2023-2024 , released in September.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Jayesh Chaurasia, analyst, and Sudha Maheshwari, VP and research director, wrote in a blog post that businesses were drawn to AI implementations via the allure of quick wins and immediate ROI, but that led many to overlook the need for a comprehensive, long-term business strategy and effective data management practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

At the end of 2023, Chicago-based Article Student Living was acquired by a global real estate investment company, which allowed the business to expand, and enabled it to make key investments in the high-demand student housing market. Articles technology strategy of creating integrated, scalable systems has been key to success.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2025

Cloud architects are responsible for managing the cloud computing architecture in an organization, especially as cloud technologies grow increasingly complex. Organizations have accelerated cloud adoption now that AI tools are readily available, which has driven a demand for cloud architects to help manage cloud infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Decades-old apps designed to retain a limited amount of data due to storage costs at the time are also unlikely to integrate easily with AI tools, says Brian Klingbeil, chief strategy officer at managed services provider Ensono. According to IDCs 2023 CIO Sentiment Survey , organizations were spending an average of 12.8%

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Strategy is no longer something dreamed up by humans in a brainstorming room on a Tuesday afternoon. And you want this technology by your side because it can help you improve your promotional strategies in four ways. Part of an inbound marketing strategy is to draw leads to your website.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

If 2023 was the year of AI exploration, then 2024 will be the year of action. Given that training data is the foundation for all GenAI models, organizations must ensure the cleanliness and trustworthiness of their data, and that management of data is ethical. What does a good GenAI strategy look like? Growing out of control?

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 9, 2024

We are excited about the OpenSearch Service features and enhancements we’ve added to that toolkit in 2023. 2023 was a year of rapid innovation within the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) space, and search has been a significant beneficiary of that progress.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fast-forward to 2023 and IT leaders have distilled many more lessons about effective API development and use over the past twenty years. Here, MACH Alliance members and other IT leaders offer the following three commandments that should underpin any API strategy. Data format should also be centrally managed to ensure uniformity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2024

We examine the risks of rapid GenAI implementation and explain how to manage it. About 35% of applications currently use some form of AI/ML with that number projected to grow to 50% within two years ( Cloud Pulse 2Q23 , IDC, August 2023 IDC). Get more advice from IDC on managing the risks of GenAI and build versus buy for GenAI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

The good news is that, for managers, the best time to attract and retain talent is during economic downturns. Hiring and retaining the best people with the right skills is always the best strategy to improve overall performance.” “We need to improve overall performance while we adapt to the changing business environment,” Liu says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Salima Bhimani has been encouraging the responsible and ethical use of AI for several years as Alphabet’s first chief strategist and director for inclusive and responsible technology, business, and leaders from 2017 to 2023. Are we building AI strategies that are aligned to business goals? The CIO role is changing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2024

Organizations spend an average of 30% of their IT budgets and investing on technical debt management. The right hiring strategy can help organizations reduce labor costs, and then reassign labor savings toward addressing technical debt,” he says. “The Sutton recommends three strategies to help keep technical debt in check.

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