The CIO’s return to the workplace playbook

Business kept rolling at SUEZ North America despite pandemic stay-at-home orders this spring. Essential employees delivering water and wastewater service still had to operate their systems and monitor water quality, while the IT team ensured that remote working tools were functional for the rest of the company. “It’s been a pretty wild ride over the…

HSBC banks on startup for AI guardrails during coronavirus crisis

Businesses in highly regulated industries often stumble over the so-called “black box” problem when they try to deploy artificial intelligence technology, which often automates tasks and generate outputs that cannot be readily explained. Banks, in particular, are struggling to vet the transparency and interpretability of machine learning (ML) models and AI software that inform everything…

9 emerging job roles for the future of AI

AI is poised to transform nearly every industry, and with it will come significant changes for many job functions. Many roles across organizations will require at least some use of artificial intelligence technologies in the coming years, creating massive new opportunities for the AI-savvy regardless of discipline. Alongside this transformation of how many IT and…

Ellie Mae turns to AI for autonomous threat hunting

In the information security field, bad actors have the advantage: They play proactive offense while security is generally reactive in defense. To take a more proactive footing, some organizations have been adopting threat intelligence, a security practice that involves sifting through data to identify advanced persistent threats (APTs) before attacks occur. Firms such as Ellie…

20 reasons why software projects fail

Every software project begins with big dreams and grand visions. Somewhere in an alternative universe, there is a project that fulfills every dream but all too often software projects in our universe stumble toward the finish line and sometimes cross it.  Of course, by definition, software project failure isn’t a binary thing. You can end…

4 ways to run a leaner dev team

Doing more with less has long been the objective of running a lean tech organization, but now comes the age of COVID-19. IDC predicts a 2.7% drop in IT spending in 2020 with business leaders putting tech purchases and new initiatives on hold. Doing less with less is quickly becoming the COVID-19 normal for this…