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10 Cyberattacks on the Rise During the Pandemic
Cybercrime and cyber espionage have skyrocketed during COVID-19 lockdowns. Are your work-from-home employees aware of these security traps?
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.
Get Your Enterprise Ready for 5G
While you might think of 5G wireless as a cool consumer tech concept, don't lose sight of the fact that it will have a significant impact on enterprise IT.
Developing the Developer: How to Attract and Keep Top Talent
Organizations must have a clear business strategy that aligns software development to wider business objectives. Here are four tips to help in this effort.
Workplace Tech: Death by 1,000 Apps?
Investing in every shiny new tool won't necessarily make your work space more productive or give your company a competitive edge.
Four Technology-Driven Hiring Trends
It's been a challenging year for businesses seeking to hire CIOs and technical experts in fields as diverse as machine learning and mobile network technology.
The Future of B2B E-Commerce
IT leaders can close the digital gap by taking product, customer, inventory, invoice and other information and make it a more modern user experience.
What CIOs Need to Know about Americans with Disabilities Act
Businesses that do not address website accessibility are vulnerable to being sued under the ADA and under certain state and local civil rights laws.
Modern Developers Don’t Sit Behind Walls
They want a seat at the table and are driving more innovation to the business than ever before. Here are ways to help that happen.
How 5G Will Impact Cloud Computing and Remote Workforce
Having 200GB speeds in the palm of your hand is going to be a boon for business owners, remote workers, and everyone else who enjoys the internet.
Digital Reality is Ready to Roll
If years of hype have left you skeptical, all signs now point toward reasons to believe that digital reality is ready for its transformative moment.
Customer Experience Hot Spots: Where to Invest or Divest?
The reliance on technology in the service and support space is growing significantly, and leaders are being tasked tasked six- and seven-figure decisions.
What CES Announcements Mean for Enterprise IT
CES exhibitors continue their tradition of zany tech announcements, almost all of which are cool. However, some of the innovations signal trends IT should consider.
Retailers Catch Up with Technology Investments
Retailers will invest more heavily in IT technology than other industries do in the coming years. Here's how this industry will leverage technology to take them into the future.
Using Blockchain to Support Trustworthy Transactions on the IoT
Recent computer industry developments set the stage for demonstrations of how blockchain can help to turn Internet of Things networks into trusted environments.
Voice is Dead, Long Live Voice
How do we maintain the human touch in a world of systems designed to fake it?
How to Dethrone Inefficient Software in Your Organization
It's time for companies to adopt modern approaches to software, like SaaS, and that means embracing change and abandoning "we've always done it this way."
The Coming Wave of Regulation over Facial Recognition
More applications utilizing facial recognition are inevitable in the public and private sectors, and those will generate plenty of new rules and regulations.
Health Data Sharing Will Follow the Open Banking Model
The trend toward API-based banking offers a model for health records, giving patients access to and control over their personal health data.
How APIs Help Keep It Simple for Developers
The expectation of simple experiences along with the preference of mobile devices is changing what consumers and businesses expect and need. From banking to healthcare to retail and beyond, organizations of all sizes are using APIs to innovate and adapt quickly.
10 Ways Technology Is Reshaping Retail
Your future shopping experiences might be much more automated, but they also might be much more personal than today's trips to the store.
A Fight to Save Indigenous Language, Culture
How indigenous communities in British Columbia, Canada built their own content platform to take the fate of their languages into their own hands.
Data Science on a Budget: Audubon's Advanced Analytics
Over 100 years of crowdsourced data and machine learning help Audubon predict climate change's effect on where birds will live in the future. Here's how a tiny team of data scientists makes a big impact.
How Blockchain Can Save a Child’s Identity
One in six people around the globe lack a legal identity, making it almost impossible for them to get real jobs, to vote, and to own property. Blockchain promises to give them proof of identity.
Pioneers Create Infrastructure for Self-Sovereign Identity Online
Several organizations are assembling the technologies to enable self-sovereign identity, a way for individuals to control who they are online. Blockchain is one of those essential components.
Conversational AI’s Challenge: Understanding Human-Like Context
The ambiguities of the English language present hurdles for initiatives to utilize conversational AI in the corporate world.
Town of Cary Embraces the IoT to Serve Citizens
Alexa, Waze, apps. Citizens are getting more tech savvy and city governments are struggling to keep up. North Carolina's Town of Cary has an award-winning strategy, though. We reveal what that is.
Government IT's Risks and Rich Rewards
As Detroit CIO Beth Niblock knows, government IT means dealing with challenges and risks, but the rewards when tech makes lives better are worth it.
Create an All-Star Tech Team: Welcome Remote Workers
Want to recruit the best talent to your team, or the best talent that is willing to relocate? Expert John O'Duinn says you can upgrade your team by opening the door to remote workers, and he offers best practices on how to work with distributed teams.
Conversational AI is Ready for Prime Time
Don't lump the various types of AI-based technologies into one basket. There are differences among them, as a look at call center tech highlights.
An Intuitive UI: Not Just for End Users
Having a simple, understandable user interface on an application aids user acceptance, and even considerations such as interoperability and security.
Taking the Brakes off the Internet of Things
If you get the sense that Internet of Things adoption is sluggish, consider that it is going through a normal process.
How AR/VR Analytics May Help Your Business
Alternative and virtual realities provide organizations with new opportunities to reimagine product demos, employee training and more. As the systems collect and generate data, there are opportunities to use the new streams in innovative ways.
Technology Debt Crisis 2025
Consider all the code written over 50 years and all the places it's running. Add to that all the code we will write in the coming years. That is technology debt.
Why Businesses Must Think About Voice Interfaces, Now
Alexa's popularity among consumers serves as a wake-up call for businesses. Eventually, voice interfaces will replace keyboards, taps and swipes, but organizations must be wary of approaching voice interface design the same way they've approached web and mobile design. Before you begin, consider these points.
B2B Chatbots are Poised for Explosive Growth
There are best practices for approaching chatbots and virtual assistants as organizations move to a scenario where tasks happen transparently behind natural language interfaces. We explain some of the opportunities and pitfalls.
Speech Recognition Finds Its Voice
Voice recognition technology seems to be taking over the world, but the concept still has a ways to go before it reaches full maturity.
To Build Software that is Easy to Use, Engage the Right Partners
Developing software that is intuitive and meets user needs calls for a close partnership between a vendor and a couple of key customers.
7 Fastest-Growing Tech Job Skills
Which terms do IT employers and job seekers search for most often? There are some significant disconnects between what IT pros offer and what employers want.
Is Your Company Smart Enough to Succeed?
Determining if your organization is an intelligent enterprise or a slow learner may be challenging, but a new index quantifies criteria in terms of data usage, workflow efficiency, and progress toward the IoT.
Medical Teams' Simple, but Powerful Digital Transformation Story
While we're bombarded by technology that is presented as "cool" it is refreshing to see technology used for the good of humankind.
Securing Travel and Trade with Blockchain
Among the growing number of potential applications for blockchain is border management and security.
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.
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.
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.
Reduce SaaS App Fragmentation for Workforce Efficiency
New tools and technologies can help employees work smarter, but only if they are integrated and data silos are broken down.
IT Department Hiring Now at Zero Growth
There may be evidence that the movement to cloud computing and workplace automation is slowing IT hiring.
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.
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.
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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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