Winter 2019: State of the CIO

[ Register to view the CIO Winter 2019 digital magazine ] Welcome to the Winter 2019 digital issue of CIO featuring our annual State of the CIO research. In these pages, you’ll learn how (and why) the top IT leadership role is evolving as CIOs take on new responsibilities, how CIOs are successfully working with…

Secrets of revenue-generating CIOs

Facing disruption on several fronts, companies are under pressure to build new digital products and services that generate top-line growth. Who better to build these capabilities than CIOs, who have an array of emerging technologies at their disposal? Welcome to the age of the revenue-generating CIO. According to IDG’s 2019 State of the CIO survey,…

UCSD shifts from Cobol to real-time data streaming

The University of California San Diego has a Cobol problem. Its three big applications for tracking finance, payroll and students have been running on mainframes since the 1990s. Their Cobol cores are getting old, and the accretion of bolt-on features is fragmenting data and processes and making them brittle and hard to maintain. Cobol developers…