How cloud is disrupting IT operations

The rapid evolution of cloud services is forcing IT organisations to scramble to attract the right skills and fight fires reactively rather than taking time to devise a proper cloud-first strategy. Fewer than 11% of enterprises in APAC today use a single cloud. Instead, organisations are settling on multi-cloud, hybrid strategy with interoperability between cloud…

How Cloud Is Turning Everything-As-A-Service Into Reality

Digitization is a never-ending journey; in this age of the new normal, brands and organizations are embracing digital-first solutions as a must-have instead of a good-to-have. And when it comes to navigating this ever-changing digital landscape, the telecom industry is leading the way to the cloud. According to McKinsey, today’s ICT industry, represented by telcos,…

Building a Beautiful Data Lakehouse

Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to data analytics for deeper, better insights and automation is a growing enterprise IT priority. But the data repository options that have been around for a while tend to fall short in their ability to serve as the foundation for big data analytics powered by AI. Traditional data warehouses, for example, support…

Sourcemap expands to meet demand for supply chain management

Supply chain management (SCM) software company Sourcemap is set to expand into Europe and, fueled with a $10 million venture capital infusion, further develop its suite of supplier benchmarking, traceability and transparency applications to meet growing demand from global businesses that increasingly face complex compliance regulations and logistics disruptions. In addition to recent worries that…

ROI expected to boost enterprise spending on RPA

Return on investment (ROI) in the form of both cost and time savings is expected to boost the RPA (robotic process automation) software and services market from $13.9 billion to $22 billion by 2025, a new report from Forrester shows. “It is the very direct ROI that still attracts enterprises or C-suite executives,” said Leslie…

6 ways to ensure equitable experiences in tech

One of the missions of this year’s International Women’s Day is “to forge inclusive work cultures where women’s careers thrive and their achievements are celebrated.” Accenture research conducted during the pandemic shows just how far we have to go to meet that mission. Our research found that women feel significantly less support from their employers…

UK Parliament CDIO Tracey Jessup to join DeMontfort University

UK Parliament CDIO (chief digital and information officer) Tracey Jessup will be taking on the newly created CTO (chief transformation officer) role at DeMontfort University in Leicester. Digital, cybersecurity, HR, marketing and communications directors will report to Jessup, who will in turn report to the university’s vice-chancellor, Katie Normington. “In line with De Montfort University’s…

Big projects might slip, but small steps win.

Balancing impact with agility Most large digital transformation projects don’t succeed as intended. Highly involved, complex, organisation-wide, cross-geographical projects that aim to transform multiple arms of the business simultaneously are more often than not likely to fall over at some point along the way. The project will become consolidated, redefined, or in the most unfortunate…