CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

In the hustle of running a business, many companies overlook the hidden costs that can silently eat away at their bottom line. Take business expenses. That could be unexpected travel expenses, unplanned inventory top-ups, or ad hoc expenditure on subscriptions or advertising. Business Operations

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Finance Business Travel Sales 393

Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

37% of businesses and organizations employ AI, and about 15% claim to use its capabilities. So, the real question is how can AI help businesses in travel? Well, let’s get on with it and find out exactly why AI is so important for automating travel policy compliances. What is the whole idea of travel compliance?

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Travel Intelligence Intelligence Algorithm 209

CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A new business unit, which also has hubs in Brussels, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Vienna, and Zurich, Digital Hangar was founded in September 2022 with the aim to create the world’s best-connected travel experience, incorporating both in-person and digital services. In June, the Lufthansa Group’s Digital Hangar touched down in Barcelona.

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Airline Travel Pharmaceutical Alliance 804

CIO

MAY 24, 2023

Where the widespread adoption of SaaS previously distributed IT and lines-of-business selected and implemented their own applications, the pendulum is now shifting back with CIOs pursuing large-scale transformations to drive value and re-centralize operations. Is data traveling to countries where it shouldn’t?

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Business IT Travel Security 654

CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Businesses are feeling growing pressure to act on climate change from all angles. However, despite data centres and transmission networks being responsible for nearly 1 per cent of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, a new Deloitte study reports little over half (54 per cent) of businesses have converted to energy-efficient technologies.

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Innovation Hospitals Business Travel 677

CIO

APRIL 19, 2024

Money generated from prepaid travel cards is set to quadruple between 2022 and 2032, from $120.5 This sharp upward trajectory is due in large part to an increase in international travel as tourist numbers slowly climb up to pre-pandemic levels. billion to $492.80 billion, according to Allied Market Research.

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Travel Hospitals Profiling Knowledge 325

CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Like many airlines, Lufthansa Group had its business upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. By April 2020, with travel bans proliferating, the airline suffered losses of €1 million per hour. Because Lufthansa’s business is moving people from place to place, the physical side of the customer experience is still the airline’s primary pillar.

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Airline Travel IT Benchmarking 902

CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Sustainability is a major priority in business boardrooms already, and pressures from regulators, shareholders, board members and employees are likely to further drive this trend. Businesses need to do more than just track carbon output. Going green makes good business sense. They must reduce waste and increase efficiency.

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Business Travel Capital Technology 625

CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

due to higher turnover rate of nurses, hospitals have employed traveling nurses. On average, hospitals would save $3,084,000 per year by eliminating the need for traveling nurses, according to NSI. In the U.S., In England, meanwhile, staff shortages in the NHS are forecast to rise to 570,000 by 2036 on current trends.

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Hospitals Travel Gaming Education 710

CIO

JUNE 21, 2023

You’re forced to leave all you know and travel to a foreign land. Known as the Emergency Response Application (ERA), the free mobile solution was built using the SAP Business Technology Platform and acts as a conduit to match people with resources. War has come to your home. But you’re not sure where to turn in the new land.

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Technology Technology Business Travel 325

CIO

JULY 28, 2022

Lou Corriero, Vice President of Cloud Technologies at IT Vortex, notes that the organization frees its customers to focus on their businesses, not the IT required to run them. That in itself was a significant step that demonstrated IT’s ability to reduce carbon emissions associated with everything from daily commutes to business travel.

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Business IT Travel Loss 614

CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. IHG is also communicating with customers through other channels, including Apple Messages for Business, Google Business Messages, and 24-hour text messaging. It’s out there already.

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Hospitals Travel Innovation Technology 823

CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

So meeting challenges to compete is nothing new, but business all but came to a halt during the pandemic in 2020. So we set out to build a mobile TV app business, on 2g networks before the iPhone. About 16% of New Zealand’s GDP relies on air travel, whereas in the US, it’s about 4%. But we persisted.

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Airline Travel Startups Hospitals 613

CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, is turning to data and analytics to minimize disruptions and streamline operations with the aim of giving travelers a smoother experience. When the pandemic started, all of a sudden we were canceling thousands of flights as travel bans were implemented. Touchless, seamless, stressless.

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Airline Travel Hospitals Finance 909

CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

The company’s overall strategy is to “have a customer experience that’s second-to-none — from the moment they first engage with the company to plan their experience, to when they return home at the end of their travels — regardless of what Journey Beyond adventure you are booking.” Different business units within the company work differently.

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Travel IT Advantage Advantage 733

CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Though traveling by public transportation is generally considered to be safer— 10 times safer per mile when compared to traveling by personal vehicle—public safety remains a priority for passengers. A recent survey of lapsed riders found 87% said safety was the biggest factor in whether they would return to mass transit.

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Technology Technology Travel Security 733

CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Under the partnership, SAP is integrating Nvidia’s generative AI foundry service, including the newly announced Nvidia NIM inference microservices, into SAP Datasphere, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), RISE with SAP, and SAP’s enterprise applications portfolio. “We

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Startups Travel Knowledge Intelligence 725

CIO

JANUARY 25, 2023

As CIO of United Airlines, Jason Birnbaum is laser focused on using technology and data to enable the company’s 86,000 employees to create as seamless a customer travel experience as possible. We are in the business of getting people to where they want to go. If we can’t help them do that, it drives us crazy.”

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Airline Travel Hospitals Technology 795

CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

Since the onset of the pandemic, IT has risen in prominence as an engine for business sustainability and growth across all industries. As companies strive to transform their business models specifically in manufacturing, supply chain, project management, and sales, the uptick in hiring IT talent was seen as a natural progression.”

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IT Travel Banking Innovation 684

CIO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Given this reality – and the business world’s drive to create more diverse and inclusive leadership teams – the pressure is now on companies to hold on to the few women leaders they already have. That trend is substantiated by recent research from McKinsey. But there’s a lot of work to be done.

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Travel Innovation Research Analysis 871

Smart Data Collective

MARCH 23, 2023

AI technology offers a number of major benefits of small businesses and freelancers. We have talked about how businesses are using AI for marketing and tools like ChatGPT to create content more easily. This is important, since taxes are a huge pain for many business owners. Accounting and tax issues can be costly for businesses.

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Business Startups Travel Capital 201

mention

APRIL 1, 2024

While dramatic, this hypothetical scenario highlights the possibility of unforeseen crises impacting any business. This will let your business emerge stronger. Determine All Potential Threats No business is invincible. Remember that different locations, sizes, and industries may face different business crises.

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Management Business Airline Travel 157

CIO

MARCH 25, 2024

Introducing Internet Performance Monitoring Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) is a new generation of solutions that provide deep visibility into every aspect of the internet that impacts a business.

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Travel Profiling Technology Technology 527

CIO

MARCH 15, 2024

According to IDC SaaS Path research from 2023 , 67% of businesses with more than 1,000 employees have employed a SaaS management platform, says IDC analyst Frank Della Rosa — a market category that includes a broad array of options, such as Productiv, Zylo, Flexera One, Blissfully, Torii, BetterCloud, Zluri, Apptio, and LeanIX, among many others.

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Travel Finance Banking Management 849

Elegant BI

AUGUST 2, 2018

Analytics for Travel Businesses Can Provide a Competitive Advantage! The travel industry is very competitive! A travel-related business must have access to up-to-date analysis and information to monitor targets, manage performance, communicate with clients and forecast trends for new product and service offerings.

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Travel Business Intelligence Intelligence Intelligence 52

CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Modernization journeys are complex and typically highly custom, dependent on an enterprise’s core business challenges and overall competitive goals. Any vertical modernization approach should balance in-depth, vertical sector expertise with a solutions-based methodology that caters to specific business needs.

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Airline Travel Security Security 705

CIO

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It’s no wonder that technology has long been at the center of Union Pacific success, achieving incredible efficiency that is at the backbone of business operations for all Americans. Business operations and technology are no different. Everything must work together seamlessly, completely integrated across the railroad network.

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Human Resources Travel Innovation Finance 781

CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As businesses look to leverage artificial intelligence a lot more, they are and will relook at the workloads and place them on the right infrastructure, be it in the public cloud or the edge or bringing them back to their own private cloud or servers in-house,” Srinivasan says. “As

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Sports Travel Algorithm Security 903

CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Alam has only been with SAP since January 2022, when he was hired as chief product officer for Intelligent Spend, the company’s procurement, travel, and expense management tools, and for Business Network, its portfolio of products for managing relationships with trading partners.

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Innovation Travel Management Intelligence 609

Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This could help many cash-strapped businesses become more resilient during this horrifying recession. Big Data is Vital to the Survival of Countless Businesses. With increasing uncertainty and evolving consumer demand, running a business seems like an enormous challenge. Do you know the best part?

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Business Travel Data Mining Banking 354

CIO

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For example, in 2015 the league dramatically increased its data collection efforts by equipping all players with RFID sensors that pinpoint every player’s field position, speed, distance traveled, and acceleration in real-time. Souza says this is true of all businesses, not just sports.

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Sports Gaming Entertainment Travel 838

CIO

JANUARY 4, 2024

Some of the businesses we acquired didn’t have any internet connection at all.” And with download speeds up to 200Mbps and latency as low as 20ms, businesses trust they can run operations anywhere. It’s taken a few years but today, they run a seamless environment across the entire business.” Mazumdar says. “It

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Hospitals Travel Gaming Knowledge 733

Crayon

MAY 18, 2023

For the first installment of our new Win/Loss Wednesdays series , we had the pleasure of chatting with Jayde Phillips , who manages market and competitive intelligence at Egencia, an American Express Global Business Travel company.

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Loss Win Travel Competitive Intelligence 325

Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Data security has become a paramount concern for most businesses. Given its function, it is not surprising how popular VPNs are for businesses. Almost all businesses have a corporate VPN as part of their IT infrastructure. Let’s take a look at the VPNs businesses all over the world use and love.

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Business Security Security Advantage 287

Smart Data Collective

MARCH 4, 2022

META: We’re breaking down the ways social media has changed businesses and how you can use these changes to get ahead. Digital technology is unquestionably changing the future of business. Two of the biggest advances in technology that are influencing the direction of business are social media and data analytics.

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Business Profiling Data Mining Entertainment 344

CIO

JULY 23, 2023

Historically, B2B product users have made sacrifices on user experience for a tool that provides the most value to their business. And while that business value is critical, can’t enterprise product users have both? Take a moment to consider how navigation apps like Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze transformed the way we travel.

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Travel Intelligence Intelligence Analysis 592

CIO

MARCH 5, 2024

Prosperity Bank already has a strong reputation for running a lean, profitable business. For example, at BMC Connect Chicago in October 2023, Riggan previewed a new capability: If customers who are travelling lose their debit or credit card, they can report it via their mobile app. Impressed by the results?

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Banking Travel Innovation Advantage 393