The Value of Automation Testing for Enterprises

Enterprises that have adopted automation across their organizations—including development, IT operations, and business teams—often find it is difficult to scale their automations due to manual or old testing methods. This can create further delays that prevent the automations from scaling properly, thus defeating the purpose of many process automation and digital transformation efforts. In addition,…

CIO Ken Grady and Leadership Coach Seth Rigoletti on making work more human

Ken Grady, CIO at IDEXX, and Seth Rigoletti, Leadership Coach at Valico Group, join host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. They discuss making work more human, bridging IT generational gaps, lightbulb leadership moments, reframing change management and more. Watch this episode: #id62babc9637f5e .jw-wrapper::before…

Perfecting Operations Through Machine Learning

CEMEX was faced with a flood of false positive alerts from its system monitoring software. Ultimately, the company deployed software and best practices to dramatically cut the false positives for improved monitoring and a better experience for employees and customers. Riddle me this! When is too much of a good thing not good? Well, for…

Misled by metrics: 7 KPI mistakes IT leaders make

Mark Twain famously remarked that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Today, many CIOs feel the same way about metrics. Metrics are only as good as their source. “Too often, technology companies pay consulting or analyst firms to create metrics based on the best characteristics of their offerings,” says Judith…

Sentry’s David Cramer on bootstrapping a unicorn

Sentry was started as an open source project by David Cramer in 2008 to provide monitoring services for application developers. Cramer and co-founder Chris Jennings bootstrapped the company from the ground up, organically growing the business to over 3.5 million developers today. Sentry’s open source and cloud-based offerings support 100+ languages and frameworks and provide…

4 exciting Dutch healthcare technology companies to watch

The Netherlands has positioned itself as an emerging medtech powerhouse, with more than 1,100 healthcare technology startups – more than three times as many relative to population size when compared to neighbouring Germany. The meteoric rise of the healthtech industry can be attributed to increasing costs for healthcare (which were up by approximately €9 billion…