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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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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

Some prospective projects require custom development using large language models (LLMs), but others simply require flipping a switch to turn on new AI capabilities in enterprise software. “AI We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We We want to maintain discipline and go deep.”

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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine

TechCrunch

Shelf Engine ’s mission to eliminate food waste in grocery retailers now has some additional celebrity backers. The company has already helped retailers divert 1 million pounds of food waste from landfills, Stefan Kalb, co-founder and CEO of Shelf Engine, told TechCrunch. This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

But Southwest’s technology was also cited by experts and the company’s leadership as contributing to the calamity. “IT So, I’ll use this opportunity to point out what questions CIOs should be asking about their enterprises based on what we can already discern from last week’s Southwest Airlines IT disaster. 30, “We’re behind.

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Transforming IT culture for business success

CIO

But IT culture is now more closely intertwined with creating a unique identity that encapsulates the enterprise vision and rallies IT employees around a common cause. Back in the day, IT culture was all about the perks. To be clear, everyone still fancies a high-end perk.

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Generative AI is a make-or-break moment for CIOs

CIO

Gen AI archetypes: Takers, shapers, and makers One key question CIOs face in determining the best strategic fit for gen AI in their enterprise is whether to rent, buy, or build gen AI capabilities for their various use cases. Hardly a day goes by without some new business-busting development on generative AI surfacing in the media.

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Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

CIO

A September 2021 Gartner report predicted that by 2025, 70% of new applications developed by enterprises will use low-code or no-code technologies, up from less than 25% in 2020. So there’s a lot in the plus column, but there are reasons to be cautious, too. It’s for speed to market,” says CTO Vikram Ramani.