“To give credit where credit is due.” It’s a wonderful thought, one that’s often uttered when an enterprise achieves a significant business success or reaches an important milestone. Yet when it’s time to hand out honors and awards the IT department is often forgotten, despite the fact that its leader, managers and staff provided the…
Enterprises seeking to further democratize analytics through self-service business intelligence tools will be heartened by a push by vendors to intersect data visualization and natural language processing. Tableau Software’s 2019.1 update, released Wednesday, is the latest to move in this direction, enabling staff to query data using natural language, and offers a new subscription option…
TBM definition The technology business management (TBM) framework helps companies integrate IT into the organization, with the goal of running the IT department like a business. The idea of running IT like a business unit is a recent shift in the corporate world. In the past, IT typically functioned as a stand-alone business unit and…
The development of new applications today is all about speed of delivery. The broad movement toward the agile environment that’s been underway for several years has fostered a sense of easy and rapid deployment of software. One of the technology trends that’s helping accelerate application development is the rise of microservices — and IT leaders…
Architecture and design firm Perkins+Will views technology as a catalyst for change, which isn’t surprising, given that digital transformation has become a business imperative for most organizations. What is notable is that CIO Murali Selvaraj’s team developed an app to change how the company communicates with clients and sought feedback from clients on the features…
Whirlpool Corporation made its name for itself 107 years ago with its motorized washing machines. Today, appliances from its iconic brands such as KitchenAid and Maytag can be found in three-quarters of U.S. households. Now, the company is using software, sensors and analytics to close the loop between the kitchen appliances it manufactures and the…
Technology is supposed to help employees become more efficient, but according to Pegasystems, it’s actually making them less productive. The software vendor reported that the average Global 2000 employee uses 35 different tools a day, switching back and forth more than 1,100 times. It’s as if there’s an application for everything, the study contends and…
What’s ahead for Internet of Things technology in 2019? Prepare for more location-based advertising, warehouse robotics, and concepts such as the no-line, no-checkout Amazon Go store.
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He traveled all around the world and everywhere he went He’d use his word and all would say there goes a clever gent —Lyrics from “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” In the movie Mary Poppins, everyone’s favorite nanny shared with the world “the word to say when you don’t know what to say.” Today’s business equivalent of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is…
Some healthcare CIOs are thinking ahead of the new government requirement that they post their chargemasters (price lists) online. Their hospitals and healthcare systems are also offering patient cost estimators that tell people how much common tests and procedures will cost them out of pocket. The healthcare organizations that do this have found they are…