Technology maturity is generally considered a sign of progress. Organizations modernize their infrastructure and capabilities, introduce advanced analytics, and invest in AI, all with the expectation that these improvements will make the business more capable, efficient, and competitive. But there’s a paradox emerging in enterprise IT: The more sophisticated an organization’s technology environment becomes, the…
For much of the history of enterprise IT, technology itself was a limiting factor. Organizations had to make difficult choices about which systems they could afford and which capabilities were realistic to deploy. Technology leaders built their strategies around those constraints. Today, the challenge looks different. Cloud platforms, advanced analytics, automation, and AI have made…
Investors are pouring more into AI data center infrastructure than they can hope to recoup by 2030, according to Gartner. “Enterprise and consumer AI revenue will be insufficient to support profitable returns on all planned AI capital expenditures during this period,” said Gartner Senior Director Analyst Will Sommer. AI data center owners would need to…
On a major S/4HANA transformation, the first signs of trouble did not look like resistance. They looked like missed stand-ups. Then deliverables started slipping, readiness checkpoints came back with gaps and the same functional leads kept surfacing on the list of competing priorities. The people behind those signals were not disengaged. They were functional resources…
In a recent finance training session, an FP&A analyst took the prompting method we had covered twenty minutes earlier and applied it to a monthly variance report spanning four business units. The report normally took one and a half to two hours. It was finished in about two minutes, live, in front of the room.…
Nearly three years after Broadcom purchased VMware, IT leaders still aren’t convinced they will stick with the leading virtualization technology provider over the long term. Ninety percent of current VMware customer CIOs are considering alternatives to VMware due to higher licensing costs since the Broadcom acquisition, according to a recent survey, with over half saying…
Stripe recently acquired AI routing platform OpenRouter for a reported $7.5 billion, making it one of the largest venture-backed AI startup exits and fintech M&A deals of the year. It’s a blockbuster deal that instantly became one of the most intriguing tech developments to occur this year. Not just because of the dollars involved or…
Companies routinely rely on authenticating the identities of humans who access sensitive company data across their networks. There’s an established and accepted set of protocols, done upfront and in a zero-trust approach – either we know who you are and let you in, or you’re locked out. The same framework needs to be applied to…