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CIOREVIEW >> December 1, 2025

Coretek

Microsoft-Centric Approach to AI and Security

With more than 20 years of deep industry experience, Coretek has built a reputation for helping businesses maximize the value of Microsoft technologies—a legacy that still shapes how it operates today. What began as a focus on unlocking the power of Microsoft’s tools has grown into something much larger. The company today is guiding organizations through cloud transformation, harnessing the potential of data intelligence, and now integrating the limitless possibilities of AI. With its deep expertise in Microsoft platforms, Coretek helps companies move beyond traditional IT modernization and into a new era of custom-built artificial intelligence. From developing AI models tailored to specific business challenges, to structuring data for sharper insights and safeguarding critical information, Coretek combines its Microsoft roots with a forward-looking approach. At the center of it all is a simple promise: secure, AI-driven solutions that help organizations grow while keeping their systems and data protected. Michael Swiencki chief operating officer of Coretek, shares that the company’s unique value proposition lies in its deep expertise with Microsoft’s offerings, "We are positioned to help Microsoft customers not only maximize their investment in Microsoft tools but also achieve their broader IT goals in the most secure and efficient way possible.”

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Coretek: Microsoft-Centric Approach to AI and Security

Managed IT Services

Stealth Technology Group

Smarter IT Services for the Modern Workforce

Chris Anderson, Chief Operating Officer

Managed IT once worked quietly behind the scenes, keeping systems secure and stable. That role built the foundation organizations rely on today, but the business landscape has evolved. Stability alone no longer drives growth as companies need insight, agility and smarter ways to operate. Modern managed services need to step into the client’s world, understand workflows, and apply AI to streamline processes. By connecting technology with strategy, they can help businesses not just maintain operations, but innovate, adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing environment. Leading this new era of intelligent IT management, Stealth Technology Group delivers AI-driven managed IT and security services engineered to transform businesses and enable them to thrive. “We embed technology into the fabric of our clients’ operations, tailoring every solution to their people, processes, and challenges to create lasting impact,” says Chris Anderson, chief operating officer. Anchored in this conviction, the team at Stealth Technology is distinguished for its agility and relentless pursuit of next-generation efficiencies. The company establishes AI task forces within mid-sized organizations that collaboratively test and validate solutions before full-scale deployment. Its specialists work alongside client teams to provide structured training and gather feedback to understand how AI interacts with real-world workflows. Stealth Technology also immerses itself in client operations by leading targeted webinars and actively engaging in these task forces to align employees around AI adoption. At Stealth Technology, the journey toward AI adoption begins with conversation. Through regular AI committee meetings, the firm creates a space where leaders can explore tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Azure AI Studio without the pressure of immediate transformation. These sessions spark curiosity, surface real business challenges and help organizations identify where AI can make a measurable difference. What often follows is a cycle of experimentation that includes testing, refining and scaling successful ideas, turning executive uncertainty into informed, confident action.

Artificial Intelligence

Sensepoint AI

Providing Trusted Autonomy Through Neuro-Symbolic AI

Erik Thomsen, Chief Science Officer and Joss Stubblefield, Co-founder

An AI model typically receives inputs in the form of images, text, or sound and produces a classification or prediction along with a statistical measure of confidence. This reflects the model’s internal calculation of how closely the input matches what it encountered and labeled during training. The problem is that a model’s internal confidence does not account for contextual knowledge, whether that involves lighting conditions for a visual model, agreement across different models running on separate devices, or alignment with other sources of knowledge. Failure to ground model outputs in contextual knowledge is the primary cause of the wildly inaccurate results that sometimes occur in both AI/ML and GenAI systems, commonly referred to as hallucinations. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods can provide domain-specific, ad hoc protections for large language models. However, AI-driven solutions typically span multiple domains. For organizations, it is difficult to trust AI to act autonomously without foolproof guardrails to prevent hallucinations. Sensepoint AI was founded to solve this problem in a principled and scalable way. The company delivers a framework that uses contextual knowledge to transform internal confidence scores into transparent measures of warranted belief that can be compared and aggregated across time, devices, and even models—and then improved where needed. The highest level of warranted belief is trust.

Oracle

NexInfo Solutions

The Trusted Oracle Partner

Lee Palmer, Sr. Director

NexInfo Solutions is a single-source Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation partner, helping enterprises modernize their operations and accelerate digital transformation. With comprehensive services across finance, HCM, supply chain, manufacturing, planning and customer experience, NexInfo allows clients to seamlessly consolidate their ERP modernization initiatives with one trusted vendor. Setting it apart is the way it pairs deep Oracle expertise with cost-effective delivery. It works with global teams to deliver high-quality results, positioning it as an ideal choice for organizations seeking high-impact outcomes without the premium price tag. The value delivered goes beyond implementation. NexInfo stays closely involved through managed services and ongoing support, helping clients sustain and build on their performance long after go-live. Each consultant brings more than a decade of Oracle expertise and focuses on understanding every client’s broader business objectives, ensuring technology aligns with operational goals. With over 26 years of experience and a track record of serving more than 500 clients, NexInfo empowers organizations to strengthen their operations and achieve sustainable growth. “Technology doesn’t drive change, people do,” says Lee Palmer,

Workflow

iALM.ai

AI That Guides, Not Just Automates

Magdy Hanna, Ph.D., iALM Software

Contemporary system development is intricate, especially when teams collaborate simultaneously on interconnected hardware and software initiatives. Organizations struggle to coordinate features, releases, and workflows across teams, often relying on disconnected tools and inconsistent practices. iALM.ai, a comprehensive system development platform built by iALM Software, incorporates AI-driven approaches throughout each phase of the lifecycle, assisting teams in constructing intricate systems effectively, precisely, and on a large scale. Tailored for large enterprises, government agencies, and regulated industries, iALM.ai addresses the challenges of multi-team, multi-project environments where conventional system development solutions are inadequate. Its clients include defense contractors, medical device companies, and government organizations such as the U.S. Army, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon, all of which demand secure, scalable, and methodologically robust development platforms. For security-critical tasks, iALM.ai can be deployed on-premises, giving organizations complete control over proprietary or classified projects. It can also be used as Software As a Service (subscription to the cloud model). iALM.ai is a complete system development platform that uses AI-perfected methodologies to help teams follow system development best practices. It supports every stage of the system development lifecycle, including requirements and user story management, project management and release planning, test management and quality assurance, issue tracking and change management, and document management. This all-in-one approach enables teams to move from concept to release without patching together multiple disconnected tools. “iALM.ai embeds proven methodologies into every workflow, using AI to guide teams, prevent errors, and it supports complex, multi-releases multi-projects with consistency, confidence, and scale,” says Magdy Hanna, Ph.D.

IN MY OPINION

Microsoft

Resilience, Modernization and Responsible AI in the Energy Transition

Sheila Mendez, VP and CIO, TXNM Energy

LAST WORD

Microsoft

How Digital Tools Can Help Construction Teams Work Smarter

Ty Campbell, Director, Customer Success, United Rentals

IN FOCUS

Maximizing Software Efficiency With Lifecycle Management Software

In an increasingly digital-first business landscape, software enables operational performance, supports customer experiences, and drives innovation. Structured framework development and maintenance coordinate agility, quality, and control. Consequently, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software has provided a robust framework for organizations that seek to manage software applications from conception to development, deployment, maintenance, and retirement. With the ever-increasing complexity of the technology environments, the ALM solutions will offer an integrated strategy to ensure that the development and larger business objectives are aligned and that the working life of the software assets remains functional, relevant, and scalable.

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Microsoft Azure Cloud: Transforming Modern Enterprises Through Innovation

Microsoft Azure has become one of the most influential forces reshaping digital transformation across global enterprises. By offering an extensive suite of cloud-based services, Azure empowers organizations to modernize infrastructure, enhance data intelligence, streamline operations, and implement scalable, secure digital strategies. Rapid shifts toward hybrid work environments, advanced analytics, automation, sustainability goals, and evolving customer expectations drive its increasingly vital role in today’s market.

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EDITORIAL

Driving the Next Wave of Enterprise Technology

The enterprise technology services sector is soaring as companies overhaul how they build, manage and scale their digital systems. Organizations are demanding faster delivery, steadier operations and clearer insight across every layer of their architecture. Demand keeps climbing as firms replace scattered tools with connected platforms that support development, data and cloud workloads under one roof.

Application lifecycle management software is advancing because teams want unified control from planning to release. Oracle partner expertise is rising because modern data estates need careful guidance through migrations and optimization. Gen3 AI solutions are accelerating adoption as leaders want intelligence that sharpens decisions and automates routine work. Managed IT services are expanding with companies requiring dependable support that protects performance. Azure cloud leadership is gaining traction. Enterprises are shifting vital systems to environments built for scale and security.

This edition of CIOReview explores the advancements and leading providers shaping the future of enterprise technology as organizations push for stronger performance and smarter growth.

It features thought leadership articles from industry experts, including Dariush Ajami, chief innovation officer at Beyond Meat, who shares his perspective on innovation, emerging technologies and the shifts that are reshaping product development and operational strategy across the sector.

Naveen Manga, global chief information officer, Marriott International offers his views on leadership, automation and the evolving role of DevSecOps in building resilient and people-focused technology environments.

The edition also features Coretek, a Microsoft-focused solutions provider that helps organizations adopt secure AI, strengthen cloud environments and turn data intelligence into practical results that support long-term transformation.

We hope this edition gives you a clear view of the innovations, strategies and leaders driving the next phase of enterprise technology and helps you navigate your own path toward smarter and steadier growth.

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