Top 13 cloud cost management tools

Cloud cost management tools are a relatively new creation. Just a decade ago, the cloud was pitched as saving us the hassle of bidding, installing, and maintaining our own hardware. Prices per hour were specified in pennies. How could anything go wrong? What we’ve come to find is that all those fractions of a penny…

8 tips for managing low-code citizen developers

The central tenet of low-code and no-code tools — that business users can be leaned on to fill the ‘app gap’ — is resonating with enterprises. According to Gartner, 41% of non-IT employees build or customize their own solutions — and by 2023 these “citizen developers” will outnumber professional developers fourfold in large enterprises, the…

PepsiCo tackles supply chain with data

The global supply chain has been struggling of late, but for most enterprises, supply chain operations has been in the spotlight since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with analytics rising as a key palliative for major fluctuations in supply and demand.   Food and beverage company PepsiCo encountered anomalous supply chain signals early in the pandemic,…

7 tips for winning over your CFO

CFOs and CIOs understand the importance of getting their relationship right. For CFOs, IT is often one of the largest budget items. For CIOs, 22% of whom report to their CFO, according to Deloitte, earning budget approval is vital to fueling transformation. Yet today the two roles often run on different tracks: one on a…

7 steps for better business-IT collaboration

Break down silos. Build cross-functional teams. Bring in business partners. CIOs have been hearing those imperatives for years, with each of those commands addressing the need for IT to work hand-in-hand with the business. [ Learn the new rules of IT-business alignment in the digital era and why IT-business alignment still fails. | Find out…