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How CIOs Can Transform Data From a Cost to an Advantage

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The CIO has a real ability to achieve a competitive advantage for its business through data. The four steps to data advantage. Organisations that can properly align their data environments stand to gain a significant competitive advantage. The retail industry is a prime example. 2) Invest in an identity solution. “For

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How to incubate a winning innovation program

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Retail, entertainment, music, and banking have largely moved online. They recognize that innovative use of technology is enabling new business models with competition-crushing advantages built right in. It takes incubating a winning innovation program, and that starts with knowing the customer and shifting the organization’s values.

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The New Way Companies are Harnessing Data at the Edge for Value Added in Real-Time

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Imagine a factory or a chain of retailers reducing energy and cutting equipment downtime. In each case, they are taking strategic advantage of data generated at the edge, using artificial intelligence and cloud architecture. And they’re achieving significant wins. [2] These scenarios are not imaginary.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

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Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says.

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How FLO Cut Customer Refund Time from Weeks to Seconds

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That 50-square-meter workshop in Gaziantep has grown into an international retail business, FLO. Today, FLO is the largest footwear retailer in Turkey. All those wins have given FLO a leg or foot up in the market, being even more successful and a customer favorite, as well as being named a Winner at the 2022 SAP Innovation Awards.

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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

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In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East. But Oracle is gaining quickly through big R&D investments, he says. “I

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Building digital fluency in the C-suite and beyond

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Hussman, which manufactures and services commercial refrigeration equipment for food retailers globally, is a 117-year-old company. More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives.

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