CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 9, 2024

Atos may have won a few extra months to find a long-term solution to its financial problems after reaching interim agreements with banks, bondholders, and the French government to provide €450 million (US$490 million) in additional liquidity. That, Atos said, should be enough to keep it afloat until it has a longer-term plan in place.

Forecasting 95

Forecasting Finance Sales Big Data 95

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2024

But with Amazon Web Services (31%), Microsoft Azure (24%), and Google Cloud Platform (11%) accounting for two thirds of the worldwide market, according to Synergy Research Group, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) remains distantly behind the behemoths, leaving many to question whether Oracle’s cloud gains are enough to make it a contender.

Enterprise 119

Enterprise IT Data Processing Strategy 119

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. VMware customers were understandably concerned. The VMware acquisition has been no different.

Marketing 95

Marketing Uncertainty Strategy Digital Transformation 95

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Improving IT team performance is a constant, ongoing effort, says Dena Campbell, CIO at Vaco Holdings, a global professional services firm. Monitor and support teams every step of the way IT teams are expected to address short-term demands while simultaneously planning long-term initiatives.

IT 127

IT Data-driven Strategy Digital Transformation 127

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2024

That growth more than doubles what the firm pegs as 2023’s growth rate (3.3%), doldrums Gartner attributes not to macroeconomic forces but largely to what it calls “change fatigue among CIOs” — that is, IT leaders’ hesitance to sign new contracts or commit to long-term initiatives. They are still losing employees to IT services firms.

IT 108

IT Consulting Forecasting Software 108

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

French IT services company Atos has put an end to its attempts to sell its ailing legacy managed infrastructure services business after failing to reach an agreement with a prospective buyer, and will now have to glue the two halves of its business back together. IT Consulting Services, Managed Service Providers, Technology Industry

IT 108

IT Forecasting Consulting Sales 108

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). These companies and the association had alleged to the Commission that some of the companies practices in the EU were anti-competitive in nature.

Software 84

Software Data Processing Publishing Management 84

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

These changes were designed to lead to an integrated VCF solution that will bring broader long-term benefits to our valued customers both in their own data centers and in the cloud with increased portability to move workloads among on-premise data centers and supported cloud providers.

Marketing 82

Marketing Cost-Benefit Metrics Strategy 82

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

We really began last year looking at what it would really take in terms of hardware to scale our business,” Clark says. “We The company quickly gravitated to the Intel Developer Cloud, a sandbox and infrastructure service specifically aimed at developers looking to build and deploy AI at scale. Clark says.

IT 111

IT Testing Optimization Modeling 111

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The frenzy created by the public release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has triggered an arms race among hyperscalers to differentiate themselves by developing their own large language models (LLMs), building platforms that enable enterprises to create generative AI applications, and integrating generative AI throughout their portfolios of service offerings.

Marketing 144

Marketing IT Cost-Benefit Enterprise 144

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Forget what’s worked before Sastry Durvasula, chief information and client services officer at TIAA, says the dizzying pace of change in technology means IT leaders will soon face uncharted waters — and adaptability will be key to succeeding and seizing new opportunities. What worked yesterday is not going to work today or tomorrow.”

IT 138

IT Risk Technology Measurement 138

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

The 3% increase in total IT spending represents slower growth than in 2021, as the economy as a whole and the IT sector in particular began to recover from the effects of the pandemic, and growth will largely be driven by cloud services and the data center, Gartner said. Managed services on the rise. in 2022, according to Gartner.

IT 135

IT Uncertainty Data-driven Sales 135

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

While it’s critical to control costs continuously, it becomes even more imperative during times of economic pressure,” says Jon Pratt, CIO at security managed services provider 11:11 Systems. Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive. Each dollar of operational cost reduction drips directly to the bottom line.”

IT 135

IT Cost-Benefit Digital Transformation ROI 135

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Facing the possibility of an economic recession, one of the world’s leading professional services companies felt the urgency to improve its grasp on spend management – the practice of fully understanding and managing supplier relations and company purchasing. With 738,000 employees and $3.8 With 738,000 employees and $3.8

Management 88

Management Digital Transformation Consulting Reporting 88

Paul Turley

MARCH 18, 2024

What parts of Fabric should you use now and how do you plan for the near-term future? They built all of Fabric on top of the existing Power BI service, so all of the data workloads live inside familiar workspaces, accessible through the Power BI web-based portal (now called the Fabric portal). Power BI still works as it always has.

Data Warehouse 113

Data Warehouse Data Processing Reporting Technology 113

AWS Big Data

MARCH 13, 2024

In this post, we show how to build a RAG extract, transform, and load (ETL) ingestion pipeline to ingest large amounts of data into an Amazon OpenSearch Service cluster and use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL with the pgvector extension as a vector data store.

Data Processing 109

Data Processing Dashboards Machine Learning Management 109

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The motivations to digitize client-facing solutions vary but are often both push and pull: a push from your organization to grow revenues, gain competitive advantage, and further differentiate products and services, and a pull by the market looking for the latest technologies such as AI/ML, AR/VR, and digital twins for immediate business benefit.

Measurement 112

Measurement Digital Transformation Strategy Software 112

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accenture on Wednesday said it is acquiring digital transformation services provider Navisite in an effort to boost its cloud transformation business. The company has served clients in sectors such as technology, business services, healthcare, life sciences and manufacturing. billion in 2024, up from $563.6

IT 103

IT Consulting Digital Transformation Manufacturing 103

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The layoffs will affect AWS’ sales, marketing, and brick-and-mortar technology development teams. Amazon’s cloud computing division has long been a key driver of its profitability.

Marketing 104

Marketing Reporting Sales Technology 104

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In many organizations, but not all, customer service is treated as part of the customer experience. So what are the key differences in customer service vs. customer experience? Alternatively, customer service refers to the actions that an organization takes to ensure that customers are satisfied with their products post-purchase.

Metrics 95

Metrics Interactive Consulting Sales 95

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

Medium to long-term strategy Analysts point out that while several tech companies are reducing their workforce, Dell is one of the few who has recorded weak financial performance. These actions resulted in a reduction in overall headcount. This workforce adjustment is part of a wider wave of layoffs within the technology sector.

Uncertainty 104

Uncertainty Forecasting Optimization Consulting 104

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2024

Customer engagement and wellbeing: Almost 40 percent of firms surveyed use tech-enabled products, services and channels to provide a personalized customer experience, such as digital assistants, personalization software and customer sentiment analysis software. That number is set to grow.

Manufacturing 108

Manufacturing Forecasting Technology Software 108

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

According to Slaga, this was not fully possible when the company was a part of IBM and had to give preference to IBM’s software and services. In its latest annual report, Kyndryl cited the example of a five-year deal with a US-based healthcare services company and how this company was able to leverage these new capabilities of Bridge.

Consulting 122

Consulting Digital Transformation Reporting Enterprise 122

AWS Big Data

MARCH 19, 2024

Amazon OpenSearch Service has been a long-standing supporter of both lexical and semantic search, facilitated by its utilization of the k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) plugin. By using OpenSearch Service as a vector database, you can seamlessly combine the advantages of both lexical and vector search. OpenSearch Service 2.11

Data Processing 68

Data Processing Modeling Machine Learning Metadata 68

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2024

OneFamily is a financial services organization, operating broadly in savings and investments, and responsible for £8 billion of assets under management. We know in financial services and in a lot of verticals, we have a whole slew of data quality challenges,” he says. Traditionally, AI data quality has been a challenge.”

Data Quality 94

Data Quality Digital Transformation Enterprise Marketing 94

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President of Microsoft, said the aim is to enable the German economy to benefit from AI in order to continue to expand its leading global position in terms of competitiveness. Microsoft will invest €3.2 The company also wants to train more than 1.2 million people in digital skills.

Technology 127

Technology Enterprise IT 127

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Where tactical sourcing is a short-term strategy, strategic sourcing is for long-term business goals. Sourcing and procurement professionals operating with a strategic sourcing mindset assess a supplier’s quality, reputation and service. And from that group, 71% would pay a premium for it.

Cost-Benefit 84

Cost-Benefit Scorecard Risk Recreation/Entertainment 84

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 25, 2024

We know that understanding clients’ technical issues is paramount for delivering effective support service. Product-embedded or online support tools, such as virtual assistants, can drive more informed and efficient support interactions with client self-service.

IT 70

IT Interactive Snapshot Enterprise 70

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To name a few — products and services that are delivered on time and on budget, and overall IT ROI.” Most modern applications are comprised of many distributed services working together,” he notes. Each micro-service must be able to be delivered as the enterprise architect designed.” Here they are.

Metrics 138

Metrics IT ROI Measurement 138

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

French IT services company Atos has called on a third-party trustee to help it negotiate debt refinancing with its banks after plans to raise €720 million in new capital through a rights issue fell through. billion loan for another six months, the first of two allowed extensions, but it needs a longer-term solution.

Sales 94

Sales Big Data Marketing Management 94

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

However such fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) can make it harder for IT to secure the necessary budget and resources to build services. Include low-hanging fruit to bigger medium and long-term big bets for GenAI adoption. Include low-hanging fruit to bigger medium and long-term big bets for GenAI adoption.

Data Lake 127

Data Lake Consulting Uncertainty Risk 127

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 25, 2024

It should not be confused with business process management (BPM) , a more incremental approach to optimizing processes, or business process improvement (BPI), a broader term that encompasses any systematic effort to improve current processes. This blog outlines some BPR examples that benefit from a BPM methodology.

Cost-Benefit 47

Cost-Benefit Finance Optimization Key Performance Indicator 47

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The global IT services industry is at a significant crossroads, with the explosive growth of generative AI and deepening economic uncertainties reshaping its future. Tata Consultancy Services experienced its slowest profit growth since 2020 in the December quarter, and Infosys failed to meet its quarterly profit expectations.

IT 87

IT Uncertainty Consulting Forecasting 87

IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 25, 2024

For other financial services firms outside of the insurance sector, property accepted as loan security might face climate-related risks as well. Longer-term local climate change risks might still devalue property that hasn’t suffered damage. These climate events have a huge potential impact on financial institutions.

Insurance 92

Insurance Forecasting Risk Risk Management 92

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

So, how do you go about gaining support for projects that seem to offer so little in terms of tangible, immediate returns? What if, for example, your company’s IT is brought down by a denial-of-service attack, or by a ransomware demand from a hacker asking for millions of dollars in payment before your systems are unlocked?

ROI 117

ROI IT Manufacturing Metrics 117

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2024

A new digital era is beginning that will provide a more cost-effective, resilient, and reliable long-term alternative. And it’s crucial to maintaining the uninterrupted service of critical communications to support business continuity and security, human safety, and regulatory compliance. It is not only national but global as well.

Digital Transformation 100

Digital Transformation Technology Enterprise IT 100

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2024

It empowers them to better consider long-term impact as well, enabling them to tackle technical debt and improve IT processes as necessary — activities often not addressed by project-based funding unless proposed separately. For CFOs, persistent funding can raise concerns.

Modeling 116

Modeling Cost-Benefit IT ROI 116