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Want to tackle technical debt? Sell it as business risk

CIO Business Intelligence

A recent example is Windows Server 2012, which was sunsetted by Microsoft in October 2023. Windows Server 2012 is not alone. What CIOs need to do instead is to present IT infrastructure investment as an important corporate financial and risk management issue that the business can’t afford to ignore.

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AI is driving productivity and wage increases: Report

CIO Business Intelligence

The wage premium varies across professions, reaching 18% for accountants, 33% for financial analysts, 43% for sales and marketing managers, and 49% for lawyers. For every AI job listed in 2012, there are now seven. In the US, for example, these positions can offer an average of 25% higher salaries than non-AI jobs.

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IFS to acquire enterprise asset management firm Ultimo

CIO Business Intelligence

To help meet demand from enterprises that are shifting asset management methods from legacy applications to cloud-based technology, ERP provider IFS has signed an agreement to acquire Netherlands-based enterprise asset management (EAM) software firm Ultimo. year-on-year.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Around the turn of the century, Autonomy Corporation was one of the darlings of the UK technology industry, specializing in knowledge management and enterprise search. Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue.

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IFS, Bearing Point launch services joint venture Arcwide

CIO Business Intelligence

Headquartered in Europe, Arcwide will push IFS solutions as part of a portfolio that includes services associated with business transformation such as training and change management. This will allow it to do updates every six months, rather than every three years, which was the update pace from 2012 to last year.

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The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!

CIO Business Intelligence

Fujitsu recently divulged it will end sales of its mainframes by April 2031, discontinuing support five years after that. Coincidentally, the same day that Fujitsu gave notice it would discontinue sales of the GS21 , IBM unveiled plans to deliver its IBM Z mainframe platform as a service on IBM Cloud. years, with an additional 7.4

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

In the discussion following the talk, Simon noted that in the future, information would be so abundant that we would need machines to help us manage our attention. By the end of 2012, it was up to 82%. There is little space left for organic results at the top of the page, the real estate that drives most sales.