What is an automation engineer? A growing role to address IT automation

Experts haven’t reached an agreement on how many jobs automation will replace or create — MIT reviewed several studies that reveal the drastically conflicting predictions on job loss or gain from automation. Regardless, automation is here, and companies are embracing the technology to streamline IT, business, development and service processes. As automation increases, organizations across…

Workday CIO on tackling SaaS debt and sprawl

Being the CIO of a cloud ERP provider is a unique balancing act. As the first customer of your company’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, you must help drive the company’s flagship forward, but you also must support the technical needs of the organization as a whole. That’s where Workday CIO Diana McKenzie found herself when joining…

Who’s succeeding with product-focused IT?

Organizations are making the shift to delivering IT as a product — a multistep process, rife with challenges. First, there’s the need to lay the groundwork for change, and to extend a product mindset across the organization. Then governance must be implemented, product teams must be structured and implemented, and supporting IT capabilities must be created.…

5 enterprise cloud strategy trends for 2019

Cloud computing has become the de facto platform for fueling digital transformations and modernizing IT portfolios. Companies are increasingly finding business agility or cost savings by renting software through vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google.  In fact, most enterprises procure cloud services from two or more vendors, a trend that will…