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Microsoft’s Copilot tunes could be music to CIOs’ ears

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CIOs, nearly always, must focus on doing more with less, delivering innovation and digital capability to enable topline growth while constraining operating expenses,” Ritu Jyoti, group vice president of research at IDC, said while trying to explain the takeaways for CIOs from the developer-focused conference.

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5 top ERP trends for 2022 — and their implications for IT leaders

CIO

Customization gives way to standardization The traditional practice of enterprise technology leaders customizing an ERP solution to meet their specific enterprise or business needs is giving way to implementing an off-the-shelf solution. This is cumbersome and leads to additional cost.

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Assessing Commercial Off-The-Shelf & 3rd-Party Software

Security Innovation

Commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) is a staple in today’s modern software development world. Not only does it extend solution features, but it gets them to users faster.

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Unlocking generative AI’s greatest growth opportunities

CIO

While off-the-shelf generative AI technology from the likes of OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and others is incredibly powerful, the key to successful commercial generative AI initiatives is having authoritative, comprehensive reference data to train the system for a specific use case. Where will the biggest transformation occur first?

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower CTO

Check out our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators. What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? What does the role demand? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? Increasing competitive advantage? The answer is: it depends. The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. It might be.

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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

TechCrunch

The trio had the idea to use drones to gather data — specifically data in warehouses, such as the number of items on a shelf and the locations of particular pallets. Arora co-founded Gather AI in 2019 with Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey, graduate students at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. Image Credits: Gather AI.

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TIAA modernizes the customer journey with AI

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Achieving end-to-end visibility — in real-time — into these journeys, some of which involve highly customized legacy contracts typical of a 100-year-old company, would enable TIAA to better serve its customers across the various decision and touch points along the way from enrollment to retirement.