CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Coding assistants have been an obvious early use case in the generative AI gold rush, but promised productivity improvements are falling short of the mark — if they exist at all. Many developers say AI coding assistants make them more productive, but a recent study set forth to measure their output and found no significant gains. Use of GitHub Copilot also introduced 41% more bugs, according to the study from Uplevel, a company providing insights from coding and collaboration data.

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Crayon

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Call Clips for Gong Also Unveiled to Deliver Real-Time Competitive Insights from Call Recordings

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Chris Webb BI

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

If you’re performance tuning a DirectQuery mode semantic model in Power BI, one of the first things you’ll want to do is look at the SQL that Power BI is generating. That’s easy if you have permissions to monitor your source database but if you don’t, it can be quite difficult to do so from Power BI. I explained the options for getting the SQL generated in DirectQuery mode and why it’s so complicated in a presentation here , but I’ve recently found a new way o

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Data-driven decision-making is becoming more important, which means that companies need to share data with their partners more easily.

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As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Dataversity

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has earned a reputation as a silver bullet solution to a myriad of modern business challenges across industries. From improving diagnostic care to revolutionizing the customer experience, many industries and organizations have experienced the true transformational power of AI. However, that’s not the case for the masses.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards. Moreover, undertaking digital transformation and technology modernization programs without an architect can lead to delays, technical debt , higher costs, and security vulnerabilities.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Oracle has updated its Unity Customer Data Platform (CDP) with new features to help enterprises improve customer experience and engagement, and optimize marketing spend. The latest updates made to Unity CDP — announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference — are designed to offer marketers and sellers actionable account views that leverage customer intent data from marketing, sales, and service combined with finance, product usage, contract, and supply chain sources to help enterprises engage buy

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Oracle is adding new user experience (UX) enhancements to its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) offering, the company announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference. These enhancements, according to Natalia Rachelson, group vice president of Fusion Cloud Application, would help customers leverage AI to increase workforce productivity, expand visibility, accelerate processes, and prioritize the next best action to drive results.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hannah Calhoon, vice president of AI for Indeed, uses artificial intelligence “to make existing tasks faster, easier, higher quality and more effective.” She points to a recent initiative in which the job matching and hiring platform company started using large language models (LLMs) to add a highly customized sentence or two to the emails it sends to job seekers about open positions that match their qualifications.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. As AI assistants become better at writing code, CIOs and dev leaders will reshape their teams, focusing on AI specialists and senior developers to oversee AI-generated code, some IT leaders say.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At Quantum World Congress on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it and partner Quantinuum had broken a record in the creation of logical qubits. In addition, Microsoft also announced that it is working with partner Atom Computing to build what it described as the world’s most powerful quantum machine. “Through this collaboration, we’re bringing a new generation of reliable quantum hardware to customers by integrating and advancing Atom Computing’s neutral atom hardware into our Azure Quantum comp

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Oracle will be adding a new generative AI- powered developer assistant to its Fusion Data Intelligence service, which is part of the company’s Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, the company said at its CloudWorld 2024 event. Fusion Data Intelligence, which is an updated avatar of Fusion Analytics Warehouse, combines enterprise data, and ready-to-use analytics along with prebuilt AI and machine learning models to deliver business intelligence.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

As abruptly as generative AI burst on the scene, so too is the new language that’s come with it. A complete list of AI-related vocabulary would be thousands of entries long, but for the sake of urgent relevance, these are the terms heard most among CIOs, analysts, consultants, and other business executives. Agentic systems An agent is an AI model or software program capable of autonomous decisions or actions.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Julie Ragland was CIO of vehicle manufacturing company Navistar, and has held IT leadership roles at Adient and Johnson Controls. To Ragland, who also sits on several state agency and non-profit boards, one of the greatest responsibilities for today’s boards is in governing cyber security risk. And while board members are generally tuned in to the importance of cyber governance, they don’t always understand the true risks with cyber and their own governing role.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Deepfakes targeting enterprise financial data used to be a hypothetical concern, but that’s no longer the case, as criminal deepfakers now target more than a quarter of all companies, according to a recent survey. About 15% of executives say cybercriminals have targeted their companies’ financial or accounting data using deepfakes at least once in the past year, while another 11% say they’ve seen multiple deepfake scams.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Oracle has updated its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management ( HCM ) suite with a new AI-powered feature, dubbed Oracle Dynamic Skills. The Dynamics Skills feature within Fusion Cloud HCM is expected to help enterprises keep tabs on their current and future requirement of skills, said Natalia Rachelson, Oracle’s group vice president of Fusion Cloud Applications.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of cultivating an AI strategy is choosing use cases to bring to life. This is proving true for generative AI, whose ability to create image, text, and video content from natural language prompts has organizations scrambling to capitalize on the nascent technology. To that end, you IT leaders are grappling with some critical questions as they pursue GenAI application development.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AIs, a form of technology designed to run specific functions within an organization without human intervention, are gaining traction as enterprises look to automate business workflows, augment the output of human workers, and derive value from generative AI. Analyst firm Forrester named AI agents as one of its top 10 emerging technologies this year, but it has a warning for companies focused on adopting them: Don’t go it alone.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The United Nations’ High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence, created last year to address AI governance issues, has made seven recommendations to address the risks with this technology in its first report, just published. The document, entitled Governing AI for humanity , highlights the importance of creating a global dialogue — the European Union is one of the few to have acted with its EU AI Act — by building a global fund that addresses differences in capacity and collaboration an

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Salesforce today released Agentforce, a new suite of low-code tools aimed at helping enterprises build autonomous AI agents for sales, service, marketing, and commerce use cases. Agentforce, which has been in pilot phase for the past six months, combines three major Salesforce tools — Agent Builder, Model Builder, and Prompt Builder — to provide the necessary software development infrastructure to create these autonomous agents, according to the company.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Cybersecurity and systemic risk are two sides of the same coin. As we saw recently with the CrowdStrike outage, the interconnected nature of enterprises today brings with it great risk that can have a significant negative effect on any company’s finances. Although it was not a security event, the symptoms and responses all fall into the various categories of the cybersecurity program for any company.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

On Monday of last week, former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi presented his “long-awaited” report on the EU’s competitiveness, which the Commission tapped him to produce a year ago. The report will form the basis of the policy work going forward for the new commission that will soon take office. I put long-awaited in quotation marks because, although it is described as such, it takes a certain masochistic disposition to look forward to a slap in the face like this.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Ryan Williams Sr. applied for 51 jobs when was transitioning out of the US Air Force, landing an interview for the last of those open positions. Williams remembers that the hiring manager, a former US Marine, was particularly interested in his certifications. “He was very honest about what piqued his interest, which was my combination of the CISSP and PMP.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Hiring in the IT industry has traditionally relied on reviewing a candidate’s experience and education, with less focus on specific skillsets. But that approach is changing, with the emphasis on degrees and experience giving way to skills-first hiring strategies that put organizational skills needs first and foremost. This shifting mindset in hiring is quickly growing in popularity for technical roles, according to a report from Test Gorilla, with 88% of tech companies reporting they’re using sk

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Microsoft will end product support and updates for Dynamics GP, its legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) product for small and medium businesses, on September 30, 2029, the company announced on Tuesday. Security patches will continue to be provided for another 18 months, until April 30, 2031. Customers have had plenty of warnings about the product’s retirement.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) plans to introduce mandatory reporting requirements for developers of advanced AI models and cloud computing providers. The proposed rules would require companies to report on development activities, cybersecurity measures, and results from red-teaming tests, which assess risks such as AI systems aiding cyberattacks or enabling non-experts to create chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

ServiceNow’s latest Now Platform release, dubbed Xanadu, adds a host of new features, including ServiceNow AI Agents, which the company heralds as “a new era of collaboration between people and AI.” Taking center stage in Tuesday’s release are ServiceNow ’s plans to integrate “ agentic AI ” — AI systems that can autonomously perform tasks and make decisions on their own within set parameters — into its enterprise service management platform.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Managing cybersecurity and other technology risks will be top of mind for CIOs in 2025 across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), with 82% of 109 respondents saying it is a key priority for next year, according to Gartner. Increased executive and board scrutiny on technology investments due to economic uncertainties is playing a role in IT leaders’ growing emphasis on risk management.

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