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    Finance Transformation’s Front-End Alignment
    The big picture: Finance transformation reimagines how skills, processes and technology can be leveraged to drive long-term value. By the numbers: CFOs and other finance executives view the implementation of advanced automation with more urgency than do other finance managers and professionals. Math and magic: Achieving success starts with establishing a compelling finance transformation story…
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    Hani Masood
    Hani is a Managing Director in Chicago with over 22 years of consulting experience specializing in finance transformation, shared services, remediation support and program management.  Hani also spent his first 12 years at Protiviti helping companies build their corporate governance programs to prepare to go public.  Hani co-leads the Business Performance Improvement (“BPI”) Solution…
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    Securing Smart Contracts: Understanding Shifting to the Left
    Thank you for joining this three-part series on smart contract development and security. In part one, I reviewed smart contract basics and in part two, I discussed smart contract design and standards. Closing the book on the smart contract journey, the third and final post in this series discusses security, testing and deployment practices, and how web3 properties take existing devops paradigm…
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    A Fresh Take on Cloud Transformation
    At a Glance The big picture: For many years, organizations adopting cloud technologies have faced challenges regarding material systems re-architecture and rationalization for long-term impact on, and benefits to, the organization from cloud services. Why it matters: Doing cloud migration without transformation of underlying application and data workloads likely does not provide appropriate…
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    Technical Debt Demands Your Attention
    By the numbers: Technical debt consumes nearly one-third of technology budgets and more than one-fifth of technology professionals’ time; 70% of CIOs and technology leaders view technical debt as a major drag on their organization’s ability to innovate. Why it matters: Technical debt creates critical concerns for the organization, not the least of which is the cost to manage it. Technical debt…
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    Is Apple’s Vision Pro a Gamechanger That Will Mainstream the Metaverse? Tech Experts Weigh in.
    In brief Apple’s big announcement puts VR, Web 3 and the metaverse back into the spotlight, occupied by ChatGPT since 2022. “These aren’t just glasses. This is the most advanced tech product ever created — it’s a supercomputer.” “While every other tech company goes all in with generative AI, Apple decides to take the ‘Way Back Machine’ to 2016 and revive the wearable headset for yet…
  • Leadership
    James (Jim) Kinsman
    Specializing in Cloud Security and Digital Identity, Jim has more than 25 years of information security experience and even more in consulting. Jim has Big 4 experience and has worked for some of the best-known technology firms in the world, such as Oracle, Sun, and AT&T. As a Managing Director at Protiviti, he also has a wealth technical expertise with roles as Lead Security Architect,…
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    Smart Contracts Part 1: What is a Smart Contract?
    In recent years, there’s been considerable talk of blockchain and its use cases in the business world. While some of these topics have specific use cases - metaverse, decentralized finance, etc – there is one topic that underpins everything in the blockchain and decentralized space: smart contracts. Smart contracts are behind-the-scenes applications that route data, track changes and settle…
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    Using Microsoft Azure to Do More With Less
    At a Glance The big picture: Leaders are now reconsidering their use of cloud resources and seeking opportunities to optimize cloud operational costs. Why it matters: At a time when leaders are looking to optimize spend while honing in on high-value capabilities, Microsoft Azure offers technologies, tools, and services that enable companies to make smart cloud expenditures. Bottom line: An…
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    How Application Modernization Fuels Innovation and Profit Acceleration
    At a Glance The big picture: Application modernization is a business innovation enabler. Why it matters: Technology leaders are struggling with finding the right balance between upgrading legacy systems and investing in new technology while managing the perspectives, and expectations, of the business, its stakeholders, and the board. The bottom line: Upgrading the back end of legacy systems…
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