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Software vendors offer AI sales boost for retail at NRF show

CIO

If software vendors have their way, the answer is likely to involve more artificial intelligence. Sales statistics Two recent surveys concur that only a tiny minority of retailers have no plans to implement AI today.

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

CIO

According to IDC’s July 2023 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending (FERS) survey of 856 senior IT and business managers in large enterprises, the IT line items most affected, in addition to rising tech salaries, include SaaS and PaaS costs. They’ve found a way to put 25% increases back into the cost of software.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO

And with infrastructure and application modernization cited as key reasons for CIOs’ budget increases this year, according to the 2024 State of the CIO Survey, that pace is not fast enough. Adopt a buy, not build, mindset IT has come a long way since those early years when it built all its own software in-house.

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Software Spend and the 80/20 Rule

Ivanti

20% of the most reported software bugs cause 80% of software crashes. When it comes to managing software spend, most businesses face what could be described optimistically as “tremendous opportunity for improvement.” And ponying up for unused software is only part of the equation. But there’s a catch.

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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. Betzig is currently recruiting for a tech leader for a Midwestern healthcare company developing its own software platform.

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NZ losing out on opportunity to outsource

CIO

One hundred NZ organisations were surveyed, and the report found that most companies are not outsourcing, which came as a surprise to Oshri and his team. Universities [in New Zealand] are currently producing around 4,000 engineers per year and there is demand for about 40,000 software engineers across the tech space.”

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO

They can code, write poetry, draw in any art style, create PowerPoint slides and website mockups, write marketing copy and emails, and find new vulnerabilities in software and plot holes in unpublished novels. In a recent report, he estimated that gen AI software revenues will grow from $3.7 Gen AI took a few months.