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Neural Networks in Business: Advantages and Perspectives
The opportunities to utilize neural networks are growing across a broad range of industries and market sectors.
Seven Steps to IT Transformation
It's time for an IT overhaul, one that can support an organization's move through digital transformation.
Vlocity and its Role in Helping Salesforce’s $20B target
Backed by Salesforce and Accenture and focused on vertical industry markets, Vlocity has established itself as a important cloud player.
The Cyber Risk of False Confidence
Companies are overly confident about their cybersecurity, and it's leaving their data (and maybe yours too), open to some major security risks.
I Rebuilt My Professional Network from Scratch; What I Learned
With a career path that has led from a tech role to venture capital investing, Mark Minevich shares advice for other career changers.
Recreate Your Job in the Age of Digital Transformation
Whether you work in the C-suite or in a line role, if you don't want to be left behind, figure out how to evolve so you can help the company meet its digital business objectives.
An IT Pro Takes the Dive into Deep Learning
IT professional Rich Casselberry experimented with deep learning using online tools and came away with interesting results.
Cybersecurity Becomes a Career Choice
Young people can't ignore the news. Data breaches are everywhere and they're beginning to realize that it's up to them to keep our personal and national information private.
Debunking 8 Big Data and Analytics Myths
As with other emerging tech concepts, big data and analytics are haunted by myths. Here are eight such myths that you will want to dispel as you advance your analytics strategy.
The Future of Data Science is Augmentation, not Automation
Three industry leaders took the stage at SAS Analytics Experience and provided broad perspectives on how far we've come in analytics over the last 10 years and where we are today.
Technology Can Reduce the Cognitive Overload in the C-Suite
As analytics-based technologies mature they promise to better guide executive decisions by delivering only the most relevant information.
IT Department Hiring Now at Zero Growth
There may be evidence that the movement to cloud computing and workplace automation is slowing IT hiring.
TrueAbility Aims to Reinvent IT Certifications
In an age of cloud computing and rapidly emerging technologies it's time for new approaches to IT certifications.
Top 10 Challenges IT Faces Heading Into 2018
While IT teams seem to face similar obstacles every year (talent shortages, tight budgets), the technology and methods they use to meet those challenges are rapidly improving and evolving.
4 Tips From a Millennial Leader on Finding Great Talent
Hiring great employees means looking beyond the resume into how they solve problems and address goals, as this millennial executive at Workday explains.
One Point the Equifax Breach Drives Home
Equifax blamed its recent high-profile breach on the Apache Struts Web Framework. As software delivery cycles shrink, developers have to rely on more third-party components, libraries and frameworks. When they do, what are their liabilities and responsibilities?
A New Era of OpenStack
The chairman of the OpenStack Foundation outlines some of the steps the organization is taking to support a growing interest in OpenStack.
3 Tips for Making Better Investments in Security
Information security's role is becoming more strategic, but its approach to making investment decisions hasn't kept pace. To better align security investments with enterprise strategy, IT and security leaders must stay focused on the right risks, add rigor to decision making processes, and give stakeholders opportunities for input.
The Next-Generation IT Help Desk is Achievable Today
The new enterprise IT help desk features bots, cloud monitoring, and consolidated views into problems, and it can be implemented today.
Cloud Computing Spurs Hybrid Architecture Adoption
Enterprises turn to the hybrid cloud for disaster recovery, data archiving and other applications.
3 Ways Blockchain is Changing Cybersecurity
The tech sector is looking at new uses for blockchain, and information security is one area that holds promise.
Competing on Analytics: 2017
Analytics thought leader Tom Davenport revisits Competing on Analytics, 10 years after his book on the topic was originally published. We ask him what has changed in that time during this interview.
12 DevOps Terms You Need to Know
Before taking that big step into DevOps, here are 12 core DevOps terms you'll want to understand.
Digital Transformation Done Right
A successful digital transformation initiative starts with an organization's leadership instilling a culture that supports the idea of the entire business operating under one digital strategy.
Consumers Leave No Doubt: People over Chatbots
People complain that virtual agents are too impersonal and can't handle complex requests.
'We Really Don't Know Clouds At All'
Just how quickly are enterprises moving workloads to the cloud? InformationWeek is searching for the answer.
Alexa for the Enterprise? Not Yet, but It’s Coming
Now that you might be accustomed to using Siri, Alexa, Cortana or Google Assistant in your personal life, consider the potential for voice technology in the enterprise.
Design Expert: The Secrets to Better User Interfaces
Designer Scott Schaedle feels that user interfaces would look and function much better if developers simply followed a handful of good design practices.
Supercomputers Aim to Predict Hurricane Damage House by House
A University of Texas supercomputer offers hope to help save lives when the next hurricane hits land.
Set the Right Foundation for Applications with Improved CX
IT teams can salvage the value of legacy systems while pivoting to a new foundation offering better customer experiences.
Rackspace, OpenStack and the Multiplicity of Clouds
While some wish to view OpenStack as a failure, the open source initiative serves a purpose and is a fit for a growing number of organizations.
Hurricanes: Risk Analytics in a World of Uncertainty
The already-devastating hurricane season highlights the need for predictive analytical models that account for exceptional events.
Next on the Chopping Block, Administrative Assistants
You probably have noticed that the number of administrative assistants has declined over the years. Now, digital assistants and outsourcers may be ready to replace those who remain.
You Can Reconcile Bimodal IT with DevOps
Enterprises may be faced with a choice between Bi-Modal IT and DevOps, but maybe the two can live together.
Top 10 Ways IT Sparks Innovation
The pressure to become a digital business is pushing IT leaders to innovate more than ever before. Discover the areas they are focusing on to create change and digitally transform.
How Smart Is Artificial Intelligence Really?
SAS CTO Oliver Schabenberger counters Tesla founder Elon Musk's description of artificial intelligence as the scariest problem.
Drone Mapping Data Changes Business Economics
Drone mapping data can dramatically impact the profitability of certain businesses. Should you include it in your business app? Consider these points.
Launching a New Office Overseas? Engineer It for Success
Having learned from his experience opening an operation in Norway, Tapad's Jeff Olchovy shares his advice to others planning overseas expansion.
A Hat Doesn’t Make a Captain: 3 Traits of a C-Suite Genius
What makes an executive successful? Consider traits such as risk taking and never relying on the status quo.
You Are Doing Analytics Wrong: Here Is Why
Analytics ROI often falls short because businesses overlook important parts of the process.
The Forgotten Secret to DevOps Success: Measurement
Measuring the end-to-end DevOps value stream is the key to delivering value and tracking its ROI and allocating resources.
Find the Digital Skills Your Company Needs to Succeed
Reaching business goals, even surviving in an era of disruption, requires a tech-smart workforce.
In the Aftermath of a Cyberattack
As hackers continue ramping up their attacks everyone involved in IoT -- manufacturers, integrators, and customers -- has to improve their defenses.
Organizations Struggle with Time to Value for BI
New research from TDWI highlights the obstacles analytics projects face and suggests best practices for overcoming those challenges.
An IT Story: From Supporting Role to Business Partner
An IoT project in a manufacturing plant helped to change the role of the IT group at French auto supplier Faurecia.
How Artificial Intelligence Will Impact B2B Commerce
The evolution of artificial intelligence promises massive changes in how commerce gets done and customer relationships.
Avoid the Danger Zone of Metrics
Organizations love metrics, particularly those that show success, but it's crucial to define metrics that truly track progress toward corporate goals.
Are You Really Ready for Intelligent Automation?
AI and automation are being combined in different ways to complete tasks more efficiently than humans. Every business will be impacted by intelligent automation sooner than may be apparent, so the time to think about it is now.
What IT Spending Forecasts Tell Us About the Future of IT
IT spending patterns make it clear that we are in a software and cloud-based world.
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How Enterprises Are Attacking the IT Security Enterprise
To learn more about what organizations are doing to tackle attacks and threats we surveyed a group of 300 IT and infosec professionals to find out what their biggest IT security challenges are and what they're doing to defend against today's threats. Download the report to see what they're saying.
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