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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

S/4HANA can realign and transform business models and processes. Here’s what you need to know about SAP’s flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

By Christian Olausson

Apr 2, 2025 12 mins

ERP Systems Enterprise Applications SAP

Download the ‘Strategizing Data Analytics for AI’ Enterprise Spotlight

In this issue: We explore the intersection of AI and analytics. Data analytics only gets more complex. And its growing use for artificial intelligence applications brings a new set of considerations and strategies for IT and business leaders.

By CIO.com and InfoWorld staff

Apr 1, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Data Management Generative AI

Taming the cost of AI: Is FinOps the answer?

AI costs are soaring! FinOps is key to managing cloud expenses for AI services like genAI. Transparency, management and optimization are vital.

By Magesh Kasthuri

Apr 1, 2025 11 mins

Amazon Web Services Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

Remember when developers reigned supreme? The market for software coding goes soft

While many companies are still hiring programmers, demand has fallen off as AI and ML experts can’t be hired fast enough, spurring some developers to rethink their roles.

By Grant Gross

Apr 1, 2025 7 mins

Careers Hiring Software Development

In turbulent political times, IT can be a difference maker

With many organizations experiencing political and macroeconomic whiplash, CIOs can serve as a much-needed oasis of calm and consistency — especially if their motives and methods are right.

By Thornton May

Apr 1, 2025 5 mins

Business IT Alignment IT Leadership IT Strategy

How DPDP Act will define data privacy in the digital-first world

Organizations entrusted with sensitive data from their customers are utilizing emerging technology, processes and regulations to protect it. But with sophisticated cyberattacks, data theft and confounding cross-border legislation, will data privacy e

By Qiraat Attar

Apr 1, 2025 4 mins

Data Privacy Digital Transformation

Siemens and Accenture launch joint business group to transform manufacturing

The newly founded Accenture Siemens Business Group will develop software-defined products and processes for engineering and manufacturing firms, including an emphasis on agentic AI.

By Jürgen Hill

Apr 1, 2025 4 mins

Digital Transformation IT Consulting Services Manufacturing Industry

AI brings complexity to cybersecurity and fraud

Cybersecurity is like a game of chess – organization vs attacker, and cybersecurity is the good side’s strongest defence. Influential CISO’s discuss how institutions tackle infiltration using AI when bad actors threaten to bring cha

By Qiraat Attar

Apr 1, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cyberattacks Fraud

12 ways to accelerate digital transformation

Disruptive forces dictate the need for speed when it comes to key digital initiatives. Here’s how IT leaders are overhauling strategies and processes to streamline IT for quicker success.

By Mary K. Pratt

Mar 31, 2025 12 mins

Business IT Alignment Digital Transformation IT Strategy

AI culture war: Hidden bias in training models may push political propaganda

Some AI experts warn that DeepSeek has the potential to secretly spread cultural and political bias on behalf of the Chinese government.

By Grant Gross

Mar 28, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Technology Industry

The RACI matrix: Your blueprint for project success

A RACI matrix is a simple, effective means for defining project roles and responsibilities, providing a comprehensive chart of who is responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed every step of the way.

By Bob Kantor and CIO staff

Mar 28, 2025 11 mins

IT Governance Frameworks IT Leadership Project Management Tools

Connecting with Gen Z: A guide to boosting employee engagement

How employers can find the balance between the aspirations of the younger generation and the requirements of the company.

By Felix Pflüger

Mar 27, 2025 4 mins

Careers Hiring Human Resources

9 CRM trends for 2025: AI reshapes the customer equation

AI is accelerating the evolution of customer relationship management (CRM), with agentic AI, a shift to targeted use cases, and workforce realignments on the horizon.

By Neal Weinberg

Mar 27, 2025 9 mins

CRM Systems IT Strategy Technology Industry

11 go-to podcasts that inspire IT industry leaders today

From deep dives into emerging technologies and cybersecurity threats, to explorations of leadership and team building, these podcasts offer valuable perspectives and practical advice to empower tech leaders in their roles.

By Linda Rosencrance

Mar 27, 2025 5 mins

CIO IT Leadership Innovation

How Women in Tech are rising to the new challenges

Leading women CIOs discuss how technology is in spotlight in boardroom conversations, balancing business, budget and IT for organizational success and offer insights on how women can shape their careers and shine in executive leadership.

By Qiraat Attar

Mar 26, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence CIO Women in IT

How CIOs are stepping up as business strategists

With the impact of technology permeating across all business verticals, CIOs have become instrumental in business decisions – from operations to budgeting to customer experience. Leading CIOs discuss how the digital boom cemented this change, t

By Qiraat Attar

Mar 26, 2025 7 mins

Business CIO

SAP adoption surges in Europe as enterprises embrace cloud

About 40% of companies in the DACH region are increasing their overall IT budgets, while SAP-specific investments are on the rise for 47% of enterprises, according to a German SAP user group.

By Gyana Swain

Mar 26, 2025 4 mins

Enterprise Applications SAP

A strategic approach to legacy platform modernization: Minimizing risk while maximizing value

Old systems hold your data hostage. Modernizing them is tough, but essential. How do you upgrade without crashing your business?

By Kausik Chaudhuri

Mar 26, 2025 10 mins

Digital Transformation IT Strategy SAP

3 steps to get your data AI ready

Most IT leaders will find it impossible to increase their adoption of AI with the data management practices they have in place now.

By Pat Brans

Mar 26, 2025 8 mins

CIO Cloud Management Generative AI

The vision behind restructuring OKQ8’s IT department

According to Clas Artvin, the Swedish fuel company’s CIO, embracing digitalization isn’t only better for business, but essential to brand identity considering the massive shifts taking place in the industry.

By Karin Lindström

Mar 26, 2025 5 mins

Agile Development CIO Mining, Oil, and Gas

The EU AI Act is here. Are you prepared for it?

With the right strategy and the appropriate services, you can reduce the risks of compliance violations…and increase efficiency at the same time.

By Catrin Schreiner

Mar 25, 2025 7 mins

Generative AI Legal Regulation

7 types of tech debt that could cripple your business

IT leaders need to look beyond legacy systems to see what’s really holding their IT agendas back from delivering transformative results.

By Isaac Sacolick

Mar 25, 2025 10 mins

Devops Enterprise Architecture IT Strategy

2025 CIO Hall of Fame honorees

Meet the CIOs enshrined in the CIO Hall of Fame — from the Class of 1997 to the Class of 2025.

By CIO US Events

Mar 25, 2025 12 mins

CIO CIO 100 Technology Industry

88% of AI pilots fail to reach production — but that’s not all on IT

Unclear objectives, insufficient data readiness, and a lack of in-house expertise are sinking many AI proofs of concept. So too are zealous POC greenlighting and misguided pressure from the top.

By Evan Schuman

Mar 25, 2025 4 mins

Business IT Alignment IT Strategy Innovation

2025 US CIO 100 winners: Celebrating IT innovation and leadership

The CIO 100 celebrates 100 IT organizations for driving digital business growth through technology innovation. Honorees will be recognized at the annual CIO 100 Symposium & Awards Ceremony in August.

By CIO US Events

Mar 24, 2025 4 mins

CIO 100 Foundry Events Innovation

Will AI erode IT talent pipelines?

IT leaders’ talent strategies hinge in large part on upskilling entry-level workers. The debate over AI replacing roles versus replacing tasks sheds light on how that traditional pipeline will change as AI’s capabilities advance.

By Mary K. Pratt

Mar 24, 2025 9 mins

Hiring IT Training Staff Management

QueerTech empowers queer technologists to thrive in tech

QueerTech brings together LGBTQ+ technologists to foster community, gain confidence in professional and leadership skills, and build networks within the tech community.

By Sarah White

Mar 24, 2025 8 mins

Careers IT Skills Nonprofits

SAP customers struggle with S/4HANA migration

According to a recent Horváth study, more than 60% of companies experience deviations in budget, schedule, and result quality during S/4HANA migration.

By Manfred Bremmer

Mar 24, 2025 4 mins

ERP Systems SAP

Chart Industries turns to NaaS to solve multicloud merger challenge

After acquiring UK-based Howden, the US gas liquefaction company turned to networking-as-a-service to interconnect its expanded global-site footprint’s reliance on multiple clouds.

By Paula Rooney

Mar 21, 2025 6 mins

Digital Transformation Energy Industry Manufacturing Industry

What is predictive analytics? Transforming data into future insights

Predictive analytics and predictive AI can help your organization forecast outcomes based on historical data and analytics techniques.

By John Edwards and Thor Olavsrud

Mar 21, 2025 15 mins

Artificial Intelligence Predictive Analytics

SAP CEO Christian Klein predicts manual data entry will disappear from SAP by 2027

Celebrating the software giant’s 30th anniversary in Korea, Klein announced plans to extend SAP’s AI assistant to the Korean market with bold pronouncements about user productivity.

By 이지현

Mar 20, 2025 3 mins

ERP Systems Generative AI SAP

Beyond ChatGPT: Secret robotics plans and the $38 billion humanoid revolution

In the global competition for AI and humanoid robots, OpenAI, Nvidia, Tesla and Chinese companies are setting new standards. Advances in language models and AI systems are shaping the development of intelligent machines for industry and everyday life

By Jan Burian

Mar 20, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Robotics

Why women leave your IT organization — and how to help reverse that talent drain

A wide range of contributing factors has women of every IT rank eyeing the exit. Here’s what is causing them to reconsider their roles, employment, and profession, and what IT leaders can do about it.

By Mary K. Pratt

Mar 20, 2025 10 mins

Careers Staff Management Women in IT

Why cloud is integral to Japan Rugby Football Union’s media strategy

Since Japan hosted the 2019 Rugby World Cup, the JRFU has launched the Japan Rugby 2050 initiative to raise the global appeal of Japanese rugby. One aspect of it is a robust, cloud-based approach to media to achieve better efficiencies.

By Yoko Sueoka

Mar 20, 2025 6 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Architecture ICT Partners

China banks on open source in AI cold war with US

Beijing is stepping up the pace of AI development by betting on open-source code.

By Daniel Olszewski

Mar 20, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Oracle’s AI Agent Studio is free for Fusion Cloud customers

The offering is expected to automate business processes, reducing manual effort and improving efficiency without heavy development overhead.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Mar 20, 2025 7 mins

Enterprise Applications Generative AI Oracle

The evolving landscape of network security in 2025

Security becomes more pervasive as AI, cloud, quantum, and space take enterprise networks beyond the limits where no corporate data has gone before.

By Ed Fox

Mar 19, 2025 4 mins

Network Security Security

Why CDOs should prioritize ESG in data strategy

Chief data officers: ESG data's not a side quest. Your data's green footprint — or lack thereof — defines your future. Lead now, or get left behind.

By Chitra Sundaram

Mar 19, 2025 14 mins

Chief Data Officer Data Governance IT Strategy

SAP introduces Joule for Developers

The AI coding assistant is trained in coding for SAP but is meant to be a helper, not to replace developers.

By Lynn Greiner

Mar 19, 2025 1 min

Developer SAP

5 top business use cases for AI agents

AI agents are poised to transform the enterprise landscape, from automating mundane tasks to driving customer service and innovation. But having strong guardrails in place will be key to success.

By Maria Korolov

Mar 19, 2025 14 mins

Generative AI Human Resources Microsoft

What’s driving the global common data capability at RGA

CIO Mark Brooks, his team, and peers are avoiding FOMO AI, and investing in a high-value data platform for the $19 billion life and health reinsurance provider.

By Martha Heller

Mar 19, 2025 7 mins

CIO Digital Transformation Generative AI

How automation forges a sense of community and purpose at 6sense

Bryan Wise, CIO of San Francisco-based software company 6sense, sat with CIO.com’s Lee Rennick at the CIO 100 Symposium and Awards to discuss the motivation behind the company’s award winning Automation Domination project to deliver proce

By CIO staff

Mar 19, 2025 6 mins

CIO Cloud Management Data Quality

Deloitte unveils agentic AI platform

Zora AI, Deloitte’s new agentic AI platform, offers a portfolio of digital agents for a wide range of departments across the enterprise.

By Thor Olavsrud

Mar 18, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Deloitte ICT Partners

Nvidia’s ‘hard pivot’ to AI reasoning bolsters Llama models for agentic AI

The company’s new Llama Nemotron family of reasoning models aim to help developers and enterprises build agentic AI platforms.

By Thor Olavsrud

Mar 18, 2025 4 mins

Generative AI Technology Industry

Adobe makes agentic AI push with Agent Orchestrator, purpose-built agents

Adobe seeks to make Adobe Experience Platform the foundation of a new wave of AI agents for marketers and creatives.

By Thor Olavsrud

Mar 18, 2025 3 mins

Adobe Systems Artificial Intelligence Data Management

Security is dead: Long live risk management

A CIO's guide to reimagining risk management in modern software development.

By Shawn McCarthy

Mar 18, 2025 19 mins

DevSecOps Network Security Zero Trust

9 key metrics for IT success

IT departments are swimming in metrics meant to measure their effectiveness, but this compact collection of essential KPIs provides a true foundation for measuring IT success.

By John Edwards

Mar 18, 2025 12 mins

IT Leadership IT Strategy

53% of IT leaders see AI replacing headcount — others question that approach

AI should be used to assist workers and allow them to work on more creative and complex tasks, instead of leading to unemployment, some IT experts say.

By Grant Gross

Mar 18, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Jobs Staff Management

Operational efficiency is not transformation

While operational efficiency can drive improvements, it often falls short of true transformation. To address this, many organizations are turning to transformation functions to bridge the ‘missing middle’—the strategic activities th

By Michael Bertha

Mar 17, 2025 6 mins

Business Operations

Celonis sues SAP for anti-competitive data access practices

The German startup Celonis has accused the software giant of abusing its market power to hinder competition — in particular, to give its own processing mining solution preferential treatment over third-party offerings.

By Martin Bayer

Mar 17, 2025 6 mins

ERP Systems Process Improvement SAP