CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Middle East is rapidly evolving into a global hub for technological innovation, with 2025 set to be a pivotal year in the regions digital landscape. Looking ahead to 2025, Lalchandani identifies several technological trends that will define the Middle Easts digital landscape.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

AI is clearly making its way across the enterprise, with 49% of respondents expecting that the use of AI will be pervasive across all sectors and business functions. Yet, this has raised some important ethical considerations around data privacy, transparency and data governance.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Jeff Schumacher, CEO of artificial intelligence (AI) software company NAX Group, told the World Economic Forum : “To truly realize the promise of AI, businesses must not only adopt it, but also operationalize it.” Lazarev agrees: “It’s one thing to have the technology, but it’s another to weave it into the fabric of your business strategy.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The survey found that people are surprisingly knowledgeable and excited about AI and business leaders should understand and not underestimate consumers when developing and deploying AI-enabled solutions. In the UAE, 91% of consumers know GenAI and 34% use these technologies. Positioning the country at the forefront of AI development.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

With technology rapidly shaping business outcomes, and the tech infrastructure supporting every aspect of business, CIOs much deservedly now occupy a seat at the table. For Shajy Thomas, Regional Head of Tech APAC at Technicolor, technology actively contributes to shaping long-term business outcomes.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

New advancements in GenAI technology are set to create more transformative opportunities for tech-savvy enterprises and organisations. The technology can operate autonomously, make decisions based on real-time analysis and, critically, execute on decisions. Smart agents are part of a full stack of technologies and services.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

Organizations look at digital transformation as an opportunity to radically improve operations and increase the value of a product or service to the customer by embedding technology into the decision-making fabric and building automation into its functions.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

AI, once viewed as a novel innovation, is now mainstream, impacting just about facet of the enterprise. Over the next 12 months, IT leaders can look forward to even more innovations, as well as some serious challenges. As 2025 dawns, CIOs face an IT landscape that differs significantly from just a year ago.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, AI platforms are playing a pivotal role in reshaping industries and driving business transformation. As businesses across the UAE embark on their digital journeys, AI has emerged as a key enabler, streamlining operations, enhancing decision-making, and fostering innovation.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The opening of this new office in Dubai not only marks a key development for the company but also reflects its dedication to helping local businesses with their digital transformation journeys. These words highlight the strong alignment between Salesforces ambitions and the UAEs vision for technological leadership and economic growth.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

Digital transformation represented among the largest investments in technology to modernize businesses starting in the early 2000s. With the rise of generative AI, CEOs recognize an opportunity to shift from technology-led digital transformation to executive-led business reformation.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

Innovate Shane McDaniel, CIO for the City of Seguin, Texas, says his city has grown by about 35% since the 2020 census. Hes leveraging his vendor relationships to keep pace with emerging as well as tried-and-true technologies and practices. Were embracing innovation, he explains. Were embracing innovation, he explains.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

How and why is Ingram Micro becoming a platform business? But today, were working toward becoming a platform business, and recently re-entered the public eye under the NYSE: INGM ticker symbol. Many digital transformations focus on platforms to support the business, but thats different from running a platform business.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

According to Baris Sarer, who leads the AI division of Deloittes technology, media, entertainment and telecommunications industry practice, Metas Llama model is the one that shows up most in industry deployments, followed by Mistral. GitHub lists more than 100,000 projects with LLM in their names, compared to 50,000 in May.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2024

Despite the promise generative AI holds for boosting corporate productivity, closing the gap between its potential and business value remains one of CIOs’ chief challenges. Deloitte 2 meanwhile found that 41% of business and technology leaders said a lack of talent, governance, and risks are barriers to broader GenAI adoption.

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CIO

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. Now, we have to think about innovation as a way of really reshaping the world so that it works for everybody.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

The business narrative around generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has been consumed with real-world use cases. However, as GenAI matures and businesses move deeper into enterprise-level adoption, it’s become clear that the most transformative impact of GenAI will be on the very idea of transformation itself.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

While the ROI of any given AI project remains uncertain , one thing is becoming clear: CIOs will be spending a whole lot more on the technology in the years ahead. Research firm IDC projects worldwide spending on technology to support AI strategies will reach $337 billion in 2025 — and more than double to $749 billion by 2028.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We havent realistically begun updating and normalizing the wider semi- and unstructured data applications that pervade business processes and that are exactly the data and business flows that can most benefit from the latest waves of AI innovation. Its about bridging the gap between raw data and actionable insights.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

For its Generative AI Readiness Report, IT services company Avanade surveyed over 3,000 business and IT executives in 10 countries from companies with at least $500 million in annual revenue. Here are key attributes of those who embody this new standard in order to succeed in the current multifaceted business environment.

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2025

To help enterprises overcome these challenges and achieve positive business outcomes, EXL launched EXLerate.AI, its agentic AI platform. The platform demonstrates EXLs continued innovation and investment in the development of new AI solutions across key functions in insurance, healthcare, banking and capital markets, and other industries.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

In a global economy where innovators increasingly win big, too many enterprises are stymied by legacy application systems. As a consequence, these businesses experience increased operational costs and find it difficult to scale or integrate modern technologies. The solutionGenAIis also the beneficiary.

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CIO

JUNE 24, 2024

What revolutionary technology were they referring to? But in the short run, we risk building an astonishing, awe-inspiring technology that few use. Just look at Apple’s Vision Pro as a tale of a brilliant piece of technology that the world is still trying to wrap its mind around. Instead, it needs to be coupled with innovation.

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CIO

DECEMBER 2, 2024

trillion annually — translating this into compelling business language for the board remains a persistent challenge. The more strategic concern isn’t just the cost— it’s that technical debt is affecting companies’ abilities to create new business, and saps the means to respond to shifting market conditions.

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The world must reshape its technology infrastructure to ensure artificial intelligence makes good on its potential as a transformative moment in digital innovation. New technologies, such as generative AI, need huge amounts of processing power that will put electricity grids under tremendous stress and raise sustainability questions.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In an era where technology reshapes entire industries, I’ve had the privilege of leading Mastercard on an extraordinary journey. When I think about the technology we started working with early in my career and look at what we’ve been able to do since, it truly is amazing, a global transformation led by and driven through technology.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

With data central to every aspect of business, the chief data officer has become a highly strategic executive. Todays CDO is focused on helping the organization leverage data as a business asset to drive outcomes. Its a message CDOs have been yelling from the rooftops for some time.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As digital transformation becomes a critical driver of business success, many organizations still measure CIO performance based on traditional IT values rather than transformative outcomes. To drive change, a reworking of what defines CIO/IT success is needed, with a focus on strategic business goals, innovation, and market differentiation.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Despite AI’s potential to transform businesses, many senior technology leaders find themselves wrestling with unpredictable expenses, uneven productivity gains, and growing risks as AI adoption scales, Gartner said. CIOs should create proofs of concept that test how costs will scale, not just how the technology works.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Under pressure to deploy AI within their organizations, most CIOs fear they don’t have the knowledge they need about the fast-changing technology. Steep learning curve Many CIOs and other IT leaders will need to seek out their own training, adds Valter Silva, CIO at InFlux Technologies, an AI and cloud computing vendor. Blank says.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Business leaders may be confident that their organizations data is ready for AI, but IT workers tell a much different story, with most spending hours each day massaging the data into shape. It says our job as technology leaders can help educate our audience on what is possible and what it will take to get to their goal.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Saudi Arabia has announced a 100 billion USD initiative aimed at establishing itself as a major player in artificial intelligence, data analytics, and advanced technology. These include data center expansion, tech startups, workforce development, and partnerships with leading technology firms.

Globalization 482

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CIO

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Du, one of the largest telecommunications operators in the Middle East, is deploying Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to business, government, and public sector organizations in the UAE. However, with the rapid adoption of AI and cloud technologies, concerns over security and data privacy are paramount.

Innovation 466

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI), a term once relegated to science fiction, is now driving an unprecedented revolution in business technology. From nimble start-ups to global powerhouses, businesses are hailing AI as the next frontier of digital transformation. Nutanix commissioned U.K.

Marketing 482

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

But some companies, particularly in the IT sector, now appear to be reevaluating their business models and will consider selling non-core lines of business and products to fund AI projects, says James Brundage, global and Americas technology sector leader at EY, an IT and tax advisory firm.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The partnership is set to trial cutting-edge AI and machine learning solutions while exploring confidential compute technology for cloud deployments. This collaboration marks a significant step in driving innovation in cloud services, particularly in the MENA region.

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