Cybercriminals like easy targets. Enterprises and governments with a disjointed approach to cyber hygiene fill that role perfectly. While the U.S. federal government has a robust approach to cybersecurity, state and local governments are more vulnerable. The statistics bear witness. Cyberattacks against these agencies have increased significantly recently. Approximately 44% of ransomware attacks worldwide are now targeting…
David Vidoni wants to be sure that workers throughout his company know “how IT can transform the business.” Vidoni, vice president of IT at tech company Pegasystems, gets the word out using various channels, from reports on metrics to easily accessible dashboards. He also launched a quarterly newsletter that — in addition to sharing tech…
ERP definition Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a system of integrated software applications that manages day-to-day business processes and operations across finance, human resources, procurement, distribution, supply chain, and other functions. ERP systems are critical applications for most organizations because they integrate all the processes necessary to run their business into a single system that…
Many Australian enterprises are getting their cloud security strategies wrong. While they are lowering infrastructure costs and introducing efficiencies by moving to flexible multi-cloud platforms, building the right level of security throughout their agile software development lifecycles is becoming difficult. Almost two-thirds (61 per cent) of respondents to research questions posed by Cybersecurity Insiders, on…
As recently spotlighted at VMware Explore US, Sovereign Cloud continues to gain momentum. Sovereign Cloud business estimated TAM is $60B by 2025, in no small part due to the rapid increase of data privacy laws (currently 145 countries have data privacy laws) and the complexity of compliance in highly regulated industries. As the need to monetize…
Employee experience has become a key factor in defining your company’s overall success. Positive or negative, employee experience can significantly impact your company’s productivity, efficiency, and its ability to recruit and retain talent. It can even impact your brand’s reputation long after an employee has exited the company. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the…
The greatest challenge for any CIO, undoubtedly, is aligning technology with an organization’s business goals. Most CIOs know it is the No. 1 objective and far easier said than done. For a multitude of reasons — some political, some budgetary, some cultural — often the desired outcome of using technology to achieve business objectives seems…
Did you know that evaluating, selecting, and purchasing B2B software can be a long cycle with an average of 3-6months being the minimal time spent on this process? Only 21% of the business believe that they spent less than 3 months looking for and procuring cloud solutions and products however, 80% of the businesses spent over 3…
The past two years have been stressful for many senior technology executives. When the pandemic first struck in early 2020, CIOs and their teams rushed to deploy technologies that would support people working remotely as governments locked down their citizens. Now, hybrid work is here to stay as people realise that more flexible working environments,…
In the first of this two part CIO webinar series ‘Driving business success with true enterprise applications’, a group of leading tech leaders heard from DXC Technology, customer Ventia and analysts Ecosystm about the challenges and benefits of “Overcoming barriers to application modernisation with SAP. As we all know, enterprise applications were only really put…