Chief Technology Officer

Insight News

September 30, 2025

For AI agents to work, focus on business outcomes, ROI not technology

Data to Decisions

The IT department is where agentic AI goes to die--or at least never make it out of proof of concept. Agentic AI needs to be driven by outcomes, returns and benefits to the busines...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 30, 2025

ServiceNow launches AIx as AI becomes the platform UI

Data to Decisions

ServiceNow launched AI Experience (AIx), a multimodal interface that will serve as a user interface for the company's platform. Enterprise users will be able to access ServiceNow a...

Larry Dignan

DisrupTV

September 26, 2025

AI ROI, Employee Well-Being, and What Really Drives Growth | DisrupTV Ep. 412

Data to Decisions

Steve Lucas, Mark C. Crowley Wendy Lipton-Dibner dig into what really moves the needle when balancing automation, human wellness, and growth inside enterprises. ...

R "Ray" Wang

Elle DeRosa

September 26, 2025

Cognizant Named Leader in Digital Transformation Services

Data to Decisions

Hear R quot;Rayquot; Wang’s perspective on Cognizant as an industry leader and explore the ShortList to see who is leading digital transformation and AI trends. ...

R "Ray" Wang

ConstellationTV

September 26, 2025

Leadership Shifts, Fintech Breakthroughs & AI-Powered CRM | CRTV Episode 114

Data to Decisions

Martin Schneider and Larry Dignan cover Oracle’s co-CEO shakeup, the rise of agentic AI, Thoma Bravo’s $1.4B PROS deal, a Supernova spotlight on Brazilian fintech Jeito, and new re...

Larry Dignan

Martin Schneider

Insight News

September 25, 2025

Why CxOs, enterprises need to follow OpenAI’s GDPval LLM benchmark

Data to Decisions

OpenAI launched a new benchmark that grades large language models (LLMs) on real-world work tasks and enterprises need to take note as they ponder AI agents. ...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 25, 2025

Databricks, OpenAI form $100 million partnership

Data to Decisions

Databricks said OpenAI's foundational models will be available in the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Agent Bricks natively in a partnership worth $100 million. ...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 25, 2025

European Commission investigates SAP's on-premises support, maintenance practices

Tech Optimization

The European Commission has formally opened an investigation of SAP and its maintenance and support practices for on-premises deployments in Europe. ...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 25, 2025

Hitachi Vantara’s Tanase on where enterprise AI is headed

Data to Decisions

Hitachi Vantara is embedding AI agents throughout its storage systems, seeing customers embrace more hybrid cloud and on-premise AI architectures and betting on AI at the edge and ...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 23, 2025

Stargate ramps as OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank outline 5 new data centers

Data to Decisions

OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank have announced 5 new data centers under the Stargate project good for 7 gigawatts of capacity. The data centers will be largely powered by Nvidia-based ...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 23, 2025

Snowflake, Salesforce, BlackRock lead effort to standardize semantic data

Data to Decisions

Snowflake, Salesforce, BlackRock and other enterprise vendors have launched the Open Semantic Interchange initiative, which aims to standardize data and ensure semantic metadata in...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 22, 2025

Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI, which will deploy Nvidia next-gen AI infrastructure

Data to Decisions

Nvidia and OpenAI said they have struck a partnership where OpenAI will deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters built on Nvidia's Vera Rubin GPUs. Nvidia will invest up to $...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 21, 2025

The big AI, SaaS, transformation themes to watch in 2025’s home stretch

Data to Decisions

Technology conference season is about to hit overdrive. Enterprises are plotting IT budgets for the year ahead. And the fourth quarter, which is critical, is about to kick off. And...

Larry Dignan

Analyst Blog

September 21, 2025

Research Report: Should AI Be Blamed for Hiring Decisions, or Should the Employer Bear Responsibility? Landmark Mobley v. Workday Case Raises the Question but Is the Wrong Case

Digital Safety, Privacy & Cybersecurity

lt;pgt;On May 16, 2025, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California granted preliminary certification of the case of Mobley v. Workday as a collective actio...

R "Ray" Wang

Analyst Blog

September 21, 2025

News Analysis: The War on H-1B Visas - The New Services Economics

Data to Decisions

lt;pgt;POTUS Cracks Down on H-1B Abuse to Bolster Domestic Jobs On September 19th, 2025, the President issued a proclamation restricting entry of certain non-immigrant workers. In ...

R "Ray" Wang

DisrupTV

September 19, 2025

From Navy SEAL Lessons to AI-First Businesses: Redefining Success | DisrupTV Ep. 411

New C-Suite

Mike Hayes, Natalie Nixon, and Henry King explore how Navy SEAL leadership principles, creative thinking, and AI-first strategies are redefining success in today's business landsca...

R "Ray" Wang

Elle DeRosa

Insight News

September 19, 2025

Google to add AI agent features to Chrome as browser battles heat up

Data to Decisions

Google's move to layer Gemini and AI features in Chrome, including AI agents, will revamp the browser just as a bevy of players are looking to reinvent the primary vehicle for ente...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 18, 2025

Nvidia invests $5 billion in Intel, aims to codevelop for data centers, PCs

Data to Decisions

Nvidia said it will invest $5 billion in Intel and co-develop custom data center and PC products. The move gives Intel more capital and also solidifies its relevance going forward....

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 17, 2025

MongoDB brings full-text search, vector search to on-prem, self-managed versions

Data to Decisions

MongoDB said it will bring its search and vector search tools to MongoDB Community Edition and MongoDB Enterprise Server. The move provides enterprises full-text search and vector ...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 17, 2025

Google's Agent Payments Protocol fleshes out AI agent commerce

Marketing Transformation

Google launched the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) in a move that will flesh out how AI agents will handle commerce and transactions. AP2 is an extension of Google's Agent2Agent (A2...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 16, 2025

Workday spends $1.1 billion on Sana, aims to be front door to work

Data to Decisions

Workday has acquired Sana, an AI agent startup that surfaces knowledge in enterprise systems, for $1.1 billion in a bet that the HCM and finance software provider can become quot;t...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 16, 2025

MongoDB launches effort to modernize legacy data, application layers

Data to Decisions

MongoDB launched MongoDB AMP (Application Modernization Platform) as the vendor becomes the latest to take on enterprise code transformation needed to migrate workloads. ...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 16, 2025

Workday launches Workday Data Cloud, Workday Build, more AI agents

Data to Decisions

Workday launched Workday Data Cloud, Workday Build as well as a set of Illuminate AI agents as it aims to build a larger ecosystem around its platform. ...

Larry Dignan

Insight News

September 14, 2025

AI agents, automation, process mining starting to converge

Data to Decisions

Enterprise software vendors appear to be coalescing around the idea that process mining is an enabler for agentic AI and should be built into platforms. ...

Larry Dignan

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