Sentry was started as an open source project by David Cramer in 2008 to provide monitoring services for application developers. Cramer and co-founder Chris Jennings bootstrapped the company from the ground up, organically growing the business to over 3.5 million developers today. Sentry’s open source and cloud-based offerings support 100+ languages and frameworks and provide…
Mark Twain famously remarked that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Today, many CIOs feel the same way about metrics. Metrics are only as good as their source. “Too often, technology companies pay consulting or analyst firms to create metrics based on the best characteristics of their offerings,” says Judith…
Commercial real-estate company JLL’s automation of its source-to-pay process, like many enterprise IT projects today, had its origin in the pandemic. As COVID began to close offices around the world, many enterprises faced challenges managing or monitoring cashflow, JLL among them. “We were watching cash coming in and cash out the door, given the situation…
The Netherlands has positioned itself as an emerging medtech powerhouse, with more than 1,100 healthcare technology startups – more than three times as many relative to population size when compared to neighbouring Germany. The meteoric rise of the healthtech industry can be attributed to increasing costs for healthcare (which were up by approximately €9 billion…
General Manager for Information Services and Technology at Transpower New Zealand Cobus Nel on managing change fatigue, identifying how to maximise the benefits of transformation, and why career development is essential for retaining staff. Watch this episode: #id62b90d19e9342 .jw-wrapper::before { content: “IDG” !important; } CIO, CIO Leadership Live Read More from This Article: CIO…
Approximately 61% of APAC organizations have failed to build robust and successful digital business business models, primarily due to unsound practices of enterprise architecture (EA) teams, according to a report from Forrester. An enterprise architecture team is responsible for designing and implementing IT solutions with the aim of improving efficiency in business operations. While the…
Like many breakthroughs, the central idea behind blockchain is simple but obscured by the surrounding embellishments and hoopla. At its heart, the idea is a purely technical one, beguiling in its counterintuitiveness: by broadcasting information, it becomes more secure. Ground zero for the blockchain idea is the Satoshi whitepaper, which presents a novel approach to…
When it comes to IT strategy, Kimberly-Clark Global CIO Manoj Kumbhat makes one thing very clear: This multinational takes a business-first approach to digital transformation. The B2C and B2B retailer of brand-name personal care and professional healthcare products, such as Kleenex tissues, Scott paper towels, and Huggies diapers, has made a big hybrid-cloud push of…
When you think of the centre of the universe for technology, you probably think of Silicon Valley. But where is the equivalent HQ for data? The answer is that there isn’t one – yet. But London is embracing the challenge with an ambitious goal to become the heart of the burgeoning data economy, globally. The…
Organizations have more data available today than ever before, and data architects, analysts, and data scientists are becoming prevalent in all business functions. Yet as companies fight for skilled analyst roles to utilize data to make better decisions, they often fall short in improving the data supply chain and resulting data quality. Without a solid…