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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

CIO

While traditional approaches to bridging the profitability gap, like layoffs and budget cuts, can harm company culture, an innovative and practical alternative is capitalizing on technology budgets. Capitalizing on technology budgets presents a viable solution. Tracy’s team of around 30 people couldn’t support that model.

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NetSuite adds generative AI to its entire ERP suite

CIO

NetSuite is adding generative AI and a host of new features and applications to its cloud-based ERP suite in an effort to compete better with midmarket rivals including Epicor, IFS, Infor, and Zoho in multiple domains such as HR, supply chain, banking, finance, and sales.

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Controlling cloud chaos: How to realign IT with the business

CIO

For instance, if IT requires more processing or storage, the team needs to initiate a capital expenditure to purchase additional hardware. Many stakeholders play a role in bringing financial accountability to cloud costs, such as engineers, finance, procurement, operations, and product owners. The business has to get involved.

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Huabao sniffs out the ultimate efficiency formula

CIO

Major finance and business information, along with sales and subcontracting documents, were processed manually and offline. Without visualized analytics, it was difficult to bridge the void between expectation and accurate analysis. Even as the Huabao Group expanded, its digitization effort lagged.

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Venture Capital Trends and Outlook for 2024

Alpha Sense BI

Heading into the second half of 2024, venture capital investors remain cautious as they acknowledge persistent challenging dynamics in the landscape. While dry powder reserves have reached record highs, investors are wary about deploying capital with certain recent macroeconomic factors still fresh in mind.

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Venture Capital in the Age of AI: Transforming Due Diligence

Alpha Sense BI

Over the last 12-18 months, both venture capital investors and start-up firms have felt the aftershocks of ongoing economic volatility. Following a ‘dry powder’ run in 2021, venture capital investment in the US nearly doubled from 2020. Similar to other asset classes, venture capital deal patterns mirror macroeconomic sentiment.

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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO

This approach enabled Finance and business stakeholders to use data insights to see the metrics move as the year progressed. In traditional funding models, new ideas require a detailed business case that involves significant up-front analysis and design work. How does persistent funding reduce risk?

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