IT Strategy: Page 49

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    How Walmart enhances its inventory, supply chain through AI

    The largest company in the U.S. simulates its yearly peak event, Black Friday, with AI to anticipate hiccups — and customer demand.

    By • Dec. 13, 2022
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    Fear, panic and Log4j: One year later

    Fears of catastrophic cyberattacks have thus far failed to materialize. But federal authorities stress threat actors are playing the long game.

    By David Jones • Dec. 12, 2022
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    IT Upgrades

    CIOs must help their businesses address maintenance needs while keeping an eye on future innovation.

    By CIO Dive staff
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    Bank of America wants a human bridge for its AI help

    The bank aims to let a human agent pick up from where a customer leaves a chat with digital assistant Erica, but allow the chatbot to finish the interaction.

    By Suman Bhattacharyya • Dec. 12, 2022
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    What’s the new normal for workplace technology?

    From hot-desking solutions to collaboration tools, there’s a new standard that today's employees now expect at work.

    By • Dec. 12, 2022
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    Can you slash your stack without slashing your culture?

    Leaders need to understand the role each of their technology platforms play in enabling relationships and execution before reducing budgets and slashing tools.

    Dec. 12, 2022
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    How to mitigate against inflation’s impact on your IT budget

    How CIOs can reduce and optimize SaaS spending amid soaring inflation rates.

    Dec. 12, 2022
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    Hybrid cloud emerges as winner of Pentagon cloud showdown

    The $9 billion pool in Pentagon contracts validates the wisdom of portfolio diversification, as AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle contend for DOD dollars.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 9, 2022
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    Pentagon greenlights $9B contract pool for military cloud spending

    After a 17-month evaluation process, AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle all won the battle for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 8, 2022
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    Employees are getting better at remote work

    Remote meetings have evolved since the start of the pandemic, upending conventional wisdom about working from home, according to new research.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 7, 2022
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    What does AI without bias look like?

    Inequitable framing, biased data and human prejudice can be augmented by tech. But can AI minimize bias?

    By Caroline Colvin • Dec. 7, 2022
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    Mainframe modernization meets multicloud chaos on the road to IT’s future

    Third-party vendors are creating metacloud capabilities that provide cross-platform observability and governance that sits above the cloud. 

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 7, 2022
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    Companies wade through 367 apps to get work done

    The app surplus is eating up time. Workers are spending more than two hours a day sorting through silos, an Airtable report found.

    By • Dec. 6, 2022
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    Are you more innovative in the office? Your boss thinks so.

    To many employees’ dismay, business leaders tie innovation to work location. But one Gartner analyst cautions, leaders need to be clear on what they're innovating for.

    By • Dec. 6, 2022
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    IBM leans on hybrid to stay competitive in cloud

    Hillery Hunter, CTO of IBM Cloud, shared how the tech company is banking on security, compliance and stability to bolster industry cloud solutions.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 6, 2022
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    OpenAI’s ChatGPT hiccups serve as a fresh reminder of AI flaws

    The AI-generated language model has been banned from Stack Overflow less than a week after its release.

    By • Dec. 5, 2022
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    Can you power through forces of nature?

    With hurricane season seeing greater activity than before, now’s the time to revisit your IT strategy.

    Dec. 5, 2022
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    Tech employment grew in November even as layoffs tick up

    The monthly jobs report shows reassuring signs for the technology workforce, according to CompTIA.

    By • Dec. 2, 2022
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    How XPO’s new CIO keeps tech on track in trucking

    The logistics company is leveraging data and an engineering culture to optimize the less-than-truckload freight business.

    By Matt Ashare • Dec. 2, 2022
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    7 must-read business technology stories from 2022

    From UPS CIO’s parting thoughts to long-lived legacy IT, some of this year’s top stories delve into the forces and strategies that shape enterprise tech.

    By Naomi Eide • Dec. 2, 2022
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    Salesforce customers closely scrutinize software spend

    The company also announced Wednesday Bret Taylor will be stepping down, marking Salesforce's second co-CEO departure since 2020. 

    By • Dec. 1, 2022
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    Companies are bullish on digital transformation — but where should investment go?

    Choosing the right set of technologies to adopt is a top hurdle for organizations, alongside issues of talent and scale.

    By • Dec. 1, 2022
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    Maersk, IBM to shut down blockchain joint venture TradeLens

    The tool was intended to start a supply chain “digital revolution”. But it will shutter in Q1 2023 as it failed to achieve commercial viability. 

    By Edwin Lopez • Nov. 30, 2022
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    Why cyberattackers love IT professionals — and how organizations can keep risk at bay

    Limiting admin access is one step toward strengthening defenses, but there are other ways to reduce vulnerabilities.

    By Brian Eastwood • Nov. 30, 2022
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    Microsoft, PMI partner to train students on low code skills

    Project Management Institute’s new university hub teaches college students how to create business apps using Microsoft Power Platform.

    By Matt Ashare • Nov. 29, 2022
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    How one company’s ERP adoption boosted efficiency and cut costs

    Goodbye, paper processes and dusty inventory. Adell Group needed a system with proper capabilities and easy end-user experience.

    By • Nov. 29, 2022