Original articles written by leading IT practitioners and industry experts about the technology, business opportunities, and challenges they face every day.
As digital transformation moves from buzzword to business priority, understanding three critical concepts u2013 and the subtle differences among them u2013 will help you make the right adjustments to strategies and mindsets.
Reducing emissions is an important part of better operational performance that includes higher efficiencies and lower costs. Artificial intelligence and automation can help.
SASE has emerged as an effective way to address the shifting enterprise network perimeter by merging network and security services in one.
Networking leaders need to consider three key points for best practices and first steps with 5G.
The future cannot be predicted, but strategic foresight enables leaders to embrace uncertainty by better understanding, anticipating, and preparing for change.
The US has taken significant steps to better defend against nation-state attackers. But theyu2019re not giving enough attention to a critical piece of the cybersecurity ecosystem.
The secret to IT capacity management is not mathematical rigor but emotional discipline. Itu2019s about keeping your eye on the ball and accepting that broad strokes are enough to get you there. A lightweight model will usually do the trick and has s....
The rewards a gamer gets for completing levels or collecting points can be replicated in a workplace environment to improve engagement, motivate personal growth, and encourage continuous improvement.
Cloud providers built their hybrid offerings at least in part to hold customers intent on repatriating data and workloads. But those same services may not be as well suited for the next wave of hybrid.
Always-on remote access is a mini digital transformation project in itself. Here's how to work toward a seamless experience for all employees.
Capturing a culture of innovation in a post-pandemic landscape is perhaps one of the greatest challenges facing organizations. Change cannot happen passively.
Technologists cannot disrupt healthcare without a complete understanding of the operating model. Co-creation is the best path forward.
ETL has lost the race to big data. The solution is as simple as reordering the phases of traditional process integration to adopt "ELT".
Get more value out of your data by avoiding common pitfalls.
Reducing your susceptibility to an attack will make you a less attractive target to financially motivated cyber-criminals.
How citizen developers will help IT leaders usher in a new era of innovation, speed, and collaboration in application development
S/4HANA is not just a technical upgrade; itu2019s a business transformation. Let that guide your approach.
An automation mindset can keep projects on track with a secure, seamless, and scalable model
Thereu2019s value for smaller businesses in stepping up digital transformation investments. Doing so is critical to survival.
Itu2019s time to reimagine the role of digital transformation in the future of work, create new value for digital-first customers, reskill employees for the new world, and explore innovative technologies to build tomorrowu2019s business, today.
Most AI projects do not make it to production due to a communications gap. MLOps can help close the gap.
The struggle of disconnected Americans during the pandemic underscored the need, once and for all, to close the digital divide. Tech companies should help fund the solution.
Slower-moving incumbents need to rethink the way they do business in a digitally driven world that puts customer experience first.
When looking to create a more agile business, we can take inspiration from many sources. But ultimately, the problems we need to solve are our own.
As impressive as the enterpriseu2019s progress toward a data-driven economy was last year, the big bang weu2019ve been expecting from big data is still ahead.
The WFH pivot was remarkable, but workplace re-entry creates a new set of challenges for business leaders.
The biggest challenges for AI-enabled care are delivering real-time insights into the clinical workflow and gaining acceptance from caregivers as well as patients. Innovative solutions continue to emerge.
Democratizing data can level the playing field and empower your workforce to make better, data-driven decisions.
Industry experts discuss how a hybrid workforce offers potential benefits for both workers and enterprises, but also comes with new security risks.rn
Growing trends suggest CIOs must adopt a new philosophy for executing a low-code culture in IT u2013 and across the business.
By focusing on the customer POV, CIOs can make digital transformation more visible and measurable within a business context.
How Nextdoor and engineering head Mai Ling developed new services in record time by shifting project roadmaps, brainstorming new ideas, and making tough decisions about what to stop doing.
Too many leadership teams focus on the u2018howu2019 or u2018whatu2019 of their digitalization projects u2013 which makes the destination less clear and can lead to negative ROI.
Not all risk is a raging fire. Technology projects should be weighed against your organizationu2019s broader risk appetite.
Survival in the digital age requires an emphasis on execution and speed, enabled by a DevOps approach across the business
The monetization of healthcare data has been a long-pursued goal for tech firms and healthcare enterprises. Newly formed data collaboratives are taking a fresh approach.
In todayu2019s environment, where one angry tweet can go viral, CISOs play a critical role in protecting the brand.
Industry-standard security frameworks are important, but they also need to align with the rest of your organization's risk management practices.
A successful transformation initiative can establish your position as a business leader, not just a technology guru u2013 but first you have to sell it to your boss.
Telehealth is at a crossroads. Here are three things health systems must consider before investing further in telehealth technology.
Employee, customer, and ecosystem form the core experience pillars required for transforming your business.
Knowing the difference between risk appetite, tolerance, and threshold enables better decision making about technology investments to drive the business forward.
Agero turned its contact center-based business into a digital-first, consumer-centric company u2013 and unlocked engineering talent along the way. An interview with Chief Digital Officer Bernie Gracy.
At CES 2021, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, the three largest PC vendors, all unveiled a spate of new business laptops with security enhancements like hardened protection and built-in smarts to guard against ransomware, crypto-mining, and other rising threats....
If S/4HANA is key to simplification for many organizations, the path to getting there is anything but simple. So letu2019s make it simple. Here are the three questions that every enterprise needs to ask, and three boxes to check off their list in ord....
CISOs faced a number of challenges in 2020, not the least of which was COVID-19 and the mass migration from onsite to remote work. Corporate leadership saw just how vital the security team is to ensuring the company runs, and runs smoothly. In 2021, ....
In both the short term and the long term, and across back- and front-office applications, AI has the potential to add value to business workflows, augment employee capabilities, and harness the power of man and machine to improve customer experience.....
2020 was a nightmare of a year for healthcare providers. The new year provides an opportunity to get back on track.
Business leaders have been told that 5G will completely transform their business, but with all the hype, there is still a wide gap between expectation and actual experience. While the upside of 5G is great, the downside is in its misunderstanding an....
Consumerism, telehealth, and the learnings from the pandemic will drive priorities in 2021.