How An Enterprise App Can Benefit Your Business
According to research, using a mobile enterprise app for your business can boost employee productivity by over 30 percent. Providing an easier way of communication with employees, simple collaboration on tasks and projects, problem solving solutions and the ability to access important data even whilst offline can certainly make work easier for many employees, leading to increased motivation and better results.
Why Gartner Believes Windows 10 Adoption Will Remain Robust
Gartner recently released a report with data from several studies focused on adoption both before Window 10’s free upgrade offer expired on July 29 and after. The studies found that despite the free offer’s expiration, enterprises will more rapidly adopt Windows 10 than it did Windows 7. On the consumer side, Gartner, along with Google, found that a large portion of individuals had already upgraded to Windows 10.
The Right Enterprise Mobility Approach
“Understanding the business is key to making the right decision when it comes to enterprise mobility,” said Nader Henein, regional director of Advanced Security Assurance at BlackBerry. “If IT or leadership decide in isolation, then you are guaranteed to a deliver a solution with limited ROI that may not address the needs of the business. We see this quite a bit,” he continued.
Consumer Grade is the New Enterprise Grade
Consumer grade is the new enterprise grade, a new survey by ScaleArc says. The annual survey among IT decision makers has revealed that consumer apps seem to be much better than enterprise apps, because they’re faster, and more reliable. A vast majority of respondents (78 percent) said consumer grade apps have better interfaces (56 percent), are less likely to be sluggish (32 percent), and have less downtime (31 percent).
What Citizen Developers Should Know About Mobile Security
Dedicated, full-time developers know that security should be a top priority when building mobile apps. Yet increasingly, mobile development within enterprises is being done by what Gartner calls “citizen developers”: business-line employees who create apps using approved tools but outside the traditional IT process. Unfortunately, far too many of them have an insufficient understanding of what needs to be done to protect their users’ data.
Digital Transformation Needs Mainframe DevOps
As organizations become more digital, CIOs must consider how best to tap into data held in mainframes. Mainframe systems of record are the beating heart of most large businesses. Successful digital businesses unleash the data and business processes encoded in their mainframe-based applications.
Enterprise Mobility: Conquering The Battle Between Cost and Quality
Ninety percent of IT decision makers believe enterprise mobility is critical to customer engagement, competitiveness, and operational productivity with nearly three quarters of them reporting their company is planning to mobilize the entire organization, according to a recent Harris Poll.
Opportunity in Enterprise Apps Poised to Explode
The enterprise application market size is expected to reach USD 287.71 billion by 2024; according to a new research report by Global Market Insights, Inc.
New Survey Reveals Potential SharePoint Collaboration Difficulties
More than a quarter of SharePoint projects have struggled to meet expectations, according to new research released by information management analysts AIIM. The study, conducted alongside information management software firm Gimmal and mobile and email content management vendor Colligo, found that for two thirds of those who had cited dissatisfaction, the primary issue was that the Microsoft collaboration product was “hard to use.”
Global IT Security Spending Will Top $81 Billion in 2016
Gartner predicts worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach $81.6 billion in 2016 — an increase of 7.9 percent from last year.
New Enterprise Mobility Management Predictions
The enterprise mobility management market size was valued at over USD 3 billion in 2014 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 30 percent over the forecast period, according to Global Market Insights. Increase in data as well as mobile devices coupled with competitive pressure are anticipated to drive demand.
10 Ways Bots Can Improve Your Business Process
Businesses use bots to engage with customers, online and via social media, because they’re a cost-effective way to respond instantly to simple queries. As bot technology improves, they’re finding their way into more use cases where human judgment and effort have traditionally been required. Are bots right for your business? Here are 10 examples to help you decide.
Microsoft$26B Deal for LinkedIn Puts Social Back on Enterprise Map
With its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, Microsoft will be able to embed social features into its popular productivity apps. That’s the angle being promoted by the CEOs of both Microsoft and LinkedIn.
Digital Transformation is a Change Management Challenge
Not surprisingly, fuelled by digital transformation, it’s thriving. As Cap Gemini Consulting puts it: “Digital transformation has become the ultimate challenge in change management because it impacts not only industry structures and strategic positioning but all levels of an organization (every task, activity, process) and its extended supply chain.”
Microsoft to Drop Azure Remote App in Favor of Citrix
Microsoft is starting to “wind down” its Azure RemoteApp technology in favor of application virtualization software and services from its partner Citrix. Microsoft made the announcement calling the move “the next step in our broad partnership with Citrix in the remote desktop and applications space.”
Engineering for the Internet of Things
The top business initiative for 2016 is to “improve the experience of our customers,” according to a recent Forrester study. And the top way companies expect to achieve that is to “improve the use of data and analytics to improve business decisions and outcomes.” Increasingly, that data and those analytics will be driven by IoT technologies.
HP Turns to Windows 10 For Enterprise Mobile Devices
HP has dabbled in many operating systems over the last few years, but the company always seems to come back to Windows. The company is building a mobile device strategy around Windows 10 Mobile and is slowly cutting its reliance on Android, once high on the company’s list for tablets and PCs. HP has discontinued low-cost Android tablets, and two remaining enterprise tablets feature aging hardware and an old version of the OS.
CVS Pharmacy Launches Mobile Wallet
CVS Pharmacy launched an “end-to-end” mobile wallet offering combining payments, prescription pick-up features and a loyalty program. CVS Pay is packaged in the company’s mobile app and uses barcodes that are scanned at the point of purchase to consummate transactions.
QUT’s Digital Transformation Takes Mobile Focus
Queensland University of Technology is preparing for the next phase of its digital transformation, after successfully implementing a new platform that has allowed it to dramatically simplify how staff and students access information. In the next phase of its ongoing digital workplace program, to be rolled out over the next nine months, the university will focus on improving the mobile accessibility of its online services.
How Company Culture Drives Digital Transformation and Business Adaptability
Digital transformation by its very nature scares enterprises. It goes against the grain of management methods we’ve been practicing for centuries, as power shifts from top-down to peer-to-peer. The sharing of information is now more organic, and expertise develops naturally. Your organizational attitude is marked by your business’s aptitude to change. Are you prepared for the future?
Alaska Airlines CIO is Also “CEO of IT”
As technology becomes your business’s most important driver, it is high time you thought about running IT like a business. That’s exactly what Veresh Sita decided to do two years ago, when he became CIO of Alaska Airlines. “For the last 20 years, IT has been focused on automation and driving costs out of the business,” says Sita. “But today, companies are looking to IT to bring digital innovation to the enterprise and reimagine the future. We all need to change the way we fundamentally think about IT.”
