Microsoft’s plan to acquire games developer Activision Blizzard, announced Jan. 18, isn’t just about gaming; it has consequences for CIOs, too. The $68.7 billion value the deal puts on Activision Blizzard is only about 3% of Microsoft’s market capitalization, and the two companies have sales and net incomes in similar proportion, so it’s not going…
By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software The role of the CEO is one that is constantly changing—a fact that I am intimately aware of as the second-ever CEO of Rocket Software. As the lines between technology and business become increasingly blurred, it’s critical that leaders have both the technical and business prowess to drive positive…
Today’s enterprises face a number of large, global business challenges that are making it difficult to successfully do business. Staffing shortages are growing rapidly as millions of employees across industries are resigning in the so-called “great resignation,” others are transitioning to part-time work, and more are out due to illness. The staffing issue is especially…
When we at Boomi talk about integrated experiences, we’re really speaking about the vision we see possible to help our customers fulfill wishes — to provide a seamless, friction-free personal experience to the user, whoever they are. It’s hard to imagine there’s anyone out there who doesn’t want to make their end user’s life easier.…
The concept of “onboarding” has been around since long before the term was created in the 1970s. Also known as “organizational socialization,” onboarding refers to the process of bringing on board a new employee, getting them signed up, logged in, and prepared for the job for which they’ve been hired. Yet in the hyperconnected world…
When COVID lockdowns first hit in early 2020, large Australian travel agency group Flight Centre’s $20 billion in global revenues disappeared overnight. At the time, CIO Chris Locke was responsible for the organisation’s 250 IT staff in Australia and New Zealand with an annual technology budget of $85 million. Sadly, 70 contract and 90 permanent…
There’s been another small eruption in a long-dormant legal battle between Oracle and Rimini Street, a company that provides third-party support services to Oracle customers. The dispute concerns Rimini’s use of Oracle’s files to support their joint customers, and could put off companies considering using Rimini’s alternative to Oracle’s support for legacy PeopleSoft, JD Edwards,…
With Covid continuing to push out return-to-office plans, IT leaders find themselves challenged to plan for what comes next. The good news, says Tony Caesar, head of IT for Ericsson’s Market Area North America, is that all organizations are in the same boat and have the same opportunities to learn from each other. CIO.com’s Maryfran…
AI adoption is on the rise. According to a recent McKinsey survey, 55% of companies use artificial intelligence in at least one function, and 27% attribute at least 5% of earnings before interest and taxes to AI, much of that in the form of cost savings. As AI will dramatically transform nearly every industry it…
Some could argue that moving from being the CIO of one of the largest sporting brands on the planet to the CTO of a cigarettes company is an unusual move, if only on the assumption that their ideals and objectives are surely in stark contrast. But try telling that to Philip Morris International’s forthright CDIO…