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Dissecting Alstom’s three-part IT strategy

CIO

Alstom builds high-speed trains, subways, monorails, and trams, but also develops turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signaling, and digital mobility. To put it in context, one in three trains that circulate in Spain is manufactured by Alstom. Can you describe the strategy behind purchasing Bombardier’s railway business for €4.4

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The steep cost of a poor data management strategy

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And before runners even enter a race—whether a sprint or a marathon—they have prepared with months or years of training. Such is the case with a data management strategy. This allows predictive maintenance, which helps prevent unplanned downtime for more consistent energy production. The same is true in education.

Strategy 290
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Unlocking the Power of AI with a Real-Time Data Strategy

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Titanium Intelligent Solutions, a global SaaS IoT organization, even saved one customer over 15% in energy costs across 50 distribution centers , thanks in large part to AI. With organizations looking for increasingly sophisticated ways to employ AI capabilities, data becomes the foundational energy source for such technology.

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Balancing latency and sustainability

CIO

To get the compute resources they need while also optimizing energy efficiency, some enterprises—and the service providers they partner with—look to position data centers in colder environments, far away from major population centers. The requirements of AI training workloads are very different from those of inference workloads.

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Salesforce plans generative AI boost for ESG reporting with Net Zero Cloud

CIO

The generative AI capabilities of Einstein for Net Zero Cloud mean it can digest previous annual financial and ESG reports, and current data about greenhouse gas emissions from financial and production systems, said Sunya Norman, Salesforce’s head of ESG strategy and engagement. One of those is deriving insight from data.

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Balancing Strategy and Tactics

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If you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team will end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. When you can embrace effective leadership strategy and tactics, they will work together to help you, your team, and your organization thrive. Does everyone know what success looks like?

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DS Smith sets a single-cloud agenda for sustainability

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British multinational packaging giant DS Smith has committed itself to ambitious sustainability goals, and its IT strategy to standardize on a single cloud will be a key enabler. The single-cloud platform strategy will include SaaS partners used for automation of more than 40 enterprise applications, Dickson says.