For the past decade, the Amazon.com effect has spread digital disruption to every corner of the B2C world, spurring incumbent, consumer-facing enterprises to undertake massive digital transformation initiatives as a matter of survival. But B2B companies have not been entirely immune to the shift toward digital services, with many of late launching transformations of their…
With data-driven decisions and digital services at the center of most businesses these days, enterprises can never get enough data to fuel their operations. But not every bit of data that could benefit a business can be readily produced, cleansed, and analyzed by internal means. Enter data-as-a-service providers: Entities that offer data on tap for…
A new generation of companies in sub-Saharan Africa has been working to leverage blockchain technology to offer innovative services for businesses in a variety of sectors including finance, supply chain, security, e-commerce and agriculture. While wild fluctuations in the value of bitcoin may grab headlines, the blockchain programming architecture underlying cryptocurrency is being used to…
5G not only offers important breakthroughs for Saudi Arabia’s most profitable industries, including gas and oil, logistics, and services, but has the potential to drive innovation through IoT-powered smart cities. The kingdom is an established 5G pioneer not only in the Gulf region, where it ranks closely to the UAE and Qatar, but globally, where…
Miao Song, Global CIO of GLP, joins James Henderson for CIO Leadership Live ASEAN, produced by CIO.com and Foundry. Miao looks back on a stellar career spanning more than 25 years across multiple countries and industry sectors, advocating the power of determination and fearlessness when tacking new challenges. Watch this episode: #id6257333304e9e .jw-wrapper::before { content:…
In response to the pandemic and the resultant Great Resignation, Oracle has launched a new employee experience platform, dubbed Oracle ME, under its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) suite to help enterprises with workforce challenges such as attrition. “Bad employee experience has been one of the major disruptors in the HCM space. With largely…
More than half of companies undergoing a transformation project fail in the initial phase. And with this failure, organizations only partially achieve the value that should come from transformation — and they can experience overwhelming frustration that transcends the organization. For a company to be successful, it should implement a governance program that is aligned with business goals…
Application economy and hybrid cloud have been around for about a decade as part of the technology lexicon. For IT infrastructure and operations teams, the intersection of these two terms reflects both the immense opportunity and challenge they face in helping their businesses succeed in the digital era. There is no question that applications are…
In the era of industrial digitalization, communication networks are becoming increasingly important. Within the power industry, the rise of automation control equipment/IoT calls for a more advanced network to support greater service access while ensuring bandwidth and latency. Meanwhile, for the railway industry, increased train speeds require network upgrades to guarantee the safety and consistency…
The global IT services industry has emerged from two-plus years of a global pandemic to establish itself as even more vital to the success of enterprise IT organizations. As corporate IT looks to manage unrelenting demand for technology-enabled change in a challenging talent environment, outsourcing partnerships have proved pivotal. “Companies are finding it exceedingly hard…