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Where CIOs should place their 2025 AI bets

CIO Business Intelligence

We may look back at 2024 as the year when LLMs became mainstream, every enterprise SaaS added copilot or virtual assistant capabilities, and many organizations got their first taste of agentic AI. AI at Wharton reports enterprises increased their gen AI investments in 2024 by 2.3

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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

in 2025, one of the largest percentage increases in this century, and it’s only partially driven by AI. growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% trillion, Gartner projects.

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5 tips for better business value from gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Still, CIOs have reason to drive AI capabilities and employee adoption, as only 16% of companies are reinvention ready with fully modernized data foundations and end-to-end platform integration to support automation across most business processes, according to Accenture. These reinvention-ready organizations have 2.5

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Infor’s Velocity Summit Highlights Multiple Advances and Enhancements

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

Infor’s Embedded Experiences allows users to create first drafts of text for specific business purposes and summarize insights as well as quickly analyze and interact with data. And its GenAI knowledge hub uses retrieval-augmented generation to provide immediate access to knowledge, potentially from multiple data sources. in 2025.

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Akeneo aims to transform the retail playbook with AI and data consistency

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2024, squeezed by the rising cost of living, inflationary impact, and interest rates, they are now grappling with declining consumer spending and confidence. It demands a robust foundation of consistent, high-quality data across all retail channels and systems. But 2025 and 2026 will bear good news, according to Deloitte.

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

One of the firm’s recent reports, “Political Risks of 2024,” for instance, highlights AI’s capacity for misinformation and disinformation in electoral politics, something every client must weather to navigate their business through uncertainty, especially given the possibility of “electoral violence.” The biggest challenge is data.

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Data-driven financial planning is still falling short of its potential

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s especially poignant when we consider the extent to which financial data can steer business strategy for the better. This is the impact of data-driven financial analysis – or what is termed FP&A – in the business context. billion is lost to low-value, manual data processing and management while $1.7