Empowering citizen developers for real business impact

Given the important role of software applications in powering business processes and the shortage of experienced programmers, it should not be surprising that citizen development is on the rise. Citizen developers are business users who build new applications or modify existing ones without needing help from the IT or development functions. While it’s one thing to have…

Dissecting Alstom’s three-part IT strategy

Alstom builds high-speed trains, subways, monorails, and trams, but also develops turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signaling, and digital mobility. And with a presence in 70 countries and around 74,000 employees, 3,100 of which are in Spain, the French multinational has important weight in the country, where it introduced a high-speed train, the first automatic metro,…

Is PC-as-a-Service part of your hybrid work strategy?

If someone told you a decade ago that deploying IT services would be more like streaming video content than the traditional procurement and provisioning process, you probably wouldn’t have believed them. Right? Enterprises have been evolving toward as-a-Service models for years, but most of this transition has been executed in software, via SaaS and other…

How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

Nvidia’s transformation from an accelerator of video games to an enabler of artificial intelligence (AI) and the industrial metaverse didn’t happen overnight—but the leap in its stock market value to over a trillion dollars did. It was when Nvidia reported strong results for the three months to April 30, 2023, and forecast that its sales…