Victoria’s Secret to infuse AI into online shopping

The intimate apparel company tapped Google Cloud’s Vertex AI to enhance search capabilities and personalize product recommendations.

By Kristen Doerer • Jan. 11, 2024

Demand for software developers to persist, despite 2023 woes

New layoff waves kicked off the new year, but demand for technical talent will persist, according to CoderPad data.

By Roberto Torres • Jan. 11, 2024

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Ongoing AI adoption efforts and the evolution of the executive scope ruled CIO priorities in the first half of the year.

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SAP adds board-level cloud migration unit, reshuffles executive roles

The ERP behemoth aims to ease customers’ journey to SaaS as it moves to a usage-based pricing model.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 11, 2024

Nvidia unveils laptop AI chip, developer toolkit

The GPU manufacturer is expanding its enterprise IT ambitions and portfolio as the race to deploy LLMs closer to the business user intensifies.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 10, 2024

7 business technology trends to watch in 2024

Technology leaders will spend much of this year perfecting their businesses' AI strategies, keeping an eye on the budget and attracting tech talent.

By Roberto Torres , Matt Ashare , Lindsey Wilkinson • Jan. 9, 2024

Enterprise tech buyers prize efficiency, productivity gains

While immediate business value is a priority, organizations also want vendors to provide implementation expertise, according to Forrester.

By Matt Ashare • Jan. 4, 2024

Industry clouds set for slow start in the new year: Forrester

Cost and lack of clear path to ROI to hinder adoption in 2024, according to the analyst firm’s research.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 21, 2023

Rite Aid banned from use of facial recognition tech for 5 years

The company’s “reckless” use of the technology harmed customers, the FTC said in a court case settlement.

By Nate Delesline III • Dec. 20, 2023

3 steps to proactive IT cost optimization

CIOs should create an action plan to track costs, looking for significant opportunities for savings in order to fund transformation.

By David McIntire and Pieter Pottie • Dec. 20, 2023

Gartner elevates Oracle in annual hyperscaler assessment

The company joined AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud as a leading provider in the analyst firm’s annual review of strategic cloud platform service vendors.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 18, 2023

Wingstop names CIO

Chris Fallon joins the restaurant chain as it prepares to roll out a $50 million in-house technology platform.

By Aneurin Canham-Clyne • Dec. 15, 2023

CIO most likely chief to be external hire: report

The trend suggests a desire to bring outside perspectives into the tech suite as transformation unfolds, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

By Roberto Torres • Dec. 15, 2023

Salesforce to let Einstein Copilot chomp on unstructured data

The company announced a slate of generative AI updates aimed at easing the data constraints that often hinder deployment.

By Roberto Torres • Dec. 14, 2023

Software spend to rebound in 2024 as ERP, database move to SaaS

After two years of flat revenue growth, Forrester expects software vendors to see incremental upticks going forward.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 13, 2023

Kaiser Permanente, Novant Health to cut IT jobs

The healthcare systems are the downsize tech units this year as they navigate thin operating margins fueled by inflation and prolonged staffing shortages.

By Susanna Vogel • Dec. 13, 2023

‘Tis the season for a retail tech-stack rethink

An influx of in-store technologies has CIOs leaning toward cloud for integration solutions, according to research by Bain and Aptos.

By Matt Ashare • Dec. 12, 2023

There will be a surplus of tech workers by 2026, executives project

Despite current shortages, most executives expect talent needs to ease in the coming years across general and advanced technology categories.

By Roberto Torres • Dec. 7, 2023

The quest for tech talent: strategies for remote and hybrid companies

Offering fully remote and hybrid work options can help attract and retain talent, driving the engagement that technology firms desperately need.

By Claire Rutkowski • Dec. 5, 2023

AI developers, led by OpenAI, raise over $50B

ChatGPT maker OpenAI currently leads the pack with $11.3 billion in funding, according to an Everest Group report.

By Alexei Alexis • Dec. 4, 2023

Talent woes among top barriers to generative AI ambitions

As the technology continues to develop, executives contend with a tight labor market in engineering and data analytics, O’Reilly research shows.

By Roberto Torres • Dec. 1, 2023

Salesforce revenue boost driven by cloud ‘cocktail’

As price hikes kicked in, the leading CRM turned to its hyperscale Data Cloud and Mulesoft platform to expand the top end of its enterprise customer base.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 30, 2023

AWS enters enterprise chatbot fray with Q

In the wake of OpenAI’s leadership crisis, the hyperscaler also doubled down on a multimodel AI strategy and deepened its Anthropic alliance.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 28, 2023

IBM bolsters hybrid AI strategy, arms watsonx with governance solution

The toolkit validates LLM inputs, monitors outputs for bias, drift and compliance and integrates with models from IBM and other providers.

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 15, 2023

Escalating SaaS prices outpace consumer price index inflation

Software as a service spending now accounts for 14.1% of a typical company’s expense line, up from 12.7% last year, according to research from Vertice. 

By Alexei Alexis • Nov. 14, 2023

Most businesses buy the wrong software, report finds

Unanticipated onboarding costs and the shift from on-prem licensing to usage-based fee structures can exacerbate buyer’s remorse, a Capterra survey found. 

By Matt Ashare • Nov. 13, 2023