A look at Target’s approach to generative AI | CIO Dive
Chief Information and Product Officer Prat Vemana described the retailer's technology strategy while it undergoes a turnaround.| CIO Dive
The Swiss bank appointed its first chief AI officer, the latest financial services company to create an executive role dedicated to AI adoption.| CIO Dive - Latest News
The company saw improved demand for chips in the wake of its partnership with Nvidia and an investment from the U.S. government.| CIO Dive - Latest News
The hotelier’s agentic suite is providing support for guests, such as modifying bookings and offering travel recommendations.| CIO Dive - Latest News
Operating in a risk-averse industry, IT decision-makers are helping their businesses adapt to emerging threats without derailing momentum.| CIO Dive - Latest News
Executives pointed to the company’s cloud revenue as an indicator of future growth as customers adopt products across the SAP Business Suite.| CIO Dive - Latest News
The company saw revenues rise 9% year over year, marking its biggest quarterly increase in the last three years.| CIO Dive - Latest News
The provider landscape is getting crowded, but CIOs can follow a seven-step process to shape adoption for their organizations.| CIO Dive - Latest News
IT executives will guide companies through the rollout of multiagent systems, AI-first development and purpose-built computing, the analyst firm expects.| CIO Dive - Latest News
Technology spending will grow nearly 10% next year, bolstered by demand in generative services, according to Gartner.| CIO Dive - Latest News
Chief Information and Product Officer Prat Vemana described the retailer's technology strategy while it undergoes a turnaround.| CIO Dive
Technology downtime is inevitable for the enterprise, but the damage from an outage can hinder an organization's reputation and efficiency.| CIO Dive
In organizations with mostly manual, paper-based workflows, the greatest impediment to automating tasks was a commitment to the status quo.| CIO Dive
The retailer joins a growing group of large U.S. enterprises equipping workers with generative AI capabilities customized to internal systems.| CIO Dive
Tech leaders will need to adapt multiple processes to ensure providers are meeting the new standards, according to analysts.| CIO Dive
Most VPs and directors have attended training and believe they have the skills to make vendor-related decisions, according to a General Assembly survey.| CIO Dive
From call centers to labor contracts, the company continues to invest and experiment with the technology, Scott Kirby said.| CIO Dive
“The technology might be expensive, but it is creating new services that are bringing in tens of billions of dollars for the cloud providers,” Synergy Research Group Chief Analyst John Dinsdale said.| CIO Dive
AWS, Microsoft and Google accounted for 59% of all hyperscale compute capacity as the number of large facilities grew to more than 1,100 last year, Synergy Research Group said.| CIO Dive
The company will keep fueling infrastructure spend to support AI and cloud, amid what CEO Andy Jassy described as a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity.| CIO Dive
Andy Jassy justified company plans to keep investing in the technology, which he described as a “once-in-a-lifetime reinvention of everything we know,” in a letter to shareholders on Thursday.| CIO Dive
Some analysts wonder whether Broadcom will still invest in VMware’s R&D or if it's only looking for a cash cow.| CIO Dive
The company appointed former Instacart executive Daniel Danker to lead AI acceleration, product and design.| CIO Dive
The company is “throwing the doors wide open” and wants associates to use the technology every day, executives told CIO Dive.| CIO Dive
Risk mitigation is on the rise as most companies limit access to sensitive data and put humans in the loop, according to a KPMG survey published Thursday.| CIO Dive
ProsperOps analyzed $1.5 billion in AWS compute spend and found that most organizations fail to take advantage of built-in discounts.| CIO Dive
The tech giant is rolling out a new user experience as part of Gemini for Workspace’s debut, which includes a standalone space for users to chat with the tool.| CIO Dive
Just weeks after joining the FinOps Foundation, the leading hyperscaler unveiled infrastructure and service enhancements to help customers optimize data, spending and compute.| CIO Dive
“This is the year that we go from a little bit of money being spent on software with Gen AI to a tidal wave of money being spent on it,” Gartner Analyst John-David Lovelock said.| CIO Dive
Nearly all business leaders contend with AI-related data quality issues, according to a Semarchy report.| CIO Dive
Selecting a project based on objective factors like costs, business impact or ability to execute is a difficult task, a Snowflake survey found.| CIO Dive
More than half of the new use cases launched by the financial firms this year leveraged generative AI capabilities, according to Evident Insights research.| CIO Dive
Financial sector IT leaders struggle to reduce adoption risks and strengthen governance, according to a FICO and Corinium Global Intelligence study.| CIO Dive
Economic concerns rapidly reshuffled tech priorities in April, according to Boston Consulting Group.| CIO Dive
Nearly 9 in 10 enterprises encounter adoption barriers, according to the firm’s latest pulse survey. But holding off comes with its own set of consequences.| CIO Dive
Ford, General Motors and Toyota pursue use cases to enhance customer experience, optimize costs and drive profits, executives said in their latest financial reports.| CIO Dive
The automaker tapped Barak Turovsky, former VP of AI at Cisco, to guide its AI deployment efforts.| CIO Dive
The generative AI early adopter has worked to improve data management as it aims for better model accuracy and performance to bolster decision-making.| CIO Dive
The car manufacturer has more than 1,200 AI applications for software development and improving quality control, among other use cases.| CIO Dive
Analytics can play a role in shaping mid- to long-term strategies that carries businesses past the crisis.| CIO Dive
The company leveraged a one-cloud strategy to bring Radisson Hotels Americas' systems into the tech stack in less than a year, CIO Brian Kirkland said.| CIO Dive
The medical center's CIO and CISO teamed up to translate security decisions into dollars and cents.| CIO Dive
Optimizing spend surpassed security among enterprise concerns, Flexera’s annual survey found.| CIO Dive
The research firm expects rapid advancement in AI technologies to double the market’s size by 2028.| CIO Dive
Mistakes were made. Budgets ballooned. Repatriations commenced. Now, enterprises are learning from costly migrations.| CIO Dive
Microsoft's licensing terms restrict European customers from migrating workloads to competing platforms, Google told the European Commission.| CIO Dive
The hyperscaler rolled out an agent interoperability protocol that already has buy-in from Accenture, Deloitte and KPMG, Wednesday at Google Cloud Next.| CIO Dive
“While we're investing a significant amount in the AI space and in infrastructure, we would like to have more capacity than we already have today,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said.| CIO Dive
Microsoft, IBM and Cisco are among the vendors backing the OASIS Data Provenance Standards Technical Committee announced last week.| CIO Dive
The Frontier AI Safety Commitments unveiled Tuesday in Seoul outline a series of voluntary steps to mitigate risk associated with AI systems.| CIO Dive
CIOs and their businesses, from PepsiCo to Principal Financial Group, are sifting through the noise and establishing guardrails to speed up time to value.| CIO Dive
Citi and Morgan Stanley joined forces with AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud to set open-source controls for secure AI adoption in the financial industry.| CIO Dive
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and other industry giants are reaping efficiency rewards and attracting tech talent simply by sharing code.| CIO Dive
A software validation framework helps the bank accelerate compliance and security reviews. Last week, it released the tool through FINOS.| CIO Dive
John Lukas transformed RaceTrac’s store technology infrastructure, revamped its loyalty app and spearheaded the IT integration of RaceTrac’s 2023 acquisition of Gulf Oil during his tenure.| CIO Dive
Nearly 1 in 3 IT professionals said they might leave the industry altogether as AI screening tools muddy the hiring process, a Dice survey found.| CIO Dive
Enterprise AI workloads and OpenAI training consumed Azure resources last year. “We have been short power and space,” CFO Amy Hood said.| CIO Dive
Overall SaaS spending fell year over year, but shadow IT overspend and app redundancies persisted, Zylo research found.| CIO Dive
Organizations pour far more into SaaS than what shows up on the books once the dollar value of time spent on contracts is factored in, according to Vertice.| CIO Dive
Though China was not mentioned once, it loomed large over the executive order.| CIO Dive
The plan will feature a data center campus in Wisconsin, upskilling targets and an AI innovation lab focusing on manufacturers, the tech company said.| CIO Dive
“The pressure is on — this is no longer the experimental phase of the cloud,” Alistair Speirs, director of Azure global infrastructure, said.| CIO Dive
Data centers “don’t get built overnight,” CEO Satya Nadella said Wednesday during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call.| CIO Dive
Amazon, Google and Microsoft accounted for more than three-quarters of infrastructure capital expenditures in Q3 2024, according to Dell’Oro Group.| CIO Dive
The hyperscaler removed charges for customers migrating data to another cloud provider or on-prem.| CIO Dive
The share of businesses scrapping most of their AI initiatives increased to 42% this year, up from 17% last year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.| CIO Dive
Executives credit increased AI use over the past year for bringing an estimated 44% bump in revenue, according to a GitLab report published Tuesday.| CIO Dive
Nearly two-thirds of senior leaders anticipate more rigid data privacy requirements, according to a KPMG survey.| CIO Dive
The software vendor announced a slate of updates to its native automation features, allowing users to create custom workflows or choose from templates.| CIO Dive
Tech debt and a lack of AI-readiness threaten progress as Gartner warns about short-term disillusionment ahead.| CIO Dive
Amazon Q Apps can turn natural language prompts into applications, the company said.| CIO Dive
The company cited AI demand as a driver of enterprise cloud consumption, a clear trend among large vendors.| CIO Dive
The Agentforce platform, which will publicly launch in October, has found success among early adopters, CEO Marc Benioff said.| CIO Dive
Despite the hype, the technology is often not the most cost-effective, reliable or efficient tool for enterprises to use, according to Gartner’s Rita Sallam.| CIO Dive
The analyst firm expects tech spending to reach $5.74 trillion next year, driven in part by exponential growth in server sales.| CIO Dive
AI maturity varies, but IT, risk management and logistics were the most common adoption routes, according to the survey.| CIO Dive
The enterprise technology vendor said its autonomous agents can resolve disputes and streamline financial processes.| CIO Dive
The company also unveiled 10 autonomous agents within Dynamics 365, targeting sales, customer service and supply chain functions.| CIO Dive
Just 2% of board members are highly knowledgeable or experienced in AI, according to a Deloitte survey.| CIO Dive
“Cost is as big an AI risk as security,” Mary Mesaglio, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, said during a conference keynote Monday.| CIO Dive
The ERP software giant is counting on longstanding hyperscaler partnerships to keep customer costs down as economic uncertainty looms.| CIO Dive
The ERP giant rolled out its SAP Business Data Cloud platform along with four Joule copilot agents Thursday.| CIO Dive
The company aims to double its capacity this year as demand for AI compute “continues to dramatically outstrip supply,” Oracle CEO Safra Catz said Monday.| CIO Dive
“We are working hard across all of the teams — hardware, software, even the build teams — to get things in place as quickly as possible,” CFO Amy Hood said Wednesday.| CIO Dive
The largest hyperscaler poured billions into cloud capacity during Q1 to meet rising AI demand, CEO Andy Jassy said.| CIO Dive
Businesses should assess existing practices, then engage leadership and plot a path forward to get enterprise data structures in shipshape.| CIO Dive
The software provider will waive fees on Trailhead platform courses and stand up an AI training hub at its San Francisco headquarters.| CIO Dive
Tech workers who are competent in the nascent technology can expect average salaries of more than $174,000, according to the company.| CIO Dive
Executive appointments focused on AI reflect an intention to invest in the technology, West Monroe’s Casey Foss said.| CIO Dive
The CRM provider emphasized visibility and scalable controls as it announced upgrades to its agentic AI platform.| CIO Dive
Digital services revenues grew 13% in 2024, as cloud, SaaS and AI platform consumption fueled data center investments, according to Synergy Research Group.| CIO Dive
As enterprises brace for ballooning AI spend, the pressure’s on to squeeze the most out of commitment-based discounts and existing deployments.| CIO Dive
The food and beverage company focuses on "four or five big bets" and provides an internal sandbox for employee experimentation, said Athina Kanioura, EVP, chief strategy and transformation officer.| CIO Dive
“From a FinOps perspective, you're never done — no matter how great you think you are, there’s more to do tomorrow,” PepsiCo IT Senior Director Kimberly Floss said.| CIO Dive
The majority of the spending will target technical infrastructure, including servers and data centers, CFO Anat Ashkenazi said Tuesday.| CIO Dive
The number of organizations that paid $10 million-plus on vendor audits over the last three years nearly doubled since 2023, according to Flexera.| CIO Dive
AI agents could interact with enterprise employees and customers to assist with purchases and accelerate issue resolution, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.| CIO Dive
The tech giant will funnel more than half of the investments into U.S.-based facilities, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith said Friday.| CIO Dive
Azure is the latest platform to lower the cost of switching cloud vendors.| CIO Dive
The consulting professional services company will add 40,000 AI-skilled employees through hiring, acquisition and training, an investment plan that comes just months after the firm announced layoffs impacting 19,000 people.| CIO Dive
Compensation for IT workers failed to keep up with inflation last year, increasing 1.2% last year, according to Dice data.| CIO Dive
