Sluggish economic growth, lagging capital spending, and cautious hiring challenge CFOs managing the organization's financial path. Leaders now demand greater insights from data driven decisions. Analytics and big data are as important as treasury concerns and counter-party risk mitigation. Further, a greater number of CFOs now own the IT function and have CIOs reporting to them. This growing and evolving role of the CFO results in a need to understand the impact of disruptive technologies on business models and financial security. Constellation's analysts and research helps CIOs understand the challenges faced by the IT and line of business divide as well as take a pragmatic approach to technology adoption.
Not all vendors will take the hit, but those with sizeable federal government businesses are saying March has indicated businesses may slow. Meanwhile, enterprises are likely to take longer to make decisions on technology.
CxOs say that software-as-a-service business models that include consumption are going to require a learning curve as well as a few surprise bills. Nevertheless, there may be benefits to consumption-based models even with drawbacks. Here's the breakdown of the pros and cons.
Hershey has to navigate inflation, supply chain disruptions, consumer tastes and GLP-1 obesity drugs and their impact on demand. But at least the company has reached the finish line moving to SAP S/4HANA and one instance.
