Carnival aims to leverage scale, optimize across its cruise lines
Carnival Corporation, known for its family of cruise lines, is implementing a centralized system to optimize the management of equipment and machinery across its brands and ships.

Data to decisions examines the enablement of data-driven decisions across organizations. Holistic, data-informed decisions require a multi-disciplinary approach that combines performance monitoring with traditional business intelligence and analytic technologies. In addition, data-driven decisions are increasingly delivered in the context of business applications rather than in separate, analytic interfaces.
Carnival Corporation, known for its family of cruise lines, is implementing a centralized system to optimize the management of equipment and machinery across its brands and ships.
Ingram Micro Chief Digital Officer Sanjib Sahoo talks the trends that'll matter in 2024 and the years ahead.
Two Year IPO Drought Coming To An End
In 2023, only 148 companies completed an initial public offering (IPO). This was the worst year on record and followed a 15% decline from the number of IPO's in 2022, another disappointing year. In 2023, ARM was the sole blockbuster tech IPO.
After a brutal two years with a paucity of tech IPOs, the market is poised for a resurgence in 2024.
Business technology decision makers are optimistic about 2024 and are plotting investments in generative AI, analytics and automation, according to Constellation Research's second half 2023 CxO Business Confidence Survey.
I caught up with BT150 member, Manish Limaye SVP, USIS Chief Architect & Head of Data Engineering Equifax, to talk data architecture and the broader transformation.
Enterprise technology customers in 2023 hit a few common themes that revolved around data strategy, setting their companies up for generative AI applications, transformation, sustainability, customer experience and continuous optimization to pay for new initiatives.
Mark Anderson, CEO of Alteryx, said going private via the Clearlake and Insight transaction will give the company more flexibility to implement its long-term strategy.
ServiceNow said it will acquire UltimateSuite, a task mining company, in a move that brings the company more in line with automating processes and tasks as well as workflows.
When it comes to generative AI, technology vendors are increasingly talking about pilots, remaining performance obligations (RPOs) and pipeline in lieu of actual revenue.