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Enterprise tech gets more consumer-friendly, speeding the transformation of work
How is digital transformation changing the world of work? The answer will surprise you. True, technology now touches most of what people do in most jobs, both white-collar and increasingly blue-collar as well. But technology is only part of the story. The bigger picture: How people get their jobs done is undergoing a fundamental shift. ...
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Beyond the hype: Blockchain gets down to business
Are you skeptical about blockchain? I’m not surprised. For a technology that got its start as the infrastructure that underlay the bitcoin cryptocurrency and then blossomed into a Libertarian’s dream of a decentralized transaction platform that would take down the modern financial world, blockchain has had its share of hype, scams and other nonsense. However, ...
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It’s all about people: Dispelling the five myths of process automation
In a memorable scene from the movie “The Founder” about the origin of McDonald’s, the McDonald brothers plot the layout of their restaurant in a life-sized mockup drawn in chalk on a parking lot. This example of process optimization was certainly “lean,” but it involved no software whatsoever. Today, in contrast, optimizing business processes almost always ...
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Can artificial intelligence save SAP?
There are persistent signs that all is not well in the land of SAP. The German enterprise applications leader is in the midst of laying off thousands of people. Its cloud efforts have sputtered. Its product line confuses customers. HANA, the in-memory columnar database that was supposed to save the company, has been eclipsed by ...
GUEST COMMENTARY
Automation and the cybersecurity skills gap: pitfalls and solutions
With a huge shortage in cybersecurity staff and automation alone unable to fill the gap, security operations centers need a new strategy. Government agencies and companies wage daily battles against sophisticated hackers and unexpected intrusions. A good security operations center should operate like a hospital emergency room where physicians rely heavily on the support of ...
Streamlio debuts cloud-native version of Apache Pulsar fast-data platform
Streamlio Inc., developer of a commercial publish-and-subscribe platform based upon the open-source Apache Pulsar project, is taking it to the cloud with what it calls a new cloud-native service for fast data. The offering, which will initially run on top of Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure, closely follows the company’s December announcement of a community version ...
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RSA Conference changes the face of cybersecurity
Tens of thousands of security professionals and many hundreds of vendors came together at the massive RSA Conference in San Francisco last week for the largest enterprise cybersecurity confab in the world — and the general consensus was sobering. Bad actors have had the edge over enterprises – aka the “good guys” – for decades, and the only ...
DEEP DIVE
Blockchain, often seen as tech’s next big thing, struggles to get traction
When developers at startup Eximchain Inc. set out to build a reliable global supply chain network for companies to find business partners and guarantee the integrity of transactions, they turned to the most likely solution today: blockchain. But as they looked to build the network upon a public blockchain, they quickly ran into a fundamental ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Wikibon’s 2018 Cloud Markets and Trends Report: The cloud moves to the data
This is a new report from Wikibon, SiliconANGLE Media’s sister market research company. Premise Cloud has become the default choice for greenfield applications and systems. However, cloud also is less uniform than it was a few years ago, as customers seek to serve specialized technology needs and vendors seek to serve those needs with competitively ...
COMMENTARY
Defending digital: Resist the tech backlash before it’s too late
The chief executives of the leading digital technology firms have grown used to being admired. For nearly a half-century, they’ve been portrayed as visionary, passionate and committed to building a better, smarter world. Combined with their often astonishing wealth, they have enjoyed a public profile matched by few business leaders, mixing easily in political, cultural ...