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Google Cloud data engineering, analytics systems target manufacturers
The solutions aim to unify and analyze data from manufacturing assets and will compete with similar industry offerings from the stables of AWS, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM.
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SAP trials meeting-free Fridays
CIO Florian Roth’s team was one of the first to adopt the Friday focus on deep work.
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vFunction tool assesses technical debt for app modernization
vFunction Assessment Hub is aimed at IT decision makers, providing a technical debt score highlighting the complexity of the legacy application code and risk factors associated with it.
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IT spending growth slows, as remote work proliferates
A new survey describes an IT spending landscape shaped by remote work and its consequences, as spending growth slows slightly, with security and networking as priorities.
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Cloud infrastructure sales rise as companies seek digital resiliency
Businesses are spending more on cloud infrastructure in order to ramp up digital transformation efforts and stay flexible in the face of supply- chain issues, says research firm Canalys.
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ServiceNow grows 27% despite significant global challenges
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott said that global challenges like the war in Ukraine “have underscored the urgency of investment in digital business.”
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Salesforce extends Flow automations across Mulesoft, Slack and Tableau
The CRM giant is looking to help customers automate workflows and trigger actions across its growing range of applications using Flow.
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Qualtrics seeks to broaden picture of employee engagement
With new tools for correlating employee engagement at with other data, the software vendor hopes to make it easier for managers to retain workers.
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Open Group goes modular with 10th edition of TOGAF standard
The 10th edition of the popular enterprise architecture framework focuses on improving usability for a wider range of enterprises.
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Databricks' new data lakehouse aims at media, entertainment sector
Data lakehouses combine the storage and analytics features of data warehouses and data lakes, with vendors like Databricks offering solutions for specific industries.
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Cloud momentum sees SAP start the year strong
The German software company started the financial year with strong cloud revenue, but it recognized that exiting the Russian market will impact its bottom line.
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Supply chain digitization faces 3 big hurdles, PwC survey shows
A PwC survey covering operations and technology leaders as well as other C-suite executives globally has identified three main roadblocks stopping them from achieving digital transformation in their supply chain operations.
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Did SAP spy on its employees, German union asks
The service sector union Ver.di has made public an internal data leak at SAP. Sensitive information from the workforce is said to have been widely accessible.
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Software and consulting boost IBM results to start the year
The tech giant saw revenue rise 8% for the first quarter of the year, as demand for its hybrid cloud software and consulting services spiked.
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IT companies join Ukraine war sanctions against Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal war against Ukraine is not leaving the IT industry unaffected. Here’s an overview of the sanction measures taken by some of the most important IT providers.
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Oracle's ME employee experience suite targets workforce challenges
Oracle ME, an employee experience suite within the company’s Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) platform, is aimed at resolving workforce challenges such as attrition in the wake of the pandemic.
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The top 10 IT outsourcing service providers
Accenture maintained its position at the top of the IT service provider market, as Infosys leapt to No. 2 in a year of acute talent challenges, according to Everest Group’s 7th annual rankings.
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SAP is holding data for Russian customers
Shortly before the support freeze for Russian cloud customers, SAP offered to move their data abroad for free.
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IBM’s z16 mainframe boasts on-chip AI acceleration
IBM says the z16’s security features also help protect enterprises from the ‘harvest now, decrypt later’ threat of quantum attacks.
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Google Cloud brings its search smarts to retail customers
The new managed Retail Search service from Google Cloud wants to help digital retailers solve the dreaded search abandonment problem.
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Russians want to replace SAP with homegrown solutions
Russian corporations believe they can replace software from Western vendors such as SAP with solutions they have developed themselves. Meanwhile, thousands of IT specialists are leaving the country, and Ukraine asks SAP to end support for its software in Russia.
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Informatica launches its first industry-specific Intelligent Data Management Cloud for retail
The retail industry-focused product aims to help enterprise customers unify their data and gain valuable customer, product, supplier, and location insights.
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Celonis beefs up its Power BI process mining capabilities
To improve its process mining offering on Microsoft Power Platform, Celonis has acquired Process Analytics Factory, developer of PAFnow
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Snowflake launches Retail Data Cloud
The cloud data warehouse specialist has launched another industry-specific product, this time aimed at helping companies in the retail and consumer goods sectors to manage their data.
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Microsoft adopts RISE with SAP for internal migration to S/4HANA
After moving its SAP systems to the Azure cloud in 2021, Microsoft is putting SAP in charge of its migration to S/4HANA by signing up for the RISE single-SLA offering.
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ServiceNow’s San Diego release focuses on personalization and automation
The latest revision of the Now workflow automation platform introduces a new Automation Engine and a customizable user interface, Next Experience.
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Google's Contact Center AI Platform aims to optimize customer service
Google is extending its Contact Center AI (CCAI) service to allow enterprises to integrate their contact center data with their CRM (customer relationship management) applications in order to optimize and enhance customer service.
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Sandbox AQ is Alphabet’s new bet on the future of quantum cryptography
Google’s parent has spun out a team working on novel encryption and navigation systems using quantum techniques.
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Nvidia speeds AI, climate modeling
At its annual customer conference, Nvidia is showing off new ways to model and predict the behavior of clouds and more, in the cloud and elsewhere.
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Thoma Bravo acquires SaaS company Anaplan for $10.7B
The deal represents the latest private equity buyout in the software sector, which saw tremendous growth throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Snowflake launches healthcare SaaS, data marketplace and consulting services
Snowflake has launched a cloud-based, data-sharing platform for the healthcare industry that brings together the company’s core SaaS data warehousing, analytics and business intelligence offerings with a data marketplace and consulting services on demand.
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Microsoft’s partner program gets a cloud overhaul
Microsoft is rebranding its partner program for the cloud — and updating its rules for membership. CIOs should be aware of the changes as suppliers and service providers push to meet the new criteria.
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Return to office? Leaders, workers don’t see eye to eye, study says
CIOs could be called on to help make the office worth the commute, or the remote working experience more inclusive.
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IFS, Bearing Point launch services joint venture Arcwide
Cloud ERP provider IFS and Dutch consulting firm Bearing Point are launching a new company, Arcwide, to capitalize on the growing demand for technology services.
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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs
While Oracle reported revenue growth on the back of cloud services and SaaS sales, net profit plunged, dragged down by the heavy costs of keeping up with the competition.
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The mainframe is dying: Long live the mainframe application!
Fujitsu will stop making mainframes in the next nine years — but it, and mainframe rival IBM, are taking steps to give mainframe applications an afterlife in the cloud.
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US IT jobs growth slowed in February
There’s still a need for more IT workers, but employers don’t want to pay for them, say analysts.
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Sourcemap expands to meet demand for supply chain management
The software startup is tapping a VC cash infusion to expand into Europe and further develop its suite of supply chain management (SCM) applications.
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ROI expected to boost enterprise spending on RPA
Pandemic-induced demand for automation will fuel the market for RPA (robotic process automation) software to $22 billion in 2025, according to Forrester, but growth will flatten as a broader mix of automation technology it calls "automation fabric" is adopted.
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The top 3 roadblocks for tech implementation in financial firms
A survey covering 750 financial services companies globally has identified three main roadblocks stopping them from achieving digital transformation, according to financial technology firm Broadridge.
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Private 5G networks offer CIOs intriguing options
Network operators are making progress with stand-alone 5G rollouts, but CIOs hungry for 5G’s promised low latency for IoT communications might want to consider a private 5G network.
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8 keys to a successful BI strategy
BI success requires more than just a strong technology platform. It takes laser focus on processes and personnel — and a business-first approach to gaining insights from data.
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Oracle Fusion Cloud updates logistics apps for enterprise supply chain
Oracle has added new features to its Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) cloud suite to handle global supply chain issues and increase efficiency of operations.
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What is ServiceNow Impact? An app to keep digital transformations on track
ServiceNow is offering to help CIOs get more value from their investment — if they’ll pay just a little more.
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IBM to offer cloud hosting for S/4HANA
SAP has named IBM its first “premium supplier” for Rise with SAP, allowing it to host S/4HANA in the IBM Cloud as part of an all-in-one offering with IBM’s consulting services.
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SAP sees RISE in its fourth-quarter revenue
Higher renewals and a marked shift to cloud-based revenue as a result of its RISE program are making the company more optimistic about its ambition of reaching annual cloud revenue of €22 billion by 2025.
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NetSuite brings real-time forecasting to cash management
One new ERP dashboard offers real-time cash forecasting without use of third-party integrations, and another adds a layer of data analytics to projects.
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IBM sheds some Watson Health assets, refocuses on AI and cloud
In selling the data-based part of its Watson Health business to an investment firm, IBM signals that it wants to concentrate on core AI technology.
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IT leaders should measure and balance fairness in AI models, Forrester says
Eliminating bias in artificial intelligence is increasingly an issue as more enterprises use it in their services.
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Top IT takeaways from Microsoft’s $68.7B acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Microsoft says it will trade its workplace culture for Activision Blizzard’s metaverse building blocks — potentially bringing a new meaning to the title of software architect. Here’s what else CIOs should know.
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