Between the host of regulations introduced in the wake of the 2009 subprime mortgage crisis, the emergence of thousands of fintech startups, and shifting consumer preferences for digital payments banking, financial services companies have had plenty of change to contend with over the past decade. Transitioning to automated, data-driven processes is the best way for…
IBM is acquiring software provider Apptio for $4.6 billion to help enterprises optimize their IT expenditure, particularly cloud costs, as they try to navigate uncertain macroeconomic conditions. Apptio specializes in what has been called technology business management (TBM), or more recently, financial operations (also known as finops) software, designed to allow diverse teams in a business…
Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Meyercord parlayed an engineering degree into a two-decade consulting track at Accenture, where a focus on large-scale transformation…
By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Bill Gates has seen (or, for that matter, caused) some profound advances in technology, so I don’t take a contrarian position lightly, but I think the way he describes his epiphany about the importance of AI is only half right. After being “awed” by OpenAI’s GPT model…