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Deciding What Runs Where: Cloud, Edge, On-Prem, or Hybrid; How to place workloads based on performance, cost, sovereignty, resilience, and AI requirements.

Cloud decisions are becoming more selective. The challenge is deciding where each workload should run based on cost, performance, control, resilience, sovereignty, and business need. Three pressure points usually drive the decision. - Cost visibility becomes harder when usage grows across cloud services, data platforms, and AI workloads. - Performance and latency matter more when systems need fast access to data or support operational processes. - Sovereignty and resilience become critical when data location, continuity, vendor dependency, and exit options enter the discussion. The working question is simple: how do we place workloads where they create the most value while keeping the hybrid landscape manageable? If these trade-offs are on your agenda, let’s compare how others are handling similar choices.

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Choosing the Right Data Platform Without Creating New Silos; How to balance speed, flexibility, semantics, governance, and long-term maintainability.

Data platforms are meant to simplify access and support better use of data. The challenge is choosing and governing the platform landscape in a way that creates consistency, reuse, and long-term value. Three pressure points usually appear. - Platform choice becomes difficult when teams have different needs for speed, flexibility, cost, and control. - Business meaning needs protection: customer, revenue, product, risk, and FTE need shared definitions across tools. - Ownership and governance need to be clear, so platforms grow with accountability and discipline. The working question is simple: how do we give teams the data capabilities they need while keeping the platform landscape understandable, governed, and reusable? If these questions are familiar, let’s compare approaches with others facing the same data landscape.

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Building the Business Case for New IT Capabilities; How to justify investment when value is strategic, shared, or only visible over time.

Many IT capabilities are essential and difficult to fund through a simple project ROI. The challenge is showing why architecture, governance, resilience, cybersecurity maturity, data foundations, and AI readiness deserve investment before the gap becomes expensive. Three pressure points make the case harder. - Shared value means the benefit often sits across several teams, while the budget sits in one place. - Timing creates friction because the cost is immediate while the value appears over time. - Risk translation is needed so business and finance leaders understand the consequence of delaying the investment. The working question is simple: how do we turn foundational IT capabilities into credible investment cases that link cost, risk, business value, and future flexibility? If you are building these cases internally, let’s compare how others are positioning value, risk, and timing.

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How Amplitude revolutionized their content marketing with Jasper

Jasper content creation saved Amplitude a massive amount compared to using an agency for the same project, allowing SEO Manager Scott Mathson & team to focus on content strategy.

"The content was high-quality and we felt confident launching the Glossary in weeks, rather than months. It gave us the opportunity to publish quickly and then monitor."


Scott Mathson
Sr. SEO Manager
 
 

‍Amplitude, a leading digital analytics platform, recently launched an online Glossary to aid website visitors and potential customers in understanding various technical, analytical, and product terms. By leveraging the power of Jasper's content creation platform, Amplitude saw significant scale in marketing content production, increased its speed to market, and reduced costs.

 

Increasing website traffic with quality content

When Scott Mathson, Senior Growth Marketing & SEO Manager, first joined Amplitude, he took on the daunting challenge to increase organic traffic to the company's website. Amplitude needed to ensure that its online presence was both informative and engaging. However, creating high-quality content that resonated with users and ranked well on search engines can often be very time-consuming and resource-intensive.

To launch one of his initial organic growth initiatives, Scott turned to Jasper to assist him in the content creation process. “Jasper was a tool that was not well-utilized at Amplitude yet, and I decided to bring it into the project. Turns out it was a pretty amazing counterpart.” 

 

Scale Production

Scott found Jasper invaluable in scaling his content production. His first initiative was to launch a comprehensive Glossary of growth-oriented product and analytics terms, which would live on Amplitude's website. The scope was hefty; its first iteration would include 20 individual term landing pages, each containing 600-800 words with extensive explanation and supporting links. Total, the Glossary amounted to over 15,000 words of Jasper-created content, which was then internally human-edited and reviewed for accuracy.

 

Increase Speed to Market

As Amplitude was concurrently undergoing a CMS migration, Scott was able to concentrate on editing and polishing the Glossary pages rather than creating them from scratch. This approach allowed Amplitude to swiftly launch the new Glossary while exerting minimal manual effort and maintaining high standards of accuracy. “I had a coworker and fellow subject matter expert assist me with the edits on some of these articles to guarantee we had the best information. The content was high-quality and we felt confident launching the Glossary in weeks, rather than months. It gave us the opportunity to publish quickly and then monitor, to ensure Google began indexing each page as soon as possible.” 

Promising results came fairly quickly once the content was published online. Within three weeks, some terms from the Glossary ranked on page 1 of Google search results for “what is x” queries. Amplitude hadn't been featured among results for these keywords before. It marks an early success for the exceptional content that Jasper assisted in creating for Scott and the Amplitude team.

 

Cost Reduction

By using Jasper for the Glossary project, the Amplitude team was able to significantly cut costs by a staggering 88%. Scott employed Jasper's convenient templates and attests features like 'One Shot Blog Post’ served as the basis for this rapid output. The flexible yet secure nature of the Jasper platform allowed the project to be completed in a seamless and efficient manner, further aided by guidance from his customer success manager. With Jasper, Amplitude achieved a level of productivity and cost-effectiveness that would have been impossible otherwise. 

Scott harnessed the power of Jasper's AI technology to boost website traffic through aligning its output with Scott’s SEO strategy, setting a robust foundation for future optimization efforts, and reducing costs significantly for Amplitude. Since creating the Glossary, he’s been using Jasper to assist in production of other catalogs of pages, as well as planned future iterations and additions to the Glossary. Scott is now leveraging Jasper’s API to produce content at an even larger capacity. With Jasper on board, Scott has more time to shape strategy and save money while increasing productivity, providing much to celebrate for Amplitude.

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Amplitude (NASDAQ: AMPL) is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Almost 2,200 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike’s, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth.

Headquarters: San Francisco, CA

Company Size: Enterprise (200+ employees)

Industry: Software

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Cyber Circle

CIONET’s Cyber Circle: a new three-event programme exclusively focusing on the most urgent, complex, and high-impact challenges in cybersecurity today. Launched in 2026, this initiative brings together CISOs, CIOs, and senior IT executives with a strong interest in cybersecurity for three curated gatherings each year. As part of CIONET’s trusted executive community, the Cyber Circle provides a confidential, peer-driven environment to exchange insights, share real-world experiences, and address evolving cyber threats. Each session is designed to foster strategic dialogue, strengthen resilience, and elevate cybersecurity as a core driver of business value.

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The Telenet Business Leadership Circle powered by CIONET, offers a platform where IT executives and thought leaders can meet to inspire each other and share best practices. We want to be a facilitator who helps you optimise the performance of your IT function and your business by embracing the endless opportunities that digital change brings.

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Découvrez la dynamique du leadership numérique aux Rencontres de CIONET, le programme francophone exclusif de CIONET pour les leaders numériques en Belgique, rendu possible grâce au soutien et à l'engagement de nos partenaires de programme : Deloitte, Denodo et Red Hat. Rejoignez trois événements inspirants par an à Liège, Namur et en Brabant Wallon, où des CIOs et des experts numériques francophones de premier plan partagent leurs perspectives et expériences sur des thèmes d'affaires et de IT actuels. Laissez-vous inspirer et apprenez des meilleurs du secteur lors de sessions captivantes conçues spécialement pour soutenir et enrichir votre rôle en tant que CIO pair. Ne manquez pas cette opportunité de faire partie d'un réseau exceptionnel d'innovateurs numériques !

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CIONET is committed to highlighting and celebrating female role models in IT, Tech & Digital, creating a leadership programme that empowers and elevates women within the tech industry. This initiative is dedicated to showcasing the achievements and successes of leading women, fostering an environment where female role models are recognised, and their contributions can ignite progress and inspire the next generation of women in IT. Our mission is to shine the spotlight a little brighter on female role models in IT, Tech & Digital, and to empower each other through this inner network community.

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