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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. One of those requirements was to move out of its hosting provider data center and into a hyperscaler’s cloud.

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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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Private 5G test beds arise to help CIOs vet use cases

CIO Business Intelligence

Live entertainment service provider Clair Global, which hosts music festivals such as Coachella, BottleRock, and Soundstorm, is one entity exploring the potential of 5G, kicking the tires of Cisco’s private 5G networks at its Lititz, Penn., Peters Suh, SVP, Accenture Consulting. Accenture Consulting. 5G test beds await.

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

CIO Business Intelligence

We did side-by-side testing,” he says. In testing, gen AI was also particularly good at generating test cases and creating dummy data for testing. Management consulting firm AArete has been using other gen AI to do just that for about a year. “We Some of the most successful were in industry and customer research.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO Business Intelligence

Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change. They now use what they learn about a program to help build unit tests. And unit tests are too tedious for humans to build reliably.

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Top concerns industry leaders have about cyberattacks in 2024 and beyond

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To help prepare, many organizations are testing their incident response (IR) plans and teams with cyber range simulations. million in data breach costs compared to organizations without an IR team or IR plan testing. Organizations with an incident response team can save USD 1.5

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Re-Tooling Your Way to a More Efficient Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

But the frontline end user is dealing with a whole host of issues, such as bugs or system failures. One way to achieve this culture is to host regular standup meetings with employees, led by people who are already experts in using the systems. This is what makes communication so important. . Re-tooling Underway. About Kyler Johnson.