Welcome to the golden age of experts. It’s hard to go anywhere in IT these days, physically or virtually, without bumping into someone offering IT advice. The problem, of course, is that many experts — even those affiliated with major organizations — are sometimes wrong. Or, more commonly, they might be right about some things…
One of India’s leading insurance companies, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, which offers insurance services to over 1100 towns and cities in India and serves close to 11 crore customers, has been making technological strides in the industry., driving industry leadership, digital transformation, and innovation. In an interview with CIO.com, KV Dipu, head of operations and…
One of the most important accountabilities of the modern CIO is data integrity. The corporation must be confident that the data it uses to make strategic business decisions is safe, accurate, and private. There is no question that the IT department and its CIO is ultimately responsible for assuring this is true. But ensuring data…
Oracle on Tuesday said it is opening its EU Sovereign Cloud for enterprises and government bodies to help them meet evolving data residency and privacy regulations — such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — while moving to the cloud. The new EU Sovereign Cloud will comprise two data regions or data centers…
In terms of what the pandemic hath wrought for IT teams, the rapid uptake of remote work lands near the top of the list of positive impacts. For some IT leaders, the increased comfort managing a digital tech workforce has opened the door to hiring professionals in far-flung locations. “There is no question that the…
When the COVID-19 pandemic started, Atlantic Health System, like other healthcare providers, found itself under enormous stress. In addition to dealing with patients suffering the effects of a new virus, healthcare providers had to contend with new care protocols, staffing issues, and supplies shortages spurred by the pandemic, all of which placed additional pressure on…
For MoneyGram International, migrating workloads from the mainframe to the cloud has been a boon for the bottom line — and a lifeline against increasing market disruption from digital money-transfer upstarts. As expected, operating in the cloud has enabled the 80-year-old company to significantly reduce the cost of running its data center in Minneapolis. It…
Hybrid work is here to stay, and it’s put the digital work experience (DEX) at the heart of every business operation. Yet many organizations are struggling to adapt their existing digital work experiences for today’s digital-first realities. This piece briefly walks through the problems organizations might experience if they don’t build a new DEX strategy, the four…
For modern CIOs, it’s essential to have a healthy balance between innovation and mainstream tech, says Kim Sim, Mr Price Group CIO. So she needs to keep tabs on the spectacular rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and its use cases, while also monitoring developments across topics that have been around for years, like big data,…
Despite headlines warning that artificial intelligence poses a profound risk to society, workers are curious, optimistic, and confident about the arrival of AI in the enterprise, and becoming more so with time, according to a recent survey by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). For many, their feelings are based on sound experience. Although ChatGPT, the poster…