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Leadership bottlenecks slow AI adoption

As AI technology evolves at a breakneck pace, it's not its technical limitations that slow adoption, but change management and other leadership bottlenecks.

By Maria Korolov

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C-SuiteCIOIT Strategy

China’s trillion-parameter AI models may help enterprises with some applications

By Evan Schuman

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Artificial IntelligenceRisk ManagementSecurity

What is RPA? A revolution in business process automation

By Clint Boulton and Thor Olavsrud

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Artificial IntelligenceBPM SystemsIT Strategy

AI makes its case against the ‘business-savvy CIO’

By Bob Lewis

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Artificial IntelligenceBusiness IT AlignmentIT Leadership

How to add XLAs to your outsourcing contract

By Greg Hall

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CIOManaged IT ServicesManaged Service Providers

What next-generation IT leadership looks like

By Dan Roberts

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Recent news & fresh reads

Oracle’s July update fixes ten 10.0 vulnerabilities in Fusion Middleware

The record number of fixes in this quarter’s Critical Patch Update cover 32 product families.

By Anirban Ghoshal

23 Jul 2026 6 mins

DatabasesOracle DatabaseRelational Databases

Oracle expands Cloud@Customer with new database service for mid-sized workloads

Base Database Cloud@Customer could help regulated enterprises modernize databases and deploy AI closer to sensitive data, although its appeal is likely to remain strongest among existing Oracle customers, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

23 Jul 2026 5 mins

Cloud ComputingDatabasesHybrid Cloud

The $3 trillion assembly line: Why CIOs must industrialize the data center supply chain

Building data centers isn't civil engineering anymore; it’s high-stakes product assembly where a disconnected software tool can create a $500M blind spot.

By Joydeb Mandal and Sourav Mallick

22 Jul 2026 7 mins

Data Center DesignMarketsTransportation and Logistics Industry

How a contextual AI fabric turns organizational memory into AI advantage

AI models already know everything about your industry, but they don't know your company's actual history, reasoning and logic until you build a context layer.

By Jaideep Dhok

22 Jul 2026 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData QualityDigital Transformation

How to Launch Your AI Projects from Pilot to Production – and Ensure Success

IT leaders can take an active role in improving how many AI projects get fully off the ground.

By Isaac Sacolick

8 Nov 2022 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ScienceMachine Learning

The AI bill is the easy part. The hard part is everything it changed

CFOs are capping AI token budgets out of frustration simply because traditional P&Ls aren't built to track what machine labor actually produces.

By Lexi Reese

22 Jul 2026 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceBudgetingROI and Metrics

From outsourcing to ownership: How we brought development in-house without breaking delivery

Bringing your tech stack in-house is more than a coding project; it aligns your engineering culture with your business goals and slashes operating costs by 30%.

By Oleksandr Kondratiuk

22 Jul 2026 9 mins

DeveloperHiringOutsourcing

Microsoft doubles down on sovereign AI with expanded Mistral partnership

The companies are expanding European AI infrastructure, sovereign cloud capabilities, and open-weight model access, providing more flexibility while reducing dependence on a single AI provider.

By Taryn Plumb

22 Jul 2026 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceMicrosoftVendors and Providers

SAP developers face education debt, user group warns

Anyone modernizing SAP systems must also invest in the continuing education of their developers. Otherwise, according to German SAP user group DSAG, there is a risk of technical debt, higher project costs, and greater dependence on external service providers.

By Manfred Bremmer

21 Jul 2026 4 mins

DeveloperERP SystemsRoles

Certinia acquires AI services company Moonnox

Its goal with the acquisition is to accelerate its expansion into services delivery via AI.

By Lynn Greiner

21 Jul 2026 3 mins

Artificial IntelligenceProfessional ServicesVendors and Providers

AWS standardizes more AI billing data to simplify cost analysis

By normalizing more billing data fields in AWS Data Exports, the company promises enterprises simpler AI governance with less engineering overhead.

By Anirban Ghoshal

21 Jul 2026 3 mins

BudgetPricingShopping

The AI allocation trap: Record spend, vanishing returns

A portfolio allocation framework and board scorecard for CIOs who refuse to judge a three-year bet on a six-month cycle.

By Steve Oppenheim

21 Jul 2026 11 mins

Artificial IntelligenceBudgetingIT Leadership

The token debate: What CIOs can learn from the laws of thermodynamics

Stop stressing over how many AI tokens your company uses. The real question is how much actual business value you are extracting from every single one.

By Rao Tadepalli

21 Jul 2026 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceIT LeadershipROI and Metrics

Enterprise Spotlight: Rethinking cloud strategy in the age of AI

Digital Edition

Cloud computing has reached a crossroads. The high cost and data sensitivity of AI workloads are raising the appeal of private clouds, even as neoclouds and sovereign clouds shake up the cloud provider landscape. Download the June 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight and learn how to navigate the latest cloud strategy developments.

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