Vendors and Providers

Why CIOs need to respond to digital sovereignty now

As data and clouds go regional, global CIOs feel growing urgency to adapt to an increasingly localized digital era.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Aug 20, 202511 mins

CIOCloud ManagementICT Partners

Articles

Oracle SVP Thorsten Herrmann: Being late to the cloud has its advantages

Computerwoche's Martin Bayer sat down with Thorsten Hermann, SVP technology and Germany country leader, at Oracle to discuss the company's cloud ambitions, issues around digital and AI sovereignty, and why he says Oracle will "continue to push ahead with partnerships."

By Martin Bayer

Aug 8, 2025 19 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDatabasesOracle

What CIOs need to know about measuring AI value

Even though many companies report positive ROI from gen AI, IT leaders don't always know how to actually measure it, and the vast majority of AI projects fail. So what's the real story, and what metrics are important to gauge AI success?

By Maria Korolov

Aug 6, 2025 9 mins

CIOGenerative AIICT Partners

SAP to acquire SmartRecruiters to enhance its SuccessFactors HCM suite

A ‘timely and necessary’ acquisition, but customers should carefully watch the impact on pricing.

By Lynn Greiner

Aug 1, 2025 4 mins

Enterprise ApplicationsMergers and AcquisitionsSAP

SAP: Latest news and insights

Here’s what you need to know about the enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor’s latest product and company news.

By CIO staff

Aug 1, 2025 21 mins

ERP SystemsSAPTechnology Industry

Map an AI strategy that’s yours, not SAP’s

SAP is promising key AI upgrades only with its cloud versions, forcing companies into potentially premature upgrades. Third party support offers an alternative that puts customers in control.

By Beth Stackpole

Nov 19, 2024 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceSAP

5 tactics to reduce IT costs without hurting innovation

From smarter infrastructure to tighter CFO partnerships, IT leaders are finding practical ways to trim budgets while still advancing transformation.

By Linda Rosencrance

Jul 30, 2025 8 mins

C-SuiteCFOCIO

Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice

The reasons behind the move were global and complex, but for CIOs, it raises frightening new risks, where cloud or SaaS vendors can cut a company off with no warning.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 29, 2025 6 mins

Cloud ComputingMicrosoftRisk Management

How SAP S/4HANA powers the sustainable enterprise

Sustainability isn’t a side hustle — SAP S/4HANA makes it the engine of innovation, profit and future-proofing your entire enterprise.

By Vipin Jain

Jul 28, 2025 16 mins

ERP SystemsGreen ITSAP

The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

When Hewlett Packard bought knowledge management software firm Autonomy, it didn’t realize it was buying into a multibillion accounting cover-up. Shareholders sued HP, which sued Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, and the cases took years to reach a conclusion. Here’s how it played out over the decades.

By Peter Sayer

Jul 22, 2025 11 mins

HPHPEMergers and Acquisitions

Accenture reimagines IT operations with agentic AI

The global consulting firm has built an AI-powered integration platform to support IT operations.

By Thor Olavsrud

Jul 18, 2025 6 mins

AccentureCIOCIO 100

The cross-functional communication required to deal with short certificate lifecycles

No one has truly solved certificate revocation, so the industry has given up and replaced it with shorter, more tightly defined certs. Now more than ever, CIOs need to keep the conversations going.

By Mary Branscombe

Jul 17, 2025 8 mins

CIOCertificationsVendor Management

IT leaders find quick wins when adapting cloud strategies to gen AI

Where and how you process data can make or break your gen AI initiatives.

By Pat Brans

Jul 16, 2025 9 mins

BudgetingCIOGenerative AI

SAP seeks to cut 80% of your data management work

As SAP’s Business Data Cloud (BDC) rolls out internationally, customers can start taking advantage of SAP’s new strategy for supporting business innovation through data integration, according to the company’s data and analytics CPO.

By 이지현

Jul 15, 2025 4 mins

SAP