It’s hard to imagine an industry more dramatically disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic than the cruise industry. “We as an industry basically stopped, during the pandemic,” says Martha Poulter, CIO, Royal Caribbean Group. “Our industry literally came to a standstill.” Now, with restrictions lifting and leisure travel resuming, Poulter reflects on how her IT team…
Do you know someone who bought a lot of fancy exercise equipment but doesn’t use it? Turns out, exercise equipment doesn’t provide many benefits when it goes unused. The same principle applies to getting value from data. Organizations may acquire a lot of data, but they aren’t getting much value from it. This is a…
It’s been seven years since Steve Hodgkinson began the task of leading complex digital transformation programs at the Victoria Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) as CIO. “Seven years is a long time in the CIO game,” Hodkinson says, “so I think it’s time to step aside and let somebody else lead the next…
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…
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…
For the conference keynote, Foundry (formerly IDG Communications) welcomes Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at the Duckbill Group, where he speaks with Scott Carey on innovation and cost – the ability to have your cake and expense it too. Corey hosts the podcast “Screaming in the Cloud” and “AWS Morning Brief” podcasts; and curates “Last…
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…
Earlier this year as Russian troops massed along the Ukrainian border, Israel-headquartered Beewise offered to relocate each of its Ukraine-based technologists and up to 10 of their family members with all expenses paid for six months. Diana Lisovenko, a software engineer from Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv, decided to stay put. She thought the chances…
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…
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…