Successful CIOs are always looking for ways to eliminate excess costs. Unfortunately, in their zest to trim waste, many IT leaders find themselves falling into common traps that needlessly damage IT and enterprise services and operations. Knowing what to cut, when to cut, and how deeply to cut, is as much an art as an…
The pandemic has exposed gaps and accelerated transformation in virtually every industry, and banking is no exception. Faced with spiking demand and the need to go digital fast, most traditional financial services providers saw customer experience as a lower priority over the past year. This was not lost on customers. According to recent Salesforce research,…
IT has gone above and beyond throughout the pandemic to accelerate digital initiatives and keep organizations humming. But coming off a difficult financial year, businesses are leaning even more heavily on IT, tasking IT leaders with the need to create new revenue-generating initiatives. An overwhelming majority of CIOS (96%) report their role is expanding beyond…
Interaction-intensive experiences require the orchestration of compute, network, and data resources closer to the customer to deliver low latency, and intrinsically secure applications. While the edge is the future, making it all work together takes planning and execution. To read this article in full, please click here Read More from This Article: BrandPost: EPISODE…
In this fifth and final episode of our 5-episode podcast, The C-level Strategic Guide for CIAM Investment, we will explore phase 4 on the CIAM Maturity Curve: Continuous. Customer identity and access management, or CIAM, is fundamentally about “making sure the right people have access to the right things for the right amount of time,”…
The lack of diversity in IT doesn’t just leave underrepresented workers feeling alienated; it can also make them feel unsafe. That’s certainly true for the LGBTQ+ community, with only 76% of LGBTQ+ workers reporting they feel safe in their workplace and 64% of trans and gender nonconforming (GNC) individuals saying the same, according to a…
IDG editors discuss lessons in resilience learned by organizations in the aftermath of 2020, and what they’re doing to prepare for future business disruptions.
Read More from This Article: How organizations are becoming more resilient in the wake of 2020
Source: IT Strategy
SAP kicked off 2021 with a bold bet on migrating its customers’ core ERP applications to the cloud. Introduced in January, “Rise with SAP” offers to move customers’ systems of record to S/4HANA on their choice of cloud provider and manage them there with a single SLA. Now SAP is adding new applications to Rise…
With the need to keep organizations humming through a global pandemic, this past year has placed considerable stress on IT professionals. Taken in total, however, the strains of adjusting to life and work under COVID-19 have fallen disproporationally on women in IT. A survey of 450 tech professionals by TrustRadius found that 57% of women…
The transformation of business and IT has raised expectations for end users, customers and partners. Demand for real-time experiences and interactions has put a premium on speed, agility and security. In this podcast, we’ll explore the range of services Lumen supports at the edge, from analytics to storage. To read this article in full, please…