You Say You Want a Revolution: The CIO and The Public Sector
The latest forecast from the analysts at Gartner is a particularly bold one: public sector organizations could harness digital disruption to bring about a “revolution in citizen services” – with the CIO at the heart of it.
Too Good to Be True? 3 Questions Buyers Must Ask When Evaluating a Rapid Mobile App Development Solution
Considering a Rapid Mobile App Development (RMAD) tool to quickly mobilize your mission critical workflows? Make sure you ask these three questions when evaluating solution providers.
AR, VR Revenue May Reach $162 Billion By 2020
An IDC report finds augmented reality and virtual reality technologies have a bright future, with revenues growing to $162 billion by 2020. The study finds AR and VR will offer major applications for healthcare and product design.
Enterprise Content Slowing Digital Transformation Goals
A new commissioned global survey of IT professionals, conducted by Forrester Consulting, has uncovered a sharp divide between the expressed need of enterprises to undergo digital transformation and their ability to accelerate that transformation. While a majority of respondents (68 percent) said they plan to undertake an organizational transformation to become more “digital-ready,” only a small fraction has fully digitized their content-centric business processes.
10 Things Digital Transformation Leaders Do Differently
In a new MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte University Press report, nearly 90 percent of more than 3,700 business executives, managers and analysts from around the globe say they anticipate their industries will be moderately or greatly disrupted by digital trends. Less than half, however (44 percent), believe their organization is adequately preparing for this digital disruption.
Canadian Enterprises Aren’t Prepared for Digital Transformation: IDC
While Canadian organizations have clued in that digital transformation can be the key for future business success, many firms still lack the requisite digital expertise to compete on a global level. According to IDC Canada a whopping 83 percent of Canadian enterprises still require the appropriate infrastructure to make nurturing and empowering digital talent a top priority as they prepare to do battle in the digital economy.
Why Quadrooter Should Have You Concerned About Enterprise Mobility
Quadrooter is a new vulnerability that exploits flaws in Qualcomm chips found in many popular Android devices. The flaws lead to four different vulnerabilities. While three out of four were fixed in Google’s August 2016 patch, one vulnerability remains. This exploit puts nearly a billion devices at risk.
Jockeying For Position in Enterprise Collaboration
Earlier this month, Salesforce became the newest contender for a piece of the enterprise productivity pie with its acquisition of Quip, a cloud-based document management platform that offers team collaboration, word processing, spreadsheets and built-in chat functionality. Now joining Microsoft and Google on both CRM and productivity tools, how will this third competitor shake up the game?
GE CIO Jim Fowler Talks Collaboration and IT Transformation
Collaboration is a key component of GE’s overall digital transformation, but it’s just one of many ongoing IT challenges. The company’s “Digital Thread” program, for example, aims to drive productivity at GE by improving various data systems and processes that affect GE’s bottom line.
Digital Transformation Creates Business Value
Pokémon Go is an excellent example of the speed at which digital transformation can create business value, according to Wayne Houghton, director of growth implementation solutions in Africa at Frost & Sullivan. Houghton, speaking at the Frost & Sullivan Growth, Innovation and Leadership 2016 Africa conference, stated Pokémon Go generates $5.7 million a day, which shows the power of digital disruption.
Google Hangouts Has a Future As An Enterprise Communication App
Google recently launched Duo, its new mobile-only video chat app. But that’s only half of Google’s new messaging equation. The other half is Allo, its AI-enhanced texting app. Allo isn’t available yet, even though Duo is a “companion app” to it.
Cisco Aims for Better Integration in Collaboration
Cisco and Microsoft have long been dueling in the enterprise collaboration space – but has an olive branch been offered by the former? The San Jose giant announced the launch of Cisco Meeting Server, which aims to break down some of the barriers between organizations using Cisco video services and Skype houses.
Enterprise Apps Will Have An Impact on Transport
While the current wave of app development is relatively new and the platforms still evolving, apps represent an increasingly important channel for companies to deliver content, information and services to users. This according to Cassie Lessing, MD of the Strato IT Group, provider of business system solutions including StratoPod – a mobile business application for delivery documentation.
Digital Transformation Early Adopters to Become ‘Predators’
Businesses that manage to complete their digital transformations sooner will become ‘digital predators’, while those that lag behind will be ‘digital prey’, according to a new report by Alfresco Software and Forrester Consulting.
How Newsrooms Are Speeding Up Their Digital Transformation
If there ever was a time to double down and get serious about the pace of your newspaper’s digital transformation, now may be it. Recently, Pew released its annual State of the News Media report, and if you were hoping to see a bottoming out of declining print revenues, prepare to be disappointed.
How Lyft Built Its App On AWS
Lyft knows a thing or two about how to scale a company, growing from zero to a global business in just a few short years. A core element to the ride-sharing provider’s success was figuring out how to scale its platform globally in a rapid manner. The cloud was the key in doing so, as evidenced by Lyft CTO Chris Lambert’s keynote at last week’s Amazon Web Services Summit in New York.
Redbooth is Apple TV’s First Enterprise App
Redbooth, the business productivity software, will be the first enterprise app available on Apple TV. The company announced that it would be available on Apple TV on August 18th, but it began working on the app when Apple released its fourth-generation Apple TV in late 2015. That update allowed outside developers to create apps for the Apple TV app store, beyond HBO and Netflix.
6 Reasons Enterprise Collaboration Fails and What to Do About It
Every company in the world needs its employees to communicate with one another—there isn’t a single business that can operate without employees being connected to each other. But enterprise collaboration often has a bad reputation, usually due to a failed attempt at gaining internal adoption around a specific solution. Indeed, enterprise collaboration projects often fail. Why is this?
Windows Phone and Blackberry Head for Extinction
It was once hoped that the mobile ecosystem would be big and buoyant enough to support a whole number of different operating systems, but the data suggests that, just as with the PC ecosystem, there really is only room for two major players. According to the latest Gartner report, the bottom has fallen completely out of Windows Phone and Blackberry device shipments over the past year.
Should You Embrace Shadow IT – Or Keep It At Arm’s Length
Shadow IT, which refers to the use by employees of apps or devices that are not sanctioned by the company, is widely debated. In a recent piece for CIO Online, writer Clint Boulton calls attention to a team that embraces shadow IT. Matt Bartholomy, senior manager for information security at Western Union, argues that taking away tools that aren’t sanctioned but are only moderately risky makes it more likely that users will be pushed towards solutions that are very risky.
Enterprise Mobile Security Tools May Not Protect BYOD
In his recent Black Hat conference presentation, Bad for Enterprise: Attacking BYOD Enterprise Mobile Security Solutions, VantagePoint Senior Security Consultant Vincent Tan discussed the growth of BYOD and the software that protects personal mobile devices used in the workplace, as well as emerging techniques to better secure these devices and ultimately enterprise networks and data.
