Tag: business intelligence

October 17, 2018

Robotic process automation (RPA) promises to deliver business benefits such as decreased costs, reduced errors, greater efficiencies, and the ability to free up workers from mundane and repetitive tasks such as data entry so they can focus on more challenging, […]

October 12, 2018

Artificial intelligence is de rigueur with executives and boards of directors. Show me an industry and I’ll show you an application for AI that’s captured management’s mindshare, snagging both budget and headcount (often from less-sexy initiatives). Accelerating disease diagnosis in […]

October 9, 2018

The promise of agile development maps well to today’s disruptive, fast-moving business environments. But measuring the success of your agile efforts can be tricky, especially when it comes to ascertaining alignment with business objectives. How do you gauge success or […]

October 4, 2018

The title of the recently-published 20th annual Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO survey, The Transformational CIO, says it all. As digital and cloud technology has evolved, IT focus has shifted from internal operations to customers, broader stakeholders control technology spend, and organizations […]

October 3, 2018

Many companies boast about going entirely digital, but continue to work with mountains of documents. Don’t be that company. The bulk of said documents are normally those that require signatures, like contracts, tax forms, reimbursement sheets, and — well, the […]

September 28, 2018

Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physiologist, famous in the 1890s for introducing the concept of a conditioned response – the theory that our brains can be trained to associate certain stimuli with a response. In today’s enterprise data center, public […]

September 26, 2018

Imagine this: Your digital transformation efforts are just underway, and tangible results are starting to appear. There is still significant work to be done, and you estimate that the organization has addressed maybe 5 percent of the potential areas for […]

September 19, 2018

Augmented reality is frequently predicted to be a major game changer, more so than virtual reality in the evolution of technology. But aside from smartphone-based apps such as Pokemon Go, and Google Translate, which can instantly translate street signs in […]

September 14, 2018

In May of this year, The World Economic Forum said in their Digital Transformation report, “to succeed in the digital era, (companies) will need to become digital enterprises, rethinking every aspect of their businesses.” Many companies have already begun the […]

September 12, 2018

Corporate spinoffs pose a special kind of IT challenge. As a particular type of divestiture, a newly spun-off company has options: (1) either begin paying for IT services provided by its corporate parent, (2) start deploying its own infrastructure with […]