CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

As a business executive who has led ventures in areas such as space technology or data security and helped bridge research and industry, Ive seen first-hand how rapidly deep tech is moving from the lab into the heart of business strategy. The takeaway is clear: embrace deep tech now, or risk being left behind by those who do.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

CIOs perennially deal with technical debts risks, costs, and complexities. While the impacts of legacy systems can be quantified, technical debt is also often embedded in subtler ways across the IT ecosystem, making it hard to account for the full list of issues and risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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. For CIOs, the event serves as a stark reminder of the inherent risks associated with over-reliance on a single vendor, particularly in the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

One of them is Katherine Wetmur, CIO for cyber, data, risk, and resilience at Morgan Stanley. Wetmur says Morgan Stanley has been using modern data science, AI, and machine learning for years to analyze data and activity, pinpoint risks, and initiate mitigation, noting that teams at the firm have earned patents in this space.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I recently attended Infor’s Velocity Summit , designed to showcase the latest versions of its CloudSuite ERP software. The company provides industry-specific enterprise software that enhances business performance and operational efficiency. This includes customer facing, financial, supply chain and workforce software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

It can also be a software program or another computational entity — or a robot. Adding smarter AI also adds risk, of course. “At More recently, Hughes has begun building software to automate application deployment to the Google Cloud Platform and create CI/CD pipelines, while generating code using agents.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2024

For many stakeholders, there is plenty to love about open source software. But there’s good news: When organizations leverage open source in a deliberate, responsible way, they can take full advantage of the benefits that open source offers while minimizing the security risks. The age-old question: How secure is open source software?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Financial institutions have an unprecedented opportunity to leverage AI/GenAI to expand services, drive massive productivity gains, mitigate risks, and reduce costs. GenAI is also helping to improve risk assessment via predictive analytics.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Software companies are among those most heavily affected, so they are taking dramatic measures. Still, many companies underestimate the importance of more thorough software supply chain security management, believing they are free of threats and vulnerabilities. And today, we’ll talk about the most significant of these risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2024

GRC certifications validate the skills, knowledge, and abilities IT professionals have to manage governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) in the enterprise. Enter the need for competent governance, risk and compliance (GRC) professionals. What are GRC certifications? Why are GRC certifications important?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A new area of digital transformation is under way in IT, say IT executives charged with unifying their tech strategy in 2025. That means IT veterans are now expected to support their organization’s strategies to embrace artificial intelligence, advanced cybersecurity methods, and automation to get ahead and stay ahead in their careers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As CIOs seek to achieve economies of scale in the cloud, a risk inherent in many of their strategies is taking on greater importance of late: consolidating on too few if not just a single major cloud vendor. This is the kind of risk that may increasingly keep CIOs up at night in the year ahead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Hidden costs and price hikes Deploying AI takes a different approach than other technologies, adds Sumit Johar, CIO at finance software vendor BlackLine. Beyond AI deployment challenges, software vendors are raising prices by 30% because of new AI features tacked on, Gartner says. Later on, those prices will go up,” he adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

According to Forrester , investment in AI software will grow 50% faster than the wider software market. With improving security, reducing risk, and driving revenue growth among organizations’ priorities for the use of AI, there are a number of factors CIOs will have to consider when outlining AI strategy.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2024

What CIOs need to do instead is to present IT infrastructure investment as an important corporate financial and risk management issue that the business can’t afford to ignore. From a financial and risk management standpoint, the building is a useless (and hazardous) asset that must be written off the books and remedied.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2024

However, this enthusiasm may be tempered by a host of challenges and risks stemming from scaling GenAI. Optimizing GenAI with data management More than ever, businesses need to mitigate these risks while discovering the best approach to data management. That’s why many enterprises are adopting a two-pronged approach to GenAI.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

One of the ways they can improve on this is by using a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). Understanding SBOM and Its Benefits for AI-Driven Cybersecurity In an era where software is integral to nearly every aspect of modern life, ensuring its security has become paramount.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

This approach will help businesses maximize the benefits of agentic AI while mitigating risks and ensuring responsible deployment. Abhas Ricky, chief strategy officer of Cloudera, recently noted on LinkedIn the cost challenges involved in managing AI agents.

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O'Reilly on Data

JULY 28, 2020

This isn’t always simple, since it doesn’t just take into account technical risk; it also has to account for social risk and reputational damage. As with traditional software, the best way to achieve your goals is to put something out there and iterate. This is particularly true for AI products.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The need to manage risk, adhere to regulations, and establish processes to govern those tasks has been part of running an organization as long as there have been businesses to run. Furthermore, the State of Risk & Compliance Report, from GRC software maker NAVEX, found that 20% described their programs as early stage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Organizations can’t afford to mess up their data strategies, because too much is at stake in the digital economy. Unfortunately, the road to data strategy success is fraught with challenges, so CIOs and other technology leaders need to plan and execute carefully. Here are some data strategy mistakes IT leaders would be wise to avoid.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Business risk (liabilities): “Our legacy systems increase our cybersecurity exposure by 40%.” Suboptimal integration strategies are partly to blame, and on top of this, companies often don’t have security architecture that can handle both people and AI agents working on IT systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

While tech debt refers to shortcuts taken in implementation that need to be addressed later, digital addiction results in the accumulation of poorly vetted, misused, or unnecessary technologies that generate costs and risks. million machines worldwide, serves as a stark reminder of these risks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

CIOs are now reassessing the strategies to transform their organizations with gen AI, but its not exactly time to throw out the work thats already been done. These software and algorithmic-driven innovations also allow model vendors to do more with more powerful hardware, they wrote.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

Despite those complications, a huge majority of IT leaders expect their organizations’ IT budgets to increase — at least moderately — in the next fiscal year, with IT talent and software spending leading the way. Talent, software spending lead the way According to Forrester’s guide, personnel accounts for nearly 35% of IT budgets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

A good example is the automotive industry: vehicles, infrastructures and their users are increasingly software-controlled and networked. The time required to familiarize oneself with the requirements and consequences of the various laws and to develop and roll out your organizations strategies and solutions should also not be underestimated.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence-enabled business applications have advanced considerably over the past year as software providers have added a steady stream of capabilities. This includes customer facing, financial, supply chain and workforce software. Waiting too long to start means risking having to play catch-up.

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O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). Why AI software development is different. This shift requires a fundamental change in your software engineering practice.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

Our analytics capabilities identify potentially unsafe conditions so we can manage projects more safely and mitigate risks.” Elevating IT To modernize Gilbane’s architecture, Higgins-Carter and her peers had to elevate innovation and technology as a core strategy for the company. Put your data strategy in business turns.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Clearing business strategy hurdles Choosing the right technologies to meet an organization’s unique AI goals is usually not straightforward. Software limitations are another concern, especially when it comes to scaling AI and data-intensive workloads. “A

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

CIOs have been able to ride the AI hype cycle to bolster investment in their gen AI strategies, but the AI honeymoon may soon be over, as Gartner recently placed gen AI at the peak of inflated expectations , with the trough of disillusionment not far behind. That doesnt mean investments will dry up overnight.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

New features in any software often come with risks, bugs and performance issues that take time to work out. Evaluate whether these new features align with your business strategy. Our advice would be to always consider ROI for the business first and foremost, and to ensure you are in control of your IT strategy.

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datapine

JANUARY 24, 2021

It is not just important to gather all the existing information, but to consider the preparation of data and utilize it in the proper way, has become an indispensable value in developing a successful business strategy. Try our professional data analysis software for 14 days, completely free!

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O'Reilly on Data

MAY 14, 2020

This role includes everything a traditional PM does, but also requires an operational understanding of machine learning software development, along with a realistic view of its capabilities and limitations. In our previous article, What You Need to Know About Product Management for AI , we discussed the need for an AI Product Manager.

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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. If you go out and ask a chief data officer, a head of IT, ‘Is your data strategy aligned?’, I need to know my forecast.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2024

Also known as code debt, it’s the accumulation of legacy systems and applications that are difficult to maintain and support, as well as poorly written or hastily implemented code that increases risk over time. Sutton recommends three strategies to help keep technical debt in check.

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