Category: Basic Querying

September 26, 2023

In his dissertation at Stanford in 1976, smartphone pioneer and founder and CEO of General Magic Marc Porat correctly prophesied that the future would be defined by “information machines, information workers, and information companies.” Today, there is general consensus that […]

September 21, 2023

New technologies often engender fear and foreboding among people outside tech industries. The latest example of this trend is artificial intelligence (AI), which is a topic of much concern and misunderstanding among the public. It’s easy to dismiss these qualms […]

September 20, 2023

CIOs are under increasing pressure to deliver more digital innovations faster and more efficiently. Business leaders expect IT to develop new products, improve customer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver new artificial intelligence capabilities. To do so, CIOs must continuously improve […]

September 18, 2023

Maggie Chavarin is no stranger to reinventing her career. She joined Synchrony more than a decade ago in a Merchants Services role that allowed her to be a work-from-home mom. When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to […]

September 15, 2023

Periodically assessing the efficiency of your IT services spend is vital for uncovering optimization opportunities and areas where you may fall short of future demand. From the CEO’s perspective, an optimized IT services portfolio maximizes cost efficiency, flexibility, and scalability. […]

September 13, 2023

Years into digital transformation, and decades into the IT function itself, many CIOs still fall short when it comes to innovation. Tech debt, budget constraints, and overloaded staff schedules are among the top reasons IT leaders cite for scuttled innovation […]

September 13, 2023

As a software developer and coding instructor, Ania Kubow is always informative and engaging. But watching her 30-minute video on “Vector Embeddings for Beginners” will be time well-spent for many people who have no intention of ever doing hands-on- coding. […]

September 11, 2023

In this report, the news about technology investments was surprisingly upbeat. Despite national news about increased costs, economic uncertainty, and more reports of technology firm layoffs, respondents indicated that they were planning to spend more IT budget in 2023, not […]

September 7, 2023

When I joined Discover Financial Services in 2021, the company was executing its Runway: Mission 80,000 Feet vision to transform the engineering culture toward product-centricity. The vision was to enable a digital transformation by building a highly skilled engineering workforce, […]

September 7, 2023

A company’s journey to digital transformation heavily depends on the processes put in place to support the effort. You need the right people. You need the right technology. But without proper attention paid to the processes that support these — […]

August 30, 2023

Inspired by the world of finance, the idea of managing digital projects as a portfolio of IT investments is gaining acceptance among CIOs as it enables them to place several tech bets at once, allowing some bold, disruptive ideas to […]

August 29, 2023

As our software-based business has gotten deeper into the GraphQL API ecosystem, we’ve picked up some valuable best practices along the way. The open source query language is the future of APIs, but getting it to hum (and hum at […]

August 24, 2023

The energy around AI is nothing short of electrifying. It’s not just a buzzword or part of a science fiction storyline. It’s our new reality and will be the most important and disruptive innovation of our lifetime. The market and […]

August 23, 2023

It’s interesting how the number of projected IoT devices being connected in 2023 can differ by 26 billion from article to article. What it tells me is that no one really knows because new devices are being introduced on a […]

August 16, 2023

Customer reviews hold tremendous power and are capable of making or breaking even the most established brands. Positive reviews build credibility and trust, while negative reviews can deter potential customers and damage a brand’s reputation. Reviews enable customers to shape […]

August 7, 2023

Generative AI is a kind of artificial intelligence that creates new content, including text, images, audio, and video, based on patterns it has learned from existing content. Today’s generative AI models have been trained on enormous volumes of data using […]

August 4, 2023

As CIOs and technology leaders, we’re almost always in the role of the technology evangelist, bringing both mainstream and emerging technology into the organization for business benefit. In collaboration with our peers, we have a solid business sense that carefully […]

August 2, 2023

A data and analytics capability cannot emerge from an IT or business strategy alone. With both technology and business organization deeply involved in the what, why, and how of data, companies need to create cross-functional data teams to get the […]

July 28, 2023

Tight budgets and labor shortages have remained an ongoing challenge for IT leaders in 2023. As a result, CIOs are looking at ways of doing more with less, while continuing to digitally transform their organizations. How can we free up […]

July 11, 2023

Consultants aren’t always held in the highest regard. The 90% who are bad, the old joke goes, ruin it for the rest of us. Knowing the 90%’s tricks of the trade is the canny CIO’s first line of defense. Here […]