Technology companies today are more richly webbed to one another than before, which multiplies their paths to expansion — and software is at the heart of this, said Christie Simons (pictured, right), partner and technology industry leader at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Simons spoke about her role with Deloitte, consulting on the development of technology companies, during ...

2016 was a breakout year for cloud platform Twilio. The company added 11,000 active customers and 66 percent in revenue over 2015, according to Lee Kirkpatrick (pictured), chief financial officer of Twilio Inc., who said the company was started “by developers for developers.” And while Kirkpatrick and Twilio recently received the Association for Corporate Growth in ...

Can Virtustream Inc.’s new Healthcare Cloud make the custom-cloud dream a reality for medical and science professionals? “It’s a highly regulated environment, highly controlled environment, needs to support audit and compliance, and needs availability, the five 9s [99.999 percent] availability, that Virtustream’s been doing for a long, long time,” said Michael Hoch (pictured), vice president at Virtustream ...

The Internet of Things-telecom relationship is heating up, with a South African outfit aiming to provide end-to-end data solutions with cloud. “We recently became part of the Telkom Group,” said Lawrence Weitzman, managing executive of technology transformation solutions at Business Connexion Pty. Ltd., an information and communications technology provider. “Telkom is the national carrier within ...

Some companies are bypassing the touted expansion of the Chief Information Officer role and creating an entirely new post for digital transformers, according to Dan Rogers (pictured), chief marketing officer at ServiceNow Inc. “IT [information technology] knows the most about business process transformation, it turns out,” Rogers said during ServiceNow Knowledge17 in Orlando, Florida. This applies across departments ...

Workers worried about machines replacing them should focus on what their brains can do that computers can’t, said Chris Bedi (pictured), chief information officer at ServiceNow Inc. “I think a lot of times what we call a decision — it’s not a decision. We’re coming to the same conclusion over and over and over again,” Bedi said ...

Anyone familiar with patients’ healthcare records knows the associated data compliance rules can be a burden to bear — especially home-care nurses who schlep around 25 pounds of paperwork daily. VITAS Healthcare Corp. used ServiceNow  and cloud computing to reduce paper and trips back and forth for its nursing staff, according to Naresh Samlal (pictured), director of ...

Dell EMC now calls itself a “digital transformation” company, but with a sticky reputation for legacy infrastructure and little software, can it sell this to enterprises? EMC has shown it can indeed sell to enterprises. “They know how to tell the enterprise sales motion, which is the biggest challenge in today’s industry,” said John Furrier (@furrier) ...

Bite-sized Software as a Service is all the rage, but to whom does the information technology department turn when the pieces become a jigsaw puzzle scattered outside its control? Without ServiceNow Inc’s. platform as the home for its applications, it could not keep everything in focus for IT, said the company’s Chief Product Officer CJ Desai (pictured) during ...

Show of hands from anybody who thinks “big data” when they hear the name ServiceNow? The information technology service management platform may not compete with Apache Software’s widely known big data platforms, but by crunching the data that matters to staff members, could it become the Facebook for the office? ServiceNow Inc.’s historically so-so data game ...