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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. It’s come down to earth — sometimes with an unexpected thud onto the wrong side of a company’s balance sheet. “There are so many people who bought into cloud without thinking through the real reasons why they were doing this and what they wanted to accomplish,” says David Mitchell Smith, distinguished vice president and

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mention

JUNE 14, 2023

In 2023, almost 5 billion people will have used social media. With an increasing number of users and social media content, businesses are struggling to cut through the noise. A lot of them miss valuable conversations with customers actively looking to buy their products. Or worst, ignore negative comments about their products on social media. Remaining indifferent to social mentions about your brand, comment sentiment and missing on analyzing emerging trends related to your industry leads only o

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Chris Webb BI

APRIL 23, 2023

If you’re about to put a big Power BI project into production, have you planned to do any load testing? If not, stop whatever you’re doing and read this! In my job on the Power BI CAT team at Microsoft it’s common for us to be called in to deal with poorly performing reports. Often, these performance problems only become apparent after the reports have gone live: performance was fine when it was just one developer testing it, but as soon as multiple end-users start running repo

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 20, 2023

There are many ways businesses are using big data to make better decisions and operate more efficiently Organizations can use big data to optimize expenses and reduce costs. A modern data infrastructure can help get more value from data by accelerating decision making, simplifying operations, and powering analytics. One of the many ways big data is helping companies operate more cost-effectively is through the construction of smart buildings.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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Domo

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Domo brings your data into one place. Sounds simple, but streamlining your tech stack can create unexpected value—from cost savings and confidence during deals to employee engagement and productivity. Domo’s CTO Daren Thayne and WKS Restaurant Group’s VP of Innovation and Technology (IT) Trevor Fitzgerald discussed it all in our webinar. Who is WKS Restaurant Group?

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As CIOs prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, they must demonstrate shorter-term business impacts from technology investments and achieve larger innovation goals that evolve the organization’s business model. But perhaps more importantly, they must learn from their previous big digital wins — and avoid repeating all-too-frequent mistakes that cause transformations to fail or lag behind expectations.

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CIO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Manufacturing has been a longstanding pillar of progress for humankind. From the Industrial Revolution over 200 years ago to today, manufacturing has had a profound impact on our lives, made possible by its unrelenting innovation. Now, manufacturing is facing one of the most exciting, unmatched, and daunting transformations in its history due to artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI).

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Oracle has updated several applications within its various Fusion Cloud suites in order to align them toward supporting use cases for its healthcare enterprise customers. These updates, which include changes to multiple applications within its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Capital Management (HCM), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), and Supply Chain and manufacturing (SCM) Fusion Clouds, are expected to help healthcare enterprises unify operations and improve patient care, Orac

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s digitally transforming world, time is of the essence. Whether you’re looking to deliver a new product release, fix an issue, or enhance a service, the longer you make customers wait, the worse for your business. As you seek to boost agility and speed your organization’s digital transformation, there are some proven principles you can apply.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. (IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce are in the 2-3% range.) Revenue growth remains solid across the industry, but slowing somewhat, with none of the Big 3 outperforming the others enough to materially alter the balance of power.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s no secret that banks and fintech companies must meet compliance and regulatory standards that are much stricter than what traditional tech companies are forced to comply with. The question becomes: How do you meet strict regulatory and compliance standards while keeping up with the rapid pace of innovation in technology? As the vice president of enterprise architecture and technology strategy at Discover Financial Services, I think about this question often as we work to design our tech sta

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Digital transformation has become an essential part of business success. Yet, organizations still struggle with getting it right. According to TEKsystems’ 2023 State of Digital Transformation , 41% of organizations’ digital transformation (DX) initiatives have failed to achieve their desired outcomes. Another study, the 2023 State of the Intelligent Information Management Industry , turned up similar numbers, finding that one-third of companies have yet to achieve significant success with their

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Most CIOs and IT staffers remain, at heart, technologists, with many proclaiming their interest in shiny new tech toys. They may publicly preach “No technology for technology’s sake,” but they still frequently share their fascination with the latest tech gadgets. They’re not the only ones enthralled by tech. With technology and tech news now both pervasive and mainstream, many outside of IT — from veteran board members to college-age interns — are equally enthusiastic about bleeding-edge technol

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The analyst reports tell CIOs that generative AI should occupy the top slot on their digital transformation priorities in the coming year. Moreover, the CEOs and boards that CIOs report to don’t want to be left behind by generative AI, and many employees want to experiment with the latest generative AI capabilities in their workflows. This year’s technology darling and other machine learning investments have already impacted digital transformation strategies in 2023 , and boards will expect CIOs

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Just months after partnering with large language model-provider Cohere and unveiling its strategic plan for infusing generative AI features into its products, Oracle is making good on its promise at its annual CloudWorld conference this week in Las Vegas. Nearly all of Oracle’s Fusion Cloud suites — including Cloud Customer Experience (CX), Human Capital Management (HCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) — are being updated with the company’s Oracle Cloud Infr

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business world, companies are striving to harness the power of digital technologies to reinvent their operations, enhance customer experiences, drive innovation, and thereby create value for stakeholders. But the hard truth is that many digital initiatives fail to deliver results. Transformation efforts can be derailed for any number of reasons, but there are several common themes as to why digital initiatives fall short — and most revolve around leadership.

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CIO

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Resistance to digital transformation comes in many forms. And sometimes it takes a wizard — or a CIO with a satchel of magic tricks — to overcome them. You’ll need to persuade employees and middle management to leave their comfort zones and change how they operate. You may find yourself stuck in bureaucratic quagmires or be forced to battle a ‘not built here’ mindset.

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Competitive

CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The past decade in IT has been all about digital transformation. Under the aegis of digital transformation, IT initiatives have become more customer-centric, with a greater emphasis on people, not technology — all in an effort to redefine how the organization operates and to ensure it can keep up with the pace of change, capable of dealing with challenges and taking advantage of opportunities as they arise.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Digital transformation is expected to be the top strategic priority for businesses of all sizes and industries, yet organisations find the transformation journey challenging due to digital skill gap, tight budget, or technology resource shortages. Amidst these challenges, organisations turn to low-code to remain competitive and agile. Taking the programmer out of software development, low-code provides tools that enable people with minimal training and coding skills to create and adapt applicati

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Diversity, equity, and inclusion have become important social issues. In the wake of the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor murders of 2020, companies made massive, highly publicized efforts to correct for systemic bias and improve the mix of race, gender, and lived experiences in the workplace. According to a recent study from Pew Research, most employed adults in the US think this is a good thing.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When a new wave of technology innovation seems to be breaking over the horizon, the fear of missing out — FOMO — can drive hasty decisions on new IT investments. Recent, rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) may represent one of the biggest FOMO moments ever , so, it’s critical that decision-makers get out in front of the wave and figure out how to implement Trustworthy AI.

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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

Competitive

CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Generative AI is quickly changing the landscape of the business world, with rapid adoption rates across nearly every industry. Businesses are turning to gen AI to streamline business processes, develop proprietary AI technology, and reduce manual efforts in order to free up employees to take on more intensive tasks. A recent survey of senior IT professionals from Foundry found that 57% of IT organizations have identified several areas for gen AI use cases, 25% have started pilot programs, and 41

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CIO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases. As a result of using the extracted tokens from the Okta support system and support cases, the threat actor subsequently gained complete access to many of their customers’ systems.

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CIO

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Winning IT organizations aren’t built in a day. Long-term success is generally the result of leaders who make a committed effort to connect directly with their teams, rather than simply issuing memos, edicts, and other top-down commands. Employees want to work for leaders who inspire them, engage them, challenge them, and give them opportunities to grow and be effective, says Ola Chowning, a partner with technology research and advisory firm ISG.

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CIO

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Cybersecurity has been identity-centric since the first username and password appeared. During the infancy of personal computers, user identification was considerably simpler. At that time, workplace technology was physically confined to an office and the business network (if one existed). The only people with access were employees and maybe office cleaning staff.

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