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3 steps to get your data AI ready

Most IT leaders will find it impossible to increase their adoption of AI with the data management practices they have in place now.

By Pat Brans

Mar 26, 2025 8 mins

CIO Cloud Management Generative AI

The vision behind restructuring OKQ8’s IT department

According to Clas Artvin, the Swedish fuel company’s CIO, embracing digitalization isn’t only better for business, but essential to brand identity considering the massive shifts taking place in the industry.

By Karin Lindström

Mar 26, 2025 5 mins

Agile Development CIO Mining, Oil, and Gas

The EU AI Act is here. Are you prepared for it?

With the right strategy and the appropriate services, you can reduce the risks of compliance violations…and increase efficiency at the same time.

By Catrin Schreiner

Mar 25, 2025 7 mins

Generative AI Legal Regulation

7 types of tech debt that could cripple your business

IT leaders need to look beyond legacy systems to see what’s really holding their IT agendas back from delivering transformative results.

By Isaac Sacolick

Mar 25, 2025 10 mins

Devops Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy

2025 CIO Hall of Fame honorees

Meet the CIOs enshrined in the CIO Hall of Fame — from the Class of 1997 to the Class of 2025.

By CIO US Events

Mar 25, 2025 12 mins

CIO CIO 100 Technology Industry

88% of AI pilots fail to reach production — but that’s not all on IT

Unclear objectives, insufficient data readiness, and a lack of in-house expertise are sinking many AI proofs of concept. So too are zealous POC greenlighting and misguided pressure from the top.

By Evan Schuman

Mar 25, 2025 4 mins

Business IT Alignment IT Strategy Innovation

2025 US CIO 100 winners: Celebrating IT innovation and leadership

The CIO 100 celebrates 100 IT organizations for driving digital business growth through technology innovation. Honorees will be recognized at the annual CIO 100 Symposium & Awards Ceremony in August.

By CIO US Events

Mar 24, 2025 4 mins

CIO 100 Foundry Events Innovation

Will AI erode IT talent pipelines?

IT leaders’ talent strategies hinge in large part on upskilling entry-level workers. The debate over AI replacing roles versus replacing tasks sheds light on how that traditional pipeline will change as AI’s capabilities advance.

By Mary K. Pratt

Mar 24, 2025 9 mins

Hiring IT Training Staff Management

QueerTech empowers queer technologists to thrive in tech

QueerTech brings together LGBTQ+ technologists to foster community, gain confidence in professional and leadership skills, and build networks within the tech community.

By Sarah White

Mar 24, 2025 8 mins

Careers IT Skills Nonprofits

SAP customers struggle with S/4HANA migration

According to a recent Horváth study, more than 60% of companies experience deviations in budget, schedule, and result quality during S/4HANA migration.

By Manfred Bremmer

Mar 24, 2025 4 mins

ERP Systems SAP

Chart Industries turns to NaaS to solve multicloud merger challenge

After acquiring UK-based Howden, the US gas liquefaction company turned to networking-as-a-service to interconnect its expanded global-site footprint’s reliance on multiple clouds.

By Paula Rooney

Mar 21, 2025 6 mins

Digital Transformation Energy Industry Manufacturing Industry

What is predictive analytics? Transforming data into future insights

Predictive analytics and predictive AI can help your organization forecast outcomes based on historical data and analytics techniques.

By John Edwards and Thor Olavsrud

Mar 21, 2025 15 mins

Artificial Intelligence Predictive Analytics

SAP CEO Christian Klein predicts manual data entry will disappear from SAP by 2027

Celebrating the software giant’s 30th anniversary in Korea, Klein announced plans to extend SAP’s AI assistant to the Korean market with bold pronouncements about user productivity.

By 이지현

Mar 20, 2025 3 mins

ERP Systems Generative AI SAP

Beyond ChatGPT: Secret robotics plans and the $38 billion humanoid revolution

In the global competition for AI and humanoid robots, OpenAI, Nvidia, Tesla and Chinese companies are setting new standards. Advances in language models and AI systems are shaping the development of intelligent machines for industry and everyday life

By Jan Burian

Mar 20, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Robotics

Why women leave your IT organization — and how to help reverse that talent drain

A wide range of contributing factors has women of every IT rank eyeing the exit. Here’s what is causing them to reconsider their roles, employment, and profession, and what IT leaders can do about it.

By Mary K. Pratt

Mar 20, 2025 10 mins

Careers Staff Management Women in IT

Why cloud is integral to Japan Rugby Football Union’s media strategy

Since Japan hosted the 2019 Rugby World Cup, the JRFU has launched the Japan Rugby 2050 initiative to raise the global appeal of Japanese rugby. One aspect of it is a robust, cloud-based approach to media to achieve better efficiencies.

By Yoko Sueoka

Mar 20, 2025 6 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Architecture ICT Partners

China banks on open source in AI cold war with US

Beijing is stepping up the pace of AI development by betting on open-source code.

By Daniel Olszewski

Mar 20, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Oracle’s AI Agent Studio is free for Fusion Cloud customers

The offering is expected to automate business processes, reducing manual effort and improving efficiency without heavy development overhead.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 20, 2025 7 mins

Enterprise Applications Generative AI Oracle

The evolving landscape of network security in 2025

Security becomes more pervasive as AI, cloud, quantum, and space take enterprise networks beyond the limits where no corporate data has gone before.

By Ed Fox

Mar 19, 2025 4 mins

Network Security Security

Why CDOs should prioritize ESG in data strategy

Chief data officers: ESG data's not a side quest. Your data's green footprint — or lack thereof — defines your future. Lead now, or get left behind.

By Chitra Sundaram

Mar 19, 2025 14 mins

Chief Data Officer Data Governance IT Strategy

SAP introduces Joule for Developers

The AI coding assistant is trained in coding for SAP but is meant to be a helper, not to replace developers.

By Lynn Greiner

Mar 19, 2025 1 min

Developer SAP

5 top business use cases for AI agents

AI agents are poised to transform the enterprise landscape, from automating mundane tasks to driving customer service and innovation. But having strong guardrails in place will be key to success.

By Maria Korolov

Mar 19, 2025 14 mins

Generative AI Human Resources Microsoft

What’s driving the global common data capability at RGA

CIO Mark Brooks, his team, and peers are avoiding FOMO AI, and investing in a high-value data platform for the $19 billion life and health reinsurance provider.

By Martha Heller

Mar 19, 2025 7 mins

CIO Digital Transformation Generative AI

How automation forges a sense of community and purpose at 6sense

Bryan Wise, CIO of San Francisco-based software company 6sense, sat with CIO.com’s Lee Rennick at the CIO 100 Symposium and Awards to discuss the motivation behind the company’s award winning Automation Domination project to deliver proce

By CIO staff

Mar 19, 2025 6 mins

CIO Cloud Management Data Quality

Deloitte unveils agentic AI platform

Zora AI, Deloitte’s new agentic AI platform, offers a portfolio of digital agents for a wide range of departments across the enterprise.

By Thor Olavsrud

Mar 18, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Deloitte ICT Partners

Nvidia’s ‘hard pivot’ to AI reasoning bolsters Llama models for agentic AI

The company’s new Llama Nemotron family of reasoning models aim to help developers and enterprises build agentic AI platforms.

By Thor Olavsrud

Mar 18, 2025 4 mins

Generative AI Technology Industry

Adobe makes agentic AI push with Agent Orchestrator, purpose-built agents

Adobe seeks to make Adobe Experience Platform the foundation of a new wave of AI agents for marketers and creatives.

By Thor Olavsrud

Mar 18, 2025 3 mins

Adobe Systems Artificial Intelligence Data Management

Security is dead: Long live risk management

A CIO's guide to reimagining risk management in modern software development.

By Shawn McCarthy

Mar 18, 2025 19 mins

DevSecOps Network Security Zero Trust

9 key metrics for IT success

IT departments are swimming in metrics meant to measure their effectiveness, but this compact collection of essential KPIs provides a true foundation for measuring IT success.

By John Edwards

Mar 18, 2025 12 mins

IT Leadership IT Strategy

53% of IT leaders see AI replacing headcount — others question that approach

AI should be used to assist workers and allow them to work on more creative and complex tasks, instead of leading to unemployment, some IT experts say.

By Grant Gross

Mar 18, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Jobs Staff Management

Operational efficiency is not transformation

While operational efficiency can drive improvements, it often falls short of true transformation. To address this, many organizations are turning to transformation functions to bridge the ‘missing middle’—the strategic activities th

By Michael Bertha

Mar 17, 2025 6 mins

Business Operations

Celonis sues SAP for anti-competitive data access practices

The German startup Celonis has accused the software giant of abusing its market power to hinder competition — in particular, to give its own processing mining solution preferential treatment over third-party offerings.

By Martin Bayer

Mar 17, 2025 6 mins

ERP Systems Process Improvement SAP

11 surefire ways to fail with AI

From downplaying data management to underestimating the importance of measuring outcomes, too many AI projects suffer from key strategic oversights and mistakes.

By Bob Violino

Mar 17, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Business IT Alignment IT Strategy

5 ways for CIOs to deal with AI proliferation

To successfully contend with AI’s expansion and acceleration, CIOs need to foster a culture of responsible innovation across the enterprise.

By Nicholas D. Evans

Mar 17, 2025 8 mins

Generative AI ICT Partners IT Governance Frameworks

Europe can’t succeed in IT without overcoming its low self-confidence

We may not have anyone who can buy the next DeepMind, but it is still possible to hook onto important technology and promising companies.

By Marcus Jerräng

Mar 17, 2025 5 mins

Regulation Technology Industry

The dawn of agentic AI: Are we ready for autonomous technology?

Agentic AI has the power to think on its own, making caution essential. But with smart choices, we can transform autonomous technology into an incredible force for progress.

By Hal Lonas

Mar 14, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

A human firewall helps modern organizations create a resilient, adaptive security culture capable of responding smartly to emerging threats while maintaining optimal operational efficiency.

By Dipti Parmar

Mar 14, 2025 6 mins

Cybercrime Firewalls Security

Intel under Tan: What enterprise IT buyers need to know

The chip giant must try to maintain x86 dominance while adapting to AI-driven computing and emerging architectures.

By Prasanth Aby Thomas

Mar 14, 2025 1 min

Intel

How Tech Leaders Are Using AI to Solve 10 Procurement Challenges

We may be preaching to the CIO choir but hear us out: digital transformation doesn’t wait. What once took years can happen in a matter of days. The astonishing explosion of Generative AI is only accelerating this growth, ushering in the "A

By IDC

Mar 14, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence

CAIOs are stepping out from the CIO’s shadow

Many organizations might assume that newly minted chief AI officers’ responsibilities should fall under those of the CIO, but the reality of the role likely calls for a different approach.

By María Ramos Domínguez

Mar 14, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Business IT Alignment IT Leadership

Women in tech statistics: The hard truths of an uphill battle

Despite national conversations about gender diversity in the tech industry, women are still underrepresented, underpaid, and often discriminated against, numbers show.

By Sarah K. White

Mar 14, 2025 11 mins

Diversity and Inclusion Technology Industry Women in IT

Microsoft is set to hike its Power BI prices — will buyers jump ship or just take the hit?

The increases are set to take effect April 1, and seem to be a strategic push by Microsoft to get customers to move to its other platforms.

By Taryn Plumb

Mar 13, 2025 5 mins

Business Intelligence Microsoft Software Licensing

SAP patches severe vulnerabilities in NetWeaver and Commerce apps

The enterprise software vendor bundled 25 security patches into its March update, addressing flaws that impact middleware, interfaces, custom apps, and more.

By John Leyden

Mar 13, 2025 1 min

Enterprise Applications SAP Vulnerabilities

Why thinking like a tech company is essential for your business’s survival

Innovate, secure, adapt. AI's here: shape it or be shaped. The time to future-proof is now.

By Mike Vaughan and Arti Deshpande

Mar 13, 2025 8 mins

Generative AI Hiring IT Strategy

What CIOs need to secure beyond tech to successfully transform

One thing that unites CIOs is that transformation is achieved not with pure technology, but by managing change across the enterprise.

By Patrizia Licata

Mar 13, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Change Management Digital Transformation

IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

With the pace of gen AI adoption accelerating across all business sectors and functions, required skills are increasingly in demand — but the people out there able to meet needs are in short supply.

By Maria Korolov

Mar 13, 2025 14 mins

CIO Generative AI Hiring

T200: Empowering women to build C-level IT careers

The nonprofit organization emphasizes training, mentorship, and networking in its mission to elevate at least 200 women to C-suite tech roles. Through Tech4Good, we had a chance to work with four of T200’s emerging leaders.

By Dan Roberts

Mar 13, 2025 13 mins

Mentoring Nonprofits Women in IT

ServiceNow’s Yokohama platform release focuses on agentic AI

New AI-powered self-service sales portals could take ServiceNow deep into Salesforce territory.

By Lynn Greiner

Mar 12, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Applications ServiceNow

Multicloud: Tips for getting it right

If you are pursuing a multicloud strategy, you should carefully balance your requirements with the services offered. Here’s what to look for.

By Konrad Krafft

Mar 12, 2025 11 mins

Amazon Web Services IT Strategy Microsoft Azure

FinOps breaks out of the cloud

Having established its bona fides as a key methodology for cost control and workload optimization of public cloud services, FinOps is expanding into optimizing outcomes for private cloud, SaaS, licensing, AI, and even traditional data centers.

By Robert Mitchell

Mar 12, 2025 14 mins

CIO Fintech ICT Partners