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Feed: CIO. Author: . As we enter the seventh month of the COVID-19 crisis in Australia, businesses are continuing to manage through the tough rules impacting the economy with so much uncertainty hanging over their heads. While the economy and business environment have made some structural shifts in the way organisations operate, what will be the new reality moving forward is still being determined.Despite this backdrop, we’re starting to see so many great achievements among Gartner’s CIO clients in Australia, irrespective of where their company landed on the COVID-19 hierarchy, whether they’re making money, breaking even or downscaling. In the ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . It’s not possible to go very far in IT without encountering the term “open source”. For non-IT people, open source is simply a software for which the source code has been made freely available for modification and enhancement by anyone, waiving any rights to profit from its use by others.Open source software is ubiquitous. Source code controls the computer programs and applications that our technology runs on, making it part of almost everything we do—from the car we drive to the mobile phones we use.The Android operating system that powers most of the world’s smartphones is ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Microsoft previewed Project Cortex, a suite of cloud-based AI-powered services designed to understand content and help users automate processes with it, at its Ignite developer conference in Orlando last year.The first of those services to go on sale, SharePoint Syntex, will be revealed at this year’s Ignite, a virtual event taking place in your browser this week.The content management tool learns to extract important or relevant semantic information from documents for use in workflows or for enforcing policies. Enterprises might use it to automate the processing of requests for proposals (RFPs) or service contracts to filter ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . A well-written resume is the foundation of your job hunt; however, resume writing is overwhelming. There’s so much pressure to make your resume stand out, so many formats and styles to choose from. Figuring out how to focus on the most important parts of your career and experiences based on your current job seeking goals is challenging. panom73 / Getty Images Log in or subscribe to Insider Pro to download our resume templates.  Getting your resume just right in order to attract the attention of recruiters, HR pros and hiring managers is in a word, daunting ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Enterprises worldwide spent a record $34.6 billion on cloud services in 2020's second quarter, up roughly 11 percent from the previous quarter and 30 percent from the same period last year, according to research firm Canalys.What isn't known is how much of that money was wasted due to poor planning, faulty execution, inadequate oversight and internal conflicts, among other causes. Maintaining firm control over cloud spend is essential to curbing waste, says Jimmy Pham, a principal specializing in DevOps, platforms as a service and containers as a service at business advisory firm Booz Allen Hamilton. "Gaining ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Operating in today’s global economy is fraught with uncertainty. Whether it’s competitive, political, an uncontrollable global pandemic, or any number of other dynamics, these days you have to expect the unexpected - and be ready to respond. Some organizations have seen new areas of opportunity, while others are hanging on for dear life.   Businesses have undergone many changes over the last year, but in many respects, the onslaught of COVID-19 has accelerated trends that have been present for several years now.I spent some time recently with Ray Wang, Founder and Principal Researcher at Constellation Research, to ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Changes in how you can get certified for your expertise with Microsoft technologies prepare IT professionals for the cloud future but may not match their current skills and needs.The way Microsoft certifications work is changing completely. Instead of earning credentials that cover specific products, IT pros must now prove they have the skills needed to carry out specific roles — skills assumed to be in Azure services, whether you’re working in Microsoft’s cloud or your own data center. Although COVID-19 has pushed back the dates for this shakeup of Microsoft’s certification schema for some months, the ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . It’s become the holy grail of tech, improving the customer experience. In this episode, we hear from respected authorities at the coalface of this important, fast growing area of tech, including Steven Bonnici, chief information officer, international markets at Ford, who shares how he’s leading a team harnessing AI and other technologies to better understand customer wants and needs, and ultimately building better cars and driving experiences.Nicki Doble, group chief information officer at Cover-More Group explains how one of the world’s biggest travel insurers is using technology to give travellers better, more specific protection, and how the future of travel ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Already a key strategic initiative, digital transformation has taken on heightened importance in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.Fifty-nine percent of 373 IT decision makers say that pressures stemming from the pandemic are accelerating their digital transformation efforts, according to an IDG Research business impact survey conducted in July.Moreover, despite budget concerns triggered by the COVID-19 outbreak, global spending on digital transformation technologies and services will grow 10.4 percent in 2020 to $1.3 trillion, according to data researcher IDC published in May. Spending on digital tools hasn’t been impacted as much as other IT because most ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . ServiceNow’s latest code release, “Paris,” includes applications to help banks issue credit cards and to enable telcos to manage services and network performance, showing how serious the company is about organizing workflows across the enterprise, not just in the IT department.IT service management (ITSM) was just one of many applications ServiceNow’s founder planned to run on the enterprise service management (ESM) platform he built, but for years it has been the one that has defined the company.With its latest software update, however, ServiceNow’s enterprise ambitions are coming into focus.“We are inventing the employee experience, the customer ... Read More