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Java is dead: Long live Java!

Java defies the hype cycle, thriving at 30 with unmatched enterprise trust, modern AI integration, and a vibrant, global developer community.

By Karina Varela and Otavio Santana

Jul 29, 2025 17 mins

Developer Java Technology Industry

7 enterprise cloud strategy trends shaking up IT today

The cloud is moving rapidly in new directions. Here’s a rundown of the latest top strategy trends.

By John Edwards

Jul 29, 2025 7 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Management Cloud Security

FMC brings more predictability to farming with pest control mobile app

The agricultural sciences company is bringing precision agriculture to the field, using a variety of data to help farmers decide when to apply insecticides and other crop treatments.

By Grant Gross

Jul 29, 2025 5 mins

Agriculture Industry CIO 100 Mobile Development

How SAP S/4HANA powers the sustainable enterprise

Sustainability isn’t a side hustle — SAP S/4HANA makes it the engine of innovation, profit and future-proofing your entire enterprise.

By Vipin Jain

Jul 28, 2025 16 mins

ERP Systems Green IT SAP

The Premier League transforms the fan experience with AI

With help from partner Microsoft, the Premier League is leveraging AI to power fan engagement, modernize its digital infrastructure, and transform broadcast match analysis and organizational operations.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 28, 2025 7 mins

Analytics CIO des Jahres Digital Transformation

Kieran Gilmurray: AI strategy without purpose is pointless

Kieran Gilmurray, whose company was recently named one of the Top 50 thought-leading companies on agentic AI in 2025, discusses the importance of foresight, ethics, and business impact.

By Tabish Ali

Jul 28, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Strategy

What the CIO role will look like in 2028

The emergence of AI marks a point of inflection in the evolution of the top tech exec position, with greater strategic responsibilities and career growth on the horizon for those who embrace the challenge that change brings.

By Mary K. Pratt

Jul 28, 2025 10 mins

Business IT Alignment CIO IT Leadership

AI governance gaps: Why enterprise readiness still lags behind innovation

Enterprises are racing to deploy AI — but without real governance, they're flying blind and putting the whole ecosystem at risk.

By David Talby

Jul 25, 2025 6 mins

Data Governance IT Governance IT Governance Frameworks

Designing for humans: Why most enterprise adoptions of AI fail

AI won't save your business if no one trusts it. Ditch the hype, fix the culture and stop choking innovation with red tape.

By Mark Greville

Jul 25, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation Staff Management

UPS transforms air cargo operations with data, AI

Digital asset tracking and advanced communications are helping the global shipping company leverage AI and ML at its Worldport air hub to reduce costs, improve on-time performance, enhance operational safety, and deliver a better CX.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 25, 2025 6 mins

CIO CIO 100 Transportation and Logistics Industry

Hard lessons from a chaotic transformation

Persistence pays off after three years of digital and cultural change at a tourism giant.

By Jean-Loup Richet

Jul 25, 2025 9 mins

Change Management Digital Transformation IT Strategy

The missing backbone behind your stalled AI strategy

Without a formal AI CoE, most organizations stall at experimentation; this is the blueprint for building the structure that drives scale.

By Michael Bertha and Chris Davis

Jul 24, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Operations

Cultivating performance through fun: a case study of IT culture transformation at Wieland Group

The 125-member IT team has put in place a deliberate evolution of culture that focuses on enjoyment of work, scrum-based autonomous operations, and agile leadership.

By Eveline Oehrlich, director of IDC Executive Advisory

Jul 24, 2025 11 mins

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

CAIOs drive better AI results, but companies still lag on AI leadership

Organizational AI maturity matters. Dedicated leadership, strong governance, and strategic use of metrics can improve results and set the foundation for long-term AI success.

By Grant Gross

Jul 24, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Strategy

Colonial Pipeline’s Afshean Talasaz on decision-making at the speed of AI

Today’s IT execs face a relentless pace of technology and business change. An intentional approach to executive decision-making can help ensure better business outcomes amid constant disruption.

By Dan Roberts

Jul 24, 2025 10 mins

Business IT Alignment Critical Infrastructure IT Leadership

Join our live discussion – CIO Essential Insights: IT Leadership in the Age of AI

Join host John Gallant and a panel of expert CIOs to share the latest essential research data for CIOs – this month focusing on IT leadership and building the AI-ready organization. Find out how CIOs are balancing innovation with operational demands,

By Matt Egan

Jul 24, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership

Microsoft Fabric to lose auto-generated semantic models

Microsoft is moving more of the data governance workload to users, but says that this will lead to greater accountability and transparency.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Jul 23, 2025 5 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence Data Warehousing

Data infrastructure: The missing link in successful AI adoption

You can’t fuel AI with outdated pipes. Without the right data infrastructure, even the smartest AI is just guessing.

By Matheus Dellagnelo

Jul 23, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Architecture Data Quality

Navigating the crunch point: Volatility and change in manufacturing

Manufacturing’s under fire — AI could be the lifeline, but only if leaders can outrun chaos, outsmart cyber threats and win over a wary workforce.

By Andy Stump

Jul 23, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Digital Transformation Manufacturing Industry

The 10 fastest growing US tech hubs for IT talent

You don’t need to move to Silicon Valley to cash in on the boom for IT talent. These 10 US cities are among the fastest growing tech hubs, according to CompTIA.

By Sarah White

Jul 23, 2025 7 mins

Careers IT Skills Salaries

Is AI overload leaving your organization drowning in insight?

Decision-makers have access to more information than ever. But digital leaders must set expectations about the right pace, and place, to exploit disparate data sources to achieve winning results.

By Mark Samuels

Jul 23, 2025 9 mins

CIO Data Quality Generative AI

The NFL’s winning AI game plan

CIO Gary Brantley discusses building AI capabilities across every aspect of the league's operations.

By Martha Heller

Jul 23, 2025 7 mins

CIO Data Quality Generative AI

The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

When Hewlett Packard bought knowledge management software firm Autonomy, it didn’t realize it was buying into a multibillion accounting cover-up. Shareholders sued HP, which sued Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, and the cases took years to reach a conc

By Peter Sayer

Jul 22, 2025 11 mins

HP HPE Mergers and Acquisitions

The GRIT framework: A new definition of leadership

How growth, recognition, inspiration and trust can transform culture and performance

By Kamanasish Kundu

Jul 22, 2025 6 mins

IT Leadership Staff Management

The 90-day IT turnaround: Real-time dashboards that rescue failing projects

Why wait for disaster? Real-time dashboards can turn failing IT projects around in just 90 days — if you act fast and embrace the data.

By Vivek Singh

Jul 22, 2025 8 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence Project Management

7 things you need to know about AI and the data center

AI and machine learning are gradually taking over routine and advanced tasks. Will managers and staff be locked out?

By Josh Fruhlinger

Jul 22, 2025 13 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Center

Buyer’s remorse: What to do when an IT purchase isn’t a great fit

Due diligence sometimes doesn’t fully pan out in staving off purchase regret. By acting quickly to leverage out clauses and renegotiation opportunities, CIOs can make the best of a difficult situation.

By Mary Shacklett

Jul 22, 2025 6 mins

Budgeting IT Strategy Infrastructure Management

Your enterprise business needs an AI policy. Here’s how to build it out

Hint: It’s not about restriction — It’s about managing risk

By Arti Deshpande, Robert Stines and Mike Vaughan

Jul 21, 2025 7 mins

Legal Regulation Risk Management

Human and machine: Rediscovering our humanity in the age of AI

As machines master our tasks, the real question is: Will we forget what makes us human — or fight to keep it alive?

By Kathy Pham

Jul 21, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership Staff Management

Rethinking and realigning IT for the AI era

CIOs from a range of industries discuss how AI’s emergence as a transformative force is leading them to adapt and reimagine how IT operates to better harness the technology’s potential to revolutionize their business.

By Esther Shein

Jul 21, 2025 12 mins

Business IT Alignment Change Management IT Strategy

Textron takes flight with gen AI

By leading with trust and experimentation, the aerospace and defense manufacturer launched a gen AI initiative that’s transforming frontline operations and redefining enterprise innovation.

By Michael Bertha

Jul 21, 2025 5 mins

Aerospace and Defense Industry CIO Generative AI

31% of employees are ‘sabotaging’ your gen AI strategy

Asked one major industry analyst: ‘Who is going to be motivated to adopt if they know the intent is to replace them?’

By Evan Schuman

Jul 21, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Training Staff Management

Zoho unveils Zia LLM stack, ASR models, and Agent Studio in major AI push

The company’s full-stack AI strategy includes proprietary LLMs, speech recognition in English and Hindi, and a context-aware agent platform, marking a shift from SaaS to AI-first.

By Nidhi Singal

Jul 18, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Applications

Autonomous AI agents = Autonomous security risk

AI agents move fast — too fast for your current security. Without action, they’ll crack your systems wide open before you even see them coming.

By Jason Martin

Jul 18, 2025 6 mins

Cyberattacks Network Security Security Operations Center

Connecting global IT strategy with localization at Mercedes-Benz Korea

At the Korean branch of the German automotive giant, CIO Fares Kamal leads an IT organization that bridges diverse cultures and business environments to harmonize differences. And his leadership offers fresh insights for those navigating similar comp

By 이지현

Jul 18, 2025 8 mins

Automotive Industry CIO Manufacturing Industry

Accenture reimagines IT operations with agentic AI

The global consulting firm has built an AI-powered integration platform to support IT operations.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 18, 2025 6 mins

Accenture CIO CIO 100

How to beat the odds in tech transformation

Most tech transformations fail — unless you dare to go big, get personal and prove you're worth the disruption from day one.

By Venkat Achanta

Jul 17, 2025 8 mins

Digital Transformation IT Leadership IT Strategy

10 most powerful ERP vendors today

AI is reshaping the enterprise resource planning (ERP) landscape, as vendors seek to harness the technology to help their customers improve operations, achieve efficiencies, and innovate.

By Neal Weinberg

Jul 17, 2025 14 mins

ERP Systems Technology Industry

The cross-functional communication required to deal with short certificate lifecycles

No one has truly solved certificate revocation, so the industry has given up and replaced it with shorter, more tightly defined certs. Now more than ever, CIOs need to keep the conversations going.

By Mary Branscombe

Jul 17, 2025 8 mins

CIO Certifications Vendor Management

4 leadership paradoxes that define AI adoption

Balancing speed and security, innovation and stability, talent and compliance, ethics and efficiency.

By Maman Ibrahim

Jul 16, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership IT Strategy

Applying agentic AI to legacy systems? Prepare for these 4 challenges

Think agentic AI will magically fix your legacy systems? Think again — without strategy, it’s a high-risk, high-cost gamble.

By Kausik Chaudhuri

Jul 16, 2025 6 mins

Data Privacy Digital Transformation ERP Systems

IT leaders find quick wins when adapting cloud strategies to gen AI

Where and how you process data can make or break your gen AI initiatives.

By Pat Brans

Jul 16, 2025 9 mins

Budgeting CIO Generative AI

Moving AI workloads off the cloud? A hefty data center retrofit awaits

Data security and cost control have IT leaders rethinking AI in the public cloud. But prepping a local data center for AI can be expensive and involved, with more infrastructure needed than a couple of GPUs.

By Grant Gross

Jul 16, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Center Data Center Design

EU guidelines on AI use met with massive criticism

As soon as the EU published its Code of Conduct on the use of AI as a supplement to the EU AI Act, criticism rained down from all sides — with the enforcement deadline two weeks away.

By Jürgen Hill

Jul 16, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Government Regulation

AI drives data center boom as CIOs hit pause on net-new IT spend

Gartner predicts 2025 data center spending will continue despite pause in other areas due to political uncertainty.

By Paul Barker

Jul 15, 2025 5 mins

Budgeting IT Strategy Technology Industry

SAP seeks to cut 80% of your data management work

As SAP’s Business Data Cloud (BDC) rolls out internationally, customers can start taking advantage of SAP’s new strategy for supporting business innovation through data integration, according to the company’s data and analytics CPO.

By 이지현

Jul 15, 2025 4 mins

SAP

Beyond uptime: How we redefined observability to protect performance, profits and people

What’s the point of speed if your engineers burn out? True observability means optimizing for performance, profits — and the people behind it all.

By Rahul Chandel

Jul 15, 2025 7 mins

IT Leadership ROI and Metrics Staff Management

Lighting the first flame: How to spark a transformation that sticks

Starting a transformation can feel like starting a campfire. Here’s how to make sure it catches.

By Michael Bertha

Jul 15, 2025 7 mins

Digital Transformation IT Leadership

AI agent orchestration: The CIO’s crucial next step

As companies deploy dozens of AI agents and LLMs, they will need to control and connect them all through an orchestration and integration platform, experts say.

By Grant Gross

Jul 15, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Business Process Management IT Strategy