Against a backdrop of disruptive global events and fast-moving technology change, a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications is increasingly critical. That’s the consensus from members of CIO.com’s community of IT experts who weighed in on how a cloud-first approach to enterprise applications allow an organization to scale its business. With a cloud-first approach, businesses can…
Genius, opined Thomas Edison, who had firsthand knowledge of the subject, consists of 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Call it the “Edison Ratio.” While one might haggle over the exact numbers, the Edison Ratio provides a useful benchmark for what it takes to make an inspired idea real. And it cuts straight to a key…
In the past, businesses were said to run on paper. Today, they run on data and that data is usually juggled, herded, curated, and organized by business process management (BPM) software. BPM tools help organizations create, execute, optimize, and monitor business processes. There are dozens of tools that fall into this category, including homegrown systems…
The microservice deployment and management stack is proving very effective for companies taking advantage of the cloud’s capabilities to scale and adapt. Containers (often alongside Kubernetes) sit on top of this elastic fabric with agile DevOps and CI/CD workflows that transition code from development to production in short timescales. A significant problem with the speed…
Mention government agencies and most people think of organizations that are slow, plodding, and mired in miles of administrative red tape. That is not the case with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), formed by an act of Congress in 1790 and led by a commission that included then Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson.…
By Jeroen Kleen and Gerry Nolan If you recently integrated cloud technologies into your IT environment, chances are your team spent many months working behind the scenes, diligently setting up the implementation to generate quick gains for the business. They likely scoped out projects that can benefit from the newfound agility and migrated some early…
The use artificial intelligence (AI) is exploding across the planet as it evolves into an essential tool for a myriad of fields and industries. But to successfully implement the technology into business operations, IT leaders need to surround themselves with global experts while building a state-of-the-art ecosystem. The place to start looking for such experts…
L’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) explose partout sur la planète alors qu’elle devient un outil essentiel dans une myriade de secteurs et d’industries. Mais pour l’implanter avec succès dans les opérations commerciales, les responsables informatiques doivent s’entourer d’experts mondiaux tout en créant un écosystème de pointe. Au Canada, c’est au Québec qu’il faut chercher pareils…
Moving into the digital 2020s, enterprises are contemplating the adoption of a new generation of collaborative, composable, and cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) technologies, motivated by a stubborn pandemic, insecure supply chains, transient workforces, and other factors. An overwhelming 94% of organizations worldwide are embracing a next-generation ERP strategy that involves migrating to cloud platforms…
Pre-COVID, agility became an aspiration and rallying cry for organizations seeking to embrace emerging technologies and pursue technology-enabled innovation, often to stave off digital disruption in their industries. Once the pandemic hit, that nice-to-have became an existential necessity. “As CIO, I’m constantly looking at ways to become more agile and using IT as a strategic…