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…
Organizations are moving network resources closer to the customer to deliver low latency, and intrinsically secure applications. In this podcast episode, we’ll explore the challenges and benefits of edge networking, and discuss key components, strategies and tactics for edge networking. To read this article in full, please click here Read More from This Article:…
As the world’s largest manufacturer of paints and coatings, PPG’s growth over the last 20 years has been through more than 60 acquisitions. At this pace, the required portfolio transformation and globalization requires a flexible data strategy focused on standardizing data where it’s generated and managed. Join us to learn how PPG’s flexible data and…
As companies re-evaluate current IT infrastructures and processes with the goal of creating more efficient, resilient, and intuitive enterprise systems, one thing has become very clear: traditional data warehousing architectures that separate data storage from usage are pretty much obsolete. The basic structure of current data platforms inhibits strategic outcomes by creating data silos and…
RPA (robotic process automation) promises to rescue business users from performing boring, repetitive tasks. Hence the term “robotic”: The nature of the jobs performed by RPA tend to be rote and low-level. Businesses use RPA software to create software bots that perform pre-defined, structured jobs that typically involve filling in electronic forms, processing transactions, or…