7 key Microsoft Azure analytics services (plus one extra)

If you can’t make sense of your business data, you’re effectively flying blind. Insights hidden in your data are essential for optimizing business operations, finetuning your customer experience, and developing new products — or new lines of business, like predictive maintenance. Analytics is the means for discovering those insights, and doing it well requires the…

5 Steps of Evolution in Predictive Analytics

Rates of change in all industries, coupled with enormous macroeconomic pressures, mean stagnation and complacency can be the death of any business. It is important that leaders think big and long term. An essential challenge in this is to use analytics at its best to truly understand what lies ahead. This means a careful approach…

The four pillars of optimised enterprise computing

The world has become far more complicated. For businesses, the need to balance employee safety, changed expectations about how and where we work and the changing threat landscape have changed the very nature of how we use our computers. While users have always wanted safe, reliable and high performing PCs and notebooks, delivering that in…

CIOs have a long list of tech initiatives, product deliveries, and IT projects planned for the year ahead. Each one is, of course, important in its own right. Taken all together, though, they’re collectively driving some greater good for the enterprise. With that in mind, we asked multiple CIOs to share their overarching objectives and…

CIO Leadership Live with Chief Transformation Officer Sarah Thirlwall of Lotto New Zealand

Lotto New Zealand Chief Transformation Officer Sarah Thirlwall on creating a winning culture, staying curious, getting buy-in, and why it’s crucial to put deliverables against funding in any transformation journey. Watch this episode: #id62bb78c4af043 .jw-wrapper::before { content: “IDG” !important; } Careers, CIO, CIO Leadership Live Read More from This Article: CIO Leadership Live with…

One of the Best Things You Can Do as a CIO

Integrating modern data protection into the normal cycle of business is one of the best things you can do for your organization. But where do you start? That is the question. This article aims to provide you with a practical framework to improve your enterprise data protection. Start off by doing a data protection assessment…

11 dark secrets of data management

Some call data the new oil. Others call it the new gold. Philosophers and economists may argue about the quality of the metaphor, but there’s no doubt that organizing and analyzing data is a vital endeavor for any enterprise looking to deliver on the promise of data-driven decision-making. And to do so, a solid data…