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August 04, 2023
A 4-pronged strategy to cut SaaS sprawl
Oversubscription, underutilization, and shadow IT both bloat SaaS budgets and weaken results. It's crucial for CIOs to survey their SaaS estates and right size implementations to bring financial relief to their enterprises. Read more
4 ways to ask hard questions about emerging tech risks
For too long weâve accepted all technology as progress. Today, that comfort zone can be a detriment to the business unless tech leaders start scrutinizing beyond face value.Read more
What is an automation engineer? A growing role to address IT automation
IT automation engineers help develop, test, and implement technologies aimed at automating business, IT, and development processes â a growing business imperative. Read more
Lay the groundwork now for advanced analytics and AI
Proper data integration, modeling, and maintenance make up the unglamorous but necessary foundation for high-impact analytics and AI applications. Without it, data is too hard to access and, even if can be analyzed, will deliver inaccurate results. Read more
CIO legend Chris Hjelm on developing future-ready IT leaders
Legendary CIO Chris Hjelm built a career leading IT at large and innovative companies alike, and being intentional about developing future IT leaders has been a key part of his leadership playbook. Read more
NASA, IBM team up to build LLM that can help fight climate change
The model, which was developed on IBMâs watsonx.ai platform, will be openly available on Hugging Face, the company said. Read more
10 tips for modernizing legacy apps for the cloud
Cloud-native capabilities are vital for making the most of the cloud. Hereâs how to breathe new cloud life into your legacy apps. Read more
