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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services
Microsoft is investing billions more into OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and plans to roll out new enterprise services based on the company’s generative AI products.
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How FiveStars re-engineered its data engineering stack
Faced with increasing demands on his data engineering team, FiveStars CTO Matt Doka had a choice: drive for abstraction or be driven to distraction.
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Nvidia offers retail loss prevention software to accelerate accelerator chip sales
As Nvidia’s customer tracking technology develops, scrutiny from retail CIOs is put into sharper focus.
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IBM reorganizes partner program to incentivize indirect sales
Clients should receive the same service from partners as they receive from IBM, the company says.
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Nutanix acquisition rumors highlight need for managing vendor risk
When a vendor you use gets bought by one you don’t, its new product roadmap may leave you stranded. Planning for such risks should be a key part of every CIO’s vendor management process.
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Foote Partners: bonus disparities reveal tech skills most in demand in Q3
Enterprises are paying bigger premiums for a handful of specific IT skills and certifications, new data shows.
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SAP user groups see pick-up in migration to S/4HANA
Surveys by user organizations on both sides of the Atlantic show more SAP customers moving, or planning to move, to S/4HANA from ECC 6, although stumbling blocks remain.
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Why, and when, CIOs deserve a seat at the M&A negotiating table
When two companies merge in search of synergies, IT leaders are often the ones expected to find them. That search can be made a lot easier if it’s begun before the deal is sealed.
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Van maker BrightDrop builds ERP and business in parallel
Business processes usually come first, and the ERP implements them. But for GM’s new electric van subsidiary, CIO Namo Tiwari explains how he went about it a different way.
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Melissa & Doug buys oversized ERP to grow into
When the preschool toy company grew out of its small homebrew ERP, it skipped the midmarket offerings and went straight for an enterprise-scale system in the cloud.
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Music distributor tracks SaaS usage to boost security, satisfaction
SaaS management is about much more than cost control, says CD Baby’s VP of IT Tom Beohm.
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SAP seeks to make builders of business technologists
SAP Build provides enterprises with a new low-code development resource built on the same infrastructure as its pro-code development tools.
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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe
Microsoft is accused of using new licensing rules for its productivity software to push European enterprise customers toward its Azure cloud infrastructure.
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10 future trends for working with business leaders
The IDC FutureScape team has turned its attention to CIOs’ relationship with business leaders to predict 10 winning digital business strategies for the years ahead.
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Inside track: Chris Bedi on his evolving CIO role at ServiceNow
Growing from the maintenance of internal infrastructure to a more holistic digital role, it’s been a transformational period for Chris Bedi after stints as CIO for two electronics manufacturers.
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Salesforce seeks to unify automobile supply chain with Automotive Cloud
Built on Driver 360, Salesforce Automotive Cloud aims to offer auto makers, dealers, and finance groups a single view of customers and their vehicles, tracking interactions from factory to junkyard.
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Microsoft adds high-level governance to low-code tools
At its Ignite 2022 customer conference, Microsoft unleashed a host of innovations, including Managed Environments for Power Platform.
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‘Don’t be surprised if I am an AI,’ says Nvidia’s CEO
Jensen Huang was only joking — but the cloud-based simulation-as-a-service technologies he demonstrated at Nvidia’s GTC Fall conference mean CIOs should take him seriously.
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