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IT's New Window of Opportunity to Tackle These Top Priorities
Coming off the pandemic-driven crisis of the last year, IT organizations are poised for a frenzy of activity and progress. Are they up for the task?
CRM Trends 2021: How the Pandemic Altered Customer Behavior Forever
Customers flocked to digital channels and faced life-changing events in 2020. Here's how enterprise companies are changing their CRM practices for a new normal.
11 Ways DevOps Is Evolving
While DevOps as a practice is evolving, so are the roles within a DevOps team. Following are explanations of some of the trends worth watching.
3 Ways to Empower Female Software Engineers on Your Team
In recent years, organizations have been making small strides in establishing greater diversity within their engineering teams -- but it's not enough.
RISE with SAP Gives CIOs a Simpler Path to S/4HANA Cloud
SAP has announced a package of technologies and services under a single contract designed to ease enterprise CIOs' paths to digital transformation and its flagship software S/4HANA in the cloud.
4 Career Questions Every IT Professional Should Ask
Landing your next big role is important, but before you take that offer, make sure it's the right role with the right prospects for you.
DocuSign Automates to Scale IT for Big Business Growth
Digital signature and contract management company DocuSign's IT automation projects paid off when the pandemic lockdowns hit. Here's why.
Why CIOs Must Set the Rules for No-Code, Low-Code, Full-Code
IT leaders must step in with guidelines about when to develop applications using low code and no code, and when it's necessary to develop in a full-code mode.
Automation Revs Pandemic IT Toolbox
Enterprise IT executives saw huge acceleration in automation deployments in 2020, and that trend will continue next year as they look to expand into intelligent automation.
ServiceNow Targets AI Business Value with Acquisition
Element AI is ServiceNow's 4th artificial intelligence acquisition of 2020.
Tech Decision Making: The Rise of the Developer
Developers and technologists are increasingly being given a "seat at the table" and forming peer relationships with executives regarding enterprise technology investments.
How to Create High-Impact Development Teams
Focus on the marathon, not the sprint. Here are three best practices for constructing effective, efficient dev teams.
Time to Rethink Your Enterprise Software Strategy?
While it may be counterintuitive to make sweeping changes to enterprise software strategies amid a pandemic, the payoff could be substantial in the long run.
IT Employment Trending Up; Data, Cybersecurity Skills in Demand
There's a light at the end of the tunnel for IT pros who have been keeping a close eye on the job market. Plus, here are the skills that employers want in 2021.
Is Augmented Analytics Making the Difference It Advertises?
Vendors are continuously adding new capabilities to their products, but there are some fundamental things that enterprises need to get right before they see the benefits.
How to Negotiate with Software Providers for the Best 2021 Deals
Negotiating with big software vendors can be tricky. Here are some best practice tactics to help you get the best deal.
Microsoft Exec: How Enterprises are Democratizing Data
During her Interop Digital keynote, Microsoft's Alysa Taylor will discuss how technology has been a catalyst for accelerated value and change in 2020.
Chaos Engineering: Withstanding Turbulence in Software Production
Navigating safely through these stormy waters will ensure greater confidence in and resilience of the whole system. Here are a few pointers.
IT Leader Profile: Upgrading ERP During a Pandemic
Mukul Agrawal serves as global head of ERP and IT services at Vistaprint. Here's a look at what he's done and what he has been working on lately.
What You Need to Know About Cloud-Native Fintech
Interop will provide IT professionals with a glimpse into how cloud, AI and other tech concepts are reshaping financial technology.
The Right Tech Exec to Lead Diversity and Inclusion Efforts
Accountability for diversity and inclusion revolves around data. The ability to manage that data can raise thorny questions over which executive should lead the way.
The State of Chatbots: Pandemic Edition
Chatbots are currently the biggest use case for AI. Now the COVID-19 pandemic has made them even more compelling given their use in automation and their high level of ROI.
How to Get Automation Right
Enterprises are automating more tasks and processes thanks to AI and machine learning, but they're getting different results because some didn't think it through first.
How RPA Can Help Your Enterprise Save Money
Robotic process automation promises to streamline an array of routine business tasks. Here's what you need to know about this transformational technology.
How Data-Driven Investments Paid Off in Pandemic
When restaurants shut down, they set off a chain reaction all the way up the supply chain. Here's how one regional gourmet food distributor was able to pivot quickly.
Deploying and Managing Hybrid IT Architectures
Here are three steps IT teams can take to create a strategy for a unified IT architecture as they deal with surges in cloud adoption and greater demands for cloud services.
IT Spending Forecast: Unfortunately, It's Going to Hurt
Gartner is forecasting an IT spending decline of 8% in 2020 with devices as the hardest hit category. Public cloud spending, however, will rise.
Why and How to Transition Your Company to the Cloud
Though motivations vary based on an organization's unique needs, there are several key common drivers for moving to the cloud.
Managing FOMO While Working Remotely
Remote work and communication styles that arise with it will not disappear after the current pandemic concerns ease. Here's how IT teams can play a vital role in managing this.
Top 10 Programming Languages in Demand Right Now
These are the programming languages most likely to be used in enterprise IT and most likely to help you get a job.
Enterprise AI Goes Mainstream, but Maturity Must Wait
An O'Reilly survey illustrates how enterprise groups are moving more applications into production, but also how companies face cultural and talent focused barriers.
Get Serious About SaaS Management in the Enterprise
While a software-as-a-service model leaves processing in the service provider's hands, there's plenty of work left for the IT group when it comes to administering the relationship and in supporting employee users.
AI Regulation: Has the Time Arrived?
Most of the world's leading democracies want to investigate the impact of AI's exponential growth. The US isn't one of them.
How to Sharpen the Blurriness in Edge Computing
IT and end users need to collaborate and agree on policies and procedures for edge security, software updates, asset management and technology deployment.
SAP Gives Enterprise IT Customers an Extension
ERP giant SAP wants all its customers to migrate to its new platform S/4HANA, but it's a time consuming and expensive process. So the company is extending maintenance on its earlier platform.
Recognize Behavioral Tracking’s Opportunities and Pitfalls
Understanding the details of customer behavior can increase sales and marketing ROI, but misusing that data can be expensive and unnecessary.
ITSM Platforms Gain Artificial Intelligence
AI will become an integral part of IT service management and related tools. Here's a look at what ServiceNow is doing to incorporate artificial intelligence.
Engineering Tiny Machine Learning for the Edge
As developers face the challenge of making complex AI and machine learning applications work on edge-computing devices, options to support Tiny ML are emerging.
Vertical AI is the New Black
The reality of AI adoption is out of sync with the hype that AI has generated. However, where artificial intelligence is prepared to prove itself is in vertical market applications.
IT Careers: 10 Job Skills in High Demand This Year
If you're looking to add skills to your resume, experience with these technologies might help you land a new job or promotion.
Top Applications Businesses are Using
A cloud data warehouse company came in first as the fastest growing application in a new report of the most popular business applications from Okta.
What's the True Impact of California’s New IoT Law?
While there are a few specifics that IoT manufacturers will have to adhere to, the remainder of the law is a bit fuzzy in terms of consequences.
AI & Machine Learning: An Enterprise Guide
We've updated our collection of information resources designed to help enterprise IT professionals launch and advance their artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation initiatives.
10 Enterprise IT Transformation Trends to Watch for 2020
Communications giant Verizon shares its insights on the potential technology drivers that may reshape industries this year.
Where Common Machine Learning Myths Come From
There are a lot of misconceptions about ML that can have a negative impact on one's career and reputation. Forrester and ABI Research weigh in.
The Changing Role of IT in the Customer Experience Era
The role of IT as just a back-office function within an organization is a thing of the past.
How IT Can Get Predictive Analytics Right
A key to enterprise success with predictive analytics is to get the IT group involved, and do it early in the process.
How App Strategies Are Evolving
"Applications" have evolved from large monolithic structures to their decomposed equivalents. The trend will continue with some interesting twists.
Modern App Dev: An Enterprise Guide
Developers don't sit behind glass walls anymore. And citizen developers are jumping into the low end of the app pool. Just what's going on in the insanely busy world of software application development?
How Applying Labels and Other Tactics Keep AI Transparent
Understanding how AI models and AI-based applications work, what they can and cannot do, and where there is potential for ethical issues is core to putting AI to work for your organization.
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The State of Cloud Computing - Fall 2020
Download this report to compare how cloud usage and spending patterns have changed in 2020, and how respondents think they'll evolve over the next two years.
2021 Top Enterprise IT TrendsWe've identified the key trends that are poised to impact the IT landscape in 2021. Find out why they're important and how they will affect you.
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