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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. While weather may have been the root cause, the 16,000 flights canceled between Dec. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts.

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6 tips for making the most of a tight IT budget

CIO

For example, CIOs can buy an off-the-shelf system that costs X in license fees today and 20% of X every year as long as they are using it or they could choose to build the system in a manner where instead of X they incur 1.5X The year 2023 seems to be no different. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1%

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Off the Shelf vs Custom Software: Making the Right Choice for Your Business

Trigent

Here’s all that you need to make an informed choice on off the shelf vs custom software. While doing so, they have two choices – to buy a ready-made off-the-shelf solution created for the mass market or get a custom software designed and developed to serve their specific needs and requirements.

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Motivated Team Of Mission Focused Technologists From Software AG Wins Rapid Integration Challenge of Plugfest

CTOvision

By ChrisScott Plugfest is a new phenomenon in the national security technology community, where participants compete in judged evaluations showing how well (and fast) they can create trusted situational awareness in a chaotic/realistic scenario using off the shelf software and existing data sets/streams. Precious time is wasted.

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B2B Travel Platform For Corporate Travel Management

Altexsoft

.” It has become an integral tool, ensuring the travelers’ comfort and the operations’ cost-effectiveness and efficiency. This guide delves deep into the specifics of building a custom B2B travel booking platform specifically tailored for corporate travel. Legacy GDS limitations. Different booking flow.

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How real-time operational insights drive superior tech platform development

CIO

Agile methodologies, customer-centric design thinking, and continuous, iterative feedback mechanisms must be incorporated to ensure the successful development of a truly effective and user-aligned solution. One of the biggest issues for any development team is obtaining real and timely user feedback.

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Supply Chain Control Tower: Enhancing Visibility and Resilience

Altexsoft

If we speak about end-to-end visibility, we mean that we should be able to have a granular view of all the main components of a supply chain: transportation – which entails control over the actual delivery process, tracking shipments , predicting ETA , etc.; “Control towers are the artificial intelligence (AI) of supply chain.