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Capitalizing on technology budgets: A CIO’s story

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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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Banking on customer experience and security via technology-based innovation

CIO

Customer experience and security But as in most industries, customer expectations and security challenges continue to grow along with technological advances. Banks continue investing in technologies that make the customer experience seamless, including mobile apps and peer-to-peer payments.

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Atos CEO Yves Bernaert quits over governance differences

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The company needs to raise capital as it seeks to renegotiate €1.5 Having a finance expert like Saleh at the helm could help stabilize Atos as it seeks to negotiate the uncertainties around its debt rescheduling and its recapitalization plans, which the company says are unchanged since its announcement on Jan. billion ($1.65

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The new CFO: How AI has changed the game for chief financial officers

CIO

Traditionally, the work of the CFO and the finance team was focused on protecting the company’s assets and reputation and guarding against risk. While these roles will not change, the foundational work of the finance organization, the structure, the import, and the focus of these dimensions will change. It’s a huge shift from the norm.

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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

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Broadcom has made a series of acquisitions under CEO Hock Tan’s leadership, including CA Technologies and Symantec’s enterprise security division, and Tan has often cut marketing expenses and dumped parts of the acquired company that underperform. But Somerset Capital runs its developer environment in house using VMware. “As

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Benefits of Using Data Analytics in Equipment Financing

Smart Data Collective

Data analytics technology has touched on virtually every element of our lives. Securing financing is a huge example. Data analytics technology is helping more companies get the financing that they need for a variety of purposes. One of the most important benefits of big data involves getting financing for new equipment.

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Securing Venture Capital for Your New Cloud Startup

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Are you trying to grow or launch a cloud technology startup? You won’t be able to do so without a significant amount of capital. You are going to need to recognize the barriers to entry in this industry and make sure that you have access to the capital needed to cover these costs. What Is Venture Capital (VC)?

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