The Many Advantages of a Cloud-First Approach

By George Rigby Enterprises are rapidly moving to a cloud-first strategy, one that will deliver operational and security improvements across their entire IT estate. That said, a majority of enterprises haven’t moved entirely to a cloud-first approach and will likely take several years to fully get there. Enterprises must first recognize how fundamentally different a…

Unpacking the promise of Private 5G

Public 5G services are all the rage in carrier TV advertising, but enterprises may find a powerful alternative to local area, Wi-Fi, and edge networks in the form of Private 5G. With high-speed operational performance and enterprise control, Private 5G has the potential to advance new connectivity capabilities across virtually any industry segment. The global…

Celonis beefs up its Power BI process mining capabilities

For the past decade, process mining specialist Celonis has been helping enterprises optimize processes around their ERP systems — and more recently has branched out to help them optimize their use of workflow automation platforms, too. Now it is acquiring Process Analytics Factory to improve its process mining offering and help enterprises automate with Microsoft’s…

SDG&E seeks speed advantage in the cloud

San Diego Gas & Electric has taken an aggressive approach to its digital transformation due in part to forces beyond its control—climate change, the pandemic and geopolitical tensions—altering its entire way of doing business. Known for its innovative drone imagery application that helped track West Coast wildfire, the San Diego utility began its migration to…

Snowflake launches Retail Data Cloud

After launching the Healthcare and Life Sciences Data Cloud Platform just a week ago, Snowflake has announced a Retail Data Cloud aimed at helping retail and consumer goods companies make the most of their data. With Snowflake’s proprietary cloud data warehouse at its heart, the Retail Data Cloud brings together Snowflake’s highly-scalable data warehousing, analytics…

5 steps to minimum viable enterprise architecture

At Vault Health, CTO Steve Shi begins enterprise architecture (EA) work with a site survey of the entire IT, application, system, and data infrastructure but restricts it to two weeks with one-hour interviews about each function. Customers, whether employees or those paying for a product or service must “love” the result of this minimum viable…

Data: The oil of the 21st Century

If there was any doubt that the trend towards globalisation had decelerated, the emergence of COVID-19 has put that to rest.  The shift towards more inward-looking policy settings around the globe, has been emboldened by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since early 2020 there has been a heightened awareness of the value and indeed necessity of sovereign control…