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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Will You Sink or Swim?
These are exciting times for those determined to propel their business towards the next age of digitalization, but beyond the sophisticated tools and intelligent machines, leaders have to give thought to how their employees will help to drive success.
Non-RDMBS Emerges as an Analytics Data Choice
A study finds that 70% of all analytics data now comes from non-relational sources. What does that mean for you?
Automated Machine Learning Drives Intelligent Business
Even as enterprises explore how artificial intelligence can help their organizations and people discuss the relationship between humans and software, automated machine learning tools continue to simplify deployment across all layers.
Critical Advice for Starting an RPA Program
An successful RPA initiative calls for careful planning and communication, and starting small before trying to scale.
Securing Travel and Trade with Blockchain
Among the growing number of potential applications for blockchain is border management and security.
Quantum Computing Brings Promise and Threats
Faster, better, potentially dangerous. Quantum computers will push way past the boundaries of traditional computers, but to what ends? We explore some of the possibilities.
Amazon Key: Just a Few Key Concerns
The introduction of Amazon Key as an in-home delivery service stretches trust just a bit too far.
Amazon Key and Trust: The Ultimate Open Door Idea
Amazon Key in-home delivery offering isn't for everyone. It raises a few questions about who you trust not only with your data but with access to your front door.
9 Tips for Managing Cloud Services on a Budget
We share 9 steps you can take to save on the cost of cloud services, with the keywords being shop around, planning, and diligence.
How to Manage Workplace Conflict with Millennials
Individuals with generational differences can learn to manage conflict effectively, and bring positive results from a conflict-laden environment.
Staying Relevant and Successful in the Best and Worst Climates
A look back at a quarter century's worth of experiences that companies of all sizes can learn from
Kiosks are Looking at You, Too
Customer-facing kiosks are taking on a new look, and providing retailers, restaurants and other businesses with new functions, such as sizing up potential customers.
Top Data Challenges Created by Digital Transformation
As data becomes more valuable to organizations, its usefulness for analytics means that more data needs to be stored for longer periods of time.
DevOps: It's a Different Animal
It's time to take stock of where organizations are with implementing DevOps.
5 Cross-functional Analytics Challenges
Cross-functional analytics can benefit businesses by replicating successful programs. Here are some common challenges you should know as you formulate a winning strategy.
IT, OT, IoT: Does Hitachi Have a Dictionary for This Alphabet Soup?
Drawing on a long history in the industrial space and as an IT supplier, Hitachi has mapped out its own strategy for the industrial IoT.
CIOs Pay a Price When Change is in the Air
CIOs are finding their tenures are shrinking, in part because they often are bumped out when their organizations embark on new strategies.
Welcome to the Analytics Economy
An analytics economy is emerging, where organizations differentiate themselves and succeed with a blend of data, analytics, and collaboration.
How Analytics Can Help Marketers Reuse Content to Boost Sales
As content marketing becomes important, aging content becomes a concern. Here are some ways of using analytic reporting to develop content ideas and to align content with customers in the sales cycle.
IT Pros and Entrepreneurs: Tap the Smart Home Market
IT pros ready for a change should consider the smart home market to leverage skills such as IT security, networking and development.
Management Tools Bring Structure to Multi-Cloud Environments
New tools help enterprises organize and maximize their expanding multiple cloud infrastructure.
BI Will Change the Role of IT as We Know It
IT's role within an organization has always been a critical one, but the advancement of business intelligence and data analytics will make IT exponentially more strategic.
The First Rule of Data: Do No Harm
At the Strata Big Data Conference in New York, one of the major themes was the responsibility that data scientists have to do their best to prevent the biases and prejudices that exist in society from creeping into data and the way algorithms are built.
DevOps Fails More Often Than Not – Here’s Why
DevOps presents an opportunity to build better software, but there's no guarantee of success. A look at how to do DevOps right.
15 Highest-Paying Tech Jobs for 2018
Executives, managers, mobile developers and people with the word "architect" in their title are at the top of the IT pay scale.
Create Real Value with Augmented (not Artificial) Intelligence
As long as human and artificial intelligence work in tandem, we'll continue to make each other better at what we naturally do best.
3 Ways You're Not Thinking of Digital Transformation
To achieve the benefits of digital transformation, an organization has to do more than buy new technology tools.
Azure Stack and Comparisons with Eucalyptus
Microsoft's Azure Stack is another cloud provider move to validate the hybrid cloud.But will it succeed?
Big Data Success Essentials: Tech, People, and Process
While there is an increasing focus on the role of people alongside technology in analytics initiatives, let's not forget that process -- business rules -- play an important role in big data success.
Survey: Show Enterprise Architecture More Love
EA planning helps link IT with business users, especially for digital transformation projects, according to a recent CompTIA survey.
Hungry? Grocers Experiment with Robot Delivery Services
Tesco is among the retailers now experimenting with the use of robots to deliver orders to customers. Here's a closer look.
Tips for Transitioning from the IT Department to CEO Chair
Prevedere CEO Rich Wagner takes a look at the skills that IT leaders share and what they might need to work on to move into a CEO role.
What Makes Digital Projects Different (And What to Do About It)
With 77% of executive priorities now dependent on technology, the composition of the project portfolio is shifting dramatically toward digital work. Legacy approaches to managing IT projects, programs and portfolios can't keep up with this shift.
10 Steps Enterprises Need to Take to Comply with GDPR
If your organization doesn't have adequate data protection measures in place, including assigning a data protection officer, you could face steep fines next May.
Your Data Is Biased, Here's Why
Biased data can lead to bad decisions. Most business leaders aren't aware of the problem just yet, but they need to be because they're ultimately responsible.
Our Coming 5G World and IoT
The future of IoT and 5G networking isn't something that "will happen" in the coming years. To some extent, it's already here, setting the stage for further growth.
AIM Was a Pioneer in Collaboration
Now 20 years old, AOL Instant Messenger is quietly heading to software's trash heap.
While AWS and VMware Draw Closer, Amazon Still Looks to Dominate
AWS and VMware now are partners but it might be only a matter of time before AWS moves to take its own path.
Partners HealthCare Pilots 3-Tiered Cloud Storage Service
Health care provider reports reduced costs and latency from new cloud service from ClearSky Data.
The Need for Speed: Why and When Does It Matter?
With wait time or idle time being a waste of time with new benefit, think about how you can mitigate or even eliminate the problem.
Computer Industry History May Not Be What You Think
InformationWeek readers know a lot about technology. Many studied computer history as part of their majors and yet, even PhDs would likely flunk a test about African-American contributions to the computer industry. Here's why.
Artificial Intelligence Today: Time to Act
The AI and advanced analytics conversation has risen all the way to C-suite. The time has come to act. Jump on the AI train soon or you will be left behind.
Analytics Programs: Why They Fail, and How to Succeed
What's to blame for the failure of some analytics programs, and how can organizations increase their rate of success? Here's a closer look.
How to Maintain Security when Rolling out DevOps
DevOps may be up and running for your enterprise. Taking the time to integrate security will keep it that way.
3 Ways Millennials are Shaping Today’s Workplace Tech
Use of technology is a defining characteristic of millennials, so if you don't provide simple and instant application access in the workplace they will find their own alternatives.
Cyberthreats: Stay Ahead of Them with a Proactive Strategy
To mitigate the risks presented by more aggressive cyberthreats, organizations need to get out in front of those threats.
One More Reason to Care about the Equifax Data Breach
The Equifax data breach should open our eyes to the issue of explicit consent, a concept our peers in Europe are dealing with now.
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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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