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5 Reasons to Modernize with Cloud: Chemicals Edition

Protera

In recent years, technology advancements like cloud computing, data analytics, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices have created new opportunities for chemical companies but also new pain points as they’ve been required to move out of their comfort zones to digitally transform. Enter: cloud modernization. Quick Takeaways.

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5 C-suite bridges every IT leader must build

CIO

That’s especially true when functional areas outside IT routinely buy their own technology and hire their own technology professionals, says Irving Tyler, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, and former CIO of Quaker Chemical and IMS Health. I think, in the near term, CFOs are really cranking down on budgets.

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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

CIO

What are some unique data and cybersecurity challenges when helming such a vast locomotion technology company? The largest budget proposals were made by railway ministers this year, under the leadership of Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Minister for Railways and Information Technology.

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How adopting sustainability as a service can drive business success and help the planet

CIO

Rather than making huge investments in infrastructure to collect and process data, companies now have the option to get this as a secure, scalable, fully managed service that requires no large capital outlay. You can solve any problem given enough budget. The challenge is to solve the problem in the most efficient way possible.

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Striving for greater efficiencies on the grid

Capgemini

Frontrunners will have the advantage and are already allocating more of their IT budgets to automation. Randy Cozzens is an Executive Vice President and North American Energy, Utilities, and Chemicals Market Unit Lead at Capgemini and he can be reached at randall.cozzens@capgemini.com.

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What the Intelligence Community Doesn’t Know is Hurting the US

The Cipher Brief

Katrina Mulligan is the managing director for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress. Previously, she served as an attorney adviser and director for preparedness and response in the National Security Division at the U.S. Matthew Olsen is the Chief Trust and Security Officer at Uber.

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Albemarle supercharges employee experience with federated automation

CIO

One of the first things Patrick Thompson (pictured) did on becoming chief information and digital transformation officer of specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle in 2017 was to introduce an annual survey to gauge employee attitudes toward services IT staff provides. Then tackle the business side of things.