NetSuite updates ERP suite with new automation, analytics capabilities

NetSuite is updating its suite of ERP applications with analytics and automation capabilities designed to reduce manual processes and provide accurate and timely data to optimize the decision-making process for enterprises. The new products and expanded services include NetSuite Analytics Warehouse, designed to provide faster business insights; SuiteBanking, which helps customers automate key financial processes;…

9 emerging innovations that could redefine IT

Emerging technology has greatly elevated the role of CIOs in the past several years, as previously far-out innovations such as machine learning and natural language processing have taken center stage in digital transformations that are shaking up the business landscape. But with that new status has come an even greater need to keep an eye…

6 risks to avoid in your AWS, GCP, and Azure negotiations

As more organizations take advantage of the hyperscalers’ IaaS / PaaS offerings, the need to secure a comprehensive commercial construct has become more important.  However, since the focus has traditionally been placed on the architecture, tools, and general capabilities as opposed to the critical commercial elements of an agreement, organizations are left unfulfilled and baffled…

5 ways to maximize the value of data analytics

It’s one thing to gather large amounts of data and apply analytics to it; lots of organizations are doing that. It’s another thing entirely to gain optimum business value from that data and analysis. Enterprises that have invested heavily in analytics tools might be doing so without finding ways to ensure business value actually results…

Popular IT advice every CIO should ignore

Advice is cheap. But unfortunately, many IT leaders end up paying a hefty price for listening to recommendations that turn out to be misleading, self-serving, or simply dead wrong. Most bad IT advice is dispensed innocently. That’s because a misleading suggestion, like a lie, tends to become accepted truth when it’s repeated often enough by…