In the current environment, businesses need to move with both speed and precision. To do this, many recognize the need to build a modern data analytics platform and establish a data culture to empower data-driven decision-making across the organization. But what does being a modern data-driven organization really mean? What are the hurdles to becoming…
By Thomas Been, Chief Marketing Officer, DataStax The concept of real-time data has been around for a while. “Reactive apps” were promoted in the early 2000s as the next big thing that would drive customized experiences for customers and increase enterprise competitiveness. Back then, it was a great vision–but it was just that, a vision.…
One of a CIO’s chief concerns is to ensure that IT assets and staff are working effectively together within the context of an organisation’s overall business objectives. However, CIOs can get so wrapped up in the IT part of the job that they can overlook the most important aspect of a business: the people who…
L’une des principales préoccupations d’un DSI est de s’assurer que les services informatiques et le personnel d’une entreprise travaillent main dans la main à la poursuite des objectifs globaux de l’organisation. Mais selon Sherif Sheta, DSI du Centre pour la commercialisation de la médecine régénérative (CCRM), les directeurs des services informatiques deviennent tellement absorbés par…
Ron Guerrier’s path to CIO launched with his cousins’ handiwork with old cars in his parents’ native Haiti. It was then, back in 1988, that Guerrier says he was first awed by innovation at work and the powerful potential of technology. “They were taking parts from every make and model they could get their hands…
Done right, IT service management (ITSM) reduces IT asset and management costs, increases employee productivity and satisfaction, and gives management insights into how IT resources are being used to help the business. ITSM is the policies and procedures for designing and delivering IT services to end users. It extends beyond IT support or help desk…
With cloud technology adoption accelerating in the wake of the pandemic, the ability to balance IT and business continuity with digital transformation is a top concern for all CIOs, no matter what industry they are in. This is something that Kevin Sweeney — currently CIO at Dublin-based Intuition, a provider of e-learning and knowledge applications…
Over the last two years, CIOs have emerged as the surprise pandemic heroes, leading digital transformation initiatives across diverse industries. In Asia Pacific, 87% of CIOs have implemented new technologies, IT strategies, and methodologies to adapt to the new normal, much of it aimed at improving customer service, reducing risk, increasing scale and enabling remote…
Want to identify the most important technology trends in the Middle East? One way to do it is to follow the money — the venture capital money. Saudi Technology Ventures (STV), the region’s largest technology venture capital fund, led record-breaking funding rounds over the past year for new companies in fields like fintech, logistics, e-commerce,…
Business leaders everywhere are evaluating technologies to take hybrid work to the next level, and GlobalLogic’s CIO Sunny Azadeh is no exception. She has a unique perspective on the challenges of hybrid work: She joined GlobalLogic just three months before the pandemic started. Four of her key team members joined during the pandemic. During this…