Verizon didn’t set out to build a customer-facing chatbot. But around ten years ago, the company was hot off the launch of Fios, its fiber-optic network. And technicians were having problems. “[They] used to have a huge amount of difficulty when they needed to look at our systems to access [the] customer network or if…
When it comes to cloud services, Google is the ultimate tease — every year it seems it is ready to break out, and every year things continue to stay the same. One challenge the company has in getting more businesses to consider their services is that Google appears to treat corporate-focused services like a hobby…
In this episode, Michael Feiertag, CEO and co-founder of tCell, joins host Steve Ragan to talk about why application security is more critical than ever and why it’s just now getting more attention from security teams.
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Name: Martin de Martini Company: Y Soft Corporation Job title: CIO Time in current role: 18 years as a co-founder, 2 years as CIO Location: Brno, Czech Republic Martin de Martini co-founded Y Soft with Vaclav Muchna. As CIO, Martin oversees the company’s global IT and system integration teams, project managers and Y Soft’s internal…
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Agile has revolutionized the face of software development and project management, and has increased demand for IT professionals with understanding of the methodology and its many flavors — Lean, Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile, or SAFe, for the enterprise. The methodology, which emphasizes cross-functional teams collaborating incrementally and iteratively on projects in a flexible and…
As more companies act on their transformation strategies, many see divestments as a way to put more resources into growing their core businesses. This is one reason that nearly 9 out of 10 companies plan to divest assets in the next two years, an increase from around 4 out of 10 just last year. Though…
How confident are you that you can keep key positions filled with qualified employees over the next five years? If you’re like most IT leaders, the answer is: Not very. And it’s not just because of pipeline and skills gap problems. Your best employees are likely hot targets for savvy recruiters — and some may…