Category: Extra-enterprise Users

August 26, 2020

It’s understandable why many corporate executives and managers view the sea of digital data available to them with some uncertainty. Most believe data holds great business value, but many remain uncertain about how to best extract that value. Uncertain or […]

August 19, 2020

It’s clear many enterprises are turning to artificial intelligence to increase productivity and meet business goals. What’s less clear is where and how exactly it is being used in the workplace. One recent global study took a look at how […]

April 16, 2020

Across the United States, enterprise-level manufacturers that have historically focused on traditional retail sales channels are now exploring how they can add a direct-to-customer (DTC) channel to their sales operations. Why? A massive transformation is underway in the selling landscape, […]

June 12, 2018

Sometimes I get the feeling that there is an unresolved tension between business architects (BA) and enterprise architects (EA). The various discussions regarding the scope of each role, the business-focus to IT-focus ratio for EA and BA, and other lines […]

May 1, 2018

Software that automates basic tasks is catching hold in large enterprises, where CIOs are seeking to inject greater efficiency into business processes. Called robotic process automation (RPA), the technology enables IT departments to use a piece of software, called a […]

January 24, 2018

Enterprise software has always been sold on features. Every publisher has the huge checklist that shows how their product checks all of the boxes and the competitors fall well short. The competitor has their own list of checkboxes that show […]

January 19, 2018

More and more industries are mobilizing their workforces. From nurses passing information to their colleagues via secure messaging as they change shifts, to police officers replacing paper notebooks with more efficient, secure digital counterparts, today’s mobile phones are portable enough […]

November 2, 2017

Before we dive deeper, let’s discuss what true real-time analytics is. You may assume that your data is updating in real-time, and may even be using a nifty visualization, but that doesn’t mean your analytics is real-time. See, many finance […]

May 4, 2017

Microsoft may have stuck to its script Tuesday when it unveiled a Windows 10 spin-off aimed at the K-12 educational market, but the new operating system will be enticing to businesses as well, analysts said today. “They were very focused […]

May 1, 2017

There’s a cloud option out there for almost every IT workload, but a survey from the Uptime Institute indicates that about two-thirds of enterprise computing is still done in company-owned data centers. The study, which polled more than 1,000 IT […]