With environmental, social and governance (ESG) regulations coming into force and reputations at stake, organisations are under mounting pressure to make credible progress towards sustainability goals. However, for IT leaders who play a critical role in helping their businesses move towards net-zero targets, it can be difficult to know where to begin. Thankfully, leaders within…
Work has fundamentally shifted in today’s post-pandemic world. For example, 40% of employees no longer have a dedicated desk, according to research from Start Standing. In addition, a study by Harvard Business Review in 2023 found senior executives expect remote and hybrid work to continue to grow over the next five years. At the same…
No matter where you conduct work – in the office, at a customer’s location, in your home or a combination of these settings – your computing devices must live up to your needs and expectations. That might mean, for example, that your laptop or PC should deliver: Long battery life to sustain lengthy video conferencing…
SAP announced today a host of new AI copilot and AI governance features for SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC). Jurgen Mueller, SAP CTO and executive board member, called the innovations, which includes an expanded partnership with data governance specialist Collibra, a “quantum leap” in the company’s ability to help customers drive intelligent business…
We all used to know exactly what an office was and what it meant to “go to work.” Except for certain fieldwork, the traditional definition of being in the office or “at work” is increasingly disassociated from a single physical building. What now defines the office is much more of a virtual perimeter, which aspects…
Hybrid and remote working have become a permanent feature for the majority of businesses, as shown by multiple studies. However, for IT teams changing working models represent a challenge. Security professionals must adapt controls to a world where the perimeter is distributed, and users can log into corporate resources from any network and any device.…
Salesforce on Wednesday rebranded its low-code platform, Einstein Studio, to provide developers a set of tools to customize Einstein Copilot and add new capabilities to it. Einstein Studio, now rebranded to Einstein 1 Studio, comes bundled with the company’s Data Cloud at no added cost and features capabilities such as a control panel to…
Despite growing interest in “as a service” consumption models for everything from infrastructure to storage, most enterprises have continued to procure, maintain, and manage endpoint devices in-house. But as the security threat landscape becomes more complicated, and hybrid and remote working models take root at scale, IT leaders are questioning this traditional approach to device…
IT industry researchers believe the biggest impact of gen AI this year will be in customer experience (CX), with organizations using vast amounts of data to communicate with consumers and resolve problems faster. Technology specialist Salesforce reports that more than two-thirds of service professionals believe gen AI will help them serve their customers better, while Forrester expects…
What is the business transformation currently underway at Informatica? When we were taken private in 2015, we were a traditional software vendor, but the market was starting to embrace the cloud. Many of our customers had already started to move their applications and it made sense they would want to transition to data management in…