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What’s behind SAP’s massive restructuring push?
“Cloud is the big elephant in the room for SAP," Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Liz Herbert said.
By Matt Ashare • Jan. 26, 2024 -
IBM leans hard on consulting, governance to drive AI business
“Just as we quickly ramped a meaningful practice around Red Hat to address the hybrid cloud opportunity, we are on a similar trajectory with generative AI,” CEO Arvind Krishna said.
By Matt Ashare • Jan. 25, 2024 -
Trendline
Top 5 stories from CIO Dive
Interest in generative AI, budget concerns and layoffs in the tech industry took center stage during the first half of the year.
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Software, IT services to accelerate tech spend: Forrester
Enterprise and government investment in technology will grow 5.3% year over year, reaching $4.7 trillion this year, the firm projects.
By Matt Ashare • Jan. 23, 2024 -
Most leaders want to invest more in skills, talent in 2024
More executives see talent gaps as a key business risk in the next 18 months, compared to last year's responses to a Capgemini survey.
By Roberto Torres • Jan. 19, 2024 -
IBM buys Advanced’s mainframe modernization unit to deepen consulting bench
The deal also bolsters IBM’s broader hybrid cloud strategy, complementing the application refactoring capabilities of watsonx Code Assistant for Z.
By Matt Ashare • Jan. 19, 2024 -
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 -
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 -
Opinion
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 -
Opinion
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