Across business types and industry sectors, sustainability initiatives have moved to the top of many leaders’ agendas. The topic continues to grow both more urgent and expansive. Within the sustainability rubric now fall efforts like reducing energy and resource consumption, meeting circular economy mandates, and reworking supply chains to address environmental and fair-trade principles. The…
If there is one thing developers prize above all else today, it’s the option to run the applications they want where they want, when they want. This is critical in a world increasingly given to distributed computing, where applications run within and outside organizations’ four walls. And while virtualization technologies have long provided developers the…
With spring creeping closer to summer, warm weather camping season is in full swing. Fans of communing with nature know that a successful camping trip requires critical planning and preparation. Whether you’re mulling a weekend trek along a stretch over the Appalachian Trail or a week’s sojourn deep in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park,…
Long ago, Walgreens created a prescription for success. And the main ingredient was and has continued to be its innovative business practices and services for the betterment of its customers, suppliers (or vendors), and operation. This story is about one innovation adopted by Walgreens, scan-based trading (SBT), and how SAP helped improve its use. When pharmacist Charles…
The first published data governance framework was the work of Gwen Thomas, who founded the Data Governance Institute (DGI) and put her opus online in 2003. “Frameworks were already being used, but they weren’t publicly available,” she says. “I had been asked to help Coors Beer prepare for upcoming Sarbanes-Oxley audits. They already had a…
Choice Hotels, the Maryland-based multinational hotel chain, is a $10 billion, 80-year-old hospitality company with about 7,500 hotels in 46 countries. And with such a presence of history and reputation in the market, it had the foresight and resources to make early investment and commitment to dovetailing its digital transformation with sustainability. A lot of…
After two years on the market, SAP RISE is becoming increasingly positioned by SAP as a solution for customers looking to move to the cloud. With the 2027 deadline to move off SAP ECC looming, SAP customers need to understand what SAP’s RISE offering is and have a comprehensive evaluation strategy for when SAP inevitably…
Over the years, hundreds of techniques have been introduced to optimize website speed. And for good reason – a mere one-second delay in page load time can lead to a 7% loss in conversions. There’s no room for complacency, but unless web performance is your day job, it’s probably not obvious which recommendations are going…
By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax When Karim Lakhani, co-founder of the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard University, talks about AI, I pay attention. I’ve previously written about how national survey data collected last year by DataStax (my employer) proved out predictions Lakhani made about AI and open source back in…
Todd Fortwengler, senior director of managed services sales at Ahead, wants to sound the alarm on an issue he sees too frequently among enterprises that begin their cloud journey alone. “I often encounter companies that moved to the cloud too quickly without a plan,” says Fortwengler. “For too many, their vision of ‘land and expand’…