If data warehouses are for tidiness freaks (information packaged into neat inferences, sorted and stacked, the rest discarded) and data lakes are for hoarders (tip everything in, you never know what might be useful) then SAP’s new Data Hub may be for the rest of us. It’s a new data management tool intended to process…
SAP is giving its business software users a new way to track their customers, with the acquisition of customer identity management specialist Gigya. If your business isn’t already a Gigya customer, then you’re most likely to have seen its name flickering in your browser’s status or address bar as you log in to consumer websites.…
It pays to be more careful today. If you look at the websites of tech vendors, you’ll find that some of them have simply added new jargon such as “digital,” “customer experience design,” and “blockchain” – without first gaining expertise in those areas. A subset of these vendors simply searched for the term “IT” and replaced it…
You might think that the CIO of a billion-dollar business would have nothing good to say about shadow IT. After all, rogue deployments have been keeping senior IT execs up at night for years, wondering if those a la carte antics will open the gates to a major security breach or break applications across the…
It wasn’t long ago that IBM’s 400,000 employees performed their duties on PCs with the company’s commercial productivity and collaboration applications. Oh, how times have changed. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here (Insider Story) Read More from This Article: IBM CIO bets big on digital workplace to…