When the pandemic hit in early 2020 and consumers shifted their shopping to digital channels, big-box retailer Target felt the impact. “[We] grew our digital business by about three years in three weeks,” says CIO Mike McNamara. To keep up with demand, “we took our Cyber Monday playbook, and we just turned it on and…
Years ago, computer vision was just a clever science fiction innovation, but now it’s a reality that is quickly becoming a part of the enterprise landscape. In essence, computer vision uses AI and machine learning to make sense of digital video, images, audio and even biometric data, and provides insights and conclusions. With data gathered…
By Ed Anuff, Chief Product Officer, DataStax When it comes to digital transformation, data architectures have gotten short shrift. Many enterprises have focused on modernizing by moving applications to the cloud, or building ecommerce offerings (if they are retailers). But in many cases, data has been left out of the digital transformation story because data…
The first few weeks a CIO spends with a new IT team are both critical and challenging. Recent events haven’t made the job any easier. A pandemic, digital innovation initiatives, and “The Great Resignation” have combined to make it more challenging than ever for an incoming CIO to engage with their new team and set…
CIO Larry Jones has seen his share of change over more for than 30 years working in healthcare IT. But the group CIO of Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies (JJMDC) believes recent IT advances are fueling digital transformations that will open whole new horizons for health care. “We believe we’re taking some early steps…
The Cabinet Office is looking for a new chief digital officer (CDO). In a job advertisement, the Cabinet Office declared that the £190,000 (US$255,000) per annum position would be the most senior digital, data and technology (DDaT) role in central UK government, and is expected to lead a team of 200 specialists. The director-general level…
Global enterprises use mainframes to run mission-critical applications, especially core workloads and huge data processing tasks. Analysts reveal that up to 70% of Fortune 500 companies use mainframes, including 44 of 50 top banks and top 10 global insurers. These enterprises are now transitioning from mainframes to next-generation technologies for unlocking business value. Digitalization has…
By Matthew Hausmann In the CIO.com article, Take Your Analytics into Hyperdrive in 2021, I predicted the four big data analytics trends of the year and what enterprises must do to stay competitive in a modern, hybrid world that spans from the edge to the cloud. I explained how Apache Spark would continue to dominate…
Energy giants are under significant pressure by governments and consumers to reduce carbon emissions. For multinational oil and gas company Shell, artificial intelligence may be a key catalyst for fulfilling that long-term goal. The London-headquartered energy company’s ongoing digital transformation, fueled by a hybrid cloud platform and Databricks data lake house, includes a mix of…
As far as professional development goes, Sarah Naqvi’s meteoric rise to executive vice president and CIO at Maryland-based food service company HMSHost probably didn’t go quite as she had imagined it. “I had a pretty traumatic … stressful experience,” she acknowledges. Naqvi was included in an undocumented succession plan with the company’s then-CIO, but saw…