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IT as a catalyst for business transformation: Strategies for CIOs

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Most importantly, IT leaders should define the cloud architecture and put the solution in place for the business stakeholders to leverage, otherwise they risk each stakeholder creating their own cloud infrastructure making for a fragmented environment that is difficult to manage, secure, and optimize.

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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

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This SaaS product provides customers with data and analytics to help them maximize fleet performance and efficiency.” We have this combination like any large enterprise cloud software vendor,” says Musser, who has also served as Ford’s director of data and analytics for autonomous vehicles, and director of platform engineering for FordLabs.

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Why CIOs should invest in digital through economic headwinds

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Investing in ICI would supposedly increase growth for cities and businesses, and improve the lives of citizens. Digitally reduce energy usage: Gartner believes that CIOs should use cloud, data and analytics to establish a “base load” – an overview of how much energy the organisation has consumed.

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Data Analytics: Strategies to Demonstrate Value and Achieve Transformation

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Recently, chief information officers, chief data officers, and other leaders got together to discuss how data analytics programs can help organizations achieve transformation, as well as how to measure that value contribution. business, IT, data management, security, risk and compliance etc.) Arguing with data?

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Want AI? Here’s how to get your data and infrastructure AI-ready

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That includes solid infrastructure with the core tenets of scale, security, and performance–all with optimized costs. This eliminates the hassles of data silos and makes data accessible for model training, analytics, and real-time inferencing. That mandates an end-to-end, multi-layered, dynamic cybersecurity approach.

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IBM to acquire Octo to boost its US government business

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The US Federal Government has been investing heavily in IT modernization and cybersecurity, with an estimated budget of $65 billion for 2023 for civilian IT spending, according to a White House report. While application operations and technology consulting revenue both saw an increase of 17%, business transformation revenue grew by 14%.

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Unpacking Business Transformation in Healthcare and Life Sciences

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In our previous article , we illuminated the significance of business transformation for life sciences and healthcare organizations (LS/HCOs). Mapping the Path to Transformation Embarking on a business transformation journey requires strategic planning, fostering a blend of vision, technology, and agility.