Innovation labs are a trendy way for both startups and legacy companies to display a finger on the pulse of new tech. Accenture PLC has been in the game for 30 years with its Accenture Labs network, yielded much more than geek cred, according to Paul Daugherty (pictured), chief technology and innovation officer at Accenture. “We now have ...

Augmented reality is branching out from gaming graphics into high-return business use cases. Its power to render data and images in 3D can fast-forward product development in enterprises, said Joe Mikhail (pictured), chief revenue officer at Meta Co., which develops AR products geared mainly toward enterprises. “It basically overlays digital data and virtual objects in the real ...

Businesses inside and outside technology are learning what happens when cloud takes infrastructure out of the picture. Infor Inc. opted to build its business applications on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud to makes its developers’ jobs easier. They work smarter now, differentiating up the stack with industry-specific suites of cloud applications for enterprises. Is this drilling ...

The gender gap in information technology is an open case, with a range of researchers offering various explanations for the unequal numbers of men and women in the field. Perhaps one way to gauge how the small number of women in tech wound up there and what the industry might learn from them is to ...

Everyone knows the importance of security in crowded public spaces, but that doesn’t stop them from bemoaning every minute they stand in line at the airport. “Up until now, any time you want to increase security, it diminishes the consumer experience,” said Ken Cornick, co-founder, president and chief financial officer of Clear (by Alclear LLC). Clear ...

Judging by the profits of Uber Technologies Inc., Netflix Inc. and other businesses that replace asset ownership with on-demand services, consumers are buying (or leasing) into the subscription economy. The trade-off for foregone ownership is freedom, according to Tien Tzuo (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Zuora Inc. Businesses operating on the subscription model need ...

Thync Global Inc. U.S.A. sells a wearable stress-reducing device for $149. But to actually use it, customers must pay a subscription fee every month. Is it overkill or a helpful nudge to get people to take their vitamins? “It’s about supporting and promoting this kind of continuous, regular use and routines,” said Dr. Sumon Pal (pictured), ...

Digital software like data analytics services are transforming the way industrial assets are built, maintained and operated, according to Gytis Barzdukas (pictured), vice president and head of product management, Predix, at GE Digital LLC. A growing number of GE customers are requesting subscription services, Barzdukas said during Zuora Subscribed 2017 in San Francisco, California. “It allows you to experiment,” ...

Industry-vertical applications are Infor Inc.’s theme this year, but the company didn’t arrive there just by marinating in a few hand-selected industries. “We dive very deep into key industries, but then we look at them holistically,” said Dan Barnhardt (pictured), vice president of corporate communications at Infor. Infor cross-pollinates knowledge gleaned from diverse industries across its business ...

How hungry are enterprises for industry-specific cloud applications? By honing such solutions, Infor Inc. grew its cloud revenue 60 percent last year, according to Stephan Scholl (pictured), president at Infor Inc. “We were, at the enterprise scale, the fastest-growing cloud company in the world,” Scholl said in an interview today at Inforum 2017 in New ...