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To better understand the role of the chief data officer in digital change, consulting firm Egon Zehnder International Ltd. interviewed over 100 CDOs of global companies. The results showed that 85% were the first in their organizations to hold the title and …
Gaining strategic value from data starts with advanced analytics
Imagine the challenge of owning warehouses of books and only a small fraction of them had titles. Yet, they all needed to be cataloged and stored correctly by content. This is the type of challenge confronting many chief data officers today and …
As AI goes mainstream, jobs and elections are prime targets
Will artificial intelligence take away jobs? The answer, according to one college professor, is quite possibly, but it will take a while and the full impact may not be as great as expected because it will have become a more ingrained and accepted part …
Tech leaders panel addresses engineer satisfaction, managing technical debt, and workforce diversity
Building a successful company today means more than just moving fast, breaking things, and gobbling up market share. Success is increasingly dependent on hiring the right engineers and making sure to create an environment where they are motivated to contribute and thrive. …
How Zscaler helped dairy producer FrieslandCampina keep its data and milk safe
When a company’s product involves consumable dairy beverages, including milk and infant nutrition, safety is top of mind for everyone in the organization. That includes the information-technology staff at Royal FrieslandCampina N.V., a Dutch company that distributes dairy products around the world. “The …
Innovation in overdrive: ‘Third Platform’ will shift tech into high gear
Although the past decade has seen innovation at a pace and scale without precedent, it’s time to fasten those seat belts. The world is about to enter a new phase that will be innovation in which emerging technologies will be invented at light speed not by …
Report from VTUG: Virtualization community rides shifting market as cloud jobs grow
It’s called the “IKEA Effect.” In 2012, researchers from the Harvard Business School published the results of a study that showed that the act of building something on one’s own, such as building furniture acquired from an IKEA store, imbued it with value …
With 5G deployment on the way, NetScout at center of a network hurricane
The fifth generation of cellular network technology known as 5G is gradually being deployed by carriers, but initial delivery is likely to be enterprise focused and will have a profound impact on the flow of network traffic and services. That’s the conclusion …
Enterprise demands seamless hybrid-computing security; is SD-WAN the solution?
Enterprise security today demands not just a next-generation firewall, but intrusion detection and endpoint monitoring. As businesses migrate to a hybrid computing model comprised of on-premises and cloud operations, a solution with baked-in security that can deliver these and other key features across …
One robot per employee: UiPath’s automation-first approach leads fast-growing RPA market
Artificial intelligence has propelled many enterprise sectors, but perhaps none faster than the field of robotic process automation, or RPA. A recent Gartner Inc. report found that the RPA market grew 63% in 2018, making it the fastest-growing enterprise software category. And …