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Why your ERP still can’t solve inventory drift — and the architecture that will

Your ERP isn’t broken — it’s just outdated, because inventory accuracy still depends on stopping the factory instead of reconciling reality in real time.

Jan 23, 2026 11 mins

Digital Transformation ERP Systems Manufacturing Systems

MuleSoft gains Agent Scanners to rein in enterprise AI chaos

The new Agent Scanners feature automatically detects and catalogs AI agents across platforms like Copilot, Vertex AI, Bedrock, and Agentforce — giving CIOs long‑missing visibility into fragmented, shadow AI deployments.

Jan 22, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Applications

How to optimize LLMs for enterprise success

Why run a huge, costly LLM when a smaller, distilled one can do the job faster, cheaper and with fewer hallucinations?

Jan 20, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Applications Generative AI

From static workflows to intelligent automation: Architecting the self-driving enterprise

When bots break because a button moves, it’s time for smarter, goal-based automation that can see, think and recover like a human.

Jan 20, 2026 9 mins

Data Governance Data Quality Robotic Process Automation

How to mitigate software licensing surprises

It’s time to truly understand (…and uncover) the challenges and strategies for navigating subscription changes in virtual desktop licensing.

Nov 12, 2024 4 mins

Cloud Computing Enterprise Applications IT Leadership

IT portfolio management: Optimizing IT assets for business value

CIOs can improve IT’s value to the business by managing its assets like a portfolio of investments tuned to deliver, diversify, and de-risk.

Jan 16, 2026 7 mins

Asset Management Software ROI and Metrics Risk Management

The tech leadership realizing more than the sum of parts

At the CIO100 Symposium & Awards last summer, ComputerWorld’s Lucas Mearian sat with John Fraser, CIO of All States Ag Parts (Parts ASAP), and discussed, among other things, how the North American supplier for agricultural, construction, and industri

Jan 14, 2026 8 mins

CIO CIO 100 E-commerce Services

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol aims to simplify life for shopping bots… and CIOs

Agentic AI is struggling with the complexity and variety of real-world commerce, so Google and others are helping enterprises standardize interactions with online shopping bots.

Jan 13, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence E-commerce Software Enterprise Applications

SAP tosses some Compatibility Pack users a (short) lifeline

Customers who have not finished their migration get an extra five months to complete the process; those who have not started get nothing.

Jan 8, 2026 6 mins

ERP Systems Enterprise Applications SAP

Epicor sets timeline to sunset on-prem ERP as cloud becomes the only path forward

The ERP vendor will phase out on-prem releases of Kinetic, Prophet 21, and BisTrack, shifting all future innovation to Epicor Cloud.

Jan 7, 2026 7 mins

Cloud Computing ERP Systems Enterprise Applications