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What’s important to the CIO in 2025

Three topics shaping the technology agenda

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Are CIOs an influencer for innovation?

In an era where tech fuels business innovation, chief information officers (CIOs) are uniquely positioned to help guide their organizations toward transformation. How? Focus on human-centric technology to drive modernization and transformation. This shift can enable moving beyond keeping systems operational, to help influence corporate valuation and spearhead innovation. Generative AI (GenAI) can help organizations increase productivity and cost savings by elevating platform modernization from a tactical initiative to a strategic advantage. Prioritizing ongoing improvement over large-scale transformations, CIOs can turn innovative tech into a competitive edge.

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What to focus on in 2025

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Prioritize cloud platform modernization

Unlocking the value of cloud goes beyond data migration. Focus on full-stack platform modernization and a cloud-first environment throughout your entire tech ecosystem to help influence more powerful outcomes across your business. By focusing on data modernization, legacy data quality can improve and lead to better reporting and stronger integration. 

CIOs should also prioritize platforms that treat data, applications and infrastructure as a unified ecosystem. Equip the business to understand how modern build techniques improve its ability to leverage AI-powered architectures, with an emphasis on how cloud modernization is closely tied to GenAI — a key to operational efficiency. Platform modernization requires expertise to map and engineer the journey — leveraging a managed services solution can help accelerate these investments while managing cloud capabilities to optimize costs and outcomes.

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