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Remote-work revolution revs market for employee-experience tech
Research predicts that about 50% of the workforce will work remotely by next year. As these workers move out of the office, a market for employee-experience technology is opening. New remote-work tech could free employees from commutes and cubicles, and even give them back a full weekday. Companies are going to have to make working and collaborating ...
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Gartner analyst reveals what you don’t know about cloud
Companies are steadily shifting from legacy infrastructure to cloud computing. And why not? Cloud resources are more agile and elastic, and businesses can pay for what they use and no more. These are the cloud-computing knowns. However, there are a number of unknown, or little-known, facts that companies should be paying more attention to, according ...
Use cases get real with enterprise-ready blockchain service
Developers and enterprises are weary of blockchain hype. They want ready-to-go blockchain for real applications, results and profit. They’re pulling blockchain out of the cryptocoin rut and setting it on General Data Protection Regulation compliance, supply chain issues, anonymous content sharing, and more. Many companies start out with high hopes for blockchain, and then slam ...
VMware’s Googly, futuristic R&D is coming to an enterprise near you
Who wouldn’t want to be the most cutting-edge technology company in Silicon Valley? Perhaps a company that wants to sell to enterprises in the real world. Despite the apparent contradiction, there may be a space in the world for companies with one foot in the enterprise and one foot in futuristic research and development. VMware ...
Social good helps tech medicine go down for younger students
Some commentators have suggested that schools aren’t doing enough to pipeline students into tech careers. Amazon Web Services Inc. is trying to change that by bringing the latest cloud computing and real-world problem solving to students long before college. “One of the big things that we’re trying to do … is bring the new technologies into education,” said ...
New CX tech levels digital-commerce playing field
Think smaller merchants don’t have the technology to compete with giants such as Amazon.com in the digital age? Then look at the new, advanced but usable e-commerce and customer-experience platforms. Together with democratized social selling channels, they’re enable all companies to deliver the Amazon experience to customers. For example, there is Adobe Inc., which has acquired ...
Can one managed-services package cure many hybrid IT headaches?
When a company has a love/hate relationship with public cloud computing, things can get quite complicated. Having applications on-premises and in the cloud gives them a wide spread of information technology to reign in and manage. And having personnel purchase cloud products on their own can lead to runaway spending. Is there anywhere they can ...
Merchants take swing at Amazon with new social, e-commerce platforms
An e-commerce future dominated almost entirely by Amazon.com is a bleak possibility facing smaller merchants. But it isn’t the only possibility. There are other selling channels opening up on social platforms like Instagram and WhatsApp. They have the potential to lure sellers and starve some market-share bulk out of Amazon. It’s hard to overstate the ...
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Companies do a tense tango with new data privacy laws
As big data is transforming industries, data analysis is the new competitive advantage in business. But the flip side is that data misuse could land companies in court or put them out of business. Since Europe’s General Data Protection Regulations went live a year ago, businesses have been scrambling to comply without hurting innovation or thinning revenue streams. Data privacy ...
Enterprise is crying out for consumer UX, says Nutanix
Has anybody counted all the things the pancake-thin rectangles we all carry around in our pockets can do? The variety of applications and programs a smartphone can run seems to expand constantly. Why is there no copy of this paradigm of do-it-all consumer tech in the enterprise? Wouldn’t companies love a smartphone user experience in ...
