Leon Gordon is a leader in data analytics, a current Microsoft MVP based in the U.K. and a partner at Pomerol Partners. The digital revolution has set off near-panic among executives as they seek to find ways to use data and analytics to enhance their decision-making ability. The end result of data transformation is the creation of a digital core, a set of capabilities that are used to power the entire organization. Companies seeking to transform themselves with AI must establish a strategic plan for using analytics and insights derived from data. Organizational structure is important when considering an AI strategy because it can help ensure data are properly transferred and secure as they move through their lifecycle.

The Great Resignation may be a myth or reality, depending upon your viewpoint. But one thing is clear: The labor shortage is real. But it is likely not due to a decline in the participation rate. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the post-pandemic labor force participation rate has not declined dramatically. In fact, the core ages of the workforce, 25-54, saw a dip at the onset of the pandemic that was mild compared to other age groups – especially workers 55 .

We'll see more "AI as a service" (AIaaS) products. This trend started with the gigantic language model GPT-3. It's so large that it really can't be run without Azure-scale computing facilities, so Microsoft has made it available as a service, accessed via a web API. This may encourage the creation of more large-scale models; it might also drive a wedge between academic and industrial researchers. What does "reproducibility" mean if the model is so large that it's impossible to reproduce experimental results?

The role of the CIO has been a rather turbulent one in recent years It’s fallen to CIOs to take the lead in directing businesses’ technology spend, giving them a far broader remit than they’d had previously. Before, CIOs had been tasked primarily with managing IT assets. Now, they play a leading role in determining how technology budgets are deployed, to maximize growth and return on investment. What explains the sudden shift in the responsibilities of the CIO? The leading factor is the advent of the cloud, and the transformative impacts this has had. Firms have been forced to adapt

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term that can apply to various computing tasks, including machine learning, deep learning, and big data analytics. Many AI projects are in a proof of concept stage, but CIOs and IT Managers need to understand that in the future, almost every business outcome and workflow will use and depend upon some form of AI processing. The time is now to prepare the Infrastructure for that eventuality. As AI environments move into production and begin to grow in size and importance, organizations need a strategy to address challenges the AI at scale will create for both the compute and storage architectures. For the last decade, developing a cloud strategy was at the top of every CIO's to-do list.

Although a bank's business has basically stayed the same over the last couple of decades, how a bank operates has drastically shifted. The fundamental pillars of a bank, according to Mike Telang, executive vice president and head of enterprise architecture at Wells Fargo, now focus on mostly security, regulation, and innovation. When it comes to technology trends in the financial services industry, Telang said its impact on a bank depends heavily on where the bank is in its maturity lifecycle. "I think it depends on the lifecycle of the maturity of where you are as a bank at that point in time and you've got to find a solution for that ... you have a lot of trends like blockchain, you have a lot of trends like security, so we are applying the technology to the use case that suits us best," Telang said during a panel session at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco last week. Looking at emerging technologies, Telang described the challenges Wells Fargo has faced in adopting machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI).

Bruce Milne is Vice President and CMO at Pivot3. Another year ends, another round of predictions begins. Looking back to the widespread adoption of virtualization and blade consolidation of the mid-2000s – which reduced and simplified IT environments and paved the way for converged infrastructure – it's clear we've come a long way. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) hardware-based appliances came next, and have since evolved into more software-defined infrastructure platforms. This has transformed HCI into becoming the platform for supporting hybrid cloud mobility and autonomous workload acceleration.

HSBC has revealed how the success of five machine learning-related pilot projects is set to pave the way for deeper and faster adoption of cloud technologies across its business. A well-implemented cloud management strategy allows users to maintain control over public, private and hybrid clouds. This email address is already registered. By submitting my Email address I confirm that I have read and accepted the Terms of Use and Declaration of Consent. By submitting your personal information, you agree that TechTarget and its partners may contact you regarding relevant content, products and special offers.

Greetings and welcome to the PROS Holdings Inc Third Quarter 2016 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. It is now my please to introduce your host Stefan Schulz, Chief Financial Officer. Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for joining us. With me on today's call is Andres Reiner, President and Chief Executive Officer. Before we begin, we must caution you that some of today's remarks, including our guidance, our strategy, our competitive position, future business prospects, revenue, bookings, market opportunities, as well as statements made during the question-and-answer session, contain forward-looking statements. These statements are based on present information and are subject to numerous and important factors, risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from the results implied by these or other forward-looking statements. PROS does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements provided to reflect events that occur, or circumstances that exist, after the date on which they are made. Additional information concerning risks and other factors that may cause actual results to differ can be found in the Company's filings with the SEC. Also, please note that a replay of today's webcast will be available in the Investor Relations section of our website at pros.com. We encourage everyone to review this additional information. Finally, I would like to point out that in addition to reporting financial results in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, or GAAP, PROS reports certain financial results, as well as forward-looking guidance, on a non-GAAP basis. A reconciliation of each non-GAAP measure to the most directly comparable GAAP measure, to the extent available without unreasonable efforts is available on the press release distributed earlier today, and in the Investor Relations section of our website. Good afternoon, everyone and thank you for joining us on today's call.

Microsoft is well positioned to give Amazon a run for its money in the cloud market, but it needs to break away from its Microsoft-centric approach. Seeing as how the cloud has been tied to digital transformation, and seeing as how more businesses are embarking on digital transformation projects, it makes perfect sense to me that cloud has been one of the hot topics at Microsoft's Ignite conference for enterprise IT, taking place this week in Atlanta. Microsoft has an interesting position in cloud, in that it was simultaneously early and late to the market. Almost 20 years ago, Microsoft launched Bing, and to support it, the company had to build out a massively scalable, global cloud network. Google had done this with its search platform, and Amazon had done similar to support its e-commerce business.