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Modular, Flexible Approach to Finance Tech Stack Increases Needed Agility and Innovation
CFOs who adopt a composable technology strategy will achieve higher revenue growth than peers who take more traditional routes with their technology investments, according to Gartner, Inc. By 2024, 60% of finance organizations will seek composable finance applications in new technology investments ...?more
Successful IT transformation is complex and takes time. These fundamental lessons for leaders can help ease the process
IT transformation, similar to the lifecycle of a living creature, is complex and often evolves through different stages. As an IT leader focusing on transformation at the enterprise level, you must consider multiple factors that may arise along the way, keeping in mind that digital maturity doesn't happen overnight....?more
Matt Weston peers into his crystal ball and makes predictions as to how digital transformation will continue to evolve in 2023
Back in 2019, who could possibly have predicted just how tumultuous the early 2020s would be for digital transformation? When the pandemic hit, an urgent acceleration of digital transformation initiatives followed. Companies of all sizes, across a broad range of industries, were forced to invest in advanced, collaborative technologies in an effort to adapt to the new normal...?more
The era of digital transformation is here. Companies of all sizes now use advanced technology to improve their productivity, operational efficiencies, and customer experiences. Most companies that undergo a digital transformation reduce their time to market and have an advantage over competitors.
Automating manual processes is a major element of digital transformation and this helps companies streamline their operational and manufacturing deficiencies. It delivers products to market faster and minimizes costs by making more efficient use of resources ...?more
AI
What's trending in the age of AI? Our community shares their predictions for 2023
December is here, so you know what that means: holiday parties, new year's resolutions, and a slew of technology predictions. We decided to focus on a trend that matters most urgently to IT leaders-concrete artificial intelligence (AI) insights for your team and business...?more
There is plenty of speculation on how ChatGPT may revolutionize education, software, and journalism, but less about how it will affect the machinery of government.
ChatGPT is an internet sensation, with its ability to provide intelligent and coherent answers to a wide variety of queries. There is plenty of speculation on how it may revolutionize education, software and journalism, but less about how it will affect the machinery of government. The effects are likely to be far-ranging ...?more
Consulting firm McKinsey released its State of AI 2022 report, revealing key findings on AI's use and adoption globally over the past half-decade.
According to the report, AI adoption and investment have accelerated in the last five years, with businesses reporting AI becoming a bigger priority. AI adoption has more than doubled since 2017 (20% to 50%), with 63% of businesses expecting investment in AI to increase over the next three years ...?more
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Database
The recent trends in Database Management reflect how organizations are improving their storage and how they process data. Organizations can drive their business growth by improving their Database Management platform.
Database Management typically involves the use of software to support automated data services. Database Management is not the same as Data Management, nor is it Data Governance. Data Management deals with the overall organization of data, the steps needed to achieve efficiency, and the steps involved in gathering useful business intelligence from the data. Data Governance focuses on the practices of gathering and storing trustworthy data and enforcing the regulations and laws regarding data and personal privacy. ...?more
DR
A network disaster recovery plan doesn't always mean network resilience. Learn how factors like funding, identifying potential risks and constant updates make a difference.
A key attribute of resilience is the ability of an item to adapt to a situation and overcome a problem to the point where it returns as close to how it was before the event occurred. The notion of resilience has grown because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced many organizations to reinvent how they worked due to employees getting sick from the virus and working remotely...?more
To contend with the explosion of cybercrime and its impact on business operations, many organizations are updating their disaster recovery plans to include cyber incident response.
Many of the processes and guidelines in traditional disaster recovery plans have changed little in years, sometimes even in over a decade-making them ill-suited to address cyber disasters. More important, at a business level, disaster recovery is just one aspect of a larger discipline: operational resilience....?more
The last couple of years have seen significant changes in the way many organizations have managed and provisioned high availability. Cassius Rhue looks ahead to 2023 and considers what developments we can expect in this area.
As we look back on the past two years, many companies have struggled, yet coped, with numerous issues: including lack of human resources, brought by the unprecedented world-changing COVID-19 virus. With the help of technology, organizations have moved their systems to the cloud, automated operations, and implemented application-aware high availability and disaster recovery solutions to protect their systems from unpredictable threats....?more
Sales
As uncertainty pervades the economy, maintaining profitability ratios and increasing revenue has never been more important.
This decade is showing signs of becoming one of the most challenging landscapes to grow a business as pressure swells on sales teams to operate as the lifeblood of organizations. Often the tech industry's unsung heroes, B2B sales teams and the revenue they drive are even more important in times of economic instability...?more
Cisco News
A new year is almost upon us and as we look back on our accomplishments in 2022, we also look forward to helping our customers become more security resilient and be better prepared for 2023.
As part of this forward-looking process, and with the help of Gartner Peer Insights, we surveyed 100 Security and IT professionals to understand their level of security maturity and obtain their perspective on the future....?more
Supporting sustainable technologies on a campus network is great for the planet and can substantially lower the cost of workplace operations. But adding hundreds of new IoT devices to a campus network can be a heavy lift for IT teams.
For organizations, environmental sustainability is the practice of operating without producing a negative impact on the environment. Certainly, you've been hearing a lot about environmental sustainability and how IT can help to reduce your organization's carbon footprint. When it comes to reducing the environmental impact of offices, factories, and warehouses, IT has a very big role to play...?more
Microsoft News
Microsoft announced it has acquired Lumenisity Limited, a leader in next-generation hollow core fiber (HCF) solutions. Lumenisity's innovative and industry-leading HCF product can enable fast, reliable and secure networking for global, enterprise and large-scale organizations...?more
The recent announcement by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) selecting Microsoft among the cloud service providers to support its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract is a significant milestone in the department's goal to establish an enterprise-level tactical cloud.
With the announcement, Microsoft will help deliver mission-critical 21st century technology to our nation's service members and strengthen U.S. national security. The selection is another clear demonstration of the trust the DoD places in Microsoft and our technologies....?more
Through the partnership, seven industry leaders commit to making their data more open and accessible to help solve the world's biggest problems
A new Industry Data for Society Partnership (IDSP) was launched by GitHub, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), LinkedIn, Microsoft, Northumbrian Water Group, R2 Factory and UK Power Networks. The IDSP is a first-of-its-kind cross-industry partnership to help advance more open and accessible private-sector data for societal good ...?more