The motivations to digitize client-facing solutions vary but are often both push and pull: a push from your organization to grow revenues, gain competitive advantage, and further differentiate products and services, and a pull by the market looking for the latest technologies such as AI/ML, AR/VR, and digital twins for immediate business benefit. When WGI…
Like many airlines, Lufthansa Group had its business upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. By April 2020, with travel bans proliferating, the airline suffered losses of €1 million per hour. Thomas Rückert, senior vice president and CIO of Lufthansa Group, says those early days of the pandemic laid bare that the airline’s digital solutions were not…
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MTF Finance Chief Technology Officer Dan Wilkinson on why transformation needs an ignition point, how to change mindsets to embrace doing things differently, and the challenges that lie ahead as MTF acquires new businesses. Watch the episode: CIO Leadership Live Read More from This Article: CIO Leadership Live with MTF Finance Chief Technology Officer…
Puerto Rico has a lot going for it. Sixty percent of its university graduates hold a STEM degree, giving it the sixth highest availability of scientists and engineers in the world. The workforce is almost entirely bilingual, and in Latin America and the Caribbean the island is first in higher education and second in digital…
By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax Imagine getting a recommendation for the perfect “rainy Sunday playlist” midway through your third Zoom meeting on Monday. Or a receiving text about a like-for-like substitute for a product that was out of stock at your preferred e-commerce site 10 minutes after you’d already paid a premium…
Most enterprises globally are based in metropolitan regions because of their inherent advantages of good infrastructure and diverse customer base. But certain businesses such as manufacturing facilities and educational institutions may be in smaller cities due to cheaper land prices, government subsidies, proximity to raw materials, and lower salaries, among other reasons. While these are…
Conventional wisdom says businesses must balance the cost of security with user experience—implying that security is a tax on digital interactions. And to achieve optimal performance, security must be kept lean. According to Foundry, the need for improvements in cybersecurity was cited as the No. 1 reason for the increase in tech budgets this year.…
Over the past few years, enterprises across Australia have moved more and more of their systems and applications to the cloud, with the trend only gathering pace with people increasingly working outside the traditional network perimeter, often at home and other locations. Throughout 2022, several large enterprises, including NAB, doubled-down on their cloud migration plans,…
Organizations are racing to modernize their legacy technology, architecture, infrastructure, and databases. Modernization often revolves around cloud migration. But not every approach provides the same ROI. Before committing to a migration strategy, organizations must identify the best approach for their business requirements. Each approach comes with its own benefits, time commitments, and cost. This whitepaper…