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• Ally's generative AI strategy eyes multiple LLMs, AI agents

  The digital bank plans to privately host multiple LLMs on its GenAI platform, explore autonomous agent technology and evaluate employee ideas for use cases.  Continue Reading

• Is the metaverse dead? Here's what happened and what's next

  What happened to the metaverse? It's still here, even if the term no longer generates much enthusiasm, and finding useful applications across industries.  Continue Reading

• The Metaverse Standards Forum: What you need to know

  Creating an open and inclusive metaverse will require the development and adoption of interoperability standards. That's the tall order of the Metaverse Standards Forum.  Continue Reading

• Cloud-native strategies pushing purchase decisions beyond IT

  Buyer personas now include line-of-business groups, but senior IT management still owns most decisions, and cross-departmental collaboration, while improving, needs a lot of work.  Continue Reading

• Top 5 digital transformation trends of 2024

  This year, look for digital transformation trends to revolve around AI, cost containment, revamped delivery methods and a bigger commitment to change management.  Continue Reading

• Quantum computing in business applications

  Quantum computing shows great potential for faster problem-solving, among other benefits. Discover key areas where the enterprise could implement the rapidly advancing tech.  Continue Reading

• The push is on to build the autonomous enterprise

  The concept of an autonomous enterprise is becoming more real as enterprises combine technologies to automate all kinds of human work. Welcome to the 'Autonomous Revolution.'  Continue Reading

• How to modernize legacy applications

  For many organizations, system upgrades mean investing time, money and resources. Discover how to modernize legacy applications with these critical tips.  Continue Reading

• Is quantum computing overhyped?

  Quantum computing may be coming to the enterprise. Here's what to understand about the benefits it promises, the risks it poses and how to prepare.  Continue Reading

• Generative AI in the enterprise raises questions for CIOs

  Technology and business leaders are exploring pivotal issues surrounding adoption strategy, architecture and the IT organization's management responsibilities.  Continue Reading

• Walmart AI: Retailer taps employees to find GenAI use cases

  The Walmart generative AI approach includes learning from its employee-users and soliciting their feedback to discover key applications and refine the technology.  Continue Reading

• Top 10 benefits of blockchain for business

  Blockchain's unique characteristics address many business issues. Here are 10 important benefits of blockchain and examples of the industries taking advantage of them.  Continue Reading

• 9 quantum computing challenges IT leaders should understand

  While the theory of quantum mechanics is complex, the tech might offer practical uses for organizations. Learn about the challenges and opportunities of quantum computing.  Continue Reading

• 10 examples of smart contracts on blockchain

  Smart contracts are powerful tools for automating tasks on a blockchain. Read these use cases and understand the benefits and challenges IT leaders face during implementation.  Continue Reading

• IT hiring picks up amid ongoing economic concerns

  TechTarget's 2023 salary and careers survey shows most organizations are hiring for selected IT skills, making progress on DEI initiatives and offering workplace flexibility.  Continue Reading

• Today's blockchain use cases and industry applications

  Though not yet a mature technology, blockchain is gaining ground as a sound and generally secure method for conducting myriad transactions in numerous applications and industries.  Continue Reading

• 6 reasons legacy systems are still in use

  Staying with tried-and-true legacy systems can feel like the safest route. But as the world changes at a dizzying pace, IT leaders might want to reconsider that strategy.  Continue Reading

• Replacing vs. maintaining legacy systems

  Understanding issues such as which systems hinder organizational performance can help IT leaders decide which legacy systems to replace and which to maintain.  Continue Reading

• Tech integration partnerships can help boost IT productivity

  Enterprise Strategy Group's Doug Cahill discusses survey results that show using integrated technologies from multiple vendors can free up IT teams for strategic projects.  Continue Reading

• 4 tips CIOs can use to drive change management

  CIOs and IT leaders should be key drivers of change management programs. Learn valuable tips for navigating complexity and scaling technology rollouts.  Continue Reading

• How one CIO drives business transformation through tech

  Tom Peck, CIDO at Sysco, shares valuable insights into the key role that CIOs play as a transformation driver while managing emerging technologies such as AI.  Continue Reading

• MIT-CIO event explores digital resilience amid disruption

  Allan Tate, executive chair of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, shares an overview of the 2023 event, including focus areas such as cybersecurity and tech evaluation.  Continue Reading

• IT spending priorities point to cyber, cloud and data

  TechTarget's survey of IT professionals underlines the continued importance of security and cloud initiatives, as well as increased interest in data management and governance.  Continue Reading

• Top 10 enterprise technology trends for 2023

  IT investments underpin an organizational performance and help businesses gain a competitive edge. That's why CIOs and IT leaders should know the top enterprise tech trends.  Continue Reading

• IT leaders drive evolution of digital transformation

  Some CIOs are redefining digital transformation, while others abandon the term. What comes next will feature smaller projects, higher levels of automation and a dose of pragmatism.  Continue Reading

• 10 key ESG and sustainability trends, ideas for companies

  From consumers to employees to investors, more people are choosing companies that prioritize environmental, social and governance concerns. Here are 10 ESG trends that matter.  Continue Reading

• Connected product, a Bluetooth jump-rope, reflects digital shift

  Crossrope faced hardware, software and marketing challenges -- along with the need to satisfy data-hungry fitness enthusiasts -- when it launched its first connected offering.  Continue Reading

• 10 key digital transformation tools CIOs need

  A key responsibility of the CIO is to stay ahead of disruptions. Learn about digital transformation tools that could help secure an organization's long-term success.  Continue Reading

• 4 challenges for creating a culture of innovation

  Successful technology introduction pivots on a business's ability to embrace change. CIOs need to encourage risk-taking while providing guardrails to keep deployments on track.  Continue Reading

• Capital One machine learning strategy taps MLOps

  The financial services company harnesses ML for several use cases and aims to deploy the technology at scale through standardized infrastructure and the MLOps methodology.  Continue Reading

• Technology diffusion strategies for CIOs and the VC mindset

  Whether a technology investment pays off depends in large part on how fast and widely it's adopted. CIOs can take a page from the VC playbook to improve the odds of success.  Continue Reading

• How to lower IT's digital carbon footprint

  Digital technologies have a hidden environmental cost that too-few leaders have on their radar. Learn which technologies have a digital carbon footprint and what IT can do to help.  Continue Reading

• Let EAs lead your enterprise sustainability strategy

  Enterprise architects are well positioned to advise the CIO when it comes to the sustainability strategy. Their choices cut across the corporate infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• How companies can overcome the IT worker shortage

  Research shows organizations are still struggling to bring in IT talent. We identify the reasons why there's a shortage and what CIOs and other IT leaders can do to combat it.  Continue Reading

• Venture capital mindset helps CIOs deal with tech deluge

  As CIOs and CISOs push for innovation, mindset changes might be in order. They can take a cue from VCs and think about ideation funnels and technology investment portfolios.  Continue Reading

• 4 sustainability leadership tips from Impossible Foods founder

  Impossible Foods' Patrick Brown is proof that a focus on climate action can drive market success. Here are four sustainability mindset tips that IT leaders can use for themselves.  Continue Reading

• Why companies should be sustainable and how IT can help

  Pressure is mounting for the business sector to address its environmental footprint and become more sustainable. Here's a look the key drivers and how technology can help.  Continue Reading

• How to make the right business case for a tech spend

  CIOs should help evaluate management goals to support long-term strategy. Learn how IT can assist business objectives and justify tech spending with a business case.  Continue Reading

• Business-led IT strategy casts shadow IT in more positive light

  Traditional shadow IT is giving way to business-led technology deployments that have the IT department's approval. But CIOs must manage the process to avoid problems.  Continue Reading

• ESG for IT: How CIOs can drive environmental sustainability

  Sustainability as a business initiative has rocketed up the priority list as investors, consumers and legislators demand accountability from businesses. Here's how IT can help.  Continue Reading

• The effect of digital transformation on the CIO job

  Digitization and digital transformation sound similar, but they couldn't be more different in what they demand from CIOs, explains Genpact's Sanjay Srivastava.  Continue Reading

• Instilling a culture of digital transformation

  Communities of practice, agile methods, cross-functional teams and platform strategies rank among the methods IT leaders use to institutionalize change and create a culture of digital transformation.  Continue Reading

• Environmental sustainability considerations for IT teams

  With customers, employees and investors pressuring companies to go green, IT needs to take a lead on sustainability. Learn some of the ways IT can make progress.  Continue Reading

• Laggards, leaders face digital transformation challenges

  No one can relax in digital business: Those trailing behind must conquer the basics to get on the innovation path, while successful firms must endeavor to stay there.  Continue Reading

• CIOs share advice on leading through disruption

  Discover how a focus on three areas -- cybersecurity, employee experience and proactive management -- can help CIOs plan for and better manage disruptions.  Continue Reading

• Should your digital transformation include gamified apps?

  Gamification means more than adding AI or video to apps, or even offering badges and prizes. See how behavioral psychology can engage, motivate and help your audience learn.  Continue Reading

• Liberty Mutual CIO tackles digital transformation complexity

  Liberty Mutual's CIO discusses the difficulty of moving the global insurer to the cloud, shares why a focus on ethical AI is important and weighs in on workplace flexibility.  Continue Reading

• What is IT-business alignment and why is it important?

  It's more important than ever that IT and the business operate from the same playbook. So why do so many organizations struggle to achieve IT-business alignment?  Continue Reading

• How IT leaders can drive digital innovation

  More CEOs want their CIOs and CDOs to think strategically and help transform their organizations' products and services. Learn how some top IT leaders are tackling this challenge.  Continue Reading

• Cloud-first strategy forces big shift on IT infrastructure, skills

  More and more, IT infrastructure is in the cloud. As organizations adopt cloud-first strategies, forward-looking CIOs are refocusing their teams on new roles and tasks.  Continue Reading

• Bolstered BPMN standard is core of new BPM+ ecosystem

  BPMN, now part of the expansive BPM+ ecosystem, has been updated with new capabilities to handle complex business processes and the use of advanced technologies.  Continue Reading

• The CIO's key role in environmental sustainability

  With climate concerns growing by the day, technology leaders are critical to driving sustainability initiatives. Here's advice on getting those started and aligning with the business.  Continue Reading

• Digital transformation projects rekindle innovation, for now

  IT leaders began the year with the wind at their backs, building on investments made during the pandemic and focusing anew on innovation. Can it last amid the fog of war?  Continue Reading

• Sustainability in business practices: What IT should know

  Bjoern Stengel, global sustainability research lead at IDC discusses the trends he's seeing in the use of sustainable tools and technologies and what leaders need to focus on.  Continue Reading

• Creating a more sustainable IT department

  Technology leaders share some of the ways they're focused on lowering their carbon footprint and helping their companies advance sustainability goals.  Continue Reading

• CIOs: Nominate your IT services partners for project award

  Here's your opportunity to recognize an MSP, IT consultancy, systems integrator or other tech service provider that made a difference to your organization in 2021.  Continue Reading

• Top 10 edge computing use cases and examples

  The move to edge computing will increase over the next few years. Here, we list the areas where it's proving to deliver high value.  Continue Reading

• C-suites need to prioritize sustainability, climate change plans

  Government regulations are one driving force behind business sustainability and climate change efforts. Following the UN COP26, businesses should be prepared for more regulation.  Continue Reading

• Evaluating the benefits of 5G for businesses

  With its high speeds, low latency and other advantages, 5G is delivering value in the enterprise. Now, business leaders view the new wireless technology as key to future success.  Continue Reading

• Edge-to-cloud architecture turns key for digital initiatives

  Enterprises pursuing digital transformation initiatives may need to reexamine their infrastructure architecture to bring compute and storage closer to data generated at the edge.  Continue Reading

• HealthBridge Financial banks on AWS, Boomi to build business

  Startup HealthBridge Financial used cloud-only infrastructure and Boomi's iPaaS to launch and scale its business of providing a second-payer benefit option for employers.  Continue Reading

• What CIOs need to know about digital experience monitoring

  As evaluating user and employee digital experience becomes more common, CIOs need to learn how the technologies work and what they stand to gain by implementing DEM.  Continue Reading

• RPA vs. cognitive automation: What are the key differences?

  CIOs are now relying on cognitive automation and RPA to improve business processes more than ever before. Here are the important distinctions between the two technologies.  Continue Reading

• Hybrid care is healthcare's future

  Hybrid care is neither digital nor physical, neither in-office nor at home. Instead, it's a little of everything, and one health IT leader thinks it's where healthcare is headed.  Continue Reading

• Enterprise architecture has business's ear at Scottish Water

  Scottish Water's enterprise architecture team leader discusses how engaging with business leaders and software tools can help with digital transformation initiatives.  Continue Reading

• Racial, gender diversity in tech improving at a glacial pace

  The tech industry has made some progress in improving gender diversity in recent years, but some populations have been excluded from this progress.  Continue Reading

• What CIOs need to know about the future of hyperautomation

  Appian founder and CEO Matt Calkins dives into the benefits of hyperautomation and how unifying technologies will ultimately help enterprises achieve success in today's digital age.  Continue Reading

• Experts predict hot enterprise architecture trends for 2021

  IT architecture trends to watch in 2021 include organizing business around components and expanding tools to focus on business outcomes, automation and analytics.  Continue Reading

• What CIOs need to know about RPA in IT operations

  We have yet to see a big investment in RPA for IT operations, but that could change as experts identify it as an area that can yield significant benefits for CIOs and their departments.  Continue Reading

• C-suite execs give future technology predictions for the decade

  What will keep CIOs busy this decade? From machine learning to cybersecurity, IT leaders are providing insights on technologies they predict will be accelerated over the next 10 years.  Continue Reading

• Private 5G companies show major potential

  Companies across several vectors are deploying their own private 5G networks to solve business challenges. Here, experts dive into the areas where they're showing the most potential.  Continue Reading

• Top private 5G use cases and benefits in the enterprise

  Although 5G is still years away from mainstream adoption, some enterprises have started rolling out use cases that can deliver significant ROI by transforming private networking infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• How to hire a data scientist with AI skills during pandemic

  As organizations ramp up their AI efforts during the pandemic and as they return to the workplace, IT leaders are now prioritizing how to find workers with the right AI skills.  Continue Reading

• Use of virtual digital assistants for enterprise applications

  Virtual assistants are increasingly becoming popular across several industries. Read about how enterprises are utilizing them to combat shortcomings, particularly during the pandemic.  Continue Reading

• The rise of 'modern applications': Why you need them

  Flexible, scalable, user-friendly and predominantly cloud-based, modern applications are built for change. Read about the features of modern apps and why your company needs them.  Continue Reading

• Tech's racial diversity problem meets its day of reckoning

  Tech's diversity problem is under intense scrutiny amid national protests over systemic racism. But the solution goes well beyond simply hiring more people of color.  Continue Reading

• Involve your security team in the decision-making process

  It's time for businesses to include security teams in project planning -- even when it's not cybersecurity related -- because their experience provides diverse insights that might otherwise be missed.  Continue Reading

• Leaders discuss challenges, strategies for women in IT

  Women in tech still face challenges, including finding opportunities for advancement and management support. A recent panel of women in IT leadership roles discussed the challenges.  Continue Reading

• What is the future of hybrid cloud for businesses?

  Many organizations today are still having difficulty moving their entire workloads off premises and into the cloud. Here, we examine how they can benefit from a hybrid environment.  Continue Reading

• 4 steps to turn real-time data streams into business value

  Data is the currency of today's business success. This framework helps your organization use available data sources to create new product and services.  Continue Reading

• Emotion AI shows promise for IT leaders in the enterprise

  Although still in its infancy, experts have no doubt that artificial emotional intelligence will be of great value. Here's why your organization should develop a strategy.  Continue Reading

• RPA bots: Messy tech that might upend the software business

  RPA invisible robots are opening the doors for CIOs and other IT leaders to think about new ways to automate business processes within their organizations. Here's how.  Continue Reading

• How data science can help your company withstand the pandemic

  The COVID-19 pandemic is adversely affecting businesses worldwide, but data science can help you solve immediate problems and create data-driven strategies for the long term.  Continue Reading

• Edge computing use cases must be driven by business value

  For Schneider Electric and many other large enterprises that take a look at edge computing projects, the main criterion for success is whether the technology delivers business value.  Continue Reading

• Edge computing architecture takes on a partner ecosystem

  Experts believe edge computing will bring significant change to organizational IT infrastructure, but how? Read on to learn more about the rapid growing interest in the architecture.  Continue Reading

• How one CIO overcame the challenges of shadow apps

  CIO John Rathje explains how he's tackling shadow IT challenges in the recruiting admissions process at Kent State by deploying a data integration tier that supports data movement.  Continue Reading

• 4 steps to a blockchain implementation

  If you're not experimenting with blockchain, you're behind the curve. Our step-by-step guide on implementing blockchain dissects the challenges, best practices and payoffs.  Continue Reading

• AI in IT infrastructure transforms how work gets done

  Cutting through the hype around AI has become a major job for IT leaders. Our in-depth guide on where and how to add AI to your IT infrastructure will help.  Continue Reading

• Build a digital transformation strategy with software at its core

  What is a winning digital transformation strategy? For many companies, it starts with an overhaul of their software environments. Our comprehensive guide explains how it's done.  Continue Reading

• The shift to edge computing is happening fast -- here's why

  Whether you call it the Fourth Industrial Revolution or digital transformation, enterprise IT is being changed fast, and forever, and edge computing is a big reason why.  Continue Reading

• High-performance computing use cases and benefits in business

  High-performance computing has moved from the rarified realm of research and government and into the enterprise. Learn how systems are evolving to handle data and deliver profit.  Continue Reading

• 5 cloud computing predictions, trends for 2019

  From rapid multi-cloud adoption to enterprises getting smarter about workload migration strategies, experts sound off on key cloud computing trends to watch out for in 2019.  Continue Reading

• A tour through the PPM software marketplace

  Finding the right PPM software is vital to project success. Here's a close look at the market leaders.  Continue Reading

• Top 10 SearchCIO videos: IT industry leaders share DX advice

  Get digital transformation strategy advice from IT industry leaders in this roundup of our top 10 most popular SearchCIO videos from 2018.  Continue Reading

• Sysco's network backbone spans clouds, speeds data

  Food for thought: Sysco worked with interconnection company Equinix to create a backbone that brings together Equinix data centers, Sysco data centers and cloud service providers.  Continue Reading

• The key features of project and portfolio management software

  Cloud or on premises? Does it have the proper collaboration features? How about mobile access? When buying PPM software, these are just some of the questions businesses should ask.  Continue Reading

• Lumentum CIO talks building an enterprise cloud computing strategy

  A well-defined plan is essential as cloud adoption becomes a business necessity. In this Q&A, CIO Ralph Loura sounds off on the must-haves for any enterprise cloud computing strategy.  Continue Reading

• Benefits of PPM software include reduced failure rates

  PPM software provides organizations a greater insight into projects, enabling decision-makers to better manage and prioritize projects, as well as allocate resources.  Continue Reading

• How one CTO is building a plan for legacy code replacement

  Legacy code removal leads 2019 digital transformation plans for CTO Niel Nickolaisen. Learn how his team is prepping for the implementation of a new codebase.  Continue Reading

• How WPI uses AI in ITSM to improve help desk support

  WPI is using AI in ITSM to route help desk tickets to the most qualified technicians. ITSM automation of this ilk helps users and IT-- but it requires some handholding.  Continue Reading