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CIOREVIEW >> July 8, 2025

Engineering leaders don’t lack tools, but they often lack answers. Why are timelines slipping? Where’s the bottleneck? And what’s slowing down delivery, even when everything appears to be “on track” until green changes to red on delivery day? Sudheer Bandaru, founder and CEO of Hivel, faced these questions throughout his career. As a developer-turned-CTO at companies like Hewlett-Packard, Merrill Lynch and several San Francisco startups, he led distributed teams across India, Africa and Europe. Despite well-established workflows, visibility remained elusive. “I kept asking myself, why do I still feel like I’m flying blind?” he says. In conversations with peers at Google, Microsoft, Stripe and Uber, Bandaru noticed a divide. Big Tech’s internal analytics tools flagged bottlenecks and surfaced real-time performance insights, but most mid-market companies didn’t. They relied on generic dashboards, built for reporting, not understanding. The data fed into these dashboards was manually entered, leading to a garbage-in, garbage-out situation. That gap became the starting point for Hivel. Short for “high velocity,” Hi-Vel is a productivity insights platform that helps engineering leaders move from guesswork to clarity. It delivers continuous, objective visibility into team outcomes, delivery bottlenecks, AI tool adoption and tangible ROI. The platform is built around two core products: Hivel Analytics (also called Hivel Intelligence), which offers a high-level view of engineering performance and the Code Review Agent, which takes the first pass at code changes and provides high-quality review comments across linting, security, business logic and more. Together, they give leaders the altitude to see patterns and the tools to act and bring change. Visibility without the Guesswork Hivel Analytics connects to the tools engineering teams already use—GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure, Jira, Jenkins, SonarQube and team calendars—and transforms raw activity into sharp, decision-ready insights. Developers don’t need to change how they work. The turnkey platform reads live data and surfaces a straightforward narrative, revealing where teams accelerate, where they stall and what stands in the way. At the core is the Cockpit dashboard, a single pane of glass offering real-time visibility into key engineering metrics. Cycle time, deployment frequency, mean time to recovery, pull request velocity and epic-level progress are tracked automatically, without spreadsheets or manual reporting. Leaders gain an instant view into how fast teams move, what they deliver and where momentum is lost. But visibility is just the beginning. Hivel turns insight into action. It automatically categorizes feedback comments to minimize communication delays and streamline handoffs. Oversized or lightly reviewed pull requests are flagged early, removing common bottlenecks that quietly drag down velocity. Managers can resolve blockers faster, reduce review lag and keep releases moving without disruption.

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Hivel: Making Engineering Performance Visible

Top AI Powered User Experience Mobile Observability Platform 2025

When a mobile app crashes or lags, app developers often receive vague complaints saying “the app is broken” or “the app is slow” with little to no context. What screen were users on? What did they tap? How long has the app been lagging? What processes or functions were running on what threads? Without granular visibility, debugging itself stalls. Meanwhile, fragmented tools and manual workflows isolate feedback, QA, and analytics, leaving issues undetected until users complain publicly. When they do, teams are left without the data needed to act. Ultimately, feedback like “the app is slow” remains a mystery. In such a predicament, Instabug emerges as the missing link mobile teams have been waiting for. Through its purpose-built mobile observability platform, the company brings much-needed transparency between the end user and the app developer to elevate the user experience. “There is no room for error in mobile app development. Once an app goes live, developers cannot ‘undo’ a release,” says Kenny Johnston, chief product officer. “From identifying bugs and crashes to gaining a deeper understanding of the user’s journey, our observability platform empowers mobile app developers to create seamless, user-centered experiences.” From beta testing to post-release monitoring, Instabug’s platform delivers complete visibility into the user experience. Its in-app bug reporting feature allows testers and beta users to report problems directly within the app, instantly capturing logs, screenshots, and contextual data, which are then sent to the development team. Crash reporting, performance monitoring, and session replay go a step further, providing a crystal-clear view of the users’ journey and what went wrong, helping developers reproduce and fix bugs without guesswork. To complement technical insights, the user-feedback collection tool gathers NPS scores, app ratings, and open-ended feedback, automatically tying them to user sessions to make the data actionable. Beyond beta testing, Instabug supports release management, enabling teams to monitor real-world performance during staged rollouts and automatically pause them if issues arise.

Top AI Powered PSA RMM Platform 2025

More than 90 percent of managed service providers (MSPs) agree that automating core processes is essential to free up time for strategic, revenue-generating work. Yet most MSP support analysts and managed IT professionals still start their day buried in dashboards—facing a flood of unattended tickets, urgent alerts and routine requests with no intelligent system for prioritization. SuperOps is changing that by putting intelligence at the center of every action—through Monica AI, the platform’s AI core designed specifically for MSPs and IT teams. Rather than forcing technicians to sift through queues manually, Monica steps in from the moment a task enters the system. It automatically assesses urgency, pulls historical context from past tickets and even suggests solutions sourced from the knowledge base. What once took several steps—and several tools—now happens in real time, without friction. But triage will be just the beginning. The vision is for Monica to automate much of the routine but critical processes that typically consume MSP bandwidth and to offer valuable insights so grunt work is reduced or removed. These aren’t isolated features. They’re connected through SuperOps’ unified PSA-RMM platform, which brings together service desk, asset and patch monitoring and management, contracts, network monitoring and runbooks under one roof. No toggling between systems, no duplicated data, no unnecessary overhead. At the center of it all, Monica AI acts like a second brain for the team—interpreting what’s happening and understanding what needs to happen next. Whether flagging a stuck technician, rerouting resources to avoid backlogs or identifying which clients are draining margins, Monica enables MSPs to move from reactive to proactive. “Music has always been about the song—but the way we listen has evolved, from gramophones to cassettes, iPods to Spotify,” says Arvind Parthiban, co-founder and CEO. “The same goes for managed services. The core need hasn’t changed, only the channel delivering it has. AI is the modern delivery model, and Monica is how MSPs tune in.” The impact is already being felt. For Matt Ford at TCIT Services, Monica has transformed how his dyslexic engineer works—helping him highlight text, request rewrites, and send polished responses in seconds. Another client, running a lean MSP out of New York, credits Monica with helping him resolve recurring issues automatically—no extra manpower needed. In just a year, his gross sales rose by 10 percent, while gross profit surged 26 percent.

Top Legal Firm Payments Technology Company 2025

For modern law firms, getting paid should be as seamless as delivering great legal work. FeeWise makes that possible, offering a purpose-built payments platform that helps small and mid-sized firms get paid faster, in full and with minimal effort. The innovative payments platform automates billing from invoice to reconciliation, making it easier for clients to pay and firms to stay on top of finances. With features like automatic invoice-linked payments, client-friendly checkout options and seamless legal software integration, it is tackling one of the industry's biggest pain points—cash flow—head-on. “Every part of our platform is designed to eliminate payment friction, enabling law firms to focus on delivering great legal work, not chasing payments,” says David Wills, CEO. Collecting fees on time is a persistent challenge for law firms. They are asking their clients to pay often large, unexpected bills at a stressful time – so making payment as convenient as possible helps law firms get paid faster and in full. It also means less time chasing clients. FeeWise was built to solve cash collections for law firms. At the core of its platform is the deepest legal software integration on the market. When a law firm creates an invoice or trust payment request within its practice management software, FeeWise automatically attaches a context-aware payment link. Clients are directed to a branded payment page showing exactly what they owe. With the platform’s “Matter Statement Checkout” feature, they can view and pay multiple outstanding balances in one seamless transaction. Once a payment is made, the law firm is instantly notified, and the transaction details are synced back into the practice management system for easy reconciliation.

Top Enterprise AI Solution 2025

Airia is an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) orchestration platform designed to unlock the promise of AI, making its adoption accessible, secure, and impactful for modern enterprises. While the potential of AI is widely acknowledged, many organizations struggle to move from pilot projects to full-scale deployment. Research from Gartner and Forrester reveals that nearly 88 percent of AI initiatives stall before reaching production, highlighting a persistent implementation gap facing business leaders. Airia solves this problem with its secure, scalable, and vendor-agnostic platform, which is purpose-built to help organizations rapidly build, deploy, and optimize AI-powered solutions across industries. Applying their proven expertise, the team has created a platform that lowers technical barriers and safeguards operations, in addition to supporting long-term scalability. By doing so, it empowers businesses to navigate regulatory complexity confidently and unlock the full value of artificial intelligence. To further streamline adoption, Airia enables users to integrate core enterprise applications such as Salesforce, Workday, and other essential tools in minutes without configuring APIs or managing secure keys. The platform simplifies setup and removes typical backend complexities through standard pre-built integrations, significantly accelerating time to value. The platform also supports multiple large language models (LLMs), including ChatGPT, Claude, and other leading providers, allowing users to seamlessly embed these models into workflows and engage with enterprise data—all within a secure and compliant environment. This is possible because Airia’s founding team has a strong track record of building and scaling successful enterprise software companies. This legacy of success highlights the team’s deep experience in scaling enterprise-grade platforms and serving organizations with complex security, governance, and regulatory requirements. A Three-Phase AI Adoption Model Airia is designed to support the full AI adoption lifecycle through three strategic phases: build, deploy and optimize. In the build phase, organizations use Airia’s no-code interface to develop AI solutions that integrate seamlessly with enterprise systems. The drag-and-drop functionality empowers cross-functional teams beyond data scientists to build sophisticated solutions leveraging multiple LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and others. “Our platform’s key strength is its user-friendly, intuitive interface, allowing beginners to easily build workflows through drag-and-drop functionality without technical expertise,” says Kevin Kiley, President of Airia. The deployment phase centers on operational integrity and enterprise governance. Airia is “secure-by-design,” with built-in compliance protocols and enterprise-grade governance standards. This makes it especially suitable for regulated industries like financial services, insurance, and healthcare, where data security and auditability are critical.

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Driving Operational Growth through Advanced Systems

CIOs today are playing a greater role in how businesses evolve with technology. Advancements have become a central part of long-term planning as companies look for ways to improve systems and stay prepared for change. They are leading this effort by focusing on tools to enhance how teams work, make better decisions and ensure systems perform reliably across the organization. Their approach helps organizations stay efficient, more connected and better equipped to move forward with clarity.

Software engineering analytics platforms that highlight the pace and patterns of work to better understand how engineering teams deliver are highly in demand. These platforms uncover where work slows, communication breaks down or handoffs falter. With this visibility, leaders can act early and keep delivery steady and aligned with business goals.

Enterprise AI platforms are also taking a more central role and are no longer confined to experimental use cases. Businesses are weaving AI into daily operations, using platforms that combine language models with data ingestion and automation layers. Whether it’s customer service or document processing, these AI solutions are now expected to drive impact without requiring teams to build from scratch.

Legal firms are adopting payment platforms that reflect the way their practices function. These systems are built around trust accounting, compliance safeguards and client-friendly billing. In doing so, they reduce the administrative overhead legal professionals often face and create a more transparent experience for clients, who now expect digital-first interactions even in traditionally conservative sectors.

Mobile applications continue to define how users interact with services. CIOs are turning to AI-powered observability platforms that track usage patterns and flag subtle performance issues to support this. These tools help teams see where users hesitate, where engagement drops and where improvements can lead to stronger retention. Product teams can act quickly and focus their effort on what has the most immediate impact.

AI-driven PSA and RMM platforms unify ticketing, automation and monitoring for managed service providers. They help identify recurring issues, improve response times and reduce workload while supporting consistent, high-quality service across client settings.

In this edition of the CIOReview, we explore the recent developments in software platforms that are reshaping operations and expanding the role of today’s CIOs in driving long-term outcomes.

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