It’ s showtime with this month’ s edition of Intelligent CIO North America as Cirque du Soleil entertainment group introduces an AI invoice assistant to help streamline its accounts payable operations, bringing greater speed, transparency and agility to a highly complex global business.

Enabled by SAP Business AI and built on SAP Business Technology Platform, the assistant is already delivering faster response times, enhanced supplier experiences and smooth multilingual automation. For Cirque du Soleil, whose business model blends creativity, logistics and constant motion, the solution is helping finance operations perform with the same precision as its worldfamous acrobatics.

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On p14 Philippe Lalumière, Vice President of Information Technology, Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, outlines how the solution eases the pressure on the groups’ accounts payable team.

Derek Ashmore, AI Enablement Principal, Asperitas, says AI-driven predictive maintenance is transforming IT support from a reactive function into a strategic discipline that elevates skills, careers and business impact.

On p24 Derek shifts the narrative on AI in IT to a story far more nuanced and optimistic that that of replacement.

On p35 Mark Pestridge, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Telehouse Europe; Sami Slim, CEO, Telehouse France and Takeyuki Yanagisawa, General Manager, Telehouse Business Planning Department, KDDI, outline how data sovereignty is reshaping the design, governance and operation of digital infrastructure across global markets.

NextEra Energy and Google Cloud are significantly expanding their long-standing energy and technology collaboration, aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence growth and transforming the energy sector across the United States.

Read on p28 how the companies will work together to develop multiple new gigawatt-scale data centre campuses to focus on scaling multiple gigawatts of data centre capacity alongside the energy infrastructure required to support rapidly growing AI workloads.

That’ s just a sample of what’ s inside – enjoy the read.

Have an innovative month.

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