Evan Schuman has covered IT issues for a lot longer than he'll ever admit. The founding editor of retail technology site StorefrontBacktalk, he's been a columnist for CBSNews.com, RetailWeek, Computerworld, and eWeek, and his byline has appeared in titles ranging from BusinessWeek, VentureBeat, and Fortune to The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Detroit News, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Evan is a frequent contributor to CIO, CSO, Network World and InfoWorld.
Evan won a gold 2025 AZBEE award in the Enterprise News category for this story: Design flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
He can be reached at eschuman@thecontentfirm.com and he can be followed on LinkedIn.
The reasons behind the move were global and complex, but for CIOs, it raises frightening new risks, where cloud or SaaS vendors can cut a company off with no warning.
The judge allowed parts of the case to proceed to trial, but pushed back against accusations that SAP was inappropriately denying a rival access to customer data.
The deal, which has been in the works for more than a year, will deliver a ton of new data for Salesforce users, but the implications for Informatica users are less clear.
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CISPE's cloud investment is intended to give businesses a Euro choice that is "immune to disruption, access and potential removal by foreign actors.”
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.
The world’s largest software company paid a mere €54,000 to join CISPE as a non-voting member, but Amazon still voted to block Microsoft from joining at all.
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