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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

CIO Business Intelligence

Kevin Grayling, CIO, Florida Crystals Florida Crystals It’s ASR that had the more modern SAP installation, S/4HANA 1709, running in a virtual private cloud hosted by Virtustream, while its parent languished on SAP Business Suite. It was easier to do with a strong financial benefit, for sure.” It was costing us a lot of money.”

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5 common consultant negotiation tactics and how to protect your interests

CIO Business Intelligence

To execute a successful digital transformation initiative, you are likely to establish consulting provider relationships. Unfortunately, many organizations find themselves susceptible to the tactics used by consultants to manage their risk and optimize a commercial arrangement to their benefit. This takes planning.

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A clear path to value: Overcome challenges on your FinOps journey 

IBM Big Data Hub

In recent years, cloud adoption services have accelerated, with companies increasingly moving from traditional on-premises hosting to public cloud solutions. To maximize benefits and realize the potential of FinOps, organizations must forge a clear path and avoid common mistakes.

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3 areas where gen AI improves productivity — until its limits are exceeded

CIO Business Intelligence

But the biggest benefit was to new and lower-skilled workers, who saw a 34% improvement. In February, McKinsey released the results of a survey showing that 84% of telcos using gen AI for customer services were seeing cost savings, and 45% of them reduced costs by 6% or more. It’s not about reducing headcount, he adds.

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10 Examples of How Big Data in Logistics Can Transform The Supply Chain

datapine

Table of Contents 1) Benefits Of Big Data In Logistics 2) 10 Big Data In Logistics Use Cases Big data is revolutionizing many fields of business, and logistics analytics is no exception. These applications are designed to benefit logistics and shipping companies alike. Did you know?

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SAP 2024 outlook: 5 predictions for customers

CIO Business Intelligence

A host of new product and feature launches, questions about SAP’s plans for managing commitments to legacy platform customers, and the acceleration of generative AI in popular products such as SAP RISE are just a few of the major issues enterprise SAP customers will need to keep on top of in the year ahead.

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Strengthening cybersecurity in life sciences with IBM and AWS

IBM Big Data Hub

Leading life sciences companies are discovering the power of cloud in enabling analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) , shrinking innovation cycles, and standardizing processes across global operations, among other benefits. Of these breaches, 45% were cloud-based, costing USD 10.10M on an average, per breach.