OneFamily is a financial services organization, operating broadly in savings and investments, and responsible for £8 billion of assets under management. But what’s most interesting, says group CIO Graham O’Sullivan, is it’s also a mutual, which means its over two million customers across the UK are also members, so they have a strong voice in…
Even though generative AI is a relatively new technology, it’s now difficult to imagine a world without it, given the impact it’s making, and the business value it can create. According to a research report IDC released in November, based on a survey of over 2,100 business leaders and decision makers with responsibility for AI…
Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. The report for Q3 of fiscal 2024, released yesterday, said that Oracle had signed multiple large-scale cloud infrastructure contracts in the previous three…
Workflow automation software provider Creatio has added a suite of generative AI capabilities to its customer relationship management (CRM) offerings. The new generative AI features include Copilot, the generative AI-based assistant, and Copilot Designer, a centralized workplace where enterprise users can tweak pre-built Copilot scenarios to suit their business requirements, akin to Salesforce’s Einstein 1 Studio.…
Government and public sector agencies are already exploring the potential of generative AI in delivering more effective services from the inside. As AI technologies and practices mature, however, we’re likely to see more projects that transform the citizen experience. New research by McGuire Research Services for Avanade shows that 98% of government and public service…
Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Early use cases include code generation and documentation, test case generation and test automation, as well as code optimization and refactoring, among others. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and…
It’s common knowledge among CIOs that disaster recovery investments are always de-prioritized by company boards — until disaster strikes. But disaster recovery is just one example of projects that are of an important and preemptive nature that CIOs want to fund but find de-prioritized when it comes to budget approval. Others include preparation for zero-day…
Nel mondo del lavoro c’è un detto che non si dimentica tanto facilmente: le persone lasciano i loro capi, non i loro posti di lavoro. Ma è davvero così? Quando si tratta di capire perché i migliori manager IT si licenziano, le domande che ci si pone possono avere molteplici risposte. La prima è che…
2023 was a challenging year, to say the least, for our industry – and software/SaaS vendors were hit particularly hard. As was clear from our recently conducted CIO.com poll, buyers strongly believe that they have overinvested in “point” solutions and are taking steps to consolidate vendors. Although there are signs of general economic recovery including…
This article was co-authored by Michael Bertha, Partner, Metis Strategy, and Ishan Prakash, Manager, Metis Strategy In today’s ever-expanding digital landscape, in which many IT teams operate across geographies, it’s no secret that your ability to leverage technology to its fullest depends crucially on your workforce composition: on how your resources are allocated across various…