Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. These executives played mission-critical roles in driving multi-million dollar projects that delivered massive change. However, a global recession and the inability of CIOs to deliver on business value have tarnished their status. Today's CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence. Just as previous technology and business shifts have changed the role of the CIO, the new, more consumer-oriented business models of the social revolution will favor a new breed of business and technology leader. These leaders will have to navigate myriad converging and disruptive technologies, align new initiatives to both business value and technology feasibility, and identify strategies to leverage existing investments to fund innovation. Constellation's research and advisory offerings arm the CIO w/ the knowledge, best practices, and strategies required to manage the four personas of the next generation CIO.
Alex Franco, Chief Risk Officer and Chief Technology Officer at Jeitto, artificial intelligence and alternative data can democratize access to credit at a faster pace.
Microsoft announced a set of Copilots for sales, service and finance in a move that brings role-based assistants to Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Liz Miller and Holger Mueller cover AI’s real business impact from SAP, HPE, and HubSpot, explore graph databases with Mike Ni at Neo4J GraphSummit, and preview the packed fall tech event season.
ServiceNow launched its Zurich release of its platform with tools to build AI apps and agents more easily, attach identities to digital workers and integrate process and task mining into agentic workflows.
Hitachi Digital Services launched a library of more than 200 pre-built AI agents across industries and use cases as well as an Agent Management System that aims to provide a single pane of glass to manage multiple agentic AI platforms.
Arm launches Lumex, its latest platform for on-device AI and a big bet that inference will move from the cloud to the edge in hybrid deployments.
Oracle's first quarter earnings and revenue fell short of expectations, but remaining performance obligations growth of 359% overshadowed the results. Free cash flow has been negative the last two quarters.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said the company had remaining performance obligations of $106 billion with half that sum converting to revenue in the next two years. If that RPO converts, Google Cloud revenue will be $58 billion by 2027.
Microsoft's $17.4 billion deal with Nebius adds AI compute capacity quickly but also ensures that it won't be left holding the physical infrastructure bag if the AI bubble ever bursts.
