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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

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The new Dubai office is set to serve as a crucial hub for Salesforces operations in the UAE, providing businesses across the region with innovative tools, insights, and solutions designed to drive success and foster growth in an increasingly digital-first world.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Regulation will play a key role in the successful implementation of AI and will be just as much of a priority as innovation is for leaders,” said Karl Crowther, VP of MEA at Alteryx. Having the right AI tools will help these employees manage the increasing volume and variety of data and find the competitive edge their organisations need.

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CIO

MARCH 17, 2025

The Munich-based startup accuses SAP of abusing its market power and harming competition, and thereby negatively impacting customers, according to the 61-page indictment filed by Celonis in San Francisco District Court on March 13. German process mining specialist Celonis has filed a lawsuit against ERP giant SAP.

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CIO

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Rather than discuss “legacy systems,” talk about “revenue bottlenecks,” and replace “technical debt” with “innovation capacity.” Operational drag (interest): “Our teams spend 25% of their time on workarounds rather than innovation.” Make the case on AI urgency Nothing motivates a board quite like competitive pressure.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Unsurprisingly, more than 90% of respondents said their organization needs to shift to an AI-first operating model by the end of this year to stay competitive — and time to do so is running out. Courage and the ability to manage risk In the past, implementing bold technological ideas required substantial financial investment.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Technology has shifted from a back-office function to a core enabler of business growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. Technology decisions must be intricately linked to these broader goals rather than isolated as purely operational choices. Understanding the competitive landscape is also essential.

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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.

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CIO

JULY 2, 2024

Imagine navigating a rapidly changing landscape, where technology seems to evolve at the speed of light and the pressure to keep up is relentless — this is the reality for today’s CIO. CIOs face the daunting challenge of driving innovation while managing costs and ensuring practical implementation in a rapidly advancing digital landscape.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To drive change, a reworking of what defines CIO/IT success is needed, with a focus on strategic business goals, innovation, and market differentiation. Business is too dependent on technology as a key driver for both business value and differentiation. The CIO is no longer the chief of “keeping the lights on.”

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Generative AI is likely to confuse the capital investor as much as any technology ever has,” he adds. In many cases, CIOs and other IT leaders have moved past the peak expectations about what gen AI can do for their organizations and are headed into more realistic ideas about the future of the technology, Lovelock adds.

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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. From there, the phrase went viral among practitioners, media, researchers, and executives as it described strategic plans for competitiveness and growth. times higher earnings growth.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2024

ADIB-Egypt has announced plans to invest 1 billion EGP in technological infrastructure and digital transformation by 2025. In recent years, ADIB-Egypt has already made substantial strides in integrating technology into its operations.

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CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For organizations seeking productivity and innovation gains, a best practice is to prioritize use cases based on value, feasibility, and breadth. What are the associated risks and costs, including operational, reputational, and competitive? Here are five keys to addressing these issues for AI success in 2025.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

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. Andrew’s perspective highlighted the growing recognition within organizations that AI is not just a buzzword but a crucial driver of operational success and innovation.

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CIO

JANUARY 30, 2025

It has become a strategic cornerstone for shaping innovation, efficiency and compliance. From data masking technologies that ensure unparalleled privacy to cloud-native innovations driving scalability, these trends highlight how enterprises can balance innovation with accountability.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Changing consumer behavior and expectations, competition from major e-retailers, evolving cybersecurity challenges, inflationary pressures, sustainability and environmental concerns, and the pressure to take advantage of AI are all very real concerns for retailers today. Retailers have a lot of work to do, but their goals are achievable.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Or we can make the right things more efficient while also charting a new path and harness this technology to truly transform into AI-first businesses. Most businesses used new technology to do what we did yesterday better, faster, cheaper, and bigger. This means AI is ushering in an intelligence revolution, an age of innovation.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

What really matters is determining how to fit every function together to achieve unified goals — chiefly IT and its business counterparts, given the importance technology has organizationwide. It allows businesses to be the best technologically enabled version of themselves,” Upchurch says.

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

With advanced technologies like AI transforming the business landscape, IT organizations are struggling to find the right talent to keep pace. As the pace of technological advancement accelerates, its becoming increasingly clear that solutions must balance immediate needs with long-term workforce transformation.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Set clear, measurable metrics around what you want to improve with generative AI, including the pain points and the opportunities, says Shaown Nandi, director of technology at AWS. These insights can help companies address common issues or innovate new solutions to boost customer loyalty and can even extend to consumers views on competitors.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Technology continues to advance at a furious pace. That’s great, because a strong IT environment is necessary to take advantage of the latest innovations and business opportunities. Make sure you’re thinking about where modernization can make a competitive difference and start there.”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Adopting Operational AI Organizations looking to adopt Operational AI must consider three core implementation pillars: people, process, and technology. Technology: The workloads a system supports when training models differ from those in the implementation phase.

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CIO

JULY 9, 2024

In the UAE, 91% of consumers know GenAI and 34% use these technologies. In markets such as India, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates, AI usage exceeds the levels in so-called mature markets. Governments like the UAE showcase robust AI engagement, with initiatives like the Falcon 2 AI model, designed to compete with Meta and Open AI.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

“Then we need to bring that to the [financial services] community as a whole for evaluating [generative AI] models and solutions,” said Dayalji, who is also CEO of Kensho, S&P Global’s AI innovation hub. “I Proprietary data is your biggest competitive advantage.”

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CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“Innovate or die,” Peter Drucker’s 1985 exhortation on the importance of constant reinvention, was great business advice for the last 40 or so years. The real power of the technology is its ability to draw on disparate data sets and connect workflows.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Many retailers are looking to AI for that competitive advantage. However, successful AI implementation requires more than cutting-edge technology. By ensuring consistent, high-quality product data, we enable businesses to unlock AIs full potential to drive growth, innovation, and exceptional customer experiences.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Despite these opportunities, Tencent Cloud faces challenges from competitors, requiring a careful balancing act between innovation and market adaptability. Tencent Cloud’s deployment of palm verification for secure identity authentication, particularly in collaboration with Telkomsel in Indonesia, underscores its ability to innovate.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

For IT leaders, balancing must-have AI-powered innovation in the cloud with cost efficiency poses a massive challenge. The fast pace of AI development also means that models require continuous improvement and retraining to keep up with the latest technological innovations. Operating expenses have skyrocketed as a result.

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CIO

AUGUST 8, 2024

From the earliest demos of ChatGPT to the current state of play where new AI co-pilots and point solutions are launching every day, it’s been all about the tools – how can this new AI-powered widget make me faster, more efficient, and more competitive?

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This forward-thinking initiative, recently approved by The Executive Council, is set to position the emirate at the forefront of emerging technologies, making it a beacon for innovation and economic growth in the digital age. This scientific assessment revealed many opportunities for enhanced coordination among key stakeholders.

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CIO

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It is unique because it is both massively technology-driven and can affect every type of job in an organization. By educating users, companies can accelerate adoption, which increases the potential to unlock innovation across teams and business units. Some have compared it to how the internet fundamentally changed the workplace.

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CIO

MARCH 5, 2025

Two years of experimentation may have given rise to several valuable use cases for gen AI , but during the same period, IT leaders have also learned that the new, fast-evolving technology isnt something to jump into blindly. The next thing is to make sure they have an objective way of testing the outcome and measuring success.

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CIO

JULY 10, 2024

And Skydance, controlled by veteran producer David Ellison (son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison), is arguing that embracing technology is the only viable path. In many ways, Paramount’s struggles mirror what many enterprises are facing today as they try to adapt to current technology.

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