The novelty of ecommerce and digital services has officially worn off. If the pandemic made us realize anything about the way our global marketplace works, it’s that online shopping and services are now an essential part of daily life. However, as web-based markets and platforms have grown, so have customer expectations. It’s not enough to…
In an organization’s pursuit of digital transformation and innovation, the onus largely falls on agile and development leaders, who must field requests from business leaders and manage expectations, all while speeding time to market. In performing this balancing act, leaders continue to be stifled by misalignment, which creates tremendous waste and inefficiency and leads to…
Real-time app analytics firm Amplitude has launched a new Customer Data Platform (CDP), betting on an aggressive pricing strategy to undercut competition from vendors including Twilio, Salesforce, Adobe and Oracle. The pricing strategy is similar to the game plan Amplitude used against analytics rival MixPanel back in 2014. The company had offered a freemium model…
When reimagining the IT estate for data-first business, the opportunity is ripe for companies to rearchitect for a more sustainable IT environment. The benefits? Drive cost efficiencies and make headway on meeting corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) targets, for starters. The corporate agenda has embraced sustainability, fueled by escalating environmental concerns, because it makes…
When companies first start deploying artificial intelligence and building machine learning projects, the focus tends to be on theory. Is there a model that can provide the necessary results? How can it be built? How can it be trained? But the tools that data scientists use to create these proofs of concept often don’t translate…
CIOs seeking to hire or retain skilled IT workers should continue to budget generously for payroll. Pay premiums for non-certified tech skills rose by the largest amount in 14 years in the first quarter of 2022, according to the latest edition of the IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index, compiled by Foote Partners. The quarterly…
As executive vice president and chief transformation and digital officer at Novant Health, Angela Yochem is responsible for all digital health operations for the not-for-profit healthcare system, including 24/7 clinical services, a device company, data science, an innovation lab, a business growth function that explores new revenue streams for healthcare, and more. Yochem recently added to…
“This initiative is not about PeaSoup as a company, marketing hype or promotion. It’s about the future, our children, and generations to come. Unless stopped, humanity’s destruction of nature will ultimately render the planet completely degraded. Climate change with extreme weather events is already occurring more frequently with great intensity. We are also radically approaching…
By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software Over the past two years, many business leaders received a crash course in managing a distributed workforce — whether they wanted to or not. While adjusting to fully remote work presented challenges for all, we at Rocket Software were lucky to have plenty of experience thanks to our global…
Developer portals are one of the newest ideas to gain the interest of the technology community. We’ve known for a long time that individuals and practitioner teams in companies are often the ones who drive software and infrastructure strategies in organizations. Especially with software development, the technologies that make development easiest and fastest are often…