No one may be able to define exactly what the term cloud means in business technology today. Is it a rack of machines paid for by the second? A set of powerful APIs? A set of extensive services — all with acronyms that end in “aaS” — that enterprises can lean on as building blocks…
For 145 years, the global pharmaceutical Eli Lilly & Company has relied on a culture of resilience for reliability and success. The world depends on Lilly to provide medicines and treatments across many generations, and the current pandemic is no exception. Join us as we explore how technology is critical to support Lilly’s ongoing business,…
Moving an AI project from ideation to realization is a vicious loop, and there is only one way to resolve it – don’t let the loop begin! That is true because data deserves expert handling at all levels. Starting with extracting it from different sources to cleaning, analyzing, and populating it, machine learning systems are…
For the past several years, Experian has been transforming its business with analytics and AI. Shri Santhanam, executive vice president and general manager of global analytics and AI at the consumer credit reporting company, says Experian’s data transformation has focused on three pillars: internal modernization, creating analytics products and services, and driving commercial impact and…
The IT battlefield is littered with the careers of CIOs who failed to understand that top-tier talent is essential to remain competitive in a world of continual tech disruption. And the stakes may only be getting more intense. “We don’t expect the labor shortage to end in the short term,” states Marc Tanowitz, managing director…
Power BI is Microsoft’s interactive data visualization and analytics tool for business intelligence (BI). With Power BI, you can pull in data from a wide range of systems in the cloud and on premises and create dashboards that track the metrics you care about the most. You can even drill down into your data and…
In its ongoing push for the cloud, Oracle is willing to cut CIOs a deal, offering to hand back up to one-third of new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) spend to existing customers as part of a program it calls “Oracle Support Rewards.” Naturally, there are caveats: The discount cannot exceed a customer’s spend on Oracle…
Adrian Butler grew up in a farm community of no more than 100 people, so when he became CIO of Casey’s General Stores, a $9 billion convenience store chain with a large rural presence, the job had real meaning for him. “Casey’s opened its first store in Boone, Iowa in 1968,” says Butler. “In many…
It took just two weeks after the pandemic struck for Discount Tire to change almost everything about how it interacts with customers in its 1000-plus stores across the country. Now, the company is expanding its use of cloud technology and microservices architecture to make many of these changes permanent with an eye toward gaining even…
Antonio Vázquez sees the potential for problems everywhere. Vázquez, who started in January 2021 as the first CIO at tech company Bizagi, offers a lengthy list of areas where something could go wrong: security, data privacy, compliance, vendor relationships, cost management, employee access to systems, staffing, and IT projects. [ Learn from your peers: Check…